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NSF Upcoming Dates have been provided below for informational purposes.
Partnerships for Innovation: Accelerating Innovation
Research- Technology Translation (PFI: AIR-TT)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: April 14, 2015
Program Guidelines: NSF 14-569
The NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) program within the Division of
Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) is an umbrella for two
complementary subprograms, Accelerating Innovation Research (AIR)
and Building Innovation Capacity (BIC). Overall, the PFI program offers
opportunities to connect new knowledge to societal benefit through
translational research efforts and/or partnerships that encourage,
enhance and accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship. The subject
of this ...
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STEM + Computing Partnerships (STEM+C)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: April 14, 2015
Program Guidelines: NSF 15-537
The STEM+C Partnerships program seeks to significantly enhance the
learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering, mathematics
(STEM), and computing by K-12 students and teachers, through
research on, and development of, courses, curriculum, course materials,
pedagogies, instructional strategies, or models that innovatively
integrate computing into one or more STEM disciplines, or integrate
STEM content into the teaching and learning of computing. In addition,
STEM+C seeks to ...
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Antarctic Research
Full Proposal Deadline Date: April 15, 2015
or the first business day after this date
Program Guidelines: NSF 15-529
Scientific research, along with operational support of that research, is
the principal activity of the U.S. Antarctic Program in Antarctica. The
National Science Foundation's Antarctic Sciences Section (ANT), Division
of Polar Programs, fosters research on globally and regionally important
scientific problems. In particular, the Antarctic Sciences Section
supports research that expands fundamental knowledge of the region
as well as research that relies on the unique characteristics of the ...
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Management of UNOLS Marine Technician Pool
Full Proposal Deadline Date: April 15, 2015
Program Guidelines: NSF 15-525
Oceanographic facilities and equipment are supported by the National
Science Foundation through the Integrative Programs Section (IPS)
within the Division of Ocean Sciences (OCE), Directorate for
Geosciences (GEO). Awards are generally directed to support facilities
that lend themselves to shared use within the broad range of federallysupported research and education programs. NSF support includes
awards for the procurement, conversion and/or up-grade,
enhancement or annual ...
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Perception, Action & Cognition
Full Proposal Window: April 15, 2015
The April proposal window is only for workshop and conference
proposals, not for research proposals. Proposals for workshops and
conferences that will be held less than one year after submission may
be returned without review.
Program Guidelines: PD 09-7252
Supports research on perception, action and cognition. Emphasis is on
research strongly grounded in theory. Central research topics for
consideration by the Perception, Action, and Cognition panel include
vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and
spoken discourse, and motor control. The program encompasses a wide
range of theoretical perspectives, such as symbolic computation,
connectionism, ecological, nonlinear dynamics, and complex systems,
and a variety of ...
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Archiving and Discovering of Data and Metadata
Generated through Projects Funded by the NSF Arctic
Sciences Section
Letter of Intent Deadline Date: April 17, 2015
Program Guidelines: NSF 15-543
The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites investigators at U.S.
organizations to submit proposals for a cooperative agreement for
archival of data and access to data and metadata generated through
projects funded by the NSF Arctic Sciences Section. Proposals should
focus on providing data and metadata ingest services for NSF-funded
data providers, data and metadata access services to scientists across
disciplines and other Arctic stakeholders (including decision-makers),
and data ...
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NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conferences in the
Mathematical Sciences
Full Proposal Deadline Date: April 24, 2015
Program Guidelines: NSF 13-550
The NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conferences in the Mathematical
Sciences are a series of five-day conferences each of which features a
distinguished lecturer delivering ten lectures on a topic of important
current research in one sharply focused area of the mathematical
sciences. CBMS refers to the Conference Board of the Mathematical
Sciences which publicizes the conferences and administers the resulting
publications. Support is provided for about 30 participants at each ...
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Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development
(BREAD)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: April 27, 2015
Program Guidelines: NSF 15-538
The Basic Research to Enable Agricultural Development (BREAD)
Program was established in 2009 as a National Science Foundation
(NSF) program supported in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation (BMGF). The goal of BREAD is to support innovative basic
scientific research designed to address key constraints to smallholder
agriculture in the developing world. Proposals submitted to BREAD must
make a clear and well-defined connection between the outcomes of the
proposed basic ...
