| Agency | Title | Synopsis | Deadline | Type/Number |
| | | | 11/28/2009 | |
| | | | 12/17/2009 | |
| DOD | Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative | The MURI program supports basic science and/or engineering research at U.S. institutions of higher education (hereafter referred to as "universities") that is of potential interest to DoD. The program is focused on multidisciplinary research efforts that intersect more than one traditional science and engineering discipline to address issues of critical concern to the DoD. As defined by the DoD, “basic research is systematic study directed toward greater knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and of observable facts without specific applications towards processes or products in mind. | 3/2/2010 | Grant - ONR-BAA-10-002 |
| DOD | Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative - For Proposal Submission to the Army | Supports basic science and/or engineering research at U.S. institutions of higher education (hereafter referred to as “universities”) that is of potential interest to DoD. The program is focused on multidisciplinary research efforts that intersect more than one traditional science and engineering discipline to address issues of critical concern to the DoD. As defined by the DoD, “basic research is systematic study directed toward greater knowledge or understanding of the fundamental aspects of phenomena and of observable facts without specific applications towards processes or products in mind. It includes all scientific study and experimentation directed toward increasing fundamental knowledge and understanding in those fields of the physical, engineering, environmental, and life sciences related to long-term national security needs. It is farsighted high payoff research that provides the basis for technological progress.” | 3/2/2010 | Grant - ONRBAA10-002 |
| DOD | Wound Stasis System (WSS) Program | Seeks a materials-based agent(s) and delivery system that provides damaged tissue-targeted hemostasis and wound control capable of treating compressible and non-compressible wounds regardless of geometry and location. Successful completion will result in a hand-held delivery system that addresses military needs for control of blood loss and improved wound outcome. | 3/16/2010 | Co-operative agreement - DARPA-BAA-09-29 |
| DOD | Deep Learning (DL) | Soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of deeply layered machine learning or, simply, Deep Learning (DL). Over the course of the envisioned program, performer teams will build a universal machine learning engine that uses a single set of methods in multiple layers (at least three internally) to generate progressively more sophisticated representations of patterns, invariants, and correlations from data inputs. | 4/14/2010 | Co-operative agreement - DARPA-BAA-09-40 |
| DOD | Centers in Integrated Photonics Engineering Research (CIPhER) | DARPA is soliciting innovative proposals for university research centers in the area of integrated photonics engineering. Proposed research should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice. | 4/27/2010 | Co-operative agreement - DARPA-RA-09-35 |
| DOD | NEOVISION2 | DARPA is soliciting research proposals to revolutionize the underlying technologies for unmanned sensor systems. This effort seeks to emulate the mammalian visual pathway by implementing advanced models and algorithmic emulations of the entire visual pathway - from retina to the visual cortex. | 5/12/2010 | Grant - DARPA-09-58 |
| DOE | Computational Biology and Bioinformatic Methods to Enable a Systems Biology Knowledgebase | The Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) of the Office of Science (SC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) advances world-class biological and environmental research and provides scientific facilities to support DOE missions in scientific discovery and innovation, energy security, and environmental responsibility. BER hereby announces its interest in receiving applications for potential funding of computational biology and bioinformatic methods and analytics to enable the planned Systems Biology Knowledgebase. The goal of systems biology is to understand living systems, a simple microbe or a complex ecosystem, so well that we can develop predictive, computational models of the systems that ¿behave¿ the same way as the living system. Such predictive models would enable scientists to accurately predict an organism¿s or a more complex system¿s behavior. | 1/29/2010 | Grant - DE-FOA-0000143 |
| DOI | National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program | The National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (NGGDPP) was authorized by Section 351 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-58, Sec. 351). Objectives of the Program as outlined in the Act are to: (1) Archive geologic, geophysical, and engineering data, maps, well logs, and samples; (2) Provide a national catalog of such archival material; and (3) Provide technical and financial assistance related to the archival material. FY 2010 NGGDP Program Priorities are to create and populate the National Digital Catalog of archived materials. In addition, in FY 2010, NGGDPP will broaden its priorities to include support (subject to available resources) for digital infrastructure and special needs. | 11/23/2009 | Grant - 10HQPA0012 |
| EPA | Increasing Scientific Data on the Fate, Transport and Behavior of Engineered Nanomaterials in Selected Environmental and Biological Matrices | The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are seeking applications proposing research to provide data that improves the scientific understanding of fate/transport and behavior of engineered nanomaterials. | 2/2/2010 | Cooperative Agreement - EPA-G2010-STAR-N1 |
| EPA | Increasing Scientific Data on the Fate, Transport and Behavior of Engineered Nanomaterials in Selected Environmental and Biological Matrices | The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are seeking applications proposing research to provide data that improves the scientific understanding of fate/transport and behavior of engineered nanomaterials. | 2/2/2010 | Cooperative Agreement - EPA-G2010-STAR-N2 |
| HHS | Bioengineering Research Grants (BRG)(R01) | Participating Institutes and Centers of the NIH invite applications for R01 awards to support Bioengineering Research Grants (BRGs) for basic and applied multi-disciplinary research that addresses important biological, bioengineering or medical research problems. | 1/7/2013 | Grants - PA-10-009 |
| National Cancer Institute (NCI) | Application and Early Stage Development of Emerging Technologies in Cancer Research (R21) | Solicits grant applications that propose exploratory research projects on the initial application of emerging analytical technologies as laboratory or clinical tools. An “emerging technology” is defined as one that has passed the initial developmental stage, but has not yet been evaluated within the context of its intended use. Projects proposed in response to this FOA should have the potential to produce a major impact in a broad area of cancer-relevant research. If successful, these technologies would accelerate research in cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, cancer prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. This FOA solicits R21 applications that have high potential impact and allows for an element of technical risk; preliminary data are not required. All projects must include quantitative milestones (i.e. technical metrics that determine whether the specific aims have been accomplished). Projects proposing to use established technologies where the novelty resides in the biological or clinical question being pursued are not appropriate for this solicitation and will be returned as non-responsive. | 1/23/2010 | Grant - RFA-CA-10-003 |
| National Cancer Institute (NCI) | Application and Early Stage Development of Emerging Technologies in Cancer Research (R21) | Solicits grant applications that propose exploratory research projects on the initial application of emerging analytical technologies as laboratory or clinical tools. An “emerging technology” is defined as one that has passed the initial developmental stage, but has not yet been evaluated within the context of its intended use. Projects proposed in response to this FOA should have the potential to produce a major impact in a broad area of cancer-relevant research. If successful, these technologies would accelerate research in cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, cancer prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. This FOA solicits R21 applications that have high potential impact and allows for an element of technical risk; preliminary data are not required. All projects must include quantitative milestones (i.e. technical metrics that determine whether the specific aims have been accomplished). Projects proposing to use established technologies where the novelty resides in the biological or clinical question being pursued are not appropriate for this solicitation and will be returned as non-responsive. | 4/27/2010 | Grant - RFA-CA-10-003 |
| National Cancer Institute (NCI) | Application and Early Stage Development of Emerging Technologies in Cancer Research (R21) | Solicits grant applications that propose exploratory research projects on the initial application of emerging analytical technologies as laboratory or clinical tools. An “emerging technology” is defined as one that has passed the initial developmental stage, but has not yet been evaluated within the context of its intended use. Projects proposed in response to this FOA should have the potential to produce a major impact in a broad area of cancer-relevant research. If successful, these technologies would accelerate research in cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, cancer prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. This FOA solicits R21 applications that have high potential impact and allows for an element of technical risk; preliminary data are not required. All projects must include quantitative milestones (i.e. technical metrics that determine whether the specific aims have been accomplished). Projects proposing to use established technologies where the novelty resides in the biological or clinical question being pursued are not appropriate for this solicitation and will be returned as non-responsive. | 5/27/2010 | Grant - RFA-CA-10-003 |
| National Cancer Institute (NCI) | Application and Early Stage Development of Emerging Technologies in Cancer Research (R21) | Solicits grant applications that propose exploratory research projects on the initial application of emerging analytical technologies as laboratory or clinical tools. An “emerging technology” is defined as one that has passed the initial developmental stage, but has not yet been evaluated within the context of its intended use. Projects proposed in response to this FOA should have the potential to produce a major impact in a broad area of cancer-relevant research. If successful, these technologies would accelerate research in cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, cancer prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. This FOA solicits R21 applications that have high potential impact and allows for an element of technical risk; preliminary data are not required. All projects must include quantitative milestones (i.e. technical metrics that determine whether the specific aims have been accomplished). Projects proposing to use established technologies where the novelty resides in the biological or clinical question being pursued are not appropriate for this solicitation and will be returned as non-responsive. | 8/30/2010 | Grant - RFA-CA-10-003 |
