January 2019  
 
The FAS Research Development group publishes this monthly Funding Newsletter for SEAS faculty and researchers. The newsletter includes notable Federal, private, and internal Harvard funding opportunities. 
 
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Feature: N ew Investigator Opportunity Spotlight
Quick links to early career opportunities in this month's newsletter.

News:
The Federal Funding Climate & Updates

A number of science agencies, including NSF, NASA, NIST, NOAA, USDA, and EPA, are currently impacted by a partial shutdown of the federal government. As a result, we anticipate that new awards, funding increments, payments, and prior approvals from these agencies will be delayed. Researchers with active funded grants may continue work during a shutdown. Please review the  contingency plans  for individual agencies to determine if they will continue to accept proposals pursuant to existing deadlines while they are closed for business. NIH, DoD, and DOE have already received their FY19 appropriations and therefore are not affected by this partial shutdown. Please send any questions or concerns about federal research funding to Jen Corby at  jcorby@fas.harvard.edu .

Funding Opportunities

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Foundation Opportunities

Internal Opportunities

Industry/Corporate Opportunities

U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)

Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA)

National Science Foundation: Directorate for Computer & Information Science and Engineering (NSF: CISE)

Foundation Opportunities

Fdn_AHA
OSP Deadline: January 24, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: January 31, 2019
Award Amount: $200,000 over 2 years and up to $50,000 in Amazon Web Services service credit. 10% is allowed for overhead. This amount falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.
 
The purpose of this program is to test and refine artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms using learning health care system data and/or multiple longitudinal data sources to improve our understanding of all data related to precision medicine. Data source examples include but are not limited to: images, electronic health records, genetics and omic-related data, community engagement data (including social determinants of health), wearable devices, smart phone and other sensor related technology. Applicants are encouraged to use multiple sources of data, or longitudinal data to continue to refine algorithms.
 
Example topics for applicants include but are not limited to:
  • identifying machine learning approaches for classification of images from multiple data sources;
  • predicting behavioral and lifestyle choices from data sources;
  • predicting income level, educational level from data sources;
  • new pipelines to enable more effective and efficient workflows for analyzing data in the cloud.


Fdn_Packard
Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: January 22, 2019 by 12:00PM
Sponsor Deadline: April 19, 2019
Award Amount: $875,000 over five years
Eligible Disciplines: physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science, and all branches of engineering
Eligible Faculty: Faculty members appointed between May 31, 2016 and May 31, 2019
 
The Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering provide the nation's most promising early-career scientists and engineers with flexible funding and the freedom to take risks and explore new frontiers in their fields of study. Packard Fellows are encouraged to think big and look at complex issues with a fresh perspective. The Foundation encourages them to use their funds in whatever ways would best advance their research. Initial faculty appointments should have begun no earlier than May 31, 2016 and no later than May 31, 2019. 
 
Please Note: This is a limited submission opportunity and Harvard University may put forward only two nominations. Applicants for the Harvard nomination must be nominated by a department chair or area chair and must submit a pre-proposal to an internal competition administered by the Office for Vice Provost of Research (OVPR) at the link above.


Fdn_Moore
Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline: January 22, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: March 4, 2019
Award Amount: $200,000/year for 3 years plus $25,000/year to the applicant institution to cover costs associated with administering the grant award. Each host institution will be required to contribute $50,000 in annual direct support of the inventor's work (see details below).
Eligible Applicants: Faculty, research scientists, postdocs or other full-time staff at eligible institutions who received their terminal degree on or after January 1, 2009.
 
The Moore Inventor Fellows program focuses on supporting outstanding inventors and innovators at a critical stage of research to capture opportunities that otherwise might be missed. The program seeks to support early-career scientist-inventors who create new tools, technologies, processes, or approaches with a high potential to accelerate progress in the foundation's three main areas of interest: scientific research, environmental conservation and patient care. Fellows are expected to be personally engaged in pursuing their invention and required to devote at least 25 percent of their own time to their invention. Fellows may use the grant funds to support their own salary to create this opportunity. Fellows may also hire undergraduates, graduate assistants or postdoctoral scholars and purchase services, equipment, or supplies.
 
Each host institution is required to contribute $50,000 in annual direct support of the inventor's work each year of the fellowship. This could include support for undergraduate or graduate students, equipment, supplies and other needs that will enable the fellow to make progress on their work. Direct salary support is acceptable provided it includes a proportionate release of time from teaching or other duties. Funds that were designated for a fellow's use before the fellow was awarded a Moore Inventor Fellowship (such as start-up funds) do not qualify.The internal application requires a brief statement written by the applicant acknowledging the cost share associated with this opportunity and confirming the source of this funding. This statement must be signed by the applicant's Department Chair or Area Dean.
 
Please Note: This is a limited submission opportunity and Harvard may put forward only two proposals.  The Office of the Vice Provost for Research will conduct the internal competition to select the Harvard nominees. To be considered for the Harvard nomination, potential applicants must submit an internal pre-proposal via the link above.

Fdn_SmithFam
FAS/SEAS Pre-Proposal Deadline: January 22, 2019 by 5:00PM
Sponsor Deadline: March 18, 2019
Award Amount: $300,000 over two years
Eligible applicants: Untenured faculty appointed to their first independent faculty appointment on or between July 1, 2010 and July 1, 2015. Time taken for leaves of absence does not count toward the eligibility window.
 
The Smith Family Foundation Odyssey Award was created to fuel creativity and innovation in junior investigators in the basic sciences. The two-year award supports established junior faculty in pursuit of high impact ideas to generate breakthroughs and drive new directions in biomedical research. The awards will fund high-risk, high-reward pilot projects solicited from the brightest junior faculty in the region. Investigators in the physical sciences (physics, chemistry and engineering) whose projects focus on biomedical science are also encouraged to apply. Clinical research is beyond the scope of this program.

Please Note:  This is a limited submission opportunity and FAS and SEAS may put forward only two nominations each. To be considered for the Harvard nomination, potential applicants must submit an internal pre-proposal via the link above.


Fdn_AHA
OSP Deadline: January 24, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: January 31, 2019
Award Amount: $200,000 over 2 years and up to $50,000 in Amazon Web Services service credit. 10% is allowed for overhead. This amount falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.
 
The purpose of this program is to test and refine artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms using learning health care system data and/or multiple longitudinal data sources to improve our understanding of all data related to precision medicine. Data source examples include but are not limited to: images, electronic health records, genetics and omic-related data, community engagement data (including social determinants of health), wearable devices, smart phone and other sensor related technology. Applicants are encouraged to use multiple sources of data, or longitudinal data to continue to refine algorithms.
 
