National Science Foundation Update All NSF Upcoming Due Dates Update

Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: November 27, 2018
Deadline for FY 2019 competition

Program Guidelines: NSF 18-591

Computational neuroscience provides a theoretical foundation and a rich set of technical approaches for understanding complex neurobiological systems, building on the theory, methods, and findings of computer science, neuroscience, and numerous other disciplines.

Through the CRCNS program, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF), the …
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: November 27, 2018
Targeted Infusion Projects, Broadening Participation Research Projects, Implementation Projects, ACE Implementation Projects

Program Guidelines: NSF 18-522

HBCU-UP provides awards to strengthen STEM undergraduate education and research at HBCUs. Support is available through the following tracks:

 

Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects (PHY)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: November 28, 2018
AMO – Theory and Experiment; Gravitational Physics – Theory and Experiment; LIGO Research Support; Integrative Activities in Physics

Program Guidelines: NSF 18-564

The Division of Physics (PHY) supports physics research and the preparation of future scientists in the nation’s colleges and universities across a broad range of physics disciplines that span scales of space and time from the largest to the smallest and the oldest to the youngest.  The Division is comprised of disciplinary programs covering experimental and theoretical research in the following major subfields of physics: Atomic, Molecular and Optical …
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NSF/Intel Partnership on Foundational Microarchitecture Research (FoMR)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: November 28, 2018

Program Guidelines: NSF 18-588

The confluence of transistor scaling, increases in the number of architecture designs per process generation, the slowing of clock frequency growth, and recent success in research exploiting thread-level parallelism (TLP) and data-level parallelism (DLP) all point to an increasing opportunity for innovative microarchitecture techniques and methodologies in delivering performance growth in the future.

The NSF/Intel Partnership on Foundational
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WINDOWS ON THE UNIVERSE: THE ERA OF MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS (WoU-MMA)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: November 28, 2018
Gravitational Physics – Theory; LIGO Research Support

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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Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: November 8, 2018

Program Guidelines: NSF 15-501

The Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) awards Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology to recent recipients of the doctoral degree for research and training in selected areas supported by BIO and with special goals for human resource development in biology.  The fellowships encourage independence at an early stage of the research career to permit Fellows to pursue their research and training goals in the most appropriate research locations regardless of the availability …
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EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 2019 (EFRI-2019)

Letter of Intent Deadline Date: November 29, 2018

Program Guidelines: NSF 19-502

The Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) program of the NSF Directorate for Engineering (ENG) serves a critical role in helping ENG focus on important emerging areas in a timely manner. This solicitation is a funding opportunity for interdisciplinary teams of researchers to embark on rapidly advancing frontiers of fundamental engineering research. For this solicitation, we will consider proposals that aim to investigate emerging frontiers in one of the following two research …
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Gen-4 Engineering Research Centers (ERC)

Letter of Intent Deadline Date: November 30, 2018

Program Guidelines: NSF 19-503

The ERC program supports convergent research that will lead to strong societal impact. Each ERC has interacting foundational components that go beyond the research project, including engineering workforce development at all participant stages, a culture of diversity and inclusion where all participants gain mutual benefit, and value creation within an innovation ecosystem that will outlast the lifetime of the ERC. The logical reasoning that links the proposed activities to the identified goals …
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Archaeology and Archaeometry

Full Proposal Target Date: December 3, 2018
Archaeometry

Program Guidelines: PD 98-1391

The goal of the Archaeology Program is to fund research which furthers anthropologically relevant archaeological knowledge. In accordance with the National Science Foundation’s mission such research has the potential to provide fundamental scientific insight. While within the broad range of “archaeology” the focus is on projects judged to be significant from an anthropological perspective, the Program sets no priorities based on time period, geographic region or specific …
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Computational Mathematics

Full Proposal Window: December 3, 2018

Program Guidelines: PD 16-1271

Supports mathematical research in areas of science where computation plays a central and essential role, emphasizing analysis, development and implementation of numerical methods and algorithms, and symbolic methods.  The prominence of computation with analysis and ultimate implementation efficiency of the computational methods in the research is a hallmark of the program.  Proposals ranging from single-investigator projects that develop and analyze innovative computational methods …
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