| National Cancer Institute (NCI) | Application and Early Stage Development of Emerging Technologies in Cancer Research (R21) | Solicits grant applications that propose exploratory research projects on the initial application of emerging analytical technologies as laboratory or clinical tools. An “emerging technology” is defined as one that has passed the initial developmental stage, but has not yet been evaluated within the context of its intended use. Projects proposed in response to this FOA should have the potential to produce a major impact in a broad area of cancer-relevant research. If successful, these technologies would accelerate research in cancer biology, cancer treatment and diagnosis, cancer prevention, cancer control and epidemiology, and/or cancer health disparities. This FOA solicits R21 applications that have high potential impact and allows for an element of technical risk; preliminary data are not required. All projects must include quantitative milestones (i.e. technical metrics that determine whether the specific aims have been accomplished). Projects proposing to use established technologies where the novelty resides in the biological or clinical question being pursued are not appropriate for this solicitation and will be returned as non-responsive. | 9/30/2010 | Grant - RFA-CA-10-003 |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Technologies for Image-Guided Interventions (R01) | Solicits research project grant (R01) applications that propose high-impact technologies for image-guided interventions. As defined here, image-guided interventions (IGI), integrate images for navigation during a treatment or biopsy. The goal of the IGI initiative is to produce technologies that will replace current treatments with minimally invasive, image-guided interventions. A disruptive technology is a new technological innovation that replaces the existing dominant technology. Examples of disruptive technologies include image-guided procedures that replace invasive surgery with faster, less invasive and/or lower-cost image-guided interventions. | 12/20/2009 | Grant - RFA-EB-09-002 |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Technologies for Image-Guided Interventions (R01) | Solicits research project grant (R01) applications that propose high-impact technologies for image-guided interventions. As defined here, image-guided interventions (IGI), integrate images for navigation during a treatment or biopsy. The goal of the IGI initiative is to produce technologies that will replace current treatments with minimally invasive, image-guided interventions. A disruptive technology is a new technological innovation that replaces the existing dominant technology. Examples of disruptive technologies include image-guided procedures that replace invasive surgery with faster, less invasive and/or lower-cost image-guided interventions. | 1/20/2010 | Grant - RFA-EB-09-002 |
| NIH | Bioengineering Nanotechnology Initiative (SBIR [R43/R44]) | Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at dimensions between approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Encompassing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, nanotechnology involves imaging, measuring, modeling, and manipulating matter at this length scale. The purpose of this trans-NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to stimulate Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) that employs nanotechnology to enable the development of diagnostics and interventions for treating diseases. | 12/5/2009 | Grant - PA-09-267 |
| NIH | Bioengineering Nanotechnology Initiative (STTR [R41/R42]) | Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at dimensions between approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Encompassing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, nanotechnology involves imaging, measuring, modeling, and manipulating matter at this length scale. The purpose of this trans-NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to stimulate Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant applications that employ nanotechnology to enable the development of diagnostics and interventions for treating diseases. | 12/5/2009 | Grant - PA-09-266 |
| NIH | NIBIB Quantum Projects: Implementation Phase II (U01) | Solicits Phase II applications for the Quantum Program at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. The goal is to achieve a profound (quantum) impact on the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of a major disease or national public health problem through the development and implementation of biomedical technologies. | 12/22/2009 | Cooperative Agreement - RFA-EB-09-003 |
| NIH | NIBIB Quantum Projects: Implementation Phase II (U01) | Solicits Phase II applications for the Quantum Program at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. The goal is to achieve a profound (quantum) impact on the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of a major disease or national public health problem through the development and implementation of biomedical technologies. | 1/22/2010 | Cooperative Agreement - RFA-EB-09-003 |
| NIH | Engineered Nanomaterials: Linking Physical and Chemical Properties to Biology (U19) | Invites applications that will (1) determine which physical or chemical characteristic of an engineered nanomaterial (ENM), or cluster of characteristics, is integral to ENM-molecular interactions in a cellular process or organ system and (2) relate these findings to potential health effects. NIEHS recognizes that three types of activities need to converge to accomplish this research agenda. The first activity should focus on a detailed understanding of how physical and chemical characteristics of ENMs influence their molecular interactions at the cellular level, while the second activity should determine how the physical and chemical characteristics critical to that interaction are associated with any observed physiological or pathobiological events. The third activity will capitalize on these multidisciplinary efforts through integration of biochemical, molecular, and physiological mechanisms to expand traditional hazard identification and health risk assessment. An extraordinary level of synergy, integration, and potential for advancement of ENM hazard identification and risk assessment is expected. | 1/22/2010 | Grant - RFA-ES-09-011 |
| NIH | Exploratory/Developmental Bioengineering Research Grants (EBRG) [R21] | Encourages innovation and high risk/impact bioengineering research in new areas. While minimal or no preliminary data are expected to be described in the application, applications should clearly indicate the significance of the proposed work and that the proposed research and/or development is scientifically sound, that the qualifications of the investigators are appropriate, and that resources available to the investigators are adequate. An EBRG application may propose hypothesis-driven, discovery-driven, developmental, or design-directed research. The research proposed under this program can explore approaches and concepts new to a particular substantive area; research and development of new technologies, techniques or methods; or initial research and development of data upon which significant future research may be built. | 2/16/2010 | Grants - PA-10-010 |
| NIH | Bioengineering Nanotechnology Initiative (SBIR [R43/R44]) | Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at dimensions between approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Encompassing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, nanotechnology involves imaging, measuring, modeling, and manipulating matter at this length scale. The purpose of this trans-NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to stimulate Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) that employs nanotechnology to enable the development of diagnostics and interventions for treating diseases. | 4/5/2010 | Grant - PA-09-267 |
| NIH | Bioengineering Nanotechnology Initiative (STTR [R41/R42]) | Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at dimensions between approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Encompassing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, nanotechnology involves imaging, measuring, modeling, and manipulating matter at this length scale. The purpose of this trans-NIH Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to stimulate Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant applications that employ nanotechnology to enable the development of diagnostics and interventions for treating diseases. | 4/5/2010 | Grant - PA-09-266 |
| NIH | Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R01) | The NIH is interested in promoting research and developments in biomedical informatics and computational biology that will support rapid progress in areas of scientific opportunity in biomedical research. As defined here, biomedical informatics and computational biology includes database design, graphical interfaces, querying approaches, data retrieval, data visualization and manipulation, data integration through the development of integrated analytical tools, and tools for electronic collaboration, as well as computational and mathematical research including the development of structural, functional, integrative, and analytical computational models and simulations. | 9/7/2012 | Grant - PAR-09-218 |
| NSF | CISE Cross-Cutting Programs: FY 2009 and FY 2010 | This solicitation seeks proposals in cross-cutting areas that are scientifically timely, and that benefit from the intellectual contributions of researchers with expertise in a number of computing fields and/or sub-fields. The cross-cutting programs for FY 2009 and 2010 are: Data-intensive Computing; Network Science and Engineering; and Trustworthy Computing. | 11/28/2009 | Grant - NSF-08-578 |
| NSF | Computer and Network Systems (CNS): Core Programs | Supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in two core programs: 1) The Computer Systems Research (CSR) program; and 2) The Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) program. | 11/28/2009 | Grant - NSF09-556 |
| NSF | Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF): Core Programs | CISE’s Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in three core programs:
1) The Algorithmic Foundations program; 2) The Communications and Information Foundations program; and 3) The Software and Hardware Foundations program. | 11/28/2009 | Grant - NSF 09-555 |
| NSF | Computer and Network Systems (CNS): Core Programs | CISE’s Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in two core programs: 1) The Computer Systems Research (CSR) program; and 2) The Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) program. | 11/28/2009 | Grant - NSF 09-556 |
| NSF | Environmental Chemical Sciences (ECS) | Supports basic research in chemistry that promotes the understanding of natural and anthropogenic chemical processes in our environment. Projects supported by this program enable fundamentally new avenues of basic research and transformative technologies. The program is particularly interested in studying molecular phenomena on surfaces and interfaces in order to understand the inherently complex and heterogeneous environment. Projects utilize advanced experimental, modeling and computational approaches, as well as developing new approaches. Topics include studies of environmental surfaces and interfaces under laboratory conditions, the fundamental properties of water and water solutions important in environmental processes, dissolution, composition, origin and behavior of molecular scale systems under a variety of naturally occurring environmental conditions, chemical reactivity of synthetic nanoparticles and their molecular level interactions with the environment, and application of theoretical models and computational approaches to discover and predict environmental phenomena at the molecular scale. | 11/30/2009 | Grant - PD-09-6882 |
