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Biomedical Engineering
The mission of the Biomedical Engineering (BME) program is to provide opportunities to develop novel ideas into discovery-level and transformative projects that...
Fluid Dynamics
The Fluid Dynamics program supports fundamental research and education on mechanisms and phenomena governing fluid flow. Proposed research should contribute to...
Integrated Data Systems & Services
The Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) program supports operations-level national-scale cyberinfrastructure systems and services that broadly advance a...
NSF STEM K-12
The NSF STEM K-12 program in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) in the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) supports tra...
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Future Computing Research
The NSF CISE Directorate supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in all aspects of information science and engineering through the f...
National Science Foundation Translation to Practice
The NSF Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (NSF TIP) partners across sectors to advance three primary focus areas – accelerating technology...
Plant Genome Research Program
The Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP) supports genome-scale researchthat addresses challenging questions of biological, societal and economic importance. PGR...
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...
Emerging Mathematics in Biology
The Emerging Mathematics in Biology (eMB) program seeks to stimulate fundamental interdisciplinary and potentially transformative research pertaining to the dev...
Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation for the Astronomical Sciences
The Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI) program provides individual investigator and collaborative research grants for development of new technologi...
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Individual Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
The Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (STEM Ed PRF) Program funds postdoctoral fellowship projects designed...
Condensed Matter and Materials Theory
CMMT supports theoretical and computational materials research in the topical areas represented in DMR's other Topical Materials Research Programs (these are al...
Paleo Perspectives on Present and Projected Climate
Much can be learned about the climate system using existing historical observations and models of current climate, but those records and models do not reflect t...
Petrology and Geochemistry
The Petrology and Geochemistry Program supports basic research on the formation of planet Earth, including its accretion, early differentiation,and subsequent p...
SOCIOLOGY PROGRAM - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards
The Sociology Program supports basic research on all forms of human social organization -- and demography -- and processes of individual and institutional chang...
Molecular Separations
The Molecular Separations program is part of the Chemical Process Systems cluster, which also includes 1) Catalysis; 2) Electrochemical Systems; and 3) Process...
Division of Environmental Biology
The Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Coresupports research and training on evolutionary and ecological processes acting at the level of ecosystems. DEB e...
Materials Engineering and Processing
Materials Engineering and Processing (MEP) The Materials Engineering and Processing (MEP) program supports fundamental research addressing the processing and pe...
Tectonics
The Tectonics Program supports a broad range of theoretical investigations aimed at understanding the deformation of the terrestrial continental lithosphere ( a...
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Organizational Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
The Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (STEM Ed PRF) Program funds postdoctoral fellowship projects designed...
Division of Integrative Organismal Biology Core Programs
The Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) Core Programs Track supports research to understand why organisms are structured the way they are and funct...
Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Core Programs
MCB supports research that promises to uncover the fundamental properties of living systems across cellular scales. The program gives high priority to projects...
Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards
The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support fundamental, systematic anthropological research and training to increase understanding...
Geophysics
The Geophysics Program supports basic research in the physics of the solid earth to explore its processes from the Earth's surface to its' deepest interior. com...
Cellular and Biochemical Engineering
TheCellular and Biochemical Engineering(CBE)program is part of theEngineering Biology and Healthcluster, which also includes: 1) the Biophotonics program; 2) th...