National Science Foundation Update All NSF Upcoming Due Dates Update

Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: November 14, 2018

Program Guidelines: NSF 17-584

The Discovery Research PreK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computer science (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of STEM education innovations and approaches. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects. …
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Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI)

Full Proposal Window: November 15, 2018

Program Guidelines: NSF 18-576

The Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI) program provides individual investigator and collaborative research grants for development of new technologies and instrumentation for astronomy and astrophysics.  The program supports overarching science objectives of the Division of Astronomical Sciences.  Development of innovative, potentially transformative technologies are encouraged, even at high technical risk. Supported categories include but are not limited …
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Applied Mathematics

Full Proposal Window: November 15, 2018

Program Guidelines: PD 16-1266

The Applied Mathematics program supports mathematics research motivated by or having an effect on problems arising in science and engineering. Mathematical merit and novelty, as well as breadth and quality of impact on applications, are important factors. Proposals to develop critical mathematical techniques from individual investigators as well as from interdisciplinary teams are encouraged.

Proposals whose primary applications are in the biological sciences are inappropriate for …
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Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants (AAG)

Full Proposal Window: November 15, 2018

Program Guidelines: NSF 18-575

The Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants (AAG) Program is an inclusive and flexible funding opportunity to support research in the astronomical sciences. The Program provides individual investigator and collaborative research grants for observational, theoretical, laboratory, and archival data studies in astronomy and astrophysics. The Program also considers proposals for projects and tools that enable or enhance astronomical research. Proposals may span multiple disciplines and/or …
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Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E)

Full Proposal Window: November 15, 2018
All proposals to the Division of Astronomical Sciences – Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants

Program Guidelines: PD 12-8084

Advanced computational infrastructure and the ability to perform large-scale simulations and accumulate massive amounts of data have revolutionized scientific and engineering disciplines.  The goal of the CDS&E program is to identify and capitalize on opportunities for major scientific and engineering breakthroughs through new computational and data analysis approaches.  The intellectual drivers may be in an individual discipline or they may cut across more than one discipline …
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Computer and Network Systems (CNS): Core Programs

Full Proposal Window: November 15, 2018
SMALL projects

Program Guidelines: NSF 18-569

CISE’s Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS) supports research and education projects that take a system-oriented approach to the development of novel computing and networking technologies, or to the enhancement of existing systems in any of several dimensions, or that explore new ways to make use of existing technologies.

Proposers are invited to submit proposals in three project classes, which are defined as follows:

 

Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF): Core Programs

Full Proposal Window: November 15, 2018
SMALL projects

Program Guidelines: NSF 18-568

CISE’s Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in four core programs:

  • The Algorithmic Foundations (AF) program;
  • The Communications and Information Foundations (CIF) program;
  • The Foundations of Emerging Technologies (FET) program; and
  • The Software and Hardware Foundations (SHF) program.

Proposers are invited to submit proposals in two project …
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Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS): Core Programs

Full Proposal Window: November 15, 2018
SMALL Projects

Program Guidelines: NSF 18-570

CISE’s Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in three core programs:

  • The Cyber-Human Systems (CHS) program;
  • The Information Integration and Informatics (III) program; and
  • The Robust Intelligence (RI) program.

Proposals in the area of computer graphics and visualization may be submitted to any of the three core programs …
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Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC): Research Core Program

Full Proposal Window: November 15, 2018
SMALL projects

Program Guidelines: NSF 18-567

The Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) supports translational research and education activities in all aspects of advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) that lead to deployable, scalable, and sustainable systems capable of transforming science and engineering research. Advanced CI includes the spectrum of computational, data, software, networking, and security resources, tools, and services, along with the computational and data skills and expertise, that individually and …
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WINDOWS ON THE UNIVERSE: THE ERA OF MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS (WoU-MMA)

Full Proposal Window: November 15, 2018
Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants; Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation

Program Guidelines: PD 18-5115

The universe is the ultimate laboratory, and we can now probe it as never before through several powerful and diverse windows – electromagnetic waves, high-energy particles, and gravitational waves.  Each of these windows provides a different view.  Together they reveal a detailed picture of the Universe that will allow us to study matter, energy, and the cosmos in fundamentally new ways.

The NSF’s Big Idea “Windows on the Universe” is implemented through …
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Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: November 16, 2018
STEM Pathways and Research Alliances

Program Guidelines: NSF 17-579

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program is an alliance-based program.  The program’s theory is based on the Tinto model for student retention1.  The overall goal of the program is to assist universities and colleges in diversifying the nation’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce by increasing the number of STEM baccalaureate and graduate degrees awarded to populations historically …
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Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: November 16, 2018
New and Renewal LSAMP Pre-Alliance Planning, Bridge to the Baccalaureate (B2B), STEM Pathways Implementation-Only Projects

Program Guidelines: NSF 17-579

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program is an alliance-based program.  The program’s theory is based on the Tinto model for student retention1.  The overall goal of the program is to assist universities and colleges in diversifying the nation’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce by increasing the number of STEM baccalaureate and graduate degrees awarded to populations historically …
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Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: November 19, 2018
Submission Deadline for Senior Research Proposals, Conferences, and Fellowships Only

Program Guidelines: NSF 18-580

This funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of roughly half of the approximately 7000 currently used languages, this effort aims to exploit advances in information technology to build computational infrastructure for endangered language research. The program supports projects that contribute …
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Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into Geoscience (IUSE: GEOPATHS)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: November 19, 2018

Program Guidelines: NSF 18-583

A well-prepared, innovative science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce is crucial to the Nation’s health and economy. Indeed, recent policy actions and reports have drawn attention to the opportunities and challenges inherent in increasing the number of highly qualified STEM graduates, including STEM teachers. Priorities include educating students to be leaders and innovators in emerging and rapidly changing STEM fields as well as educating a scientifically literate …
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Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: November 19, 2018

Program Guidelines: NSF 18-582

Synopsis of Program:

The OPUS program seeks to provide opportunities for mid- to later-career investigators to develop new understanding of science in the fields supported by the Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) through two tracks of synthesis activities.

OPUS: Mid-Career Synthesis. This track provides an opportunity for a mid-career researcher, defined as a candidate at the associate professor rank (or equivalent) to enable a …
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