| NSF | Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) | Welcomes and encourages the submission of transformative, interdisciplinary research proposals to its Divisions. Definition of Interdisciplinary Research"Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) is a mode of research by teams or individuals that integrates information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts, and/or theories from two or more disciplines or bodies of specialized knowledge to advance fundamental understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a single discipline or area of research practice. | 12/7/2009 | Grant - PD-09-7951 |
| NSF | Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) | Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) is a mode of research by teams or individuals that integrates information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts, and/or theories from two or more disciplines or bodies of specialized knowledge to advance fundamental understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a single discipline or area of research practice. | 12/7/2009 | Grant - PD 09-7951 |
| NSF | CHE-DMR-DMS Solar Energy Initiative (SOLAR) | Support interdisciplinary efforts by groups of researchers to address the scientific challenges of highly efficient harvesting, conversion, and storage of solar energy. Groups must include three or more co-Principal Investigators of whom one must be a researcher in chemistry, a second in materials, and a third in mathematical sciences in areas supported by the Divisions of Chemistry, Materials Research, and Mathematical Sciences, respectively. The intent is to encourage new collaborations in which the mathematical sciences are linked in a synergistic way with the chemical and materials sciences to develop novel, potentially transformative approaches in an area of much activity but largely incremental advances. | 12/8/2009 | Award - NSF 09-604 |
| NSF | Computer and Network Systems (CNS): Core Programs | CISE’s Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in two core programs: 1) The Computer Systems Research (CSR) program; and 2) The Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) program. | 12/17/2009 | Grant - NSF 09-556 |
| NSF | Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF): Core Programs | CISE’s Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in three core programs:
1) The Algorithmic Foundations program; 2) The Communications and Information Foundations program; and 3) The Software and Hardware Foundations program. | 12/17/2009 | Grant - NSF 09-555 |
| NSF | Computer and Network Systems (CNS): Core Programs | Supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in two core programs: 1) The Computer Systems Research (CSR) program; and 2) The Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) program. | 12/17/2009 | Grant - NSF09-556 |
| NSF | CISE Cross-Cutting Programs: FY 2009 and FY 2010 | This solicitation seeks proposals in cross-cutting areas that are scientifically timely, and that benefit from the intellectual contributions of researchers with expertise in a number of computing fields and/or sub-fields. The cross-cutting programs for FY 2009 and 2010 are: Data-intensive Computing; Network Science and Engineering; and Trustworthy Computing. | 12/17/2009 | Grant - NSF-08-578 |
| NSF | Discovery Research K-12 (DR K-12) | Seeks to enable significant advances in preK-12 student and teacher learning of the STEM disciplines through development, study, and implementation of resources, models, and technologies for use by students, teachers, and policymakers. Projects funded under this solicitation begin with a research question or a hypothesis about how to improve preK-12 STEM learning and teaching. Projects create or adapt and study innovative resources, models, or technologies and determine how and why implementation affects STEM learning. | 1/7/2010 | Grant - NSF 09-602 |
| NSF | Biomolecular Systems Cluster | upports fundamental research in the areas of molecular biophysics, molecular biochemistry, and metabolic biochemistry. The cluster emphasizes the relationships between structure, function, and dynamics in studies of individual macromolecules, macromolecular complexes, and metabolic pathways. Research of interest to the cluster includes novel and creative projects addressing protein folding and dynamics, natively unfolded proteins, protein design, molecular recognition, enzymology, energy transformations in living systems, and the components, architecture and flux in metabolic pathways. The cluster encourages research projects integrating theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches to discover and define basic molecular mechanisms, as well as projects developing cutting-edge technologies in the context of biological questions relevant to the cluster. The cluster also encourages multi-disciplinary research at the interface of biology with physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, and engineering. | 1/12/2010 | Grant - PD 04-1144 |
| NSF | Genes and Genome Systems Cluster | Supports studies on genomes and genetic mechanisms in all organisms, whether prokaryote, eukaryote, phage, or virus. Proposals on the structure, maintenance, expression, transfer, and stability of genetic information in DNA, RNA, and proteins and how those processes are regulated are appropriate. Areas of interest include genome organization, molecular and cellular evolution, replication, recombination, repair, and vertical and lateral transmission of heritable information. Of equal interest are the processes that mediate and regulate gene expression, such as chromatin structure, epigenetic phenomena, transcription, RNA processing, editing and degradation, and translation. The use of innovative in vivo and/or in vitro approaches, including biochemical, physiological, genetic, genomic, and/or computational methods, is encouraged, as is research at the interfaces of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer science, and engineering. | 1/12/2010 | Grant - PD-04-1112 |
| NSF | Biomolecular Systems Cluster | he Biomolecular Systems Cluster emphasizes the structure, function, dynamics, interactions, and interconversions of biological molecules. The context for such studies can range from investigations of individual macromolecules to the large-scale integration of metabolic and energetic processes. Research supported by this cluster includes development of cutting-edge technologies integrating theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches to the study of biological molecules and their functional complexes; mechanistic studies of the regulation and catalysis of enzymes and RNA, and higher-order characterization of the biochemical processes by which all organisms acquire, transform, and utilize energy from substrates. This cluster emphasizes the importance of multi-disciplinary research carried out at the interfaces of biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer science, and engineering. | 1/12/2010 | Grant - PD-04-1144 |
| NSF | Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) | The program supports efforts to create, adapt, anddisseminate new learning materials and teaching strategies to reflect advances both in STEM disciplines and in what is known about teaching and learning. | 1/13/2010 | Grant - NSF-09-529 |
| NSF | Instrumentation for Materials Research | The IMR Program supports the acquisition and/or development of research instruments that will provide new capability and/or advance current capability to: (1) discover fundamental phenomena in materials; (2) synthesize, process, and/or characterize the composition, structure, properties, and performance of materials; and (3) improve the quality, expand the scope, and foster and enable the integration of research and education in research-intensive environments. | 1/14/2010 | Grant - NSF-07-600 |
| NSF | SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants | The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), and Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. | 1/15/2010 | Grants - NSF 06-605 |
| NSF | Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) | The ITEST program responds to current concerns and projections about the growing demand for professionals and information technology workers in the U.S. and seeks solutions to help ensure the breadth and depth of the STEM workforce. ITEST supports research studies to address questions about how to find solutions. It also supports the development, implementation, testing, and scale-up of implementation models. | 1/19/2010 | Award - NSF 09-506 |
| NSF | Building Engineered Complex Systems (BECS) | Provides "seed funding" for small teams of innovative engineers and mathematical scientists (mathematicians or statisticians) to seek and develop a theoretical basis of complex systems, with the aim of developing formal methods for the design of engineered complex systems. | 1/19/2010 | Grant - NSF-09610 |
| NSF | Building Engineered Complex Systems (BECS) | Seeks to provide "seed funding" for small teams of innovative engineers and mathematical scientists (mathematicians or statisticians) to seek and develop a theoretical basis of complex systems, with the aim of developing formal methods for the design of engineered complex systems. | 1/19/2010 | Grant - NSF-09-610 |
| NSF | Innovations in Engineering Education, Curriculum, and Infrastructure (IEECI) | The Innovations in Engineering Education, Curriculum, and Infrastructure (IEECI) program supports research which addresses three aspects of engineering education: (1) how students best learn the ideas, principles, and practices to become creative and innovative engineers, and how this learning is measured (2) how to more effectively translate successes in engineering education research into widespread practice with consideration of curriculum, student learning, innovation models, and cyber-learning technology, and (3) implementation of programs for students supported by the GI Bill. | 1/20/2010 | Grant - NSF 10-502 |
| NSF | Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) | The Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) program supports fundamental scientific research, particularly advances in social, organizational and design science understanding, directed at advancing the understanding of how to develop virtual organizations and under what conditions virtual organizations can enable and enhance scientific, engineering, and education production and innovation. Levels of analysis may include (but are not limited to) individuals, groups, organizations, and institutional arrangements. | 1/25/2010 | |
| NSF | Science of Learning Centers (SLC) | The Science of Learning Centers program (SLC) offers awards for large-scale, long-term Centers that create the intellectual, organizational and physical infrastructure needed for the long-term advancement of Science of Learning research. It supports research that harnesses and integrates knowledge across multiple disciplines to create a common groundwork of conceptualization, experimentation and explanation that anchor new lines of thinking and inquiry towards a deeper understanding of learning.
