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NSF GRADUATE STEM FELLOWS IN K-12 EDUCATION (GK-12) - Full Proposal Deadline Date: June 29, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 09-549
This program provides funding for graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to bring their leading research practice and findings into K-12 learning settings. Through collaborations with other graduate fellows and faculty from STEM disciplines, teachers and students in K-12 environments, and community partners, graduate students can gain a deeper understanding of their own research and place it within a societal and global ...
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Academic Research Infrastructure Program: Recovery and Reinvestment (ARI-Rē) - Letter of Intent Deadline Date: July 1, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 09-562
Scientific discoveries are emerging at an accelerated pace, presenting new frontiers for exploration, stimulating innovation and economic growth, and driving the development of new tools and systems to support research. Likewise, the convergence of disciplines and the cross-fertilization that characterized contemporary science and engineering have made collaboration a centerpiece of the 21st century science and engineering enterprise. As new scientific opportunities and ...
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Archaeology and Archaeometry - Full Proposal Target Date: July 1, 2009
Program Guidelines: PD 98-1391
The Archaeology Program provides support for anthropologically relevant archaeological research at both a "senior" and doctoral dissertation level. It also funds anthropologically significant archaeometric research. High risk exploratory research proposals are accepted for consideration and a description of these competitions is provided in the Archaeology Program Overview.
For more information about the Crosscutting Research and Training Opportunities, please visit the
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MARGINS Program - Full Proposal Deadline Date: July 1, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 07-546
The MARGINS program was initiated by the scientific community and the National Science Foundation and has been designed to elevate our present largely descriptive and qualitative knowledge of continental margins to a level where theory, modeling and simulation, together with field observation and experiment, can yield a clearer understanding of the processes that control margin genesis and evolution. Although continental margins have been traditionally assigned to three distinct tectonic ...
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NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships (EAR-PF) - Full Proposal Deadline Date: July 1, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 09-526
The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) awards Postdoctoral Fellowships to highly qualified investigators within 3 years of obtaining their PhD to carry out an integrated program of independent research and education. The research and education plans of each fellowship must address scientific questions within the scope of EAR disciplines. The program supports researchers for a period of up to 2 years with fellowships that can be taken to the institution or national facility of their ...
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Petrology and Geochemistry - Full Proposal Window: July 6, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 09-543
The Petrology and Geochemistry Program supports basic research that address the formation and evolution of our planet using petrological and geochemical characteristics of Earth materials in the crust, mantle, and core. Proposals in this program generally address the petrology and high-temperature geochemistry of igneous and metamorphic rocks (including mantle samples), mineral physics, economic geology, and volcanology. Proposals that bridge disciplinary boundaries or that include ...
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Tectonics - Full Proposal Window: July 6, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 09-542
The Tectonics Program supports a broad range of field, laboratory, computational, and theoretical investigations aimed at understanding the formation, evolution, and deformation of continental lithosphere through time. Proposals to elucidate the processes that act on the lithosphere at various time-scales and length-scales, either at depth or the surface, are encouraged. Because understanding such large-scale phenomena commonly requires a variety of expertise and methods, the Tectonics Program ...
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Urban Long-Term Research Area (ULTRA) Exploratory Awards (ULTRA-Ex) - Full Proposal Deadline Date: July 7, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 09-551
The Urban Long-Term Research Areas: Exploratory Research Projects (ULTRA-Ex) competition will provide support to enable teams of scientists and practitioners to conduct interdisciplinary research on the dynamic interactions between people and natural ecosystems in urban settings in ways that will advance both fundamental and applied knowledge.
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Earth Sciences: Instrumentation and Facilities (EAR/IF) - Full Proposal Target Date: July 8, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 09-517
The Instrumentation and Facilities Program in the Division of Earth Sciences (EAR/IF) supports meritorious requests for infrastructure that promotes research and education in areas supported by the Division (see http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=EAR). EAR/IF will consider proposals for:
1) Acquisition or Upgrade of Research Equipment that will advance laboratory and field ...
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Ecosystem Science - Full Proposal Target Date: July 9, 2009
Program Guidelines: PD 04-7381The Ecosystem Science Cluster supports projects within two programs (see descriptions below): the Ecosystem Studies Program and the Long-Term Ecological Research Program (LTER). Other relevant funding opportunities are listed below and on DEB Home (see link on left).
The Ecosystem Studies Program supports investigations of whole-system ecological processes and relationships across a diversity of spatial and temporal (including ...
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Evolutionary Processes - Full Proposal Target Date: July 9, 2009
Program Guidelines: PD 09-1127The Evolutionary Processes Cluster supports research on microevolutionary processes and their macroevolutionary consequences. Topics include mutation, gene flow, recombination, natural selection, genetic drift, assortative mating acting within species, speciation, and long-term features of evolution. These investigations attempt to explain causes and consequences of genetically-based change in the properties of groups of organisms (at the population level or higher) over the ...
