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Population and Evolutionary Processes
The Population and Evolutionary Processes Cluster supports research on population properties that lead to variation within and among populations and among speci...
Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions
CEDAR is a atmospheric research program. The goal is to understand the behavior of atmospheric regions from the middle atmosphere upward through the thermospher...
Cross-Directorate Activitites (CDA)
This program encompasses a collection of Foundation-wide activities that provide support for human resource development and infrastructure improvement. The Offi...
Tribal Colleges and Universities Program
The Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) provides awards to Tribal Colleges and Universities, Alaska Native-serving institutions, and Native Hawaiian...
Advanced Manufacturing (AM)
The Advanced Manufacturing (AM) program supports the fundamental research needed to revitalize American manufacturing to grow the national prosperity and workfo...
Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (BMMB)
The Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (BMMB) program is part of the Mechanics of Materials cluster within the Division of Manufacturing Innovation. The BMMB progr...
Engineering for Civil Infrastructure (ECI)
The Engineering for Civil Infrastructure (ECI) program supports fundamental research in coastal engineering. The ECI program promotes research that can shape th...
Engineering Design and Systems Engineering (EDSE)
The Engineering Design and Systems Engineering (EDSE) program supports fundamental research that advances design science and/or systems science through the crea...
Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MOMS)
The Mechanics of Materials and Structures program supports fundamental research in mechanics as related to the behavior of deformable solid materials and struct...
Operations Engineering (OE)
The Operations Engineering (OE) program supports fundamental research on advanced analytical methods for improving operations in complex decision-driven environ...
Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections
This program seeks to enhance and expand the national resource of digital data documenting existing vouchered biological and paleontological collections and to...
Statistics
The Statistics Program supports research in statistical theory and methods, including research in statistical methods for applications to any domain of science...
Physics at the Information Frontier
PIF includes support for data-enabled science, community research networks, and new computational infrastructure as well as for next-generation computing. It fo...
Experimental Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
The Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics program encompasses four sub-areas of this broad discipline: Precision Measurements, Atomic and Molecular Dynamics, Ato...
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...
Experimental Nuclear Physics
The experimental nuclear physics program supports research at the frontiers of nuclear science, including: properties and behavior of nuclei and nuclear matter...
Experimental Elementary Particle Physics
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...
NSF/DOE PARTNERSHIP ON ADVANCED COMBUSTION ENGINES
The Directorate for Engineering at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has established a partnership with the Vehicle Technologies Program (VTP) of the Depart...
Environmental Health and Safety of Nanotechnology
The Environmental Health and Safety of Nanotechnology (Nano EHS) program provides support to examine and mitigate the environmental effects of nanotechnologies....
Thermal Transport Processes
The Thermal Transport Processes program supports engineering research aimed at gaining a basic understanding of the thermal transport phenomena at nano/micro an...
Marine Geology and Geophysics (MG&G)
The Marine Geology and Geophysics Core Program supports research on all aspects of the geology and geophysics of the present ocean basins and margins, as well a...
Earthscope
EarthScope is an Earth science program to explore the 4-dimensional structure of the North American continent. The EarthScope Program provides a framework for b...
Frontiers in Earth System Dynamics
The Earth is often characterized as "dynamic" because its systems are variable over space and time, and they can respond rapidly to multiple perturbations. The...
Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Statistics and Surveys
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) is one of the thirteen principal federal statistical...
Computational Mathematics
Supports mathematical research in areas where computation plays a central and essential role, emphasizing implementation of theoretically justified and efficien...