OSP Deadline: November 13, 2018

Sponsor Deadline: November 20, 2018

Award  Amount : up to $230,000 for up to 4 years

The U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) promotes scientific relations between the U.S. and Israel by supporting collaborative research projects in a  wide area of basic and applied scientific fields , for peaceful and non-profit purposes. The regular research grants program is the main program of the BSF. Applications must be submitted together by at least one scientist from each country. In 2018, the following areas of research are eligible for submission: Atmospheric, Ocean & Earth Sciences; Chemistry; Computer Sciences; Economics; Energy Research; Environmental Research (Air, Water, and Soil); Materials Research; Mathematical Sciences; Physics; Psychology (except Psychobiology); and Sociology.

Deadline: October 15, 2018

Award Amount: up to $150,000

The Harvard University Climate Change Solutions Fund supports research and policy initiatives intended to reduce the risks of climate change, hasten the transition from fossil fuel-based energy systems to those that rely on renewable energy sources, to develop methods for diminishing the impact of existing fossil fuel-based energy systems on the climate, to understand and prepare for the impacts of climate change, and to propel scientific, technological, legal, behavioral, policy and artistic innovations needed to accelerate progress toward cleaner energy, improved human health, and a greener world. Applications should propose research that will advance solutions to climate change and its impact. Solutions may include both preparedness and mitigation and strong consideration will be given to projects that demonstrate a clear pathway to application, as well as riskier proposals with the potential to be transformative over time. Proposals that demonstrate imaginative and promising collaboration among faculty and students across different parts of the University will receive special consideration, as will projects that propose using the university campus as a "living laboratory."

Radcliffe Institute Exploratory Seminars *

Deadline: October 22, 2018

Award Amount: $18,000 maximum

 

The Academic Ventures Exploratory Seminar Program provides funding to scholars, practitioners, and artists for collaboration in an interdisciplinary exploration of early-stage ideas. The program encourages intellectual risk taking as participants gather in an intensive seminar setting to explore new fields of research and inquiry. Funding is available to support one- to two-day, by-invitation-only seminars for 12-20 attendees. The lead applicant must be either a Harvard ladder (tenured or tenure-track) faculty member from any school or a former or current Radcliffe fellow; co-applicants may apply with lead applicants who meet eligibility requirements. For seminars to be held in 2019-2020, the theme of the human body is of special interest. Applications in all disciplines are welcome, however, regardless of whether they reflect a focus on the human body.

President's Innovation Fund for International Experiences *

Deadline: October 26, 2018

Award Amount: $5,000-$60,000

 

The President's Innovation Fund for International Experiences provides seed funding to faculty members at any Harvard school, to support the development of creative and significant academic experiences abroad for Harvard College students. These grants seek to foster the participation of faculty at all Harvard schools (including graduate and professional), departments, centers, and other academic units in expanding international opportunities for Harvard undergraduates. This may mean developing experience-based courses for students overseas, including courses prior to and/or following their international experience; involving undergraduates in an ongoing overseas project sponsored by a Harvard graduate or professional school, department, center, or other academic unit; or other innovative projects.

Harvard Solar Geoengineering Research Program *

Residency Program and Harvard Faculty Research Grants 

Deadline: Rolling

Award Amount: Varies by award type

 

Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program (SGRP) aims to focus on advancing solar geoengineering science and technology; assessing efficiency and risks; and laying out governance options and social implications. The following funding mechanisms are currently available: 

 

Residency Program:  This program will accept a small number of researchers focused on solar geoengineering to spend between 1 and 3 weeks at Harvard University, working directly with researchers at SGRP and other members of the Harvard community. The main purpose of this program is to enable visitors to work in collaboration with Harvard researchers and each other on discrete research projects. SGRP will cover the cost of travel and accommodations as well as per diem for meals.

 

Harvard Faculty Research Grants:  SGRP will provide direct support for research activities that cannot be fulfilled by students or fellows. That could involve multi-investigator collaborations, field or laboratory work in the sciences, or field or survey work in the social sciences.

