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FEDERAL PROGRAMS
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/ (703) 292-5111
GRANT/PROGRAM
student research, facility enhancement, instrumentation,
and laboratory equipment; and for research opportunities for
women, minority, and disabled scientists and engineers.
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Talent Expansion Program Centers – The STEP Centers
competition allows a group of faculty representing a cross
section of institutions of higher education to identify a
national challenge or opportunity in undergraduate education
in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and to
propose a comprehensive and coordinated set of activities that
will address that challenge or opportunity within a national
context.
Small Business Innovation Research & Small Business
Technology Transfer (Program Description) (SBIR/
STTR) – The primary objective of the NSF SBIR/STTR Program
is to increase the incentive and opportunity for small firms
to undertake cutting-edge, high risk, high quality scientific,
engineering, or science/engineering education research that
would have a high potential economic payoff if the research
is successful. The STTR program further expands the public/
private partnership to include joint venture opportunities for
small businesses and non-profit research institutions. NSF
expects synergism in the proposed research.
Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA No.
47.075) – Program to contribute to the scientific strength and
welfare of the nation through the promotion of basic research
and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences
and through monitoring and understanding the resources
invested in science and engineering in the United States.
Supported activities include research and education in the
following disciplines: anthropological and geographic sciences;
cognitive, psychological and language sciences; economics,
decision risk and management sciences; sociology, political
sciences; innovation and organizational change, measurement
methods and statistics, law and social science and science and
society. Other SBE grants build infrastructure, and develop
methods, support science and technology centers, including
climate change and science of learning centers, and fund
research workshops, symposia, and conferences. Educational
activities include awards to improve the quality of doctoral
dissertations in the behavioral and social sciences; grants for
graduate traineeships and postdoctoral fellowships; and grants
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CONTACT INFO/DEADLINE
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Contact – Cheryl Albus, Program Director,
at (703) 292-7051, email: calbus@nsf.gov
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