The goals of the Science of Learning Centers Program are to advance the frontiers of all the sciences of learning through integrated research; to connect the research to specific scientific, technological, educational, and workforce challenges; to enable research communities to capitalize on new opportunities and discoveries; and to respond to new challenges. | 2/1/2010 | Award - PD 07-7278 |
| NSF | Science, Technology, and Society (STS) | Considers proposals that examine historical, philosophical, and sociological questions that arise in connection with science, engineering, and technology, and their respective interactions with society. | 2/1/2010 | Grant - 08-553 |
| NSF | SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants | The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), and Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. | 2/1/2010 | Grants - NSF 06-605 |
| NSF | Research in Disabilities Education (RDE)
Division of Human Resource Development
Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) | Seeks to broaden the participation and achievement of people with disabilities in all fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and associated professional careers. | 2/3/2010 | Award - NSF 09-508 |
| NSF | Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) | Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) is NSF’s bold five-year initiative to create revolutionary science and engineering research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational thinking. | 2/4/2010 | Grant - NSF 10-506 |
| NSF | Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) | Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) is NSF’s bold five-year initiative to create revolutionary science and engineering research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational thinking. | 2/5/2010 | Grant - NSF 10-506 |
| NSF | Power, Controls and Adaptive Networks (PCAN) | The Power, Controls and Adaptive Networks (PCAN) program invests in the design and analysis of intelligent and adaptive engineering networks, including sensing, imaging, controls, and computational technologies for a variety of application domains. The program supports distributed control of multi-agent systems with embedded computation for sensor and adaptive networks. PCAN invests in adaptive dynamic programming, brain-like networked architectures performing real-time learning, neuromorphic engineering, telerobotics, and systems theory. | 2/7/2010 | Grant - PD 05-1518 |
| NSF | Integrative, Hybrid & Complex Systems (IHCS) | The Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems (IHCS) program intends to spur visionary systems-oriented activities in collaborative research and education environments for multidisciplinary integrative activities. IHCS supports innovative research in micro and nano systems, communication systems, and cyber systems that integrate physical devices and components with computational intelligence and networks. | 2/7/2010 | Grant - PD 05-7564 |
| NSF | Electronics, Photonics & Device Technologies (EPDT) | Seeks to improve the fundamental understanding of devices and components based on the principles of micro and nano electronics, photonics, magnetics, organics, electro-optics, electromechanics, electromagnetics, and related physical phenomena. The program enables discovery and innovation advancing the frontiers of spin electronics, molecular electronics, bioelectronics, nonsilicon electronics, flexible electronics, optoelectronics, microwave photonics, micro/nano-electromechanical systems | 2/7/2010 | Award - PD 05-1517 |
| NSF | Electronics, Photonics & Device Technologies | Seeks to improve the fundamental understanding of devices and components based on the principles of micro and nano electronics, photonics, magnetics, organics, electro-optics, electromechanics, electromagnetics, and related physical phenomena. The program enables discovery and innovation advancing the frontiers of spin electronics, molecular electronics, bioelectronics, nonsilicon electronics, flexible electronics, optoelectronics, microwave photonics, micro/nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), sensors and actuators, power electronics, and mixed signal devices. EPDT supports related topics in quantum engineering and novel electromagnetic materials-based high frequency device solutions, radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits, and reconfigurable antennas needed for communications, telemedicine, and other wireless applications. | 2/7/2010 | Grants - PD-10-1517 |
| NSF | Power, Controls and Adaptive Networks | Invests in the design and analysis of intelligent and adaptive engineering networks, including sensing, imaging, controls, and computational technologies for a variety of application domains. The program supports distributed control of multi-agent systems with embedded computation for sensor and adaptive networks. PCAN invests in adaptive dynamic programming, brain-like networked architectures performing real-time learning, neuromorphic engineering, telerobotics, and systems theory. | 2/7/2010 | Grant - PD-10-1518 |
| NSF | Integrative, Hybrid & Complex Systems | The Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems (IHCS) program intends to spur visionary systems-oriented activities in collaborative research and education environments for multidisciplinary integrative activities. IHCS supports innovative research in micro and nano systems, communication systems, and cyber systems that integrate physical devices and components with computational intelligence and networks. The goal is to design, develop and implement new nano/micro/macro complex and hybrid systems with engineering solutions for a variety of domain-specific applications in healthcare, environment, communications, disaster mitigation, homeland security, transportation, manufacturing, and other systems-related areas. IHCS also supports integration technologies at both the intra-and inter-chip levels that target new and advanced radio frequency (RF), millimeter wave and optical wireless and hybrid communication systems architectures as well as sensing and imaging at terahertz frequencies. | 2/7/2010 | Grant - PD-10-7564 |
| NSF | Research in Disabilities Education (RDE)
Division of Human Resource Development
Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) | Seeks to broaden the participation and achievement of people with disabilities in all fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and associated professional careers. | 2/10/2010 | Award - NSF 09-508 |
| NSF | Expeditions in Computing | The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) has created the Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) program to provide the CISE research and education community with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, fundamental research agendas that promise to define the future of computing and information. | 2/10/2010 | Award - NSF 08-568 |
| NSF | Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) | The ITEST program responds to current concerns and projections about the growing demand for professionals and information technology workers in the U.S. and seeks solutions to help ensure the breadth and depth of the STEM workforce. ITEST supports research studies to address questions about how to find solutions. It also supports the development, implementation, testing, and scale-up of implementation models. | 2/12/2010 | Award - NSF 09-506 |
| NSF | SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants | The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), and Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. | 2/15/2010 | Grants - NSF 06-605 |
| NSF | Engineering Design and Innovation (EDI) | Supports research leading to design theory and to tools and methods that enable implementation of the principles of design theory in the practice of design across the full spectrum of engineered products. The program focus is on gaining an understanding of the basic processes and phenomena underlying a holistic, life-cycle view of design where the total system life-cycle context recognizes the need for advanced understanding of the identification and definition of preferences, analysis of alternatives, effective accommodation of uncertainty in decision-making, and the relationship between data and knowledge in a digitally-supported process. The program funds advances in basic design theory, tools, and software to implement design theory and new design methods that span multiple domains, such as design for the environment and for manufacturability. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD 08-1464 |
| NSF | Dynamical Systems (DS) | Supports innovative research on the theories of dynamical systems, including new analytical and computational tools, as well as the novel application of dynamical systems to engineered systems. The program is especially interested in transformative research in the area of complex systems, uncertain or stochastic nonlinear dynamical systems, model order reduction of nonlinear or infinite dimensional dynamical systems, discrete nonlinear dynamical systems, and modeling, simulation, analysis and design of multi-scale multi-physics dynamical systems. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD 09-7478 |
| NSF | Geomechanics and GeoTechnical Systems | Supports fundamental research on the mechanics and engineering properties of geologic materials including the mechanical properties of soil and rock, mechanically stabilized and biologically modified soil, and on natural processes, such as hydraulic, biological and thermal, that affect the behavior of these materials. Research on soil-structure interaction and liquefaction are also funded by the program. Support is provided for theoretical studies, constitutive and numerical modeling, laboratory, centrifuge, and field testing. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD-09-1634 |
| NSF | Geotechnical Engineering | Supports fundamental research on geotechnical aspects of the civil infrastructure, such as foundation engineering, site characterization, underground construction, tunneling, drilling, and mining engineering. Also included is research on geoenvironmental engineering, geotechnical earthquake engineering that does not involve the use of George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) facilities, and geohazards such as tsunamis, landslides, mudslides and debris flows, scour, and erosion. Emphasis is on issues of sustainability and resilience. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD-09-1636 |
| NSF | Engineering Design and Innovation | Supports research leading to design theory and to tools and methods that enable implementation of the principles of design theory in the practice of design across the full spectrum of engineered products. The program focus is on gaining an understanding of the basic processes and phenomena underlying a holistic, life-cycle view of design where the total system life-cycle context recognizes the need for advanced understanding of the identification and definition of preferences, analysis of alternatives, effective accommodation of uncertainty in decision-making, and the relationship between data and knowledge in a digitally-supported process. The program funds advances in basic design theory, tools, and software to implement design theory and new design methods that span multiple domains, such as design for the environment and for manufacturability. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD-08-1464 |