Example topics for applicants include but are not limited to:
  • identifying machine learning approaches for classification of images from multiple data sources;
  • predicting behavioral and lifestyle choices from data sources;
  • predicting income level, educational level from data sources;
  • new pipelines to enable more effective and efficient workflows for analyzing data in the cloud.


Fdn_Simons
OSP Deadline: January 24, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: January 31, 2019
Award Amount: $8,400 per year for five years ($6,000 per year for collaboration, travel and research expenses; $1,000 per year in discretionary funds for the awardee's department; and $1,400 per year in indirect costs to the awardee's institution)
 
The goal of the program is to support the "mathematical marketplace" by substantially increasing collaborative contacts between mathematicians. The foundation will make a large number of collaboration grants to accomplished, active researchers in the United States who do not otherwise have access to funding that allows support for travel and visitors.
 
To be eligible to apply, an individual must have a Ph.D. degree and hold a tenure-track or tenured position, or be a professor emeritus, within a mathematics department with a Ph.D. degree granting program. Collaboration grant awardees may not hold any other external PI or PI equivalent grants of over $3,000 per year that allow for support for travel or visitors during the award period.  The five-year grant will commence September 1, 2019, and end August 31, 2024.
 

FDN_BWF 
OSP Deadline: January 25, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: February 1, 2019 by 4 PM
Award Amount: up to $15,000. Overhead is not allowed. This falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.  
 
The Collaborative Research Travel Grant (CRTG) program provides up to $15,000 in support for relatively unrestricted travel funds to academic scientists (faculty and postdocs) at U.S. or Canadian degree-granting institutions. Travel must take place no earlier than June 1, 2019 and no later than December 31, 2020. Grants must be used for domestic or international travel to another lab to learn new research techniques or begin or continue a collaboration to address biomedical questions. All proposals must be cross-disciplinary. 
 
Applicants with a doctoral degree in the physical, mathematical, or engineering sciences working on a biological problem are encouraged to apply. Proposals from biological scientists who desire to collaborate with a physical scientist, mathematician, or engineer are also encouraged to apply.


Fdn_Ono
Harvard Pre-Proposal Deadline for Chemical Biology: February 4, 2019
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline for All Research Areas: February 28, 2019
Award Amount: $300,000 per year for 3 years in direct costs; The Ono Pharma Foundation will provide a maximum of an additional 15% per year for indirect costs 
 
Ono  Pharma Foundation will be considering research proposals that exhibit the potential to transform human health. The purpose of this initiative is to support scientist Principal Investigators with creative ideas in selected scientific research fields with the mission of seeking discoveries/solutions and development of high impact science. PIs are expected to design studies to generate novel science to address at least one of the Scientific Research Areas of interest. The Scientific Research Areas of Interest for 2019 are:
 
  • Chemical Biology: Chemical Biology is defined as research that deals with the interface between chemistry and biology. The criteria for this field is deliberately broad so as not to disqualify potentially innovative and groundbreaking projects.
 
  • Oligonucleotide Medicine: Target research of Oligonucleotide Medicine is defined as groundbreaking work using synthetic oligonucleotides to gain broadly valuable insights into molecular mechanisms, delivery strategies, pharmacology, or physiologic targets. A combined proposal with oligonucleotide medicine and appropriate area of biology would also be accepted.
 
Please Note: There is no limit to the number of applications that may be submitted in Oligonucleotide Medicine Research, but Harvard is limited to nominating just two candidates in Chemical Biology Research. Prospective applicants in Chemical Biology Research are asked to submit an internal pre-proposal online  here  by February 4, 2019. Applicants in Oligonucleotide Medicine Research may submit directly to the foundation.


 Fdn_FQI
OSP Deadline: February 4, 2019
Sponsor Initial Proposal Deadline: February 11, 2019
Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline (if invited): June 17, 2019
Award Amount: Grants totaling about $1.5M will be available for projects up to 2 years in duration
 
This Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) program targets research on Intelligence in the Physical World, both in physics and also in related fields including cosmology, astrophysics, philosophy of physics, complex systems, biophysics, neuroscience, computer science, and mathematics. Intelligence in the Physical World seeks to inspire investigations into the many connections between basic physical laws and the nature of intelligence and intelligent agents. This RFP is limited to research with potentially significant and broad implications for our understanding of the deep or "ultimate" nature of reality, and is intended to fill a gap, not a shortfall, in conventional funding. This program builds upon FQXi and the Fetzer Franklin Fund's past program on  Agency in the Physical World , with a focus on foundational questions at the frontiers of physics, biology, and consciousness research. Applicants should ensure that the research or outreach project can be completed with a guaranteed final date of August 31, 2021 or earlier.


Fdn_GrandChallenges
OSP Deadline: February 5, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: February 12, 2019
Award Amount: Up to $250,000 CAD over 18 to 24 months. 10% is allowed for overhead. This amount falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.
 
The OPTions Initiative seeks innovative and transformative ideas that have potential to improve access to safe abortion in low- and middle-income countries where there are one or more legal grounds to support it. These ideas could originate from innovators worldwide and across a wide range of disciplines. OPTions seeks innovations that:
  • Increase access to existing abortion products and services for women and girls who have chosen to terminate their pregnancy.
  • Develop and test new methods of pregnancy termination that are an improvement over existing methods.

Fdn_NASEM
OSP Deadline: February 12, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: February 20, 2019
Award Amount: $76,000 over two years
Target Applicants: Early-career scientists who have received their final degree within the past 10 years (on or after September 1, 2009) and who hold fully independent positions as investigators. Applicants must be pre-tenure if in a tenure track position. A postdoc is not considered a fully independent position.
 
The Gulf Research Program's Early-Career Research Fellowship supports emerging scientific leaders as they take risks on research ideas not yet tested, pursue unique collaborations, and build a network of colleagues who share their interest in improving offshore energy system safety and the well-being of coastal communities and ecosystems. Because the early years of a researcher's career are a critical time, the relatively unrestricted funds and mentoring this fellowship provides help recipients navigate this period with independence, flexibility, and a built-in support network.
  
All fellows will attend an orientation in Washington, D.C., in September 2019 and the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science Conference in February 2020. Travel expenses for these events will be covered by the Gulf Research Program in addition to the $76,000 fellowship award.


Fdn_EIF
OSP Deadline: February 21, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: February 28, 2019
Award Amount: $5,000 - $25,000. Overhead is not allowed. This falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.  
 
