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Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program
The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences (HEGS) Program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes, and/or consequ...
Geoinformatics
The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) will consider proposals for the development of cyberinfrastructure (CI) for the Earth Sciences (Geoinformatics). EAR-suppor...
Science of Science and Innovation Policy
The Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy.The prog...
Broadening Participation in Engineering
NSF seeks to strengthen the future Engineering workforce by enabling the participation of all citizens through the support of research in the science of Broaden...
ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions
The NSF ADVANCE program contributes to the National Science Foundation's goal of a more diverse and capable science and engineering workforce.1 In this solicita...
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics
The Statistics (MMS) Program is an interdisciplinary program in the Directorate for Economic Sciences that supports the development of statistical methods and m...
Science of Learning
The Science of Learning program supports potentially transformative basic research to advance the science of learning. The goals of the SL Program are to develo...
Antarctic Research
The Antarctic Sciences Section (ANT) of the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) supports cutting-edge researchto: Expand fundamental knowledge of Antarctic processes...
Science of Science - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
The Science of Science: Impact (SOS:DCI) program is designed to understand the scientific research enterprise and increase the public value of scientific activi...
Archaeology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
The Archaeology Program supports anthropologically relevant archaeological research. This means that the value of the proposed research can be justified within...
Cultural Anthropology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support basic scientific research on the complexities of human social and cultural variability....
Antarctic Research
The Antarctic Sciences Section (ANT) of the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) supports cutting-edge research that: Improves understanding of interactions among the...
Oceanographic Facilities and Equipment Support
Oceanographic facilities and equipment are supported by the Integrative Programs Section (IPS) of the Division of Ocean Sciences Division (OCE), Directorate for...
Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace
In today’s increasingly asynchronous world, cybersecurity involves integration with the physical world. Society’s overwhelming reliance on this complex exposed...
Leading Engineering for America's Prosperity, Health, and Infrastructure
The LEAP HI program challenges the engineering research community to take a leadership role in addressing consequential challenges for advancing America’s prosp...
Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate
The NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program contributes to the National Science Foundation's objective to foster the growth...
Combustion and Fire Systems
TheCombustion and Fire Systemsprogram is part of theTransport Phenomenacluster, which also includes: 1) Fluid Dynamics; 2) Particulate and Multiphase Processes;...
Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics
The Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics (DCSD) program supports fundamental research on the and control of dynamic systems. The program promotes innovatio...
Division of Integrative Organismal Biology Core Programs
The Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) Core Programs Track supports research aimed at understanding why organisms are structured the way they are...
Process Separations
The Process Separations program is part of the Chemical Process Systems cluster, which includes also 1) Catalysis; 2) Process Systems, Reaction Engineering, and...
Dynamic Language Infrastructure-Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
This program supports doctoral research focusing on building dynamic language infrastructure (DLI). Developing language infrastructure includes the documentatio...
Cyberinfrastructure for Emerging Science and Engineering Research
The Cyberinfrastructure for Emerging Science and Engineering Research (CESER) program aims to catalyze new science and engineering discovery pathways through ea...
Enabling Discovery through GEnomics
The Enabling Discovery through GEnomic Tools (EDGE) program supports genomic research that addresses the mechanistic basis of complex traits in diverse organism...
Cybermanufacturing Systems
The Cybermanufacturing Systems (CM) Program supports fundamental research to enable the evolution of a wide range of network-accessed manufacturing services tha...
Geospace Facilities
The National Science Foundation supports four large incoherent-scatter radar facilities and the SuperDARN coherent scatter radar system. The incoherent-scatter...