Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Research Grants
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development
EPA's main competitive peer-reviewed extramural research programme, funding environmental and public-health research including community exposure, air and water quality, and toxic substances. Solicitations are issued topic by topic rather than on a standing cycle.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No dollar figure is published on the STAR programme page. Award sizes are set by each individual solicitation; the page states only that STAR has made over 4,100 grants since 1995.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.EPA's research funding opportunities page, checked for this entry, states there are no open Funding Opportunities as of April 29, 2026. STAR is not discontinued but issues solicitations irregularly by research topic; EPA directs prospective applicants to the Research Grants Listserv. No future date
- Who can apply
- Any faculty rank, Early-career faculty, Mid-career & senior, Postdoctoral
- Eligibility
- EPA states eligible applicants are academic institutions, hospitals, state and local governments, Tribes, and other non-profit research institutions. Individual solicitations add their own topic-specific and citizenship/residency requirements, so the operative gate is always the specific NOFO.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- environmental health · air quality · water quality · community exposure · peer-reviewed research
- Apply at
- https://www.epa.gov/research-grants/star
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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