The Engineering Information Foundation supports developmental projects, instructional projects, and training programs in engineering education and research that fit their fields of interest. These currently include the availability and use of published information, women in engineering, and information access in developing countries. The foundation is interested in innovative projects with measurable results that promote significant and lasting change, projects that can be successfully replicated elsewhere, and methodologies that are specific, well-defined and cost-effective.


Fdn_OpenTech
OSP Deadline: February 22, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: March 1, 2019
Award Amount: Up to $900,000 for a yearlong contract, though most supported efforts range between $50,000 and $200,000.
 
The Internet Freedom Fund supports projects and people working on open and accessible technology-centric projects that promote human rights, internet freedom, open societies, and help advance inclusive and safe access to global communications networks for at-risk users including journalists, human rights defenders, civil society activists, and every-day people living within repressive environments who wish to speak freely online.
 
Preference is given to organizations and individuals without a history of prior support, and who have a deep understanding of the surveillance, censorship, and security issues affecting communities from the Global South living in repressive environments. Strong priority goes to projects with the potential for immediate impact and long-term sustainability, and that make intellectual property publicly available via open licensing and open source code. OTF highly values projects that incorporate collaborative partnerships with other organizations and/or individuals within the internet freedom community or their respective area of focus.

Fdn_Eppley
Sponsor LOI Deadline: March 15, 2019
Award Amount: Unspecified; the foundation disburses up to $460,000 a year; recent past awards have ranged from $11K to $28K
 
The Eppley Foundation for Research was incorporated in 1947 for the purpose of "increasing knowledge in pure or applied science...in chemistry, physics and biology through study, research and publication."  Particular areas of interest include innovative medical investigations, climate change, whole ecosystem studies, as well as research on single species if they are of particular significance in their environments, in the U.S. and abroad. The proposal is expected to be concise and incorporate clear statements of significance, objectives, novelty, methods, expectations of success, and why the researcher believes the work cannot reasonably expect federal support, or support from other conventional funding sources. It is important to the Foundation that the work proposed be novel in its insights and unlikely to be underway elsewhere. The Foundation is prepared to take risks.
 
The Eppley Foundation supports advanced, novel, scientific research by PhDs or MDs with an established record of publication in their specialties. The Foundation limits its contribution to overhead to 15 percent. Travel and fringe benefits do not qualify for overhead allocation.


Fdn_HumanFrontier 
Sponsor Deadline to Initiate an Application: March 18, 2019
Sponsor LOI Deadline: March 28, 2019
Award Amount: up to $450,000 per year for the whole team depending on the size of the team. A maximum of 10% overhead may be charged to the Program Grants. This falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application. The Young Investigator Grants are exempt from this policy.
 
HFSP supports international, preferably intercontinental, collaborations in basic life science research. Applications are invited for projects concerned with basic approaches to understanding complex mechanisms of living organisms. Applicants are expected to develop novel lines of research distinct from their ongoing research. The principal applicant must be located in one of the HFSP member countries but co-investigators may be located in any country.
 
Two types of Research Grant are available:
  • Young Investigators' Grants are awarded to teams of researchers, all of whom are within the first five years after obtaining an independent laboratory (e.g. Assistant Professor, Lecturer or equivalent) and must have obtained their first doctoral degree not longer than 10 years before the application deadline. Applications for Young Investigators' Grants will be reviewed in competition with each other independently of applications for Program Grants.
  • Program Grants are awarded to teams of independent researchers at any stage of their careers. The research team is expected to develop new lines of research through the collaboration. Applications including independent investigators early in their careers are encouraged.

Internal Opportunities
Internal_HarvardGlobal
Expression of Interest Deadline: January 22, 2019
Full Proposal Deadline (if invited): April 17, 2019
Award Amount for Small Grants: $50,000-$100,000 annually for 1-2 years
Award Amount for Large Grants: $500,000-$1M annually for 1-2 years
Target Applicants: The principal investigator must be an active tenure-stream faculty member. Students and postdoctoral scholars may participate in a grant under the supervisory auspices of the faculty member who applies for an award.

In the 2019-20 academic year, HGI will fund research projects th at examine topics with local import in China with the potential for global impact. It is expected that project activities will not be limited to the Harvard campus but will also include work within China. Faculty with interest in conducting research in China will have access to space at the Harvard Center Shanghai, and HGI will encourage project teams to make use of the Center as a convening site.

Faculty from across Harvard Schools who are already working on China-related topics, as well as those who wish to begin doing so, are invited to apply for funding by submitting preliminary expressions of interest. Funding will be provided at two levels, in the form of large grants and small grants.
  1. Large grants will support multi-faculty, cross-School, cross-discipline, integrative projects on problems or issues of global relevance that build on existing research and include significant collaboration with scholars in China. The goal is to help innovative research "scale up" and "scale out." There should thus be a substantial track record of prior work upon which a more ambitious project would be developed.
  2. Small grants will support innovative, interdisciplinary projects that, like the large grants, focus on issues of global significance that would be unlikely to find funding from other sources. Projects may involve multiple faculty members from a single School at Harvard, though preference will be given to research that draws in faculty from different Harvard Schools. 

Internal_Leman
Deadline: January 22, 2019
Award Amount: up to $150,000 payable over one or two years
Target Applicants: Applications are invited from individuals who hold a faculty appointment at a Harvard school and who have principal investigator rights at that school.
 
Applications are invited from researchers across disciplines proposing research projects relating to Brazil. Proposals are sought for projects that address education management and administration; social science and its applications; public administration and policy; technological advances in education; and evidence-based research. 

Consideration will also be given to projects that propose collaboration between Harvard faculty and Brazilian academics in the life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and basic and applied sciences.
 
Proposed projects must meet at least one of the following three criteria:
  1. Include collaboration with Brazilian academics
  2. Be undertaken in Brazil in whole or in part
  3. Focus on Brazil
Applications must be submitted online here by January 22, 2019.


Internal_ChinaFund
Deadline: January 31, 2019
Award Amount: up to $50,000
Eligible Applicants: The principal applicant must be full-time Harvard faculty at the assistant, associate, or full professorial rank. Harvard Medical School faculty must hold one of these titles and have a primary appointment in one of HMS's basic or social science departments.

As the major internal funder of Harvard research related to China, the Harvard China Fund administers the Harvard China Faculty Grant Program to advance the research goals of Harvard faculty in collaboration with Chinese partners. Preference will be given to proposed projects for which funding might not be otherwise available from traditional sources.
 
