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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...
Sustainability Research Networks Competition
Sustainability Research Networks will engage and explore fundamental theoretical issues and empirical questions in sustainability education that will increase o...
NSF/DOE PARTNERSHIP ON ADVANCED FRONTIERS IN RENEWABLE HYDROGEN FUEL PRODUCTION VIA SOLAR WATER SPLITTING TECHNOLOGIES 2014-2016
The Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has established a partnership with the Fuel Cell Technologies (FCT) Office of the Depar...
Long Term Research in Environmental Biology
The Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) Program supports the generation of extended time series of data to address important questions in evolut...
Division of Environmental Biology
The Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) supports fundamental research on ecosystems. Scientific emphases range across many evolutionary and ecological patte...
Advancing Informal STEM Learning
The Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program seeks to advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM le...
Science of Organizations (SoO)
Organizations -- private and public, established and entrepreneurial, designed and emergent, formal and informal, profit and nonprofit -- are critical to the we...
Physics at the Information Frontier
Physics at the Information Frontier (PIF) includes support for data-enabled science, community research networks, and new computational infrastructure, as well...
Experimental Gravitational Physics
The Gravitational Physics program supports research at the frontiers of science aimed towards answering questions about the nature of space and time, the gravit...
Particle Astrophysics
Particle physics plays an essential role in the broader enterprise of the physical sciences. It inspires students, attracts talent from around the world, and dr...
Catalyzing New International Collaborations
The Catalyzing New International Collaborations program supports the participation of US-based researchers and students in activities intended to catalyze new i...
Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
The Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE) offers postdoctoral research fellowships to provide opportunities for scientists early in their careers to work within and...
Direct Detection Dark Matter Experiments
This solicitation invites proposals for support of R&D and construction of future generation experiments that conduct direct-detection searches for dark matter...
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...
Arctic Research Opportunities
The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites investigators at organizations to submit proposals to conduct research about the Arctic. Arctic research includes...
Manufacturing Machines and Equipment
The MME program supports fundamental research leading to improved manufacturing machines and equipment, and their application in manufacturing processes. Key go...
Data-Intensive Research to Improve Teaching and Learning - An Ideas Lab to Foster Transformative Approaches to Teaching and Learning
The goal of this activity is to foster approaches that address the use of large data sets to create actionable knowledge for improving STEM teaching and learnin...
CISE Research Infrastructure
The CISE Research Infrastructure (CRI) program drives discovery and learning in the core CISE disciplines of the three participating CISE divisions by supportin...
Partnerships for International Research and Education
Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) is an NSF-wide program that supports international activities across all NSF supported disciplines....
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring
The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) Program seeks to identify outstanding mentoring efforts that enhance the participation...