| NSF | Materials Processing and Manufacturing | Supports fundamental research on the interrelationship of materials processing, structure, performance and process control. Analytical, experimental, and numerical studies are supported covering processing methods such as molding, forging, casting, welding, hydroforming, composite layup, and other materials processing approaches. Emphasis is placed on environmentally benign manufacturing and virtual manufacturing. Research leading to the development of novel processes and novel hybrid processing techniques to achieve net shape products and complex multi-scale, multi-functional products with superior quality and performance is also supported. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD-08-1467 |
| NSF | Manufacturing and Construction Machines and Equipment | Supports fundamental research leading to improved machines and applications for both manufacturing and construction. Key goals are to advance the transition of these industries from skill-based to knowledge-based activities and to develop them as activities with minimal environmental and societal impact. To accomplish these goals the program emphasizes research leading to a fundamental understanding of the relevant physical processes resulting in better predictive models and improved manufacturing and construction decision making. The program also supports research on solid freeform fabrication encompassing scales from microns to meters (nanometer scale additive manufacturing is supported under the Nanomanufacturing program). | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD-08-1468 |
| NSF | Mechanics of Materials | Supports fundamental research on solid mechanics including theoretical, analytical, and computational approaches, model-based simulation, and the development of constitutive models. It also supports research to link the nanostructure and microstructure mechanical behavior of materials across time and length scales, including experimental and analytical research on deformation, fatigue, and fracture, and the underlying molecular and microstructural states. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD-08-1630 |
| NSF | Control Systems | upports innovative research on control theory and control technology driven by real life applications. The program accepts proposals on transformative research in established topic areas such as model-based control. However, the program emphasis is on paradigm-shifting ideas for control strategies that may be inspired by nature, unconventional applications, and the combined role of feedback and uncertainty in systems that incorporate large numbers of sensors and actuators. New sensor and actuator concepts that integrate feedback and signal processing to achieve a sensing or actuation objective are also funded. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD-08-1632 |
| NSF | Materials and Surface Engineering | Supports fundamental research leading to a better understanding of the effect of microstructure, surfaces and coatings on the properties and performance of engineering materials, and the ultimate control of these properties through material design. Of particular interest is materials service under conditions such as impact, temperature extremes, corrosion, oxidation, and friction. The program also supports research leading to biomedical applications of materials. Funded research includes both experimental and theoretical approaches. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD-08-1633 |
| NSF | Structural Materials and Mechanics | Supports fundamental research on the behavior of civil infrastructure materials and the mechanics of structural components in the built environment. Of particular interest is research on structural components consisting of natural and synthetic materials, their response to mechanical, hydrothermal and time-dependent loads, and their impact on life-cycle performance and sustainable development of the civil infrastructure. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD-08-1635 |
| NSF | Hazard Mitigation and Structural Engineering | Supports fundamental research on the design and performance of structural systems and on new technologies for improving the behavior, safety, and reliability of structural systems and their resistance to natural hazards such as earthquakes and technological hazards (such as bombs).?? Also supported by the program are innovations in analysis and model-based simulation of structural behavior and response, design concepts that improve structural performance, reliability, resilience and sustainability, structural health monitoring, and applications of new control techniques for structural systems. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD-08-1637 |
| NSF | Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events | The IMEE program focuses on the impact of large-scale hazards on civil infrastructure and society and on related issues of preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery. The program supports research to integrate multiple issues from engineering, social, behavioral, political, and economic sciences. It supports fundamental research on the interdependence of civil infrastructure and society, development of sustainable infrastructures, and civil infrastructure vulnerability and risk reduction. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD-08-1638 |
| NSF | Sensors and Sensing Systems | Supports research on methods to acquire and use sensor data on civil, mechanical, and manufacturing systems. The program supports fundamental research on advanced actuators, sensors, wireless sensor networks, new materials and concepts for sensing applications, power generation and energy supply for sensors and sensing systems. Also of interest is research on the strategic incorporation of sensors into both natural and engineered systems to achieve effective data acquisition and on processing and transmission of sensor data. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD-08-1639 |
| NSF | NanoManufacturing | upports research and education on manufacturing at the nanoscale, and the transfer of research results in nanoscience and nanotechnology to industrial applications. The program emphasizes a systems approach to scale-up of nanotechnology for high rate production, reliability, robustness, yield and cost, and promotes integration of nanostructures to functional micro devices and meso/macroscale systems. Special emphases are on environmental, health, and societal aspects of nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing. | 2/15/2010 | Grants - PD-08-1788 |
| NSF | Mechanics of Materials (MOM) | The MOM program supports fundamental research on solid mechanics including theoretical, analytical, and computational approaches, model-based simulation, and the development of constitutive models. It also supports research to link the nanostructure and microstructure mechanical behavior of materials across time and length scales, including experimental and analytical research on deformation, fatigue, and fracture, and the underlying molecular and microstructural states. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD 08-1630 |
| NSF | Materials and Surface Engineering (MSE) | The MSE program supports fundamental research leading to a better understanding of the effect of microstructure, surfaces and coatings on the properties and performance of engineering materials, and the ultimate control of these properties through material design. Of particular interest is materials service under conditions such as impact, temperature extremes, corrosion, oxidation, and friction. The program also supports research leading to biomedical applications of materials. Funded research includes both experimental and theoretical approaches. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD 08-1633 |
| NSF | Nano and Bio Mechanics (NBM) | The NBM program supports fundamental research in biomechanics and nanomechanics. Research on biomechanics focuses on the mechanical properties and behavior of biological materials and structures, including cells, tissue, muscles, bones, and prosthetic implants. Research on nanomechanics focuses on the unique properties of nano-scale particles and microstructural features and their effects on the macroscopic mechanics and properties of materials, surfaces, and structures that contain them. | 2/15/2010 | Grant - PD 08-7479 |
| NSF | Research in Disabilities Education (RDE)
Division of Human Resource Development
Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) | Seeks to broaden the participation and achievement of people with disabilities in all fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and associated professional careers. | 2/17/2010 | Award - NSF 09-508 |
| NSF | International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops | This solicitation describes International Planning Visit/Workshop awards to support the early phases of developing and coordinating a research and education activity with a foreign partner(s). | 2/20/2010 | Award - NSF 04-035 |
| NSF | Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (EESE) | The Ethics Education in Science and Engineering (EESE) program accepts proposals for research and educational projects to improve ethics education in all of the fields of science and engineering that NSF supports, especially in interdisciplinary or inter-institutional contexts. Proposals must focus on improving ethics education for graduate students in those fields, although the proposed programs may benefit advanced undergraduates in addition to graduate students. | 3/1/2010 | Grant - NSF-08-530 |
| NSF | Environmental Implications of Emerging Technologies | The Environmental Implications of Emerging Technologies program provides support to develop and test the environmental effects of new technologies. Fundamental and basic research is sought to establish and understand outcomes as a result of the implementation of new technologies such as nanotechnology and biotechnology. The program also supports research on the development and refinement of sensors and sensor network technologies that can be used to measure a wide variety of physical, chemical, and biological properties of interest in characterizing, monitoring, and understanding environmental impacts. | 3/3/2010 | Award - PD 10-1179 |
| NSF | Process and Reaction Engineering | The Process and Reaction Engineering program funds research in: chemical and biochemical reaction engineering, process design and control, and reactive polymer processing. | 3/3/2010 | Award - PD 10-1403 |