Research proposals are welcome in any field. Areas of traditional Chinese arts and culture, environmental studies, and education are especially encouraged.
 
Conference grants provide support for academic conferences to be held at the Harvard Center Shanghai, preferably before December 2020.
 
Proposals are judged on the following criteria:
  1. Academic excellence and benefit to or involvement of Harvard faculty
  2. Feasibility, innovation, and interdisciplinary nature
  3. Organizational support (from Harvard and from Chinese universities and relevant institutions)
  4. Potential for impact in China

Internal_Radcliffe
Deadline: February 4, 2019
Award Amount: Up to $20,000
 
The Accelerator Workshop Program provides funding to scholars, practitioners, and artists to propel their original research programs or projects toward a specific outcome: a publication, a grant application, a course curriculum, an exhibition, a performance, or policy recommendations, to name only a few possibilities. With an eye toward accelerating the spread of innovative ideas and knowledge into the academic or public realm, this program brings participants together to further develop and refine their work as they prepare for its eventual dissemination. 

Funding of up to $20,000 is available to support one- to two-day workshops hosted on the campus of the Radcliffe Institute. For workshops to be held in 2019-2020, the theme of the human body is of special interest. Applications in all disciplines are welcome, however, regardless of whether they reflect a focus on the human body.

Internal_Star
Deadline: February 28, 2019
Award Amount: up to $150,000 in direct costs for individual investigators; up to $300,000 in direct costs for collaborative proposals involving funding to multiple independent investigators (project budgets should not include indirect costs). Up to five awards will be made annually.
Eligible Applicants: This competition is open to ladder faculty members in the four participating schools (HMS, HSPH, FAS and SEAS). In HMS, this program is open to ladder faculty (assistant professors, associate professors, and professors) who have primary appointments in the HMS basic and social science departments AND whose laboratories are located on the HMS Quadrangle. In HSPH, eligible PIs include primary Harvard Chan School ladder faculty whose research operation is based at the Harvard Chan School.
 
The Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research (formerly known as the Star Family Challenge for Promising Scientific Research) provides seed funding to interdisciplinary high-risk, high-impact projects in the life, physical, and social sciences. Early-stage projects that are unlikely to receive funding from traditional grant-making agencies are encouraged.
 
Individual investigators may request up to $150,000 in direct costs; collaborative proposals involving funding to multiple independent investigators may request up to $300,000 in direct costs. Only investigators based at the four participating schools may be included in the budget. Project budgets should not include indirect costs. 
 
Award recipients will present and discuss their projects with a range of scholars in multiple disciplines at a Challenge event on May 10, 2019, prior to receipt of funding.

Internal_HILTspark
Deadline: March 20, 2019
Award Amount: Up to $15,000
Eligible Applicants: Harvard University benefits-eligible faculty, staff, and postdoctoral researchers are eligible to apply for funding, individually or as groups. 
 
The Spark Grants are designed to help "spark" promising teaching and learning projects from idea to reality and position innovations for future success. Funding can be used in various ways; for example, to pay for a research assistant, hire a graduate student with academic technology expertise, or convene collaborative groups. Through Spark Grants, awardees will receive resources, feedback, and community support to help them develop their ideas into prototypes, pilots, and small-scale innovations. Each Spark Grant will be assigned a HILT Grants Coach, who will serve as a strategic thought partner during the funding cycle. HILT will also strive to support any future scaling-up of Spark Grant projects by increasing their visibility and connecting awardees and project outcomes with others in the broader Harvard community. In general, grant proposals should align with HILT's mission to catalyze innovation and excellence in teaching and learning at Harvard University.
 
 
Internal_Milton
Deadline: April 1, 2019
Award Amount: Up to $50,000
Eligible Applicants: Applications are invited from individuals who hold a junior faculty appointment. This includes FAS and SEAS Assistant or Associate Professors, Junior Fellows of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and those in a postdoctoral position at Harvard with a formal accepted offer to join the Junior Faculty at one of Harvard's schools.
 
The Milton Fund supports research projects in the fields of medicine, geography, history and science that promote the physical and material welfare and prosperity of the human race, investigate and determine the value and importance of any discovery or invention, or assist in the discovery and perfecting of any special means of alleviating or curing human disease. Funds awarded through the Milton Fund support research to explore new ideas, to act as the catalyst between ideas and more definitive directions, and to consider new methods of approaching solutions.

Internal_HDSI
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Up to $5,000
Target Applicants: Applications are invited from individuals who hold a faculty appointment at a Harvard school and who have principal investigator rights at that school.
 
The Faculty Special Projects Fund is intended to support one-time data science opportunities for which other funding is not readily available. Applicants may request funding of up to $5,000 to support research, community-building, outreach, and educational activities. Examples of projects that the Fund is intended to support include offsetting the cost of running workshops or seminars, data visualization or research dissemination, and video production. The HDSI welcomes applications from all fields of scholarship.  
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, and funding will be awarded throughout the year until available funding is exhausted. The total annual budget is $50,000.


Internal_SolarGeo
Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Varies by award type
 
Harvard's Solar Geoengineering Research Program (SGRP) aims to focus on advancing solar geoengineering science and technology; assessing efficiency and risks; and laying out governance options and social implications. The following funding mechanisms are currently available: 
 
Residency Program:  This program will accept a small number of researchers focused on solar geoengineering to spend between 1 and 3 weeks at Harvard University, working directly with researchers at SGRP and other members of the Harvard community. The main purpose of this program is to enable visitors to work in collaboration with Harvard researchers and each other on discrete research projects. SGRP will cover the cost of travel and accommodations as well as per diem for meals.
 
Harvard Faculty Research Grants:  SGRP will provide direct support for research activities that cannot be fulfilled by students or fellows. That could involve multi-investigator collaborations, field or laboratory work in the sciences, or field or survey work in the social sciences.

Industry/Corporate Opportunities

Regeneron
FAS/SEAS Pre-Proposal Deadline for Postdoctoral Fellows: February 4, 2019 by 5:00PM
Award Amount: $50,000 plus a $5,000 donation to the applicant's home institution to help support the institution's seminar series.
 
The Regeneron Prize for Creative innovation recognizes and honors excellence in biomedical science conducted by postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. One postdoctoral fellow and one graduate student are selected to receive the Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation each year. The research that is proposed is not necessarily meant to be conducted, nor is the prize meant as a funding mechanism for research. The prize is a cash prize to the trainee, and the trainee may use the money in any way he or she wishes. It is a personal prize for the personal use of the awardee.