Google

Faculty Research Awards

Sponsor Deadline:  September 30, 2018

OSP Deadline:  review not required for gifts 

Award Information:  Faculty Research Awards will typically cover the amount necessary to support one graduate student for one year (salary, tuition, plus $1,500 for conference travel). See below for more information.

 

This program supports academic research in computer science, engineering, and related fields. Each funded project will be assigned a Google sponsor by the review committee. The role of the sponsor is to support the project by discussing research directions, engaging with professors and students, and enabling interactions between the project team and Google. 

 

Google Faculty Research Awards are one-year seed funding awards structured as current-use gifts (subject to a gift assessment at the individual School rate) to support the research of world-class permanent faculty members at top universities around the world. While Google's website states that Faculty Research Awards do not cover indirect costs, administrative costs, or overhead, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Google's University Relations group have reached an agreement that Harvard's schools are authorized to assess gifts in line with university and school policies, at a rate not to exceed 20% of costs. For FAS and SEAS, the gift assessment fee on unrestricted current-use gift funds is 15%. Any questions about the acceptance of Google Faculty Research Awards can be directed to Alumni & Development Services at  [email protected]  or Jen Chow, Director of Foundation and Corporate Development, OVPR, at  [email protected] . 

 

 

IBM

World Community Grid

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission; please note that OSP review and approval is required for any User Agreements between the sponsor and Harvard University. 

Sponsor Deadline: Rolling

Award Amount: Up to 150,000 years of computing power through World Community Grid; weather data from The Weather Company, an IBM Business; and cloud storage from IBM Cloud.

IBM invites scientists studying climate change or ways to mitigate or adapt to its impacts to apply for free crowdsourced supercomputing power, weather data and cloud storage to support their climate or environmental research projects. In return, awardees are asked to publicly release the research data from their collaboration with IBM, enabling the global community to benefit from and build upon those findings.

 

Grantees will receive free, 24/7 access to computing power though World Community Grid, an award-winning IBM Citizenship initiative that enables anyone with a computer or Android device to support scientific research by carrying out computational research tasks on their devices. This allows researchers to conduct large-scale investigations, often magnitudes larger than they would have otherwise been able to conduct. Grantees may also request access to weather data and cloud storage.

U.S. Department of Defense

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Atomic-Photonic Integration (A-PhI)

OSP Deadline: September 20, 2018

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: September 27, 2018 (proposals may be received and evaluated up to five months from date of posting on FedBizOpps (which was July 25, 2018) but the likelihood of available funding is greatly reduced for proposals submitted after the initial closing date deadline)

Award Amount: The amount of resources made available under this BAA will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. A-PhI is a 3 year program.

 

The DARPA Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) is soliciting research proposals for the development of a new class of atom-based systems utilizing integrated photonics and trapped atoms to enable high-performance, robust, portable clocks and gyroscopes.

 

DARPA seeks innovative proposals in the following two Technical Areas (TA):

A-PhI is a two phase (base 18 months, option 18 months) program which includes both proof of concept and physics integration. DARPA expects to fund investigation of a variety of approaches in Phase 1 of the A-PhI program, and will continue funding the most promising candidate technologies in Phase 2. While entities may submit proposals to both TA1 and TA2, individual proposals may address either TA1 or TA2, but not both Technical Areas.

U.S. Department of Defense

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Young Faculty Award (YFA)

OSP Deadline: November 5, 2018

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: November 13, 2018

Award Amount: Each award will include a 24-month base period (a maximum of $500,000) and a 12-month option period (a maximum of $500,000). The 12-month option period, referred to as the "Director's Fellowship," will be reserved for a limited number of awardees who demonstrate exceptional YFA project performance over the 24-month base period.

