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Supports fundamental research on the design of engineered artifacts — devices, products, processes, platforms, materials, organizations, systems and systems of systems.
Supports improvements to and digitization of biological collections and collection-based information to advance biology and increase the broader applicability of collections.
Supports research, education and outreach projects that use instrumentation and facilities sponsored by NSF's Facilities for Atmospheric Research and Education Program.
Supports fundamental engineering research that improves the quality of life of persons with disabilities. Projects advance knowledge regarding a specific disability, pathological motion, or injury mechanism.
The Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Program (RISBS) supports projects that create computational tools and data to facilitate basic research in the social and behavioral sciences that can lead to improved health, prosperity and security. Projects should...
The Biophotonics program is part of the Engineering Biology and Health cluster, which also includes: 1) the Biosensing program; 2) the Cellular and Biochemical Engineering program; 3) the Disability and Rehabilitation Engineering program; and 4) the Engineering of Biomedical Systems...
Supports research in biological oceanography and marine ecology in environments ranging from estuarine and coastal systems to the deep sea and the Great Lakes.
Supports research on social life; the causes and consequences of human behavior; processes of social change; and human social organizations, including groups, institutions and societies.
Supports laboratory, field, theoretical and computational research on the physics of solid earth, from the surface to the interior of the Earth, exploring composition, structure and processes.
Supports research on geochemical processes in Earth’s surface environmental systems on land, as well as the terrestrial interaction of geochemical and biological processes at all temporal and spatial scales.
Supports research on the processes that shape and modify Earth's landscapes over a variety of temporal and spatial scales, with a focus on the Holocene.
Supports workshops in eligible jurisdictions that focus on topics of regional or national importance and which are relevant to building EPSCoR jurisdictions' research and development capacity.
Supports crosscutting activities in the Division of Materials Research and across NSF that emphasize diversity and inclusion, international collaboration and education. Activities such as institutes, workshops and conferences may be supported.
Supports fundamental manufacturing research that addresses issues related to national prosperity and security and has the potential to contribute to the revitalization of American manufacturing.
The Thermal Transport Processes program is part of the Transport Phenomena cluster, which also includes 1) the Combustion and Fire Systems program; 2) the Fluid Dynamics program; and 3) the Particulate and Multiphase Processes program. The Thermal Transport Processes program...
The Interfacial Engineering program is part of the Chemical Process Systems cluster, which also includes: 1) the Catalysis program; 2) the Electrochemical Systems program; and 3) the Process Systems, Reaction Engineering, and Molecular Thermodynamics program. The goal of the Interfacial...
The Nanoscale Interactions program is part of the Environmental Engineering and Sustainability cluster, which also includes: 1) the Environmental Engineering program; and 2) the Environmental Sustainability program. The goal of the Nanoscale Interactions program is to support research to advance...
Supports research on combustion and fire prediction and mitigation. Priority areas include basic combustion science, combustion science related to clean energy, wildland fire prediction and prevention, and turbulence-chemistry interactions.
To facilitate fundamental research in the atmospheric sciences, the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS) supports state-of-the-art instruments and facilities through the Facilities for Atmospheric Research and Education (FARE) Program. The FARE Program includes the Lower Atmosphere Observing Facilities...