This is a limited submission opportunity and the University Area (Cambridge campus) may nominate only two postdoctoral fellows and two graduate students for this opportunity. FAS and SEAS postdoctoral fellows interested in being nominated should submit a pre-proposal online at the link above by February 4, 2019. Applicants will be asked to provide a research description, CV, and an acknowledgement statement from their department chair co-signed by their faculty PI/mentor. GSAS students interested in the graduate nomination should contact Sheila Thomas at sthomas@fas.harvard.edu.
 
Questions about this opportunity may be directed to Erin Hale (erin_hale@fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-5252) or Susan Gomes (sgomes@fas.harvard.edu, 617-496-9448).

Cisco  
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Budgets depend on the institution and geography. Overhead is limited to 5%. This falls short of the 15% overhead required by FAS/SEAS policy. Please discuss with your grants administrator before preparing an application.

Cisco Research Center (CRC) connects researchers and developers from Cisco, academia, governments, customers, and industry partners with the goal of facilitating collaboration and exploration of new and promising technologies. Cisco is primarily interested in exploring issues, topics, and problems that are relevant to its core business of improving the Internet. It is also deeply interested in adjacent technologies that leverage the power of the network to change the world around us.
 
CRC supports a broad range of research interests and award types in engineering and applied sciences. For a complete list of Requests for Proposals (RFPs), please scroll to the bottom of this link. Please note that CRC also welcomes research proposals that do not fit cleanly into any of the RFPs listed.
 
IBM_World
OSP Deadline: Please note that OSP review and approval is required for any User Agreements between the sponsor and Harvard University. 
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: up to 150,000 years of computing power through World Community Grid; weather data from The Weather Company, an IBM Business; and cloud storage from IBM Cloud.

IBM invites scientists studying climate change or ways to mitigate or adapt to its impacts to apply for free crowdsourced supercomputing power, weather data and cloud storage to support their climate or environmental research projects. In return, awardees are asked to publicly release the research data from their collaboration with IBM, enabling the global community to benefit from and build upon those findings.
 
Grantees will receive free, 24/7 access to computing power though World Community Grid, an award-winning IBM Citizenship initiative that enables anyone with a computer or Android device to support scientific research by carrying out computational research tasks on their devices. This allows researchers to conduct large-scale investigations, often magnitudes larger than they would have otherwise been able to conduct. Grantees may also request access to weather data and cloud storage.

DOD_SERDP
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline: January 22, 2019 for pre-proposals to the Core Solicitation; March 5, 2019 for full proposals to the SEED Solicitation
Award Amount: Typical projects funded by the Core Solicitation range from $200,000-$600,000 per year for 3-5 years. SEED awards provide up to $200,000 for 1 year.
 
DoD's Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) Office is interested in receiving pre-proposals for research focusing in the Core Program areas of Environmental Restoration, Munitions Response, Resource Conservation and Resiliency, and Weapons Systems and Platforms technologies. SERDP supports environmental research relevant to the management and mission of the DoD and supports efforts that lead to the development and application of innovative environmental technologies or methods that improve the environmental performance of DoD by improving outcomes, managing environmental risks, and/or reducing costs or time required to resolve environmental problems. SERDP is seeking proposals responding to Statements of Need (SONs) for projects to be funded in fiscal year 2020. SONs may be found on the SERDP website . Any pre-proposal submitted to the Core Program shall be in response to only one of these SERDP SONs.
 
In addition to the Core Program described above, SERDP is soliciting SERDP Exploratory Development (SEED) proposals to allow researchers to test proof of concept in response to the following two SONs:
  • Munitions Response: Detection, Classification, and Remediation of Military Munitions Underwater
  • Weapons Systems and Platforms: Reduction of Hazardous Waste Streams from Composite Manufacturing and Repair
It is expected that multiple awards totaling approximately $12 million will be made.

DoD_KAIROS
Sponsor Deadline for Abstracts (strongly encouraged): January 23, 2019
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: February 27, 2019
Award Amount: The level of funding for individual awards made under this solicitation has not been predetermined and will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. The program will have three phases. The first phase will be 18 months long, the second phase will be 24 months long, and the third phase will be 12 months long, for a total of 54 months.
 
DARPA's Information Innovation Office (I2O) is soliciting innovative research proposals for the creation of a schema-based artificial intelligence capability to enable contextual and temporal reasoning about complex real-world events, in order to generate actionable understanding of these events and predict how they will unfold. DARPA is seeking revolutionary ideas that use schema-based AI to comprehend events, their components, and the participants involved. The KAIROS program will seek to overcome the scaling limitations of prior approaches in two stages. The first stage entails learning schemas from big data, and the second stage applies these schemas to multi-media/multilingual information to discover and extract complex events of interest to KAIROS users. Although it is expected that there will be some overlap between the technical approaches required for the two stages, each will likely require a different type of expertise.
 
The program will consist of four technical areas (TAs):
  • TA1 - Generation of Schemas for Events
  • TA2 - Representation and Use of Temporal Knowledge and Schemas
  • TA3 - System Integration and User Interface
  • TA4 - Data Creation for Development and Evaluation 
A proposal may address any single technical area, a combination of TA1 and TA2, or a combination of TA3 and TA4. DARPA anticipates multiple awards for Technical Areas 1 and 2 and single awards for Technical Areas 3 and 4.
 

DoD_PASCC
Sponsor Deadline for White Papers (required): January 23, 2019
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if invited): TBA
Award Amount: The total anticipated funding for all awards made as a result of this CALL is $30,000. The anticipated period of performance for awards resulting from this CALL is generally 12 months per award.
 
With this call for papers, the United States Air Force's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) announces to academia, research institutions, and non-profit organizations it is soliciting white papers for studies that will help enable the Department of Defense (DoD) and the US Government to prepare for and combat Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and improvised threats. This analysis should include: defining, scoping, and exploring the Cyberwarfare/WMD nexus; and assessing implications for CWMD Mission. A proactive, collaborative, integrated approach maximizing innovation is needed to minimize the risks and unanticipated consequences of the current and future cyber threat. A new perspective is needed to address this problem, and it should include independent organizations not anchored to traditional WMD definitional and doctrinal concepts.
 
