WINDOWS ON THE UNIVERSE: THE ERA OF MULTI-MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS (WoU-MMA)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: December 4, 2018
Nuclear Physics – Theory and Experiment; Particle Astrophysics – Experiment
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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Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects (PHY)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: December 4, 2018
Nuclear Physics – Theory and Experiment; Elementary Particle Physics – Experiment; Particle Astrophysics – Experiment [Computational Physics: starting December 2019]
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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Small Business Innovation Research Program Phase I (SBIR)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: December 4, 2018
Full Proposal Deadline
Program Guidelines: NSF 18-593
Introduction to the Program:
The NSF SBIR program focuses on transforming scientific discovery into products and services with commercial potential and/or societal benefit. Unlike fundamental research, the NSF SBIR program supports startups and small businesses in the creation of innovative, disruptive technologies, getting discoveries out of the lab and into the market.
The NSF SBIR Program …
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Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase I (STTR)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: December 4, 2018
Full Proposal Deadline
Program Guidelines: NSF 18-592
Introduction to the Program:
The NSF STTR program focuses on transforming scientific discovery into products and services with commercial potential and/or societal benefit. Unlike fundamental research, the NSF STTR program supports startups and small businesses in the creation of innovative, disruptive technologies, getting discoveries out of the lab and into the market.
The NSF STTR Program …
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Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: December 6, 2018
All proposals to the Division of Physics
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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National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program
Letter of Intent Window: December 6, 2018
Program Guidelines: NSF 18-507
The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, and potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The NRT program seeks proposals that explore ways for graduate students in research-based master’s and doctoral degree programs to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers.
The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students …
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Full Proposal Deadline Date: December 6, 2018
Quantum Information Science
Program Guidelines: NSF 16-566
Quantum Information Science (QIS) supports theoretical and experimental proposals that explore quantum applications to new computing paradigms or that foster interactions between physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists that push the frontiers of quantum-based information, transmission, and manipulation.
The quantum information science program is focused on investigations relevant to disciplines supported by the Physics Division, while encouraging broader impacts on other …
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Letter of Intent Deadline Date: December 7, 2018
HBCU-RISE
Program Guidelines: NSF 18-509
The Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program provides support to enhance the research capabilities of minority-serving institutions (MSI) through the establishment of centers that effectively integrate education and research. MSIs of higher education denote institutions that have undergraduate enrollments of 50% or more (based on total student enrollment) of members of minority groups underrepresented among those holding advanced degrees in science …
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Full Proposal Deadline Date: December 7, 2018
CREST Centers
Program Guidelines: NSF 18-509
The Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program provides support to enhance the research capabilities of minority-serving institutions (MSI) through the establishment of centers that effectively integrate education and research. MSIs of higher education denote institutions that have undergraduate enrollments of 50% or more (based on total student enrollment) of members of minority groups underrepresented among those holding advanced degrees in science …
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Full Proposal Deadline Date: December 7, 2018
CREST Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Program Guidelines: NSF 18-509
The Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program provides support to enhance the research capabilities of minority-serving institutions (MSI) through the establishment of centers that effectively integrate education and research. MSIs of higher education denote institutions that have undergraduate enrollments of 50% or more (based on total student enrollment) of members of minority groups underrepresented among those holding advanced degrees in science …
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Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS)
Letter of Intent Deadline Date: December 7, 2018
FRONTIERS, FY2019 competition
Program Guidelines: NSF 18-533
The complexities of brain and behavior pose fundamental questions in many areas of science and engineering, drawing intense interest across a broad spectrum of disciplinary perspectives while eluding explanation by any one of them. Rapid advances within and across disciplines are leading to an increasingly interwoven fabric of theories, models, empirical methods and findings, and educational approaches, opening new opportunities to understand complex aspects of neural and cognitive systems …
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Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: December 10, 2018
Small Grants for Research (SGR)
Program Guidelines: NSF 18-546
The Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) provides awards to Tribal Colleges and Universities, Alaska Native-serving institutions, and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions to promote high quality science (including sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, statistics, and other social and behavioral sciences as well as natural sciences), technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, research, and outreach. Support is available to TCUP-eligible institutions (see …
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