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Nanomanufacturing
The Nanomanufacturing (NM) program supports fundamental research to enable and improve the large-scale or customized manufacturing of nano-scale and systems. A...
Combustion and Fire Systems
The Combustion and Fire Systems program is part of the Transport Phenomena cluster, which includes also 1) Fluid Dynamics; 2) Particulate and Multiphase Process...
NSF-DFG Lead Agency Opportunity in Chemistry and Chemical Process and Transport Systems
Recognizing the importance of international collaborations in promoting scientific discoveries, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Deutsche Forschung...
Strengthening American Infrastructure
Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) is an NSF program seeking to stimulate and potentially transformative research aimed at strengthening America’s infr...
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...
Antarctic Research
The Antarctic Sciences Section (ANT) of the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) supports cutting-edge researchto: Expand fundamental knowledge of Antarctic processes...
Biophotonics
TheBiophotonicsprogram is part of the Engineering Biology and Health cluster, which also includes: 1) the Biosensing program; 2) the Cellular and Biochemical En...
NSF/FDA Scholar-In-Residence at FDA
The National Science Foundation (NSF), through the Directoratefor Engineering, the Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering Division of C...
Cyberinfrastructure Centers of Excellence
The Nation’s advanced research cyberinfrastructure (CI) ecosystem catalyzes discovery and innovation across all areas of science and engineering (S&E) research...
Cultural Anthropology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants
The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support basic scientific research on the complexities of human social and cultural variability....
Biological and Environmental Interactions of Nanoscale Materials
The Biological and Environmental Interactions of Nanoscale Materials program is part of the Environmental Engineering and Sustainability cluster, which also inc...
Cellular and Biochemical Engineering
The Cellular and Biochemical Engineering (CBE)program is part of the Engineering Biology and Health cluster, which also includes 1) Biophotonics; 2) Biosensing;...
Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers Program
The Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) program develops long-term partnerships among government. The Centers are catalyzed by an investmen...
Condensed Matter and Materials Theory
CMMT supports theoretical and computational materials research in the topical areas represented in DMR's Topical Materials Research Programs (these are also var...
Re-entry to Active Research Program
The Division of Transport Systems (CBET) is conducting a Re-entry to Active Research (RARE) program to broaden participation within the academic workforce. The...
Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering
Large-scale simulations and the ability to accumulate massive amounts of data have revolutionized science and engineering. The goal of the Computational and Dat...
Biosensing
The Biosensing program is part of the Engineering Biology and Health cluster, which also includes 1) Biophotonics; 2) Cellular and Biochemical Engineering; 3) D...
Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Workshop Opportunities
The Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is designed to fulfill the mandate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to promote scien...
Build and Broaden: Enhancing Social, Behavioral and Economic Science Research and Capacity at Minority-Serving Institutions
Build and Broaden (B2) supports fundamental research and research capacity across disciplines at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and encourages research co...
Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program
The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of potentially transformative approaches to STEM...
Paleoclimate
The goals of the paleoclimate program are to: (i) provide a baseline for present climate variability and future climate trends, and (ii) improve the understandi...
Nanoscale Interactions
The Nanoscale Interactions program is part of the Environmental Engineering and Sustainability cluster, which also includes: 1) the Environmental Engineering pr...
Geospace Environment Modeling
Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) is a broad-based research program investigating the physics of the Earth's magnetosphere and the coupling of the magnetosphe...
Physical and Dynamic Meteorology
The Physical and Dynamic Meteorology (PDM) program funds basic research on atmospheric physics and dynamics at sub-synoptic scales, including processes relevant...
Service Enterprise Systems
The SES program supports research on decision making related to operation of institutional service enterprises with the goal of improving their overall effectiv...