| NSF | http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13367&govDel=USNSF_39 | Supports engineering research aimed at gaining a basic understanding of the microscopic and macroscopic levels of thermal transport phenomena (heat and mass transfer) in energy conversion and conservation, the synthesis and processing of materials, cooling and heating of infrastructure and equipment, the interaction of industrial processes with the environment, the propulsion of air and land-based vehicles, and thermal phenomena in biological and environmental systems. The program supports fundamental research and engineering education in transport processes that are driven by thermal gradients, and manipulation of these processes to achieve engineering goals. | 3/3/2010 | Award - PD 10-1406 |
| NSF | Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics | The Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics program supports fundamental research in engineering areas related to interfacial phenomena, mass transport phenomena, and
solution phase equilibrium thermodynamics. | 3/3/2010 | Award - PD 10-1414 |
| NSF | Particulate and Multiphase Processes | Supports fundamental and applied research on mechanisms and phenomena governing particulate and multiphase processes, including granular and granular-fluid flows, particle/bubble/droplet interactions, aerosol science and technology, suspensions, micro- and nano-structured fluids, self- and directed-assembly of nanostructures involving particulates, and related instrumentation and diagnostics. | 3/3/2010 | Award - PD 10-1415 |
| NSF | Environmental Engineering | Supports fundamental research and educational activities across the broad field it serves. The goal of this program is to encourage transformative research which applies scientific principles to minimize solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges into land, inland and coastal waters, and air that result from human activity, and to evaluate adverse impacts of these discharges on human health and environmental quality. | 3/3/2010 | Award - PD 10-1440 |
| NSF | Fluid Dynamics | Supports fundamental research and education on mechanisms and phenomena governing fluid flow. | 3/3/2010 | Award - PD 10-1443 |
| NSF | Biotechnology, Biochemical, and Biomass Engineering (BBBE) | The Biotechnology, Biochemical, and Biomass Engineering (BBBE) program deals with fundamental problems involved in the processing and manufacturing of products of economic importance by effectively utilizing renewable resources of biological origin and bioinformatics originating from genomic and proteomic information. | 3/3/2010 | Award - PD 10-1491 |
| NSF | Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities (RAPD) | Supports research that will lead to the development of new technologies, devices, or software for persons with disabilities. Research may be supported that is directed to the characterization, restoration, and/or substitution of human functional ability or cognition, or to the interaction of persons with disabilities and their environment. Areas of particular recent interest are disability-related research in neuroscience/neuroengineering and rehabilitation robotics. | 3/3/2010 | Award - PD 10-5342 |
| NSF | Biomedical Engineering (BME) | Supports fundamental, transformative, and discovery research applied to biological systems. | 3/3/2010 | Award - PD 10-5345 |
| NSF | Biophotonics, Advanced Imaging, and Sensing for Human Health (BISH) | Innovative basic research in photonics, imaging, and sensing that is very fundamental in science and engineering is needed to lay the foundation for new technologies beyond those that are mature and ready for application in medical diagnostics and therapies. | 3/3/2010 | Award - PD 10-7236 |
| NSF | Environmental Sustainability | Supports engineering research with the goal of promoting sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being and that are also compatible with sustaining natural (environmental) systems. These systems provide ecological services vital for human survival. The long-term viability of natural capital is critical for many areas of human endeavor. Research in Environmental Sustainability typically considers long time horizons and may incorporate contributions from the social sciences and ethics. | 3/3/2010 | Award - PD 10-7643 |
| NSF | Biosensing | Supports innovative, transformative, and insightful investigations of fundamental problems with broad long term impact and applications that require novel use of bio-inspired engineering principles and sophisticated devices to meet the engineering and technology needs of the nation. The program is targeting research in the area of the monitoring, identification, and/or quantification of biological phenomena and will support potential technological breakthroughs that exist at the intersection of engineering, life science, and information technology.
Projects submitted to the Program must advance both engineering and life sciences. Projects in the program may range from single investigator to multi-investigator collaborative research efforts. | 3/3/2010 | Grant - PD 10-7909 |
| NSF | Biophotonics, Advanced Imaging, and Sensing for Human Health | Innovative basic research in photonics, imaging, and sensing that is very fundamental in science and engineering is needed to lay the foundation for new technologies beyond those that are mature and ready for application in medical diagnostics and therapies. Developing molecularly specific sensing (molecular photonics), imaging, and monitoring systems with high sensitivity and resolution would be an enormous accomplishment with powerful applications to both biology and medicine. Low cost diagnostics will require novel integration of photonics, molecular biology, and material science. Complex biosensors capable of detecting and discriminating among large classes of biomolecules could be important not only to biology and medicine, but also to environmental sensing and homeland security. The BISH program supports innovative research of biophotonic, imaging, and sensing technologies for applications in human health. | 3/3/2010 | Grant - PD-10-7236 |
| NSF | Environmental Implications of Emerging Technologies | Provides support to develop and test the environmental effects of new technologies. Fundamental and basic research is sought to establish and understand outcomes as a result of the implementation of new technologies such as nanotechnology and biotechnology. The program also supports research on the development and refinement of sensors and sensor network technologies that can be used to measure a wide variety of physical, chemical, and biological properties of interest in characterizing, monitoring, and understanding environmental impacts. | 3/3/2010 | Grant - PD-10-1179 |
| NSF | Process and Reaction Engineering | upports fundamental and applied research on: * Rates and mechanisms of important classes of catalyzed and uncatalyzed chemical reactions as they relate to the design, production, and application of catalysts, chemical processes, biochemical processes, and specialized materials * Chemical and biochemical phenomena occurring at or near solid surfaces and interfaces * Electrochemical and photochemical processes of engineering significance or with commercial potential * Design and optimization of complex chemical and biochemical processes * Dynamic modeling and control of process systems and individual process units * Reactive processing of polymers, ceramics, and thin films * Interactions between chemical reactions and transport processes in reactive systems, and the use of this information in the design of complex chemical and biochemical reactors | 3/3/2010 | Grant - PD-10-1403 |
| NSF | Thermal Transport Processes | Supports engineering research aimed at gaining a basic understanding of the microscopic and macroscopic levels of thermal transport phenomena (heat and mass transfer) in energy conversion and conservation, the synthesis and processing of materials, cooling and heating of infrastructure and equipment, the interaction of industrial processes with the environment, the propulsion of air and land-based vehicles, and thermal phenomena in biological and environmental systems. The program supports fundamental research and engineering education in transport processes that ar | 3/3/2010 | Grants - PD-10-1406 |
| NSF | Interfacial Processes and Thermodynamics | Supports fundamental research in engineering areas related to: * Interfacial phenomena * Mass transport phenomena * Solution phase equilibrium thermodynamics Currently, emphasis is placed on molecular engineering approaches at interfaces, especially as applied to the processing of soft materials. Molecules at interfaces with functional interfacial properties are of special interest. | 3/3/2010 | Grants - PD-10-1414 |
| NSF | Particulate and Multiphase Processes | Supports fundamental and applied research on mechanisms and phenomena governing particulate and multiphase processes, including granular and granular-fluid flows, particle/bubble/droplet interactions, aerosol science and technology, suspensions, micro- and nano-structured fluids, self- and directed-assembly of nanostructures involving particulates, and related instrumentation and diagnostics. Innovative research is sought that contributes to improving the basic understanding, design, predictability, efficiency, and control of particulate and multiphase processes with particular emphasis on: new frontiers in nanotechnology, novel manufacturing techniques, nano-metrology, multiphase transport in biological systems, environmental sustainability, critical infrastructure systems, and complex engineering systems. Collaborative and interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged; proposals that include a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches are more likely to receive funding than solely theoretically or experimentally oriented work. | 3/3/2010 | Grant - PD-10-1415 |
| NSF | 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 central to the chemical, biochemical, materials, energy, and pharmaceutical industries. A fundamental understanding of the interfacial, transport, and thermodynamic behavior of multiphase chemical systems as well as quantitative descriptions of processing characteristics in the process-oriented industries is critical for efficient resource management and effective environmental protection. The program encourages proposals that address emerging research areas and technologies, have a high degree of interdisciplinary thought coupled with knowledge creation, and integrate education and research. Areas of emphasis include separation of biological molecules and separations that lead to environmentally benign processing. Much of the current work involves the investigation of new membrane materials such as novel polymers, zeolites, mixed matrix materials, carbon nanotubes, biological and biomemetic materials, and glasses. Projects on modeling transport processes - - especially at the molecular level - - in membranes are supported by the program. For the hydrogen economy, membranes that selectively transport atomic, molecular, or ionic hydrogen and oxygen are required. Current membrane materials often lack sufficient selectivity to eliminate critical contaminants from the hydrogen stream. Membrane materials to prevent fuel crossover in fuel cells are also being sought. Adsorption on materials ranging from hydrogels to micas is being studied. New processes for drinking water purification rely on the development of new materials for membranes and adsorbents, which are supported by CBS. | 3/3/2010 | Grant - PD-10-1417 |
