NSF Funding Opportunities

 

 

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Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) to Study the Impact of the Economic Stimulus Package and to Advance the Scientific Understanding of Science Policy

Deadline: Ongoing

The Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) Program, within the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, can be a vehicle for mobilizing research capacity to respond to these questions and to assess the effects on both the ecology of innovation and on the science and engineering enterprise.

The SciSIP program will take advantage of NSF’s Rapid Response Research (RAPID) funding mechanism to accept short (two to five pages) RAPID proposals that attempt to answer many of the outcome questions that will be asked about the impact of the stimulus package as well as to advance the scientific understanding of science policy.

These would include, but not be limited to, such questions as:

• What was the contribution of the science investment to the creation and retention of jobs?
• What was the contribution of the science investment to science and technology industries?
• What scientific or technological advances were achieved?
• What was the impact on the scientific workforce?
  
  

In keeping with the Presidential focus on openness and transparency in government, proposals might also examine and evaluate different approaches to building appropriate platforms for tracking and assessing science investments across the federal government as well as ways to visually convey the information to policy makers and the American public.

Proposals must conform to the Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) Guidelines specified in the Grant Proposal Guide and may be submitted electronically at any time to the Science of Science and Innovation Policy announcement (PD 09-7626) via FastLane or Grants.gov. The SciSIP program director, Julia Lane (jlane@nsf.gov), should be contacted for assistance and advice prior to proposal submission.

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The Directorate for Biological Sciences invites applications for Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in selected areas of the biological sciences. These grants provide partial support of doctoral dissertation research to improve the overall quality of research. Applications are to be submitted by U.S. colleges, universities, and other nonprofit research organizations on behalf of the students. NSF anticipates making 100-120 awards of up to $15,000 from total annual funding of $1.6 million. Proposals are due Nov. 20. More information regarding NSF 08-564 is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08564.


The Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) invites proposals for the following:

CISE Cross-cutting Programs of Data-intensive Computing; Network Science and Engineering; and Trustworthy Computing. Three funding amounts are offered based on the small, medium or large size of the proposed project. NSF anticipates making up to 80-110 awards from total funding of $75 million. Eligibility is limited to U.S. colleges, universities and nonprofit, non-academic organizations. Proposal deadlines vary by size of project. More information regarding 08-578 is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08578.

The Directorate for Biological Sciences invites proposals to conduct a worldwide, species-level systematic inventory of a major group of organisms. Each project should conduct fieldwork necessary to fill gaps in existing collections, produce descriptions, taxonomic revisions, web-searchable databases, and interactive keys for all new and known species in the targeted group, analyze their phylogenetic relationships, and establish predictive classifications for the group. NSF anticipates making up to 3-5 awards from total funding of $2.5 million. Eligibility is unrestricted. Proposals are due Jan 14, 2010. More information regarding NSF 06-500 is available at: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf06500.