 

DARPA's Young Faculty Award (YFA) program aims to identify and engage rising stars in junior faculty positions in academia and equivalent positions at non-profit research institutions and expose them to Department of Defense (DoD) and National Security challenges and needs. In particular, this YFA will provide high-impact funding to elite researchers early in their careers to develop innovative new research directions in the context of enabling transformative DoD capabilities. Participation in the YFA program is limited to any current tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professors and to tenured Assistant or Associate Professors within three years of their tenure appointment at a U.S. institution of higher education or equivalent at a U.S. non-profit science and technology research institutions. Participation is open to individuals who are U.S. Citizens, U.S. Permanent Residents, and Foreign Nationals. DARPA is particularly interested in identifying outstanding researchers who have previously not been performers on DARPA programs, but the program is open to all qualified applicants with innovative research ideas. Once awards are made, each YFA performer will be assigned a DARPA Program Manager with interests closely related to their research topic. The Program Manager will act as project manager and mentor to the YFA award recipients.

 

DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals from single principal investigators (PIs) in the following specific areas of interest to DARPA's six technical offices: Biological Technologies Office (BTO), Defense Sciences Office (DSO), Information Innovation Office (I2O), Microsystems Technology Office (MTO), Strategic Technology Office (STO), and Tactical Technology Office (TTO):

Proposing PIs are limited to one executive summary per TA; at the full proposal phase, proposing PIs are limited to submitting only one full proposal to only one topic under this Research Announcement.

Army Research Office (ARO), Office of Naval Research (ONR), and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

Fiscal Year 2019 Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)
OSP Deadline: October 9, 2018

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: October 16, 2018

Award Amount:  Typical annual funding per grant is $1.25M-$1.5M for 5 years.

 

DOD's MURI program addresses high risk basic research that is of potential interest to DoD and attempts to understand or achieve something that has never been done before. The program is focused on multidisciplinary research efforts where more than one traditional discipline interacts to provide rapid advances in scientific areas of interest to the DoD. The MURI program was initiated over 25 years ago and it has regularly produced significant scientific breakthroughs with far reaching consequences to the fields of science, economic growth, and revolutionary new military technologies. Key to the program's success is the close management of the MURI projects by Service program officers and their active role in providing research guidance.

 

The FY 2019 MURI competition is for the following topics:

ONR

Topic 1: Fundamental Limits on Information Latency

Topic 2: Molecularly Programmable Graphene Architecture (MPGA)

Topic 3: Identifying invariances for improved modeling and prediction of oceanographic phenomena

Topic 4: Self-Assembly for High Performance Organic Electronics

Topic 5: Bio-inspired high-dimension control through models of cephalopod distributed information processing

Topic 6: Active Perception and Knowledge Exploitation in Navigation and Spatial Awareness

Topic 7: Advanced Analytical and Computational Modeling of Arctic Sea Ice

Topic 8: Topology & Advanced Dynamics of Coupled Human/Machine Systems

ARO

Topic 9: Clearing Your Head: The Glymphatic System and Restorative Effects of Sleep

Topic 10: Foundations of Emergent Computation and Self-Organized Adaptation

Topic 11: Multi-layer Network Modeling of Plant and Pollen Distribution across Space and Time

Topic 12: Near Field Radiative Heat Energy Transfer between Nanostructured Materials

Topic 13: Networked Interactions Governing Community Dynamics

Topic 14: Prediction and Control in Particulate Systems

Topic 15: Reactive and non-Reactive Scattering from Targeted Molecular Quantum States

Topic 16: Unified Decision Theory: From Bounded to Unbounded Rationality

AFOSR

Topic 17: THz Electronics Based on Antiferromagnets

Topic 18: Quantum Information Concepts from Tensor Networks and the Holographic Principle

Topic 19: 2D Heterostructures for Flexible, Lightweight Electronics and Optoelectronics

Topic 20: Feedback control and sparse neural signals

Topic 21: Dissipation Engineering in Open Quantum Systems

Topic 22: Group-IV Alloy Synthesis and Materials Properties

Topic 23: Neuromorphic Networks for Multifunctional Intelligent Systems

Topic 24: Microstructurally-aware Continuum Models for Energetic Materials

 

The total amount of funding for the five years available for grants resulting from this MURI FOA is estimated to be approximately $170M pending out-year appropriations.

