| | | | | | Vice President for Research | | |
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| | DUE DATE | Restricted Unrestricted | | | Annual Calendar of Foundation RFPs & NSF Solicitations | | |
| code | Month
|
| Name of Awards
| UR | Description | | Web site address
|
N
| January - 4th Thursday
| Restricted
| NSF - Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
| No
| Program designed to increase access to scientific and engineering equipment for research and research training in our Nation's organizations of higher education, museums and non-profit research organizations. 3 proposal limit including partner subawards.
| Cost sharing-30% $2-4M
| NSF 08-503 MRI http://www.nsf.gov/funding/azindex.jsp
|
N
| March
| Restricted
| NSF - CISE Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education (CPATH)
| No
| CISE is calling for colleges and universities to work together to implement plans to revitalize undergraduate computing education. CPATH wil support 3 types of projects in two major track categories--Community Building (CB grants), Institutional Transfor
| CB-50K-500K for 3 years; CDP 50K-150K for 2 years; TI 1M for 3 years
| |
R
| March
| Restricted
| Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering
| | Creative researcher, early in their careers, who are engaged in research in the natural sciences or engineering. Disciplines that will be considered include physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology,astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean scienc
| $625K over 5 years
| http://www.packard.org/
|
| | March-Prelim, Sept-Full
| | NSF - Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT)
| | IGERT program developed to meet the challenges of educations US Ph.D. scientists and engineers wo will pursue careers in research and education. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new mo
| $3M over 5 years
| NSF 07-540 IGERT http://www.nsf.gov/funding/azindex.jsp
|
N
| April
| Restricted
| NSF - Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST)
| No
| ITEST will support 3 types of projects: Strategies projects to design, implement and test theory and practice based models especiall IT; Scale-up projects to implement and study models especially in information and communication technology; Studies projec
| $10M over 5 years
| |
R
| May
| Restricted
| Burroughs Wellcome-Scientific Interfaces
| No
| Providng bridging support for Physical/computational scientists entering biology. These awards are intended to foster the early career development of postdoctoral scientists with backgrounds in the physical/computational sciences whose work addresses bio
| | http://www.bwfund.org
|
N
| August
| Restricted
| NSF - Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for our 21st Century Workforce (CI-TEAM)
| No
| Two Awards - Demonstration Awards [$250K for one or two years] is exploratory in nature and limited in scope and scale. Implementation Projects [$1M over 2-3 years] is larger in scope and draws on prior experience with activities. Projects are expected
| Range $250K to $1M over 1-3 years | NSF 07-564 CI-Team http://www.nsf.gov/funding/azindex.jsp |
N
| September
| Restricted
| NSF - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Talen Expansion Program (STEP) 08-569
| No
| STEP seeks to increase the number of students (US and permanent residents) receiving associate or baccalaureate degrees in established or emerging fields within science, technology, engineering and mathematics. 1 Type 1 proposal per institution
| | |
| | September
| Restricted
| NSF - Science and Technology Centers (STC) Integrative Partnerships
| No
| Supports innovative, potentially transformative, complex research and education projects that require large-scale, long term awards. STCs condust world class research through partnerships among academic institutions, national laboratories, industrial org
| 25M for first year support | http://www.nsf.gov/funding/azindex.jsp |
R
| September
| UnRestricted?
| Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships
| No
| | $45K | http://www.sloan.org/programs/fellowship_brochure.shtml |
N
| October - 3rd Monday
| Restricted
| NSF - Instrumentation for Materials Research - Major Instrumentation Projects (IMR-MIP)
| No
| Provides support for the design and construction of major instruments costing more than $2M at major US facilities. Only 1 proposal in a given year whether for Conceptual & Engineering Design (CED) or for Construction (CNST).
| No cost sharing
| NSF 05-513 IMR-MIP http://www.nsf.gov/funding/azindex.jsp
|
P
| November
| UnRestricted?
| Harvey Prize
| No
| The Harvey Prize is intended, in principle, to recognize recent breakthroughs in science and technology. However, work done in the past may be selected for the award if its significance has recently been appreciated. Candidates for the Prize must be liv
| | http://www.admin.technion.ac.il/harvey/ |
N
| November / annually, last business day
| Restricted
| NSF - High Performance Computing System Acquisition: Towards a Petascale Computer Environment for Science and Engineering - (PETASCALE)
| | NSF's five year goal for high performance computing (HPC) is to enable petascale science and engineering trough the deployment and support of a world class HPC environment comprising the most capable combination of HPC assets available to the academic com
| No cost sharing | NSF 05-625 HPC http://www.nsf.gov/funding/azindex.jsp |
| | December
| Restricted
| NSF - Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science & Engineering Careers (ADVANCE) 07-582
| No
| The goal of the ADVANCE program is to develop systemic approaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers. Institutional Transformation (IT) Award and Institutional Transofrmation Planning Grant
| ~$200K/year for 2 years
| NSF 07-582 - ADVANCE |