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Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) - Full Proposal Target Date: July 9, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 07-588Through the LTREB program, the Division of Environmental Biology encourages the submission of proposals aimed at generating extended time series of biological and environmental data that address ecological and evolutionary processes aimed at resolving important issues in environmental biology. Researchers must have collected at least six years of previous data to qualify for funding. The proposal also must present a cohesive conceptual rationale or framework for ten years of research. ...
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Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS) - Full Proposal Target Date: July 9, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 08-559All four clusters within the Division of Environmental Biology ( Ecological Biology, Ecosystem Science, Evolutionary Processes and Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories) encourage the submission of proposals aimed at synthesizing a body of related research projects conducted by a single individual or a group of investigators over an extended period. OPUS proposals will often be appropriately submitted in mid-to-late career, but will also be appropriate early enough in a career ...
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Population and Community Ecology - Full Proposal Target Date: July 9, 2009
Program Guidelines: PD 09-1128The Population and Community Ecology Cluster supports research that advances the conceptual or theoretical understanding of population ecology, species interactions and community dynamics in terrestrial, wetland and freshwater habitats. We encourage projects that integrate theoretical, modeling, and empirical approaches, or that promote synthesis across spatial and temporal scales. The cluster seeks to fund projects that are transformative -- that is, those that ...
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Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories - Full Proposal Target Date: July 9, 2009
Program Guidelines: PD 04-7374The Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories Cluster supports research in taxonomy and systematics that contributes to: 1) using phylogenetic methods to understand the evolution of life in time and space, 2) discovery, description, and cataloguing global species diversity, and 3) organizing information from the above in efficiently retrievable forms that best meet the needs of science and society. The Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories Cluster funds ...
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Behavioral Systems - Full Proposal Target Date: July 12, 2009
Program Guidelines: PD 07-7472The Behavioral Systems Cluster supports research on the development, function, mechanisms, and evolutionary history of behavior, with emphasis on a vertically integrated understanding of the behavioral phenotype in nature. To foster this integrative goal, the Cluster specifically encourages projects that seek to understand how combinations of neural, hormonal, physiological, and developmental mechanisms act synergistically as a system from which behavior emerges. Laboratory work or the ...
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Biomolecular Systems Cluster - Full Proposal Target Date: July 12, 2009
Program Guidelines: PD 04-1144The Biomolecular Systems Cluster, one of three thematic areas within the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, supports fundamental research in the areas of molecular biophysics, molecular biochemistry, and metabolic biochemistry. The cluster emphasizes the relationships between structure, function, and dynamics in studies of individual macromolecules, macromolecular complexes, and metabolic pathways. Research of interest to the ...
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Cellular Systems Cluster - Full Proposal Target Date: July 12, 2009
Program Guidelines: PD 04-1114The Cellular Systems Cluster, one of three thematic areas within the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, supports research, across all taxa, into the structure and organization of cells and the dynamics of cellular processes. Cell Biology is at a juncture where powerful new techniques in microscopy and biophysics (including live cell imaging, and the ability to study molecular function and behavior in the cell at high ...
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Developmental Systems - Full Proposal Target Date: July 12, 2009
Program Guidelines: PD 07-1111The Developmental Systems Cluster supports research aimed at understanding how interacting developmental processes give rise to the emergent properties of organisms. A systems level approach to understanding these processes, at the molecular, cellular, and organismal levels of organization, requires the use of molecular, genetic, biochemical, and physiological techniques as well as techniques from outside biology. The Developmental Systems Cluster is also particularly interested in ...
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Genes and Genome Systems Cluster - Full Proposal Target Date: July 12, 2009
Program Guidelines: PD 04-1112The Genes and Genome Systems Cluster, one of three thematic areas within the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, supports studies on the structure, function and evolution of genes and genomes in prokaryotes, eukaryotes, phages, and viruses. Areas of interest include the following: (i) mechanisms of genome maintenance including replication, repair and recombination; (ii) nuclear and extra-nuclear inheritance, horizontal gene ...
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Neural Systems - Full Proposal Target Date: July 12, 2009
Program Guidelines: PD 07-5500The Neural Systems Cluster focuses on how complex functions arise from communication among the cellular elements of the nervous system and from interactions with other physiological systems and the environment. The Cluster encourages a systems biology approach to understand how emergent neural properties such as robustness, adaptability and resilience arise in the context of environmental, genetic and evolutionary influences.
Investigations may range over time scales from the ...
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Physiological and Structural Systems - Full Proposal Target Date: July 12, 2009
Program Guidelines: PD 07-1141The Physiological and Structural Systems Cluster supports research aimed at furthering the understanding of organisms as integrated units of biological organization. The Cluster considers proposals focused on interacting physiological and structural systems, their environmental and evolutionary contexts, and how these components are constrained by their integration into the whole organism. Projects that use systems approaches to understand why particular patterns of architecture and ...
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Decision Making Under Uncertainty Collaborative Groups (DMUU) - Full Proposal Deadline Date: July 14, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 09-544The Decision Making Under Uncertainty (DMUU) collaborative groups competition offers awards to support teams of researchers who will advance fundamental understanding of decision making under uncertainty for climate change and related long-term environmental risks. The focus of these collaborative groups will be to generate fundamental new knowledge as well as information and tools that decision makers will find useful to help them incorporate climate change and related long-term ...