As such, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) seeks a performer via the PASCC to bring together a group of private industry, Government, and academia entities in a threatcasting/futures workshop-exercise to help fuel that innovative environment, facilitating the deconstruction of the cyber-threat intersection with WMD into manageable component issues capable of allowing development of a potential way forward. End Products for this award include: one Threatcasting exercise to examine implications of addressing cyberwarfare within the expanded WMD paradigm (to include SOCOM and CYBERCOM); a Final Report not to exceed 30 pages; a Power Point Summarizing Brief not to exceed 10 pages; and one Concept Paper on the Cyberwar-WMD nexus (NTE 3 pages).

PIPES
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: January 24, 2019 (proposals may be submitted after this date until March 1, 2019, but proposers are warned that the likelihood of available funding is greatly reduced for proposals submitted after the initial deadline) 
Award Amount: The amount of resources made available under this BAA will
depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. A total of $35M is anticipated for Technical Area 1 (TA1) including Technical Area 1B (TA1B); $20M for Technical Area 2 (TA2); and $10M for Technical Area 3 (TA3). DARPA expects that individual awards in TA1B will not exceed $600,000. PIPES is a 42-month program divided into three Phases.
 
The DARPA Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) is soliciting research proposals for the development of package-level optical signaling technologies for advanced microelectronic systems to enable disruptive performance scaling through parallelism.
 
PIPES is soliciting innovative research proposals in three main Technical Areas (TAs):
  • Technical Area 1 (TA1) - Photonically-Enabled MCMs will develop high-performance optical I/O technology for co-packaging with state-of-the-art packaged ICs, including FPGAs, CPUs, GPUs, and ASICs.
  • Technical Area 1, Track B (TA1B) - Defense Applications and Demonstration will be a separate effort within TA1 that investigates the application of photonically-enabled MCMs for DoD-specific use cases.
  • Technical Area 2 (TA2) - Photonics for Massive Parallelism will develop revolutionary new approaches to in-package optical I/O scalable to 1 Pbps aggregate bandwidth for future microelectronic systems.
  • Technical Area 3 (TA3) - Interconnect Fabrics will develop key technologies to facilitate the use of package-level photonic I/O in future systems and amplify its impact.
A total of approximately $65M of funding is anticipated for awards made against this BAA. Multiple awards are anticipated in each technical area.

DoD_TMusic
Sponsor Deadline for Abstracts (strongly encouraged): January 25, 2019
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: March 12, 2019. Proposals may be submitted after the due date until April 8, 2019, though the likelihood of available funding is greatly reduced for proposals submitted after the initial closing date.
Award Amount: The amount of resources made available under this BAA will
depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. The T-MUSIC program is a four-year effort which will have an 18-month Phase 1, 18-month Phase 2, and 12-month Phase 3.
 
DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) is soliciting research proposals for the development of advanced RF mixed-mode foundry processes, building blocks, and novel high frequency mixed-mode devices on a CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) fabrication platform. It is expected that such advances will enable new DoD applications including high capacity, robust communications, radars, and precision sensors.
 
The T-MUSIC program consists of the following Technical Areas (TAs):
  • TA-1A: Ultra-broadband Mixed-Mode Foundry Technology
  • TA-1B: Ultra-broadband Mixed-Mode Building Blocks
  • TA-2: Advanced THz Mixed-Mode Devices
Proposers must submit to TA-1A and/or TA-1B independently. TA-2 is independent of TA-1, and proposals submitted to TA-2 must be separate and standalone from any submission to TA-1. Submitting to TA-1 does not require a submission to TA-2 and vice versa.
 
Multiple awards are anticipated. TA-1A is considered to be a large portion of the overall program effort and it is expected that at most two large awards will be made in this technical area. It is expected that multiple smaller awards will be made targeted to both TA-1B circuit demonstrations and TA-2 exploratory work. Approximately $70M of funding is anticipated for awards made against this BAA, with a distribution of:
  • $55M for Technical Area 1 (TA-1) including TA-1A and TA-1B; and
  • $15M for Technical Area 2 (TA-2).

DoD_NSWCcrane
OSP Deadline: January 17, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: January 25, 2019
Award Amount: $200,000 for 18 months. 3 awards are anticipated.
 
The Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division desires advanced trusted and reliable hardware to support strategic missions. Electronic components used in strategic missions have unique requirements such as the ability to operate and survive in harsh radiation environments. Current radiation-hardened electronics available to the Government often lag many generations behind that of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components. This leads to a significant gap in performance between the capability of strategic hardware and commercial hardware. To help bridge this gap, the Navy is interested in innovative approaches that have the potential to bridge this capability gap. Research areas can include (but are not limited to) fault tolerant system design, radiation-hardened by design techniques, and projections of radiation hardness with technology node scaling. This BAA is intended for proposals related to basic and applied research, and that part of development not related to the development of a specific system or hardware procurement.

DoD_onrTF
Sponsor Deadline for White Papers (required): January 31, 2019
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if invited): TBA
Award Amount: Periods of performance may be up to 3 years.
 
ONR has issued a Special Notice to announce its interest in research to support the Task Force Ocean (TFO) initiative, funding for which will be under the authority of the ONR FY18 Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology . Under Task Force Ocean, ONR plans to initiate new research to better understand and exploit the ocean environment.
 
FY19 objectives include improved ocean and acoustic sensing, signal processing, and data analysis capabilities. It is anticipated that future TFO themes will include distributed sensing systems and non-acoustic sensing. For FY19, ONR seeks proposals for research in the following high-priority areas:
  • Exploration of analytic techniques linking physical oceanographic variability with acoustic propagation, including field efforts to collect relevant data sets
  • Analysis of large oceanographic and acoustic data sets, including the development and use of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques
  • Through-the-sensor environmental characterization, including assimilation into nested local environmental prediction models
  • Exploration and development of advanced signal processing techniques that incorporate local ocean structure, including ambient noise characterization
Cross-discipline teaming (in particular the integration of physical oceanography, acoustics, and signal processing) is encouraged, but not required. Graduate student and post-doctoral researcher participation in Navy-funded undersea research under the TFO initiative is strongly encouraged.

DARPASCORE
Sponsor Deadline for Abstracts (strongly encouraged): January 31, 2019 for TA3; abstract deadline has passed for TA1 and TA2
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: March 12, 2019 for TA3; deadline has passed for TA1 & TA2
Award Amount: The level of funding for individual awards made under this BAA will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. SCORE is a 36-month program, comprising two phases with durations of 18 months each.
 