| NSF | Environmental Engineering | Supports fundamental research and educational activities across the broad field it serves. The goal of this program is to encourage transformative research which applies scientific principles to minimize solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges into land, inland and coastal waters, and air that result from human activity, and to evaluate adverse impacts of these discharges on human health and environmental quality. The program fosters cutting-edge scientific research based on fundamental science for identifying, evaluating, and developing new methods and technologies for assessing the waste assimilative capacity of the natural environment and for removing or reducing conventional and emerging contaminants from polluted air, water and soils. | 3/3/2010 | Grant - PD-10-1440 |
| NSF | Biotechnology, Biochemical, and Biomass Engineering | The Biotechnology, Biochemical, and Biomass Engineering (BBBE) program deals with fundamental problems involved in the processing and manufacturing of products of economic importance by effectively utilizing renewable resources of biological origin and bioinformatics originating from genomic and proteomic information. | 3/3/2010 | Grant - PD-10-1491 |
| NSF | CHE-DMR-DMS Solar Energy Initiative (SOLAR) | Support interdisciplinary efforts by groups of researchers to address the scientific challenges of highly efficient harvesting, conversion, and storage of solar energy. Groups must include three or more co-Principal Investigators of whom one must be a researcher in chemistry, a second in materials, and a third in mathematical sciences in areas supported by the Divisions of Chemistry, Materials Research, and Mathematical Sciences, respectively. The intent is to encourage new collaborations in which the mathematical sciences are linked in a synergistic way with the chemical and materials sciences to develop novel, potentially transformative approaches in an area of much activity but largely incremental advances. | 3/10/2010 | Award - NSF 09-604 |
| NSF | EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 2010 (EFRI-2010) | The Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) provides funding opportunity for interdisciplinary teams of researchers to embark on rapidly advancing frontiers of fundamental engineering research. EFRI seeks proposals with potentially transformative ideas that represent an opportunity for a significant shift in fundamental engineering knowledge with a strong potential for long term impact on national needs or a grand challenge. | 3/31/2010 | Grant - NSF 09-606 |
| NSF | Innovations in Engineering Education, Curriculum, and Infrastructure (IEECI) | The Innovations in Engineering Education, Curriculum, and Infrastructure (IEECI) program supports research which addresses three aspects of engineering education: (1) how students best learn the ideas, principles, and practices to become creative and innovative engineers, and how this learning is measured (2) how to more effectively translate successes in engineering education research into widespread practice with consideration of curriculum, student learning, innovation models, and cyber-learning technology, and (3) implementation of programs for students supported by the GI Bill. | 3/31/2010 | Grant - NSF 10-502 |
| NSF | EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 2010 (EFRI-2010) | Seeks proposals with transformative ideas that represent an opportunity for a significant shift in fundamental engineering knowledge with a strong potential for long term impact on national needs or a grand challenge. The proposals must also meet the detailed requirements delineated in this solicitation. | 3/31/2010 | Grant - NSF-09-606 |
| NSF | International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops | This solicitation describes International Planning Visit/Workshop awards to support the early phases of developing and coordinating a research and education activity with a foreign partner(s). | 5/20/2010 | Award - NSF 04-035 |
| NSF | NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) | This program makes grants to institutions of higher education to support scholarships for academically talented, financially needy students, enabling them to enter the workforce following completion of an associate; baccalaureate; or graduate-level degree in science and engineering disciplines. | 7/14/2010 | Award - NSF 09-567 |
| NSF | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. | 7/20/2010 | Grant - NSF-08-557 |
| NSF | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. | 7/21/2010 | Grant - NSF-08-557 |
| NSF | Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program | The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. | 7/22/2010 | Grant - NSF-08-557 |
| NSF | Environmental Chemical Sciences (ECS) | Supports basic research in chemistry that promotes the understanding of natural and anthropogenic chemical processes in our environment. Projects supported by this program enable fundamentally new avenues of basic research and transformative technologies. The program is particularly interested in studying molecular phenomena on surfaces and interfaces in order to understand the inherently complex and heterogeneous environment. Projects utilize advanced experimental, modeling and computational approaches, as well as developing new approaches. Topics include studies of environmental surfaces and interfaces under laboratory conditions, the fundamental properties of water and water solutions important in environmental processes, dissolution, composition, origin and behavior of molecular scale systems under a variety of naturally occurring environmental conditions, chemical reactivity of synthetic nanoparticles and their molecular level interactions with the environment, and application of theoretical models and computational approaches to discover and predict environmental phenomena at the molecular scale. | 8/2/2010 | Grant - PD-09-6882 |
| NSF | Biomedical Engineering | The BME program supports projects in the following BME themes: 1) Neural engineering (brain science, computational neuroscience, neurotech, cognitive engineering); 2) Cardio/pulmonary systems engineering; 3) Gene and drug delivery systems; 4) Cellular and tissue engineering (cellular biomechanics, genetically engineered stem cell differentiation with long-term impact in tissue repair and regenerative medicine); 5) Biomaterials and biomimetics; 6) Computational modeling, multiscale modeling, biocomplexity [applied to only the theme(s) above]. | 9/15/2010 | Grant - PD-09-5345 |
| NSF | Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program | The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) seeks to increase the number of students (U.S. citizens or permanent residents) receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). | 9/28/2010 | Grant - NSF-08-569 |
| NSF | Engineering Design and Innovation (EDI) | Supports research leading to design theory and to tools and methods that enable implementation of the principles of design theory in the practice of design across the full spectrum of engineered products. The program focus is on gaining an understanding of the basic processes and phenomena underlying a holistic, life-cycle view of design where the total system life-cycle context recognizes the need for advanced understanding of the identification and definition of preferences, analysis of alternatives, effective accommodation of uncertainty in decision-making, and the relationship between data and knowledge in a digitally-supported process. The program funds advances in basic design theory, tools, and software to implement design theory and new design methods that span multiple domains, such as design for the environment and for manufacturability. | 10/1/2010 | Grant - PD 08-1464 |
| NSF | Dynamical Systems (DS) | Supports innovative research on the theories of dynamical systems, including new analytical and computational tools, as well as the novel application of dynamical systems to engineered systems. The program is especially interested in transformative research in the area of complex systems, uncertain or stochastic nonlinear dynamical systems, model order reduction of nonlinear or infinite dimensional dynamical systems, discrete nonlinear dynamical systems, and modeling, simulation, analysis and design of multi-scale multi-physics dynamical systems. | 10/1/2010 | Grant - PD 09-7478 |
| NSF | Nano and Bio Mechanics (NBM) | The NBM program supports fundamental research in biomechanics and nanomechanics. Research on biomechanics focuses on the mechanical properties and behavior of biological materials and structures, including cells, tissue, muscles, bones, and prosthetic implants. Research on nanomechanics focuses on the unique properties of nano-scale particles and microstructural features and their effects on the macroscopic mechanics and properties of materials, surfaces, and structures that contain them. | 10/1/2010 | Grant - PD 08-7479 |
| NSF | Materials and Surface Engineering (MSE) | The MSE program supports fundamental research leading to a better understanding of the effect of microstructure, surfaces and coatings on the properties and performance of engineering materials, and the ultimate control of these properties through material design. Of particular interest is materials service under conditions such as impact, temperature extremes, corrosion, oxidation, and friction. The program also supports research leading to biomedical applications of materials. Funded research includes both experimental and theoretical approaches. | 10/1/2010 | Grant - PD 08-1633 |
| NSF | Mechanics of Materials (MOM) | The MOM program supports fundamental research on solid mechanics including theoretical, analytical, and computational approaches, model-based simulation, and the development of constitutive models. It also supports research to link the nanostructure and microstructure mechanical behavior of materials across time and length scales, including experimental and analytical research on deformation, fatigue, and fracture, and the underlying molecular and microstructural states. | 10/1/2010 | Grant - PD 08-1630 |
| NSF | Integrative, Hybrid & Complex Systems (IHCS) | The Integrative, Hybrid and Complex Systems (IHCS) program intends to spur visionary systems-oriented activities in collaborative research and education environments for multidisciplinary integrative activities. IHCS supports innovative research in micro and nano systems, communication systems, and cyber systems that integrate physical devices and components with computational intelligence and networks. | 10/7/2010 | Grant - PD 05-7564 |
| NSF | Electronics, Photonics & Device Technologies (EPDT) | Seeks to improve the fundamental understanding of devices and components based on the principles of micro and nano electronics, photonics, magnetics, organics, electro-optics, electromechanics, electromagnetics, and related physical phenomena. The program enables discovery and innovation advancing the frontiers of spin electronics, molecular electronics, bioelectronics, nonsilicon electronics, flexible electronics, optoelectronics, microwave photonics, micro/nano-electromechanical systems | 10/7/2010 | Award - PD 05-1517 |