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Developmental and Learning Sciences (DLS) - Full Proposal Target Date: July 15, 2009
Program Guidelines: PD 08-1698DLS supports fundamental research that increases our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children's and adolescents' development and learning. Research supported by this program will add to our basic knowledge of how people learn and the underlying developmental processes that support learning, with the objective of leading to better educated children and adolescents who grow up to take productive roles as workers and as ...
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Engineering Research Centers (ERC) - Preliminary Proposal Deadline Date: July 15, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 09-545The goal of the Generation Three (Gen-3) Engineering Research Centers (ERC) Program is to create a culture in engineering research and education that links discovery to technological innovation through transformational fundamental and engineered systems research in order to advance technology and produce engineering graduates who will be creative U.S. innovators in a globally competitive economy. These ERCs will be at the forefront as the U.S. competes in the 21st century global economy ...
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Linguistics - Full Proposal Target Date: July 15, 2009
Program Guidelines: PD 98-1311Supports scientific research of all types that focus on human language as an object of investigation. The program supports research on the syntactic, semantic, phonetic, and phonological properties of individual languages and of language in general; the psychological processes involved in the use of language; the development of linguistic capacities in children; social and cultural factors in language use, variation, and change; the acoustics of speech and the physiological and psychological ...
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Living Stock Collections for Biological Research (LSCBR) - Full Proposal Target Date: July 15, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 09-550The Living Stock Collections for Biological Research (LSCBR) program supports improvements in and partial operation of existing collections of living organisms (including viruses and bacteriophages) to be used in basic biological research. The program provides support for two types of projects. Short-term projects are one-time awards (up to 36 months) leading to innovative handling of living stocks or to well-defined improvements in existing collections, including those not otherwise ...
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SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants - Full Proposal Target Date: July 15, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 06-605The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), and Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field ...
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Social Psychology - Full Proposal Target Date: July 15, 2009
Program Guidelines: PD 98-1332The Social Psychology Program at NSF supports basic research on human social behavior, including cultural differences and development over the life span.
Among the many research topics supported are: attitude formation and change, social cognition, personality processes, interpersonal relations and group processes, the self, emotion, social comparison and social influence, and the ...
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EarthScope - Full Proposal Deadline Date: July 16, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 09-535EarthScope is an Earth science program to explore the 4-dimensional structure of the North American continent. The EarthScope Program provides a framework for broad, integrated studies across the Earth sciences, including research on fault properties and the earthquake process, strain transfer, magmatic and hydrous fluids in the crust and mantle, plate boundary processes, large-scale continental deformation, continental structure and evolution, and composition and structure of the ...
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Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry - Full Proposal Deadline Date: July 16, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 09-552The Geobiology and Low-Temperature Geochemistry Program supports research on 1) the interactions between biological and geological systems at all scales of space and time; 2) geomicrobiology and biomineralization processes; 3) the role of life in the transformation and evolution of the Earth's geochemical cycles; 4) inorganic and organic geochemical processes occurring at or near the Earth's surface now and in the past, and at the broad spectrum of interfaces ranging in scale from planetary ...
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Geomorphology and Land Use Dynamics - Full Proposal Deadline Date: July 16, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 09-537Geomorphology and Land-Use Dynamics supports innovative research into processes that shape and modify landscapes over a variety of length and time scales. The program encourages research that investigates quantitatively the coupling and feedback among such processes, their rates, and their relative roles, especially in the contexts of variation in climatic and tectonic influences and in light of changes due to human impact.
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Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program - Full Proposal Deadline Date: July 21, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 08-557CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating ...
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Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program - Full Proposal Deadline Date: July 22, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 08-557CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating ...
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Community-based Data Interoperability Networks (INTEROP) - Full Proposal Target Date: July 23, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 07-565Digital data are increasingly both the products of research and the starting point for new research and education activities. The ability to re-purpose data – to use it in innovative ways and combinations not envisioned by those who created the data – requires that it be possible to find and understand data of many types and from many sources. Interoperability (the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been ...
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Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program - Full Proposal Deadline Date: July 23, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 08-557CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating ...
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Research Coordination Networks in Biological Sciences (RCN) - Full Proposal Target Date: July 23, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 09-554The goal of this program is to advance a field or create new directions in research or education. Innovative ideas for implementing novel networking strategies are especially encouraged. Groups of investigators will be supported to communicate and coordinate their research, training and educational activities across disciplinary, organizational, institutional, and geographical boundaries.
There are two tracks in the RCN program, the research coordination network track (RCN), the ...
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Improvements to Biological Research Collections (BRC) - Full Proposal Target Date: July 24, 2009
Program Guidelines: NSF 09-548
The Improvements to Biological Research Collections Program provides funds for improvements to network, secure, and organize established natural history collections for sustained, accurate, and efficient accessibility of the collection to the biological research community.
The BRC program is encouraging collaborative proposals to network collections on regional and continental scales, especially collaborations that bring large and small collections together into ...
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