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Sustaining Infrastructure for Biological Research
The Sustaining Infrastructure for Biological Research (Sustaining) Program supports the continued operation of existing research infrastructure that advances co...
Expeditions in Training, Research, and Education for Mathematics and Statistics through Quantitative Explorations of Data
The long-range goal of EXTREEMS-QED is to support efforts to educate the next generation of mathematics and statistics undergraduate students to confront new ch...
Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program
The primary aim of the Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program is to foster the continuing health of the mathematical sciences research community as a whol...
Innovation Corps Sites Program
The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to develop and nurture a national innovation ecosystem that builds upon research to guide the output of scientific d...
Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I Solicitation FY-2013
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program stimulates technological innovation in the private sector by strengthening the role of small business conc...
NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows
Through the SEES Fellows Program, NSF seeks to advance education to inform the societal actions needed for environmental and economic sustainability and human w...
Plant Biotic Interactions
The Plant Biotic Interactions (PBI) program supports research on the processes that mediate beneficial and antagonistic interactions between plants and their in...
Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems
The Sensing-Systems (CCSS) program is intended to spur visionary systems-oriented activities in integrative research. CCSS supports systems research in hardware...
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...
Analysis
The Analysis Program supports research in analysis. Areas of current activity include real analysis; dynamical systems and ergodic theory; functional analysis;...
Expeditions in Computing
The far-reaching impact and rate of innovation in the computer and information science and engineering fields has been remarkable, generating economic prosperity...
Foundational Research in Robotics
The Foundational Research in Robotics (FRR) program, jointly led by the CISE and ENG Directorates, supports research on robotic systems that exhibit significant...
Cyber-Physical Systems
The term "cyber-physical systems" refers to the tight conjoining of and coordination between computational and physical resources. We envision that the cyber-ph...
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace
Cyberspace has transformed the daily lives of people for the better. The rush to adopt exposed its fragility and vulnerabilities: infrastructure and individuals...
Critical Zone Observatory National Office
This solicitation calls for proposals to establish a Critical Zone Observatory National Office (CZO-NO) to facilitate activities of the network of Critical Zone...
General & Age-Related Disabilities Engineering (GARDE)
NOTE: The name of the Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities (RAPD) program has been changed to the General & Age Related Disabilities Engineering (GARDE) pr...
Environmental Engineering
In broadest terms, the field of Environmental Engineering is concerned with understanding the impacts of human activities on the public health, natural environm...
Biomedical Engineering
The Biomedical Engineering (BME) program supports projects in the following BME themes:Neural engineering (brain science, computational neuroscience, brain-comp...
Environmental Sustainability
The Environmental Sustainability program supports engineering research with the goal of promoting sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being a...
Biosensing
The Biosensing Program supports innovative, transformative and insightful fundamental investigations of original technologies with broad long term impact and ap...
Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics
The Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics program supports fundamental research in engineering areas related to:Interfacial phenomenaMass transport phenomena...
Thermal Transport Processes
The Thermal Transport Processes program supports engineering research aimed at gaining a basic understanding of the microscopic and macroscopic levels of therma...
Combustion, Fire, and Plasma Systems
The Plasma Systems program supports fundamental research and education relevant to these subjects. Among the broader societal impacts of the program are cleaner...
Chemical and Biological Separations
The Chemical and Biological Separations (CBS) program supports fundamental research on novel methods and materials for separation processes. These processes are...
Environmental Health and Safety of Nanotechnology
The Environmental Health and Safety of Nanotechnology program provides support to develop and test the environmental effects of nanotechnologies. Fundamental re...