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Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | NSF 23-520

Supports efforts to improve the adoption of cyberinfrastructure resources by the research community and integrate core literacy, skills in advanced cyberinfrastructure, and computational and data-driven methods into undergraduate and graduate education.

Posted July 31, 2008
Full Proposal Deadline:
January 16, 2025
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Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) | NSF 25-508

Supports materials design and development through the integration of experiments, computation and data-driven methods, while fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and training the next generation of the materials R&D workforce.

Posted July 31, 2008
Full Proposal Window
February 4, 2025
Proposal window January 21, 2025 - February 4, 2025
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Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) | NSF 25-521

Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) is a mid-scale infrastructure program in the Division of Materials Research (DMR) designed to accelerate advances in materials research. MIPs respond to the increasing complexity of materials research that requires close collaboration of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary...
Posted December 12, 2024
Full Proposal Deadline:
May 15, 2025
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Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) | PD 24-8084

Supports research that uses new computational and data science approaches to advance knowledge and accelerate discovery in science and engineering.

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September 15, 2025
Proposal window September 1, 2025 - September 15, 2025
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Mathematical and Physical Sciences Ascending Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MPS-Ascend) | NSF 23-501

Supports postdoctoral fellows performing impactful research in MPS fields while broadening the participation of groups that are underrepresented in the mathematical and physical sciences.

Posted March 30, 2005
Full Proposal Deadline:
October 15, 2025
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Dear Colleague Letter

Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals under National Science Foundation (NSF) and US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) Collaborative Research Opportunities | NSF 20-094

Dear Colleagues: SCOPE The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Research Cooperation. The MOU provides an overarching framework to encourage collaboration between U.S. and Israeli research...
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CISE-MPS Interdisciplinary Faculty Program in Quantum Information Science | NSF 15-512

Supports researchers in quantum information science, mathematical and physical sciences, or computer and information science and engineering to pursue joint research through long-term visits to a host institution.

Posted March 30, 2005
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Biomaterials | PD 20-7623

Supports research and education on biological, biomimetic, bioinspired and bioenabled materials, and on synthetic materials intended for applications where they will be in contact with biological systems.

Posted December 14, 2012
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Polymers | PD 20-1773

Supports research and education on polymeric materials and polymer science.

Posted December 14, 2012
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Dear Colleague Letter

Conference Proposals on Clean Energy Topics | NSF 23-108

Invites conference proposals to initiate new collaborations that will advance clean energy technologies and increase their use to benefit the economy, to ensure social justice and to serve the public good.

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ECosystem for Leading Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering (ECLIPSE): Special Focus on PFAS and Microelectronics | NSF 24-130

Encourages interdisciplinary research proposals using plasma science and engineering to address two critical challenges: removing persistent environmental pollutants known as PFAS and developing novel, more efficient methods for microelectronics fabrication.

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Secure Analog-RF Electronics and Electromagnetics (SARE) | NSF 20-042

Encourages Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals to enhance the security of electronic devices by exploring theories, designs, algorithms, and experimental verification of radio-frequency, analog and mixed-signal techniques.

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MPS AGEP-GRS | NSF 20-083

Encourages supplemental funding requests by current Mathematical and Physical Sciences awardees to support an additional doctorate student. Applicants must be at institutions involved in the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate program.

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Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC) | NSF 21-625

Supports university-based centers that collaborate with industry and other sectors on multidisciplinary materials research and education.

Posted December 14, 2012
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Connections in Quantum Information Science (CQIS) | PD 16-7203

Supports research that harnesses fundamental quantum properties to explore new scientific frontiers and develop new technologies at the interface of traditional scientific disciplines.

Posted July 31, 2008
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Metals and Metallic Nanostructures | PD 20-1771

Supports research and education on the relationships between structure and properties of metals and their alloys.

Posted December 14, 2012
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Future of Semiconductors (FuSe2) | NSF 24-521

Supports collaborative research and education in partnership with industry on domain-specific computing, heterogenous integration, and new materials for energy-efficient, enhanced-performance and sustainable semiconductor-based systems.

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Dear Colleague Letter

NRT-PREM Collaborative Supplements | NSF 23-015

Invites collaborative supplemental funding requests from awardees of NSF’s Research Traineeship program and its Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials program that focus on broadening participation in materials research.

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Dear Colleague Letter

Advancing Discovery with AI-Powered Tools (ADAPT) in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences | NSF 21-080

Invites research proposals to develop AI-inspired tools and techniques in several focus areas with the aims to promote MPS disciplinary research: modeling and simulation, data and model analytics, concept discovery, and physical systems and experimentation.

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Rules of Life (RoL): Design and Engineering of Synthetic Cells and Cell Components (DESYN-C3) | NSF 18-071

Encourages proposals from scientists and engineers on the design of complex, synthetic biological components and cells.

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Semiconductor Synthetic Biology Circuits and Communications for Information Storage ( SemiSynBio-III) | NSF 22-557

Supports high-risk, high-reward research that addresses scientific and technological challenges associated with the integration of synthetic biology with semiconductor technology.

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High School Student Research Assistantships (MPS-High) Funding to Broaden Participation in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences | NSF 22-041

Inviting requests which foster interest in the pursuit of studies in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences; and broaden participation of high school students who are in groups that have been traditionally underrepresented and under-served in STEM fields.

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Electronic and Photonic Materials | PD 20-1775

Supports research and education in the development of advanced materials to enable transformative advances in electronics, optoelectronics and photonics for use in computing, communications and sensing.

Posted December 14, 2012
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Condensed Matter Physics | PD 20-1710

Supports research and education in the investigation of the fundamental physics underlying condensed matter systems.

Posted December 14, 2012
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Dear Colleague Letter

DMR-NIBIB Collaboration: Exploring Fundamental Drivers of Next Generation Biomaterials for Biomedical Research | NSF 23-068

Invites requests to fund workshops on the fundamental drivers of active matter biomaterials that may advance understanding of abiotic-biotic interfaces and be developed into next-generation biomedical technologies.

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