U.S. Department of Defense

Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division (IHEODTD)

Naval Engineering Education Consortium (NEEC) Broad Agency Announcement for FY18
OSP Deadline: October 24, 2018

Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: October 31, 2018

Award Amount: Approximately $150,000, though the funded amount and period of performance of each proposal selected for award may vary depending on the research area and the technical approach to be pursued by the offeror selected. The amount of resources made available to this BAA will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds.

 

On behalf of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) Warfare Centers, NSWC IHEODTD is soliciting research of interest in support of the NEEC. The topics of interest include:

See the solicitation for a full list of topics of interest. Multiple awards are anticipated.

Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE)

Sponsor Deadline for Abstracts (strongly encouraged): November 1, 2018 for TA3; abstract deadline has passed for TA1 and TA2

• General Information: http://www.nps.edu/about
• NPS Strategic Plan: https://my.nps.edu/web/guest/strategic-plan
• Academic Programs: http://my.nps.edu/academics
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• Request for Information on High-Efficiency Internal Combustion Engine Development - September 21, 2018*  
• FY 2018 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program - September 30, 2018 
• RFI: H2@Scale (Hydrogen at Scale): Determining Opportunities to Facilitate Wide-Scale Hydrogen Adoption for Energy Security and Economic Growth - October 31, 2018
• Notice of Intent to Issue Funding Opportunity Announcement entitled Flexible Combined Heat and Power Systems for Grid Support 
• Notice of Intent to Issue Funding Opportunity Announcement "Advanced Solar Systems Integration Technologies"*

Environmental Protection Agency *

Practical Methods to Analyze and Treat Emerging Contaminants (PFAS) in Solid Waste, Landfills, Wastewater/Leachates, Soils, and Groundwater to Protect Human Health and the Environment

OSP Deadline: September 25, 2018

Sponsor Deadline: October 2, 2018

Award Amount: $900,000 maximum for regular awards and $500,000 maximum for early career awards, including direct and indirect costs, with a maximum duration of 3 years.  

 

The EPA is seeking applications proposing research that will lead to: (1) better understanding and characterization of the types and quantities of current and historical per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and PFAS-containing waste associated with waste disposal (e.g., landfills), as well as media containing PFAS released from these activities (e.g., PFAS in leachate collected by landfills or PFAS leaching to subsurface soils and groundwater); (2) increased knowledge of the fate, transport, potential for degradation or other changes to PFAS, and their mobility during materials management (e.g., under different landfill conditions such as pH, temperature, moisture content) that facilitate or retard such transformation or movement; and (3) new or improved methods that are more effective, efficient (in cost, energy, etc.), and practical in controlling, treating, destroying, or removing PFAS in waste and wastewater, landfill leachates, biosolids, or environmental media. The main goal is to promote innovation in evaluating and managing PFAS in solid waste, landfills, and environmental media that will lead to improved decision making, management practices, and technical methods to minimize the risks to both humans and ecosystems.

 

In addition to regular awards, this solicitation includes the opportunity for early career awards. The purpose of the early career award is to fund research projects smaller in scope and budget by early career PIs. The early career awards will support research performed by PIs with outstanding promise at the Assistant Professor or equivalent level.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Unsolicited Proposals

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline: Rolling through September 30, 2018

Award Amount: Proposed budget should be commensurate with the scope of the project.

 

NASA encourages the submission of unique and innovative proposals that will further the Agency's mission. While the vast majority of proposals are solicited, a small number of unsolicited proposals that cannot be submitted to those solicitations and yet are still relevant to NASA are reviewed and some are funded each year. Proposals should be submitted at least six months in advance of the desired starting date.

