Science & Research Grants in New Mexico

Top science & research grants in New Mexico right now

• E-CORE RII: Research Infrastructure Optimization for New Mexico

  Up to $4.9MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  This collaborative project is led by the University of New Mexico in collaboration with Navajo Technical University (NTU), New Mexico Tech (NMT), Cent...

• E-RISE RII: Forest Research for New Mexico Water and Carbon Management

  Up to $3.7MDeadline: Jun 30, 2029open

  This project will bring together researchers, land managers, and local communities to improve understanding and management of New Mexico's forests and...

• E-RISE RII: Research Center for Distributed Resilient and Emergent-Intelligence-Based Additive Manufacturing

  Up to $3.6MDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open

  This initiative is a collaboration among four minority-serving institutions: New Mexico State University, the University of New Mexico, New Mexico Ins...

• Louis Stokes Renewal STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation (NM AMP)

  Up to $2.5MDeadline: May 31, 2029open

  Continued increases in the number of degrees earned by all students are essential if the United States is to meet current demands of the nation’s Scie...

• LTER: Advancing ecological understanding of drylands through integrated research at the Jornada Basin (JRN-8)

  Up to $2.3MDeadline: Feb 28, 2031open

  The Jornada Basin (JRN) long-term research team will study why and how grasslands in low rainfall areas are shifting to shrub and bare ground in the s...

• Primary Care - Building Research Integration in Different Geographic Environments (PC-BRIDGE)

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Dec 19, 2026open

  Primary care, particularly family medicine, is essential in New Mexico (NM), a state with serious challenges alongside unique strengths. A quarter (25...

• MRI: Track 2 Acquisition of Modern Field Emission Electron Microprobe for current research and workforce development

  Up to $1.6MDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  This Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award funds the acquisition of a state-of-the-art new electron microprobe, a key tool for research and train...

• Equipment: MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of a High-Performance GPU Compute Cluster for Quantum- and AI-driven Chemistry and Materials Research

  Up to $1.4MDeadline: Feb 28, 2029open

  This project supports the acquisition and operation of a dedicated graphics processing unit (GPU)-based, large-memory, parallel high-performance super...

• Equipment: CC* Storage-Region: RRSNM: Regional Research Storage to Advance Cyberinfrastructure at Institutions in New Mexico

  Up to $1.4MDeadline: Feb 29, 2028open

  This project to New Mexico State University strengthens regional cyberinfrastructure by expanding high-performance data storage to support data-intens...

• Collaborative Research: TRTech-PGR: Functional Pangenomic and Machine Learning Tools for Exploring Genetic Diversity in Plants

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: Sep 30, 2028open

  As climate change accelerates, the ability of plants to adapt will be critical in ensuring their ability to survive in future decades. A plant populat...

• Collaborative Research: RII FEC: Harnessing Controlled Environment Agriculture to Secure Sustainability and Economic Growth

  Up to $1.1MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  Extreme climate events are increasing in frequency and have had significant, negative impacts on crop production not only for industrial but also for ...

• Collaborative Research: RII FEC: Enhancing Indigenous Community Resilience to Climate Change Impacts through Partnerships and Co-Development of Adaptation Planning

  Up to $718KDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  Many Indigenous communities in New Mexico (NM) and Oklahoma (OK) are at high risk for flood, drought, fires, dust, and their impacts. Sixty-one federa...

• Collaborative Research: Identifying the Best Stars for Direct Imaging Planet Surveys and Performing an Initial Search

  Up to $429KDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open

  Discovering planets orbiting other stars can teach us about how they form, and capabilities now exist to find gas giants orbiting at 5-30AU from their...

• Collaborative Research: LTREB Renewal: Experimental determination of trophic dynamics and energy flows in a semiarid habitat

  Up to $370KDeadline: Apr 30, 2031open

  This long-term program seeks to understand how food webs respond to environmental variability in semi-arid ecosystems, where rainfall pulses drive dra...

• Developing a Research-Practice Partnership to Support Computer Science Education in New Mexico’s Underserved High Schools

  Up to $360KDeadline: Dec 31, 2026open

  Only 3% of New Mexico high school students took a foundational computer science (CS) course in 2022-2023, in part due to a lack of access to such cour...

• Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Coupling bulk and surface processes in simulating the solid earth with ASPECT and LandLab

  Up to $305KDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  Research in the 1960s revealed that Earth’s outer shell is broken into a dozen or so relatively rigid plates that represent the top of a convecting sy...

• EPSCoR Research Fellows: NSF: Computational Design and Experimental Validation of DNA Nanodevices

  Up to $300KDeadline: Jan 31, 2027open

  Programming the biological world is a significant grand challenge for science and engineering, which the field of DNA nanotechnology addresses by impl...

• EPSCoR Research Fellows @ NASA: Immobilized Ionic Liquids for the Selective Extraction of Rare Earth Critical Elements from Waste Streams

  Up to $300KDeadline: Dec 31, 2027open

  This Research Infrastructure Improvement EPSCoR Research Fellows project provides a fellowship to an Assistant Professor and training for a graduate s...

• Collaborative Research: Data-driven spatial genomics modeling of X-chromosome inactivation at multiple scales

  Up to $300KDeadline: May 31, 2028open

  How DNA is organized into chromosomes in human cells and how this complex folding controls gene expression fundamental to life defines one of the Gran...

• EPSCoR Research Fellows: @NASA: Safety-Directed Abstraction, Verification and Correction of Learning-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems

  Up to $300KDeadline: Dec 31, 2026open

  With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies, more and more Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are equ...

What counts as a science & research grant in New Mexico

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Where New Mexico science & research grants come from

• Federal sources — Grants.gov, NIH RePORTER, and SAM.gov opportunities open to New Mexico-based organizations and thematically aligned with science & research.
• New Mexico state portal — state-administered science & research programs, including pass-through federal dollars and state-only appropriations.
• Foundations — community foundations and private foundations giving in New Mexico for science & research work, drawn from IRS Form 990 filings and curated directories.
• Corporate giving — corporate philanthropy programs that fund science & research work in New Mexico.