Columbia University has a number of resources available to assist faculty, postdoctoral fellows and staff to identify funding for research and training.  As objectives, opportunities and constraints can and do change among the federal and state agencies and private foundations that provide the vast majority of our outside research funding, many investigators have found it worth the investment to acquaint themselves with the tools available and to ensure they are on various alert systems and email-lists.  In addition, certain Columbia entities provide seed funding from time to time.  

Some funding opportunities from public or private sources require the University to constrain the number of applicants.  Many of these are targeted at junior faculty.   Some grants focus on interdisciplinary opportunities and/or shared instrumentation. Information and support on these kinds of grants can be obtained from RI.  Finally, if you are new to Columbia and/or searching for funding opportunities, you may wish to review the Resources for Junior Faculty and the services offered by OPA.