Before any effort is expended in preparing a proposal, potential proposers should:

After those three things have been done, the proposer may contact an appropriate NASA person to determine whether NASA has any interest in the type of work being proposed and if any funding is currently available.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Dual Use Technology Development Cooperative Agreement Notice (CAN) 2018

OSP Deadline: Not required for Notices of Intent 

Sponsor Deadline for Notices of Intent (required): Rolling through September 30, 2018

Award Amount: The budget must be sufficient and reasonable to accomplish the project. The participating partner will contribute an equal value of resources to match the NASA funding for the project.

 

John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC) is the primary NASA rocket propulsion testing center. SSC tests items ranging from multi-engine stages to individual components of rocket engines. Propulsion test customers include NASA, the Department of Defense and the commercial space launch industry. SSC manages a large federal city that is home to over forty federal, state, university and industry entities. SSC manages a restricted airspace that is available for development, testing and operation of unmanned aerial vehicles. SSC engineering laboratories design and test electronics, sensors, algorithms and mechanical components. This CAN supports identification and implementation of cost-sharing partnerships to develop technology to meet a specific NASA need at SSC. This notice seeks responses from potential partners interested in entering into a Cooperative Agreement with NASA for the joint development of technologies to meet SSC needs.

 

SSC technology interests include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences 2018 (ROSES-2018) - April 29, 2019
• Research Opportunities in Aeronautics 2018 (ROA-2018) - June 30, 2019

Other NIH Opportunities

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline: varies; please see below
Award Amount: varies; please see below

In 2012, the United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation signed an umbrella Memorandum of Understanding with the NSF, for cooperation in joint funding of collaborative U.S.-Israeli scientific research. Financial support for the U.S. scientists in the joint NSF-BSF funding programs comes from the internal resources of the NSF, as part of its regular activity. Financial support for the Israeli side in NSF-BSF joint funding programs comes from annual allocations from the Israeli Council of Higher Education. The following programs are eligible for this type of funding:

• Basic Plasma Sciences and Engineering - Deadline: October 19, 2018 (NSF) and October 24, 2018 (BSF)
• Materials - Deadline: November 1, 2018 (NSF) and November 7, 2018 (BSF)
• Computing and Communication Foundations - Deadline: November 15, 2018 (NSF) and to BSF about one week later
• Computer and Network Systems - Deadline: November 15, 2018 (NSF) and to BSF about one week later
• Information and Intelligent Systems - Deadline: November 15, 2018 (NSF) and to BSF about one week later
• Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases - Deadline: November 21, 2018 (NSF) and November 27, 2018 (BSF)
• Computational Neuroscience - Deadline: November 27, 2018 (NSF) and December 3, 2018 (BSF)
• Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics - Experiment and Theory; Gravitational Physics - Experiment and Theory; Integrative Activities in Physics; LIGO Research Support - Deadline: November 28, 2018 (NSF) and December 4, 2018 (BSF)
• Nuclear Physics - Experiment and Theory; Elementary Particle Physics - Experiment; Particle Physics - Experiment - Deadline: December 4, 2018 (NSF) and December 9, 2018 (BSF)
• Elementary Particle Physics - Theory; Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology - Theory; Physics of Living Systems; Quantum Information Science - Deadline: December 11, 2018 (NSF) and December 16, 2018 (BSF)

NSF: Dear Colleague Letter

Removal of Deadlines for the Core Programs in the Directorate for Engineering

OSP Deadline: N/A

Sponsor Deadline: N/A

Award Amount: N/A

 

This Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) seeks to identify potential future research areas that go beyond NSF's Big Ideas , require a convergence approach, cross internal and/or external organizational and disciplinary boundaries, and advance the progress of science as articulated in NSF's mission. NSF encourages the submission of prospectuses to identify these new areas and specific projects within them. NSF may invite the teams submitting the most promising prospectuses to submit proposals to further explore their research strategies. Prospectuses must outline novel approaches and research strategies that are likely to result in a clear demonstration of the potential for transformative advances. The research areas and proposed projects must reflect the characteristics of convergence outlined  here .