DARPA's Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is soliciting innovative research proposals for the development and deployment of automated tools to assign Confidence Scores (CSs) to different kinds of Social and Behavioral Science (SBS) research results and claims. CSs are quantitative measures that should enable someone to understand the degree to which a particular claim or result is likely to be reproducible and/or replicable. These tools will assign explainable CSs with a reliability that is equal to, or better than, the best current human expert methods and will enable a consumer of SBS research to quickly calibrate the level of confidence in the Reproducibility and Replicability (R&R) of a given SBS result or claim.
 
To achieve its vision, the SCORE program will fund research in three Technical Areas (TAs), with an independent Test and Evaluation (T&E) team providing oversight. DARPA is soliciting proposals for TA1, TA2, or TA3 but is not soliciting proposals for participation on the T&E team. Each proposal should only address a single TA. The three TAs are:
  • TA1: Data
  • TA2: Experts
  • TA3: Algorithms

DARPA anticipates multiple awards under each Technical Area (TA).

DoD_gaps
Sponsor Deadline for Abstracts (strongly encouraged): February 1, 2019 for TA1 and TA2; abstracts not permitted for TA3
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: March 4, 2019 for TA3; March 22, 2019 for TA1 and TA2. Proposals for all TAs may be submitted after the due dates until April 8, 2019, though the likelihood of available funding is greatly reduced for proposals submitted after the initial closing dates.
Award Amount: The amount of resources made available under this BAA will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. Each TA will consist of three 18 month phases.
 
DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of developing hardware and software architectures with physically provable guarantees to isolate high risk transactions and to enable systems with multilevel data security assertions. The proposed effort should investigate innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances for the DoD to maintain separation of systems with different security levels. The DoD needs to be able to leverage commercial hardware and most importantly, commercial software development paradigms to enforce physical primitives to increase security and allow the fusion of data across systems of different levels to support DoD operations.
 
GAPS is divided into three technical areas (TAs):
  • TA1: Components and Interfaces
  • TA2: Co-Design Tools
  • TA3: Integration and Validation
Proposers must submit to each Technical Area separately. While proposers may submit proposals for all three TAs, proposers selected for any TA cannot be selected for any portion of the other two TAs, whether as a prime, subcontractor, or in any other capacity from an organizational to individual level. This is to avoid organizational conflict of interest (OCI) situations between the TAs and to ensure objective test and evaluation results.
 
DARPA anticipates multiple awards for Technical Area 1 and 2 and a single award for Technical Area 3.


DoD_JWMRP
Sponsor Deadline for Letters of Interest (required): February 1, 2019
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if invited): TBA
Award Amount: Unspecified
 
The Joint Warfighter Medical Research Program (JWMRP), managed by the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP) at the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, provides an opportunity to advance previously funded DoD or Service medical R&D projects that address the medical requirements of the Services. The JWMRP complements and enhances the Defense Health Program by facilitating the further development of promising industry and academic efforts. Each year a broad spectrum of R&D initiatives are considered under the JWMRP. The science and technology development efforts are aligned to one of the six Joint Program Committee (JPC) scientific domains. These are: Medical Simulation and Information Sciences (JPC-1), Military Infectious Diseases (JPC-2), Military Operational Medicine (JPC-5), Combat Casualty Care (JPC-6), Radiation Health Effects (JPC-7), and Clinical and Rehabilitative Medicine (JPC-8). Through research efforts focused in advanced technology development and product demonstration and validation, the JWMRP offers a pathway to transition maturing medical solutions to the Military Health System (MHS) for the benefit of our Service members and other MHS beneficiaries. In accordance with the Congressional language, the funds appropriated for the JWMRP shall be used to augment and accelerate high priority DoD and Service medical requirements and to continue prior year initiatives that are close to achieving their objectives and yield a benefit to military medicine. These funds shall not be used for new projects or for basic research. All research or product development efforts submitted for continuation must currently be at a minimum TRL 4 or 5.
 

DoD_AIE
OSP Deadline: January 28, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: February 4, 2019
Award Amount: Up to $1M for a project period of 18 months
 
DARPA is issuing an Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) opportunity inviting submissions of innovative basic research concepts exploring new computational frameworks and strategies drawn from the impressive computational capabilities of very small flying insects for whom evolutionary pressures have forced scale/size/energy reduction without loss of performance. The primary goal of this effort is to understand the computational principles, architecture, and neuronal details of small bio-systems driven by extreme size, weight, and power consumption (SWaP) needs in nature. By doing so, DARPA aims to identify new computing paradigms that will enable improved AI with considerably reduced training times and power consumption.
 
The program will be comprised of 2 phases: Phase 1 (6 months) will be mapping input/output
channels of a model insect's central intelligence system and understanding fundamental physical  interactions involved in signaling; Phase 2 (12 months) will be focused on developing prototype  computational models based on the analysis in Phase 1 and proposing new hardware platforms and  training/developmental strategies that can be applied to general problem spaces. This knowledge  could result in energy efficient and more capable AI hardware.
 
Proposing teams are expected to have significant expertise in i) the physiology of insects and their  neural-sensory systems; and ii) computer science, signal processing, and computing architectures.  Teams need to be able to identify the chemical and electromagnetic interactions involved in signaling  in miniaturized distributed neural systems.


DoD_Panacea
OSP Deadline: February 14, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: February 22, 2019
Award Amount: The amount of resources made available under this BAA will depend on the quality of the proposals received and the availability of funds. The Panacea research and development program is divided into three sequential Phases: Phase 1 (Base) - 24 months, Phase 2 (Option) - 24 months, and Phase 3 (Option) - 12 months.
 
Human physiology is a limiting factor in the operational readiness of the United States Department of Defense. When the human body is damaged or a physiological system is not functioning optimally, interventions are required to help mend the injury or support continued performance. DARPA's Biological Technologies Office seeks to develop new technological approaches in medicinal chemistry and systems pharmacology to expand the druggable proteome and discover new therapeutic tools in the areas of soft tissue pain/inflammation and metabolic stress that limit optimal physiological function. This new platform technology will directly address needs within the Department of Defense to support the unique physiological demands of the warfighter and provide proof-of-concept for novel drug discovery and development pipelines.
 
Proposals must address both of the following major tasks:
  • Task 1: Predict and evaluate drug targets and effects.
  • Task 2: Novel intervention design and synthesis.
Multiple awards are anticipated.

DOD_ONR_EWT
OSP Deadline: 5 days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: Rolling through February 28, 2019
Award Amount: ONR plans to allocate $25-30M for efforts related to the Technical Areas in this Special Notice. The period of performance for projects will be 1-3 years.
 
