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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...
Process and Reaction Engineering
The Process and Reaction Engineering program supports fundamental and applied research on: * Rates and mechanisms of important classes of catalyzed and uncataly...
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...
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...
Biotechnology, Biochemical, and Biomass Engineering
The Biomass Engineering (BBBE) program deals with fundamental problems involved in the processing and manufacturing of products of economic importance by effect...
Biomedical Engineering
TEMPORARY NOTICE: Program Synopses Changes may occur after the close of the February 1 to March 2, 2009 Window-of-Opportunity.An additional CBET program may be...
Biophotonics
Innovative basic research in sensing that is very fundamental in science and engineering is needed to lay the foundation for new technologies beyond those that...
Energy for Sustainability
The Energy for Sustainability program supports fundamental research and education in energy storage and is focused on energy sources that are environmentally fr...
Sociology
The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization— and demography— and processes of individual and institutional change. T...
Environmental Sustainability
The Environmental Sustainability program supports engineering research with the goal of promoting sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being a...
Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination
The Oceanographic Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination (OTIC) Program supports a broad range of research and technology development activities. Unsolic...
Law and Social Science
The Law and Social Science Program at the National Science Foundation supports social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of behaviors. These can inc...
Petrology and Geochemistry
The Petrology and Geochemistry Program supports basic research that address the formation and evolution of our planet using petrological and geochemical charact...
Probability
The Probability Program supports research on the theory and applications of probability. Subfields include discrete probability, stochastic processes, limit the...
Research in Disabilities Education
The Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) program seeks to broaden the participation and achievement of people with disabilities in all fields of mathematics...
Education and Interdisciplinary Research
Supports activities in conjunction with NSF-wide programs such as Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER), Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), and...
Science of Science and Innovation Policy
The Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) aims to foster the development of the human capital...
Research Initiation Grants to Broaden Participation in Biology
With the goal of broadening participation to all biologists including members from groups under-represented in biology, the Directorate for Biological Sciences...
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-phys...
Ecology of Infectious Diseases
The Ecology of Infectious Diseases program solicitation supports the development of predictive models and the discovery of principles governing the transmission...
Partnerships for Innovation
The goals of the Partnerships for Innovation Program are to: 1) stimulate the transformation of knowledge created by the research and education enterprise into...
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships provide an opportunity for highly qualified, recent doctoral scientists to carry out an integrated progr...
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...
Partnerships in Astronomy & Astrophysics Research and Education
The objective of PAARE is to enhance diversity in astronomy and astrophysics research and education by stimulating the development of research and education par...
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in the Directorate for Biological Sciences
The National Science Foundation awards Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in selected areas of the biological sciences. These grants provide partial suppo...