Interested researchers who would like to compete for FY 2019 funding must submit a prospectus describing a new area of research and an exploratory research project within it to the [email protected] mailbox. A prospectus may be submitted at any time to help NSF identify new areas of research that require convergence, but must be submitted by October 15, 2018 to be considered for FY 2019 funding. Researchers describing the most promising research ideas and exploratory projects will be invited to submit a proposal within 60 days after issuance of the invitation. 

NSF: Dear Colleague Letter

Proposal Due Date Changes for the Division of Mathematical Sciences (MPS)
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission of a full proposal
Sponsor Deadline: varies by program
Award Amount: varies by program

• Combinatorics: The new target date is the fourth Tuesday in September (one week earlier than previously);
• Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering in Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (CDS&E-MSS): The new proposal submission window is September 1 - 15 (twelve weeks earlier than previously);
• Foundations: The new target date is the fourth Tuesday in September (one week earlier than previously);
• Mathematical Biology: The new proposal submission window is August 20 - September 5 (ten weeks earlier than previously);
• Probability: The new proposal submission window is September 10 - 25 (six weeks earlier than previously); and
• Statistics: The new proposal submission window is December 1 - 15 (five weeks later than previously).

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission

Sponsor Deadline: varies by program

Award Amount: varies

Through this DCL, NSF aims to support STEM educational research and development projects whose results can enable our country to better prepare its scientific and technical workforce for the future; use technological innovations effectively for education; advance the frontiers of science; and adapt to both new work environments and new education pathways needed to prepare students at all levels for those environments. This DCL encourages educational research and development proposals that are original, creative, and tran sformative, and that can help the nation educate the STEM workforce of the future, in contexts of: 

This DCL will support three categories of proposals:

To determine whether a research topic is within the scope of this DCL, principal investigators are strongly encouraged to contact the director(s) of the participating program(s) to which they plan to submit their proposal.

NSF: Dear Colleague Letter

• Accelerate the discovery of homogeneous or heterogeneous catalysts with improved activity and selectivity, as well as the discovery of new catalytic transformations;
• Advance the design of new chemical species and/or synthetic reactions, and forecast improved synthetic conditions;
• Map the mechanisms by which chemicals interact and transform, both covalently and noncovalently, and predict structure/property relations based on existing chemical datasets;
• Discover principles of multiscale organization underlying emergent chemical phenomena in macromolecular systems;
• Enable real-time feedback loops between chemical data collection and processing for rapid identification and correlation of key events during chemical measurements;
• Harness chemistry's rich, diverse but distributed datasets and identify novel ways of sharing and utilizing chemical data derived from multiple instruments, datatypes, and locations;
• Develop innovative approaches for integrating, correlating, and analyzing chemical simulation or measurement data to provide new chemical insights.

NSF: Dear Colleague Letter

Stimulating Educational Neuroscientific Research through the Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) Program

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission of a full proposal
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Varies by award type

 

• Research into new applications of PICs that have promise of breakthrough performance due to the use of an integrated photonic component;
• New devices that are realizable within AIM Photonics standardized integrated silicon photonics processes;
• PIC implementations that have innovative contributions to advancements of photonics circuits (i.e., low power, greater bandwidths and dynamic ranges, better tolerances, new topologies, etc.);
• Innovative design approaches and new models of integrated photonics devices/circuits; and
• Materials and attachment technologies for incorporating integrated photonics into novel packages.

• Small Projects - up to $500,000 total budget with durations up to three years;
• Medium Projects - $500,001 to $1,200,000 total budget with durations up to four years; and
• Large Projects - $1,200,001 to $3,000,000 total budget with durations up to five years.

• The Algorithmic Foundations (AF) program;
• The Communications and Information Foundations (CIF) program;
• The Foundations of Emerging Technologies (FET) program; and
• The Software and Hardware Foundations (SHF) program.

• Small Projects - up to $500,000 total budget with durations up to three years; and
• Medium Projects - $500,001 to $1,200,000 total budget with durations up to four years.

