All Opportunities
for faculty
Law and Science
Award Info:
No limit
Description:
The Law & Science Program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, as well as studies of how science and technology are applied in legal contexts. The Program is inherently interdisciplinary and multi-methodological. Successful proposals…
Discovery Grants
Award Info:
The principal investigator must be personally and actively responsible for the conduct
of the proposed research, hold an M.D., Ph.D., or equivalent academic degree, and be eligible to
apply as a Principal Investigator by their institution. The principal investigator need not be a United
Description:
The National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF) is seeking grant applications that encourage the advancement of
innovative research into psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and related comorbidities. Discovery Grants fund
researchers while they explore preliminary ideas and conduct proof-of-concept…
Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF)
Award Info:
Awards are expected to range from $1,200,000 - $1,8000,000 for a duration of four years. The budget must be commensurate with the scope of the project and thoroughly justified in the proposal.
Description:
DMREF will support activities that significantly accelerate materials discovery and development by building the fundamental knowledge base needed to advance the design and development of materials with desirable properties or functionality. This will be accomplished through forming interdisciplinary…
Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS)
Award Info:
The HNDS-I track anticipates funding approximately 4 infrastructure projects; HNDS-R anticipates co-funding from 5 to 20 core research projects. HNDS-R proposals will be co-reviewed with other SBE programs.
Anticipated Funding Amount for all awards per year: $8 million. Estimated program…
Description:
The Human Networks and Data Science program (HNDS) supports research that enhances understanding of human behavior and how humans interact with and are influenced by their environments by leveraging data science and network science research across a broad range of topics. HNDS research will identify…
Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)
Award Info:
Award size is expected to be up to $1.5 million in total over 3 years.
Description:
Recognizing the critical value of international partnerships in today's world to advance research in addressing both research and global societal challenges, this PIRE competition intends to support a set of cutting-edge interdisciplinary awards focused on use-inspired research on climate change and/or…
Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) FOUNDATIONS and FRONTIERS
Award Info:
The total budget request for a FOUNDATIONS project should not exceed $1,000,000 (including direct and indirect costs, for a project with a duration of 2 to 4 years).
The total budget request for a FRONTIERS project should not exceed $1,000,000 per integrative research thread (including…
Description:
All proposals must clearly address how the proposed activity will extend the boundaries of what is currently possible; advance existing literature, knowledge, and technologies; challenge current scientific paradigms, as appropriate; and bridge temporal or spatial scales, levels of abstraction, levels…
Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers (ERC)
Award Info:
The number of awards is dependent upon the proposals received and the degree to which proposals meet the solicitation goals, NSF merit review criteria, and solicitation-specific review criteria. The planning grant is for one year and the proposed budget for each planning grant should not exceed $100,000.
Description:
The ERC program is placing greater emphasis on high-risk/high-payoff research, larger societal impact, convergent research approaches, engagement of stakeholder communities, and adoption of team science in team formation, in response to the 2017 NASEM study recommendation. The ERC program intends to…
Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)
Award Info:
Each program area will support awards pursuant to the following budget and duration:
Usable and Collaborative Security for Science (UCSS) and Reference Scientific Security Datasets (RSSD) awards will be supported at up to $600,000 total per award for up to 3 years; and
Transition to…
Description:
The objective of the Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program is to develop, deploy and integrate solutions that benefit the broader scientific community by securing science data, workflows, and infrastructure. CICI recognizes the unique nature of modern, distributed, and rapid…
Large Research Grants on Education Program
Award Info:
The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We accept Intent to Apply forms twice a year.
Description:
This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that…
National Robotics Initiative 3.0: Innovations in Integration of Robotics (NRI-3.0)
Award Info:
NSF supported projects will range from $250,000 to $1,500,000 in total costs for a period of up to four years.
Description:
The National Robotics Initiative 3.0: Innovations in Integration of Robotics (NRI-3.0) program builds upon the preceding National Robotics Initiative (NRI) programs to support fundamental research in the United States that will advance the science of robot integration. The program supports research…