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Professional Formation of Engineers (PFE: RIEF)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: April 30, 2015
Program Guidelines: NSF 15-539
The NSF Engineering (ENG) Directorate has launched a multi-year
initiative, the Professional Formation of Engineers, to create and
support an innovative and inclusive engineering profession for the 21st
Century. Professional Formation of Engineers (PFE) refers to the formal
and informal processes and value systems by which people become
engineers. It also includes the ethical responsibility of practicing
engineers to sustain and grow the profession. The engineering ...
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Promoting Research and Innovation in Methodologies for
Evaluation (PRIME)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: April 30, 2015
Program Guidelines: NSF 15-540
The Promoting Research and Innovation in Methodologies for Evaluation
(PRIME) program seeks to support research on evaluation with special
emphasis on: (1) exploring innovative approaches for determining the
impacts and usefulness of STEM education projects and programs; (2)
building on and expanding the theoretical foundations for evaluating
STEM education and workforce development initiatives, including
translating and adapting approaches from other fields; and (3) growing
the capacity and ...
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Antarctic Artists and Writers Program
Full Proposal Deadline Date: May 1, 2015
Program Guidelines: NSF 13-540
The Antarctic Artists and Writers Program furnishes U.S. Antarctic
Program operational support, and round-trip economy air tickets
between the United States and the Southern Hemisphere, to artists and
writers whose work requires them to be in the Antarctic to complete
their proposed project. The Program does not provide any funding to
participants, including for such items as salaries, materials, completion
of the envisioned works, or any other purpose. ...
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Cracking the Olfactory Code (Olfactory)
Preliminary Proposal Deadline Date: May 1, 2015
Due date for preliminary proposal
Program Guidelines: NSF 15-547
Olfaction is an evolutionarily primitive sense critical for survival across
the animal kingdom – finding food, searching for mates, or avoiding
predation all depend on detecting, identifying, and discriminating odors.
Although early steps in olfactory processing are relatively well
understood, significant gaps remain in our understanding of higherorder odor representations and processing during on-going behavior.
Deciphering the operating principles of olfaction requires the
development of ...
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Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
Full Proposal Window: May 4, 2015
Program Guidelines: NSF 15-541
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built
from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computational
algorithms and physical components. Advances in CPS will enable
capability, adaptability, scalability, resiliency, safety, security, and
usability that will far exceed the simple embedded systems of today.
CPS technology will transform the way people interact with engineered
systems -- just as the Internet has transformed the way people interact
with ...
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Long Term Ecological Research (LTER)
Full Proposal Deadline Date: May 6, 2015
Program Guidelines: NSF 15-535
NSF invites proposals for a Long Term Ecological Research (LTER)
National Communications Office. This office will coordinate research,
education, and outreach programs across the current 25 LTER projects,
communicate these activities to diverse audiences, and provide
centralized representation of the LTER network to the broad scientific
community and the public. The lead PI of the successful proposal will
serve as the Office Director and will work with the LTER Science Council
and research ...
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National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT)
Program
Full Proposal Deadline Date: May 6, 2015
Applies to both tracks
Program Guidelines: NSF 15-542
The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program is designed to encourage
the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially
transformative, and scalable models for STEM graduate education
training. The NRT program seeks proposals that ensure that graduate
students in research-based master’s and doctoral degree programs
develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a
range of STEM careers. The NRT program includes two tracks….
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Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies
(Cyberlearning)
Letter of Intent Deadline Date: May 11, 2015
Letter of Intent: Integration (INT) Projects only
Program Guidelines: NSF 14-526
The purpose of the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies
program is to integrate opportunities offered by emerging technologies
with advances in what is known about how people learn to advance
three interconnected thrusts:
Innovation: inventing and improving next-generation genres (types) of
learning technologies, identifying new means of using technology for
fostering and assessing learning, and proposing new ways of ...
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