 

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission of a full proposal

Sponsor Deadline: October 1, 2018 - October 18, 2018

Award Amount: $100,000 - $400,000 per year for 3-4 years

The Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) at NSF and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at NIH plan to support fundamental research in mathematics and statistics necessary to answer questions in the biological and biomedical sciences. Both agencies recognize the need to promote research at the interface between mathematical and life sciences. This program is designed to encourage new collaborations, as well as to support innovative activities by existing teams.

This program is designed to support research in mathematics and statistics addressing important questions in the biological and biomedical sciences. A direct relationship between a biological application and the mathematical and/or statistical work is required. Research collaborations that include scientists from both the life sciences community and the mathematical and statistical sciences communities are preferred and encouraged. Proposals from single investigators must make a compelling case that the individual has necessary expertise in both mathematical and biological fields. 

Award Amount: $150,000 per year for three years (average)

CHE supports a large and vibrant research community engaged in fundamental discovery, invention, and innovation in the chemical sciences. The projects supported by CHE explore the frontiers of chemical science, develop the foundations for future technologies and industries that meet changing societal needs, and prepare the next generation of chemical researchers.

Some of the areas supported by CHE include:

Research supported by the Division of Materials Research (DMR) focuses on advancing fundamental understanding of materials, materials discovery, design, synthesis, characterization, properties, and materials-related phenomena. DMR awards enable understanding of the electronic, atomic, and molecular structures, mechanisms, and processes that govern nanoscale to macroscale morphology and properties; manipulation and control of these properties; discovery of emerging phenomena of matter and materials; and creation of novel design, synthesis, and processing strategies that lead to new materials with unique characteristics. These discoveries and advancements transcend traditional scientific and engineering disciplines. The Division supports research and education activities in the United States through funding of individual investigators, teams, centers, facilities, and instrumentation. Projects supported by DMR are essential for the development of future technologies and industries that meet societal needs, as well as preparation of the next generation of materials researchers.

This solicitation applies to the following six DMR Topical Materials Research Programs that fund research and educational projects by individual investigators or small groups: Biomaterials (BMAT), Condensed Matter Physics (CMP), Electronic and Photonic Materials (EPM), Metals and Metallic Nanostructures (MMN), Polymers (POL), and Solid-State and Materials Chemistry (SSMC).

NSF: MPS

Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects

OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission of a full proposal

Sponsor Deadline: November 28, 2018 ( AMO - Theory and Experiment; Gravitational Physics - Theory and Experiment; LIGO Research Support; Integrative Activities in Physics); December 4, 2018 (Nuclear Physics - Theory and Experiment; Elementary Particle Physics - Experiment; Particle Astrophysics - Experiment); December 11, 2018 (Elementary Particle Physics - Theory; Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology - Theory; Physics of Living Systems; Quantum Information Science) 

Award Amount: Pending availability of funds, approximately $90M will be committed for the total budget of all new awards in each cycle.

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 Physics; Computational Physics; Elementary Particle Physics; Gravitational Physics; Integrative Activities in Physics; Nuclear Physics; Particle Astrophysics; Physics of Living Systems; Plasma Physics (supported under a separate solicitation); and Quantum Information Science.

Other NSF: ENG Opportunities

The National Science Foundation (NSF), with participation of the Directorates for Engineering, Geosciences, and Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and the Department of Energy, Office of Science, Fusion Energy Sciences are continuing the joint Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering begun in FY1997 and renewed several times since. As stated in the original solicitation (NSF 97-39) , which is superseded by the present solicitation, the goal of the initiative is to enhance basic plasma research and education in this broad, multidisciplinary field by coordinating efforts and combining resources of the two agencies. The current solicitation also encourages submission of proposals to perform basic plasma experiments at NSF and DOE supported user facilities, such as the Basic Plasma Science Facility at the University of California, Los Angeles and facilities located at DOE national laboratories, designed to serve the needs of the broader plasma community.