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Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I, Phase II, Fast-Track Programs (SBIR/STTR): A Pilot Emphasis on Scientific Instrumentation.
NSF invests in scientific discoveries, technological breakthroughs, and transformative innovations that strengthen economic growth, enhance security, and improv...
EDU Core Research
The EDU Core Research (ECR) program offers this ECR:Core solicitation and invites proposals for fundamental research (curiosity-driven basic research and use-in...
Engineering Environmental Resiliency (EER)
The Engineering Environmental Resiliency (EER) program supports fundamental research to advance resource and energy conservation and recovery, and to safeguard...
Chemical Process Systems (CPS)
Society relies on chemical processes to turn raw materials into useful products. The Chemical Process Systems (CPS) program invests in fundamental research on c...
Engineering Biological and Biomedical Systems (EBBS)
The Engineering Biological and Biomedical Systems (EBBS) program expands our understanding of biological and physiological systems, and it helps improve human h...
Transport Phenomena (TP)
The Transport Phenomena (TP) program supports fundamental research to control the transport of species across multiple scales. Innovative TP research supports a...
FOR NSF DIS TESTING
This is for NSF testing purposes only. Any and all submissions will be declined.
NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory - Quantum Testbeds
The National Quantum Initiative (NQI) Act1aims to ensure the continuing leadership of the United States in quantum information science and technology. In confor...
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics
The Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical met...
Geomechanics & Geomaterials
The GEOMM program supports fundamental research on the mechanical and engineering properties of geologic materials including natural, mechanically stabilized, a...
Law & Social Sciences
The Law & Social Sciences Program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules. The program is inherently int...
Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research
The Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) program was established under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between NSF and the United States...
Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN)
NSF established the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) in 2002 at Purdue University as part of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI). The NCN...
Long Term Research in Environmental Biology
Through the LTREB program, the Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) and the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) encourage the submission of prop...
Electronics, Photonics, and Magnetic Devices
The Magnetic Devices (EPMD) program seeks to improve the fundamental understanding of devices and components based on the principles of micro- and related physi...
Sustainable Energy Pathways
A sustainable world is one in which human needs are met equitably without harm to the environment, and without sacrificing the ability of future generations to...
Ocean Drilling Program
International Ocean Discovery Program Operations The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) serves to advance basic research in the marine geosciences and...
Cultivating Cultures for Ethical STEM
Cultivating Cultures for Ethical STEM (CCE STEM) funds research projects that identify factors that are effacacious in the formation of ethical STEM researchers...
Scalable Nanomanufacturing
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announces a fourth year of a program on collaborative research and education in the area of scalable nanomanufacturing, in...
Mechanics of Materials
The Mechanics of Materials program supports fundamental research on the behavior of solid materials and respective devices under external actions.?? A diverse a...
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award...
Cyber-Innovation for Sustainability Science and Engineering
The Cyber-Innovation for Sustainability Science and Engineering (CyberSEES) program aims to advance interdisciplinary research in which the science and engineer...
Genealogy of Life
All of comparative biology depends on knowledge of the evolutionary relationships (phylogeny) of living and extinct organisms. In addition, understanding biodiv...
Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Processes and Systems
Critical infrastructures are the mainstay of our nation's economy, security and health. These infrastructures are interdependent. For example, the electrical po...
Building Community and Capacity for Data-Intensive Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences and in Education and Human Resources
As part of NSF's Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) activity, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sci...