| NSF | NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering | The goal of this three year (FY09-FY11) program initiative is to enhance plasma research and education in this broad, multidisciplinary field by coordinating efforts and combining resources of the two agencies. The initiative will address fundamental issues in plasma science and engineering that can have impact in other areas or disciplines in which improved basic understanding of the plasma state is needed. | 10/8/2010 | Grant - 09-596 |
| NSF | Alliances for Broadening Participation in STEM (ABP) | Seeks to increase the number of students successfully completing quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Particular emphasis is placed on transforming STEM education through innovative academic strategies and experiences in support of groups that historically have been underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African-Americans, Alaskan Natives, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Pacific Islanders. | 10/8/2010 | Award - NSF 09-515 |
| NSF | NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering | The goal of this three year (FY09-FY11) program initiative is to enhance plasma research and education in this broad, multidisciplinary field by coordinating efforts and combining resources of the two agencies. The initiative will address fundamental issues in plasma science and engineering that can have impact in other areas or disciplines in which improved basic understanding of the plasma state is needed. | 10/8/2010 | Grant - NSF 09-596 |
| NSF | Plasma Physics | The plasma physics program funds research in the fundamental physics of plasmas. Research areas include plasma turbulence and shocks, turbulent and nonlocal, collisional transport with and without strong magnetic fields, non-neutral plasmas, cold plasmas, strongly-coupled and dusty plasmas, laser-plasma interactions, ultra-short pulse and/or ultra-intense laser plasma interactions, high-energy-density plasmas, and low temperature plasmas. Both theoretical and experimental research is included. | 10/8/2010 | Grant - PD-09-1242 |
| NSF | Condensed Matter and Materials Theory (CMMT) | This program supports theoretical and computational materials research and education in the topical areas represented in DMR programs, including condensed matter physics, polymers, solid-state and materials chemistry, metals and nanostructures, electronic and photonic materials, ceramics, and biomaterials. The program supports fundamental research that advances conceptual, analytical, and computational techniques for materials research. A broad spectrum of research is supported using electronic structure methods, many-body theory, statistical mechanics, and Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations, along with other techniques, many involving advanced scientific computing. | 10/31/2010 | Grant - PD 09-1765 |
| NSF | Metals and Metallic Nanostructures (MMN) | Using the combined tools of experiment, theory and computer simulations, the goals of this program are to enable the advancement of fundamental understanding of metallic materials from the atomic to nano-structural to bulk length scales via imaginative and, especially, transformational research. A primary objective is to foster the expansion of the activities of synthesis, processing and characterization so that advanced metallic materials and nanostructures with superior physical, mechanical, and/or chemical properties can be predicted and designed, leading to enhanced knowledge of nano- and micro-structure/composition/property relationships at all the relevant length scales. | 10/31/2010 | Grant - PD 09-1771 |
| NSF | Polymers | Supports fundamental research and education on polymeric materials. The program portfolio is mainly experimental and highly diverse with components of materials science, chemistry, physics, and related disciplines. While interdisciplinarity is stressed, central goals include advancing the foundations of polymer science through innovative research and education and pushing back the wide horizon of the field. Polymers are studied from the molecular level through the nano-to-macro continuum using fundamental materials-focused scientific approaches. Broad areas addressed include synthesis, molecular assembly, characterization, phase behavior, structure, morphology, and properties. Particular focus is on transformative approaches to innovative materials with superior properties, as well as on fundamental understanding and optimization of structure-property relationships. Materials-focused proposals of high promise that integrate research, education, and other broader impacts are welcome. | 10/31/2010 | Grant - PD-03-1773 |
| NSF | Electronic and Photonic Materials | The goal of this program is to advance the field of electronics and photonics through basic, potentially transformative materials science research. The scope of the program encompasses the discovery and understanding of materials and material combinations with potential for major technological advantages. Program focus is on identification and understanding of fundamental atomic and molecular level mechanisms and phenomena associated with synthesis and processing of electronic and photonic materials. High risk, high payoff research is encouraged. | 10/31/2010 | Cooperative Agreement - PD-03-1775 |
| NSF | Metals and Metallic Nanostructures | Using the combined tools of experiment, theory and computer simulations, the goals of this program are to enable the advancement of fundamental understanding of metallic materials from the atomic to nano-structural to bulk length scales via imaginative and, especially, transformational research. A primary objective is to foster the expansion of the activities of synthesis, processing and characterization so that advanced metallic materials and nanostructures with superior physical, mechanical, and/or chemical properties can be predicted and designed, leading to enhanced knowledge of nano- and micro-structure/composition/property relationships at all the relevant length scales. | 10/31/2010 | Cooperative Agreement - PD-09-1771 |
| NSF | Polymers (POL) | Supports fundamental research and education on polymeric materials. The program portfolio is mainly experimental and highly diverse with components of materials science, chemistry, physics, and related disciplines. While interdisciplinarity is stressed, central goals include advancing the foundations of polymer science through innovative research and education and pushing back the wide horizon of the field. Polymers are studied from the molecular level through the nano-to-macro continuum using fundamental materials-focused scientific approaches. | 10/31/2010 | Grant - PD 03-1773 |
| NSF | Electronic and Photonic Materials (EPM) | The goal of this program is to advance the field of electronics and photonics through basic, potentially transformative materials science research. The scope of the program encompasses the discovery and understanding of materials and material combinations with potential for major technological advantages. Program focus is on identification and understanding of fundamental atomic and molecular level mechanisms and phenomena associated with synthesis and processing of electronic and photonic materials. High risk, high payoff research is encouraged. | 10/31/2010 | Grant - PD 03-1775 |
| NSF | | Supports research in statistical theory and methods, including research in statistical methods for applications to any domain of science and engineering. The theory forms the base for statistical science. The methods are used for stochastic modeling, and the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. The methods characterize uncertainty in the data and facilitate advancement in science and engineering. The Program encourages proposals ranging from single-investigator projects to interdisciplinary team projects. | 11/7/2010 | Grant - PD 09-1271 |
| NSF | NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering | The goal of this three year (FY09-FY11) program initiative is to enhance plasma research and education in this broad, multidisciplinary field by coordinating efforts and combining resources of the two agencies. The initiative will address fundamental issues in plasma science and engineering that can have impact in other areas or disciplines in which improved basic understanding of the plasma state is needed. | 10/7/2011 | Grant - NSF 09-596 |
| NSF | NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering | The goal of this three year (FY09-FY11) program initiative is to enhance plasma research and education in this broad, multidisciplinary field by coordinating efforts and combining resources of the two agencies. The initiative will address fundamental issues in plasma science and engineering that can have impact in other areas or disciplines in which improved basic understanding of the plasma state is needed. | 10/7/2011 | Grant - 09-596 |
| NSF | Exploratory Innovations in Biomedical Computational Science and Technology (R21) | Interested in promoting research and developments in biomedical informatics and computational biology that will support rapid progress in areas of scientific opportunity in biomedical research. As defined here, biomedical informatics and computational biology includes database design, graphical interfaces, querying approaches, data retrieval, data visualization and manipulation, data integration through the development of integrated analytical tools, and tools for electronic collaboration, as well as computational and mathematical research including the development of structural, functional, integrative, and analytical computational models and simulations. | 9/7/2012 | Grant - PAR-09-219 |
| NSF | NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering | The goal of this three year (FY09-FY11) program initiative is to enhance plasma research and education in this broad, multidisciplinary field by coordinating efforts and combining resources of the two agencies. The initiative will address fundamental issues in plasma science and engineering that can have impact in other areas or disciplines in which improved basic understanding of the plasma state is needed. | 10/5/2012 | Grant - 09-596 |
| NSF | NSF/DOE Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering | The goal of this three year (FY09-FY11) program initiative is to enhance plasma research and education in this broad, multidisciplinary field by coordinating efforts and combining resources of the two agencies. The initiative will address fundamental issues in plasma science and engineering that can have impact in other areas or disciplines in which improved basic understanding of the plasma state is needed. | 10/5/2012 | Grant - NSF 09-596 |
| University of Cambridge | Research Fellowships | The college invites applications for election to a Research Fellowship each year, with subjects rotated on a four-year cycle. 2010/11: biological anthropology, biological sciences, medicine | 12/1/2009 | Fellowship - GSU-322 |