This announcement describes a research thrust, entitled "Electronic Warfare Technology," to be launched under ONR's Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology . The research opportunity described in this announcement specifically falls under BAA Appendix-1-Program Description, Section II B, Electronics, Sensors and Network Research of the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (Code 31) sub-section. The submission of proposals, their evaluation and the placement of research grants and contracts will be carried out as described in that Broad Agency Announcement.
 
The proposed topic will explore and exploit the technical opportunities for discovery and invention in the area of Electronic Warfare (EW). The goal of EW is to control the Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS) by exploiting, deceiving, or denying enemy use of the spectrum while ensuring its use by friendly forces. To that end, the ONR EW Discovery and Invention (D&I) program invests in Science and Technology (S&T)  initiatives that will provide naval forces (including Navy and Marine Corps) with improved threat warning systems; Electronic warfare Support (ES); decoys and countermeasures against weapon tracking and guidance systems; Electronic Attack (EA) against adversary Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR); and Electronic Protection (EP) of our own weapons and C4ISR from intentional and unintentional interference.
 
ONR Code 312 Electronic Warfare (312EW) seeks proposals to develop and demonstrate
technologies for the next generation systems in electronic warfare. White papers and subsequent  proposals should address technology developments in one or more of the following Research  Opportunity Technical Areas (TA) 1-4:
  • Technical Area 1 (TA1): Alternative Computational Approaches Applied to EW
  • Technical Area 2 (TA2): Compact, Efficient, Beam-Agile Transmitters
  • Technical Area 3 (TA3): Compact, Efficient, EO/IR Transmitters
  • Technical Area 4 (TA4): Component Technologies for Innovative Distributed EW
It is anticipated that multiple awards will be made based on the quality of the proposed efforts.

DoD_C-WMD
Sponsor Deadline for Pre-Application White Papers (required): March 4, 2019
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if invited): TBA
Award Amount: Varies by topic area. Please see the BAA for additional information.
 
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) safeguards America and its allies from weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and provides capabilities to reduce, eliminate, and counter the threat and effects from chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosives. DTRA seeks to identify, adopt, and adapt emerging, existing and revolutionary sciences that may demonstrate high payoff potential to Counter-WMD (C-WMD) threats, including improvised threats.
 
In this Amendment, DTRA solicits White Papers under Thrust Area 7 - Fundamental Science for Chemical and Biological Defense in the following topic areas:
  • Topic I1: In Search of the "lnc": Long Non-Coding Ribonucleic Acids (lncRNA) Role in Pathogenesis
  • Topic I2: Algorithm Development for Optimization of Biologic Medical Countermeasures
  • Topic I3: Identification of Common Molecular Pathways Associated Chemical Warfare Agent (CWA)-Induced Inflammation
  • Topic I4: Identification of Novel Methods for Improving the Pharmacokinetic Properties of Proteins
  • Topic I5: Receptor Mapping Across Humans and Animal Models
  • Topic I6: Molecular Cascades for Signaling of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents
  • Topic I7: An Every-Atom-Counts Approach to Designing Small Cluster Catalysts
  • Topic I8: Design Rules for a Biomimetic Membrane with Selective Water Permeability
  • Topic I9: Design of Repellant Permanent Thin Films for Chemical and Biological Agent Resistance
Please note that DTRA's requirement for abstract pre-coordination is waived for these topic areas; pre-coordination of an abstract is not required for these topics prior to the submission of a pre-application white paper.


DoD_estcp
Sponsor Deadline for Pre-Proposals (required): March 7, 2019
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if invited): August 1, 2019 for Environmental Technologies proposals; August 8, 2019 for Installation Energy proposals
Award Amount: Unspecified
 
The Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) is the Department of Defense's (DoD) demonstration and validation program for environmental and installation energy technologies. The ESTCP Office is interested in receiving pre-proposals for innovative technology demonstrations that address DoD environmental and installation energy requirements as candidates for funding. ESTCP demonstrations are conducted under operational conditions at DoD facilities or locations for which DoD holds environmental responsibility. Candidate technologies are expected to have successfully completed laboratory testing and, when applicable, initial small-scale field testing. The demonstrations are intended to generate supporting cost and performance data for acceptance or validation of the technology. ESTCP demonstration projects also are required to support the future implementation of the tested technology through the development of appropriate guidance, design, and/or protocol documents.
 
Technologies in the following topic areas will be considered for funding:
  • Innovative Technology Transfer Approaches
  • Management of Contaminated Groundwater
  • Long Term Management of Contaminated Aquatic Sediments
  • Detection, Classification, and Remediation of Military Munitions in Underwater Environments
  • Infrastructure Resiliency Arctic Engineering Design Tool
  • Advanced Brown Tree Snake Control Tools
  • Energy Efficiency Technology Demonstrations Integrated with Utility Energy Services Contracts (UESC)
  • Microgrid Development for Military Installations
  • Effective Use of Utility Meter Data to Improve Facility Energy Investments
  • Innovative Tools that Reduce the Time and Cost Required to Obtain and Maintain Authority to Operate for Facility Energy and Water Control Systems and Connected Technology
It is expected that multiple awards totaling approximately $12 million will result, depending on availability of funds. 

DoD_FY19STEM
Sponsor Submission Window for White Papers (required): April 1-June 28, 2019
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if invited): September 27, 2019
Award Amount: Up to $250,000 per year for up to 3 years
 
The ONR seeks a broad range of applications for augmenting existing or developing innovative solutions that directly maintain, or cultivate a diverse, world-class STEM workforce in order to maintain the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps' technological superiority. The goal of any proposed effort must provide solutions that will establish and maintain pathways of diverse U.S. citizens who are interested in uniformed or civilian DoN (or Navy and Marine Corps) STEM workforce opportunities. This announcement explicitly encourages projects that improve the capacity of education systems and communities to create impactful STEM educational experiences for students and workers. Submissions are encouraged to consider including active learning approaches and incorporating 21st century skill development. ONR encourages applications to utilize current STEM educational research for informing project design and advancing our understanding of how and why people choose STEM careers and opportunities of naval relevance. While this announcement is relevant for any stage of the STEM educational system, funding efforts will be targeted primarily toward projects addressing the following communities or any combination of these communities: secondary education communities; post-secondary communities; informal science communities; and current naval STEM workforce communities.
 
The technical content of any idea must establish naval relevance within the priority areas as outlined in the "Naval Research and Development Framework and Addendum" . Broad priority areas are as follows:
  • Augmented Warfighter
  • Integrated & Distributed Forces
  • Operational Endurance
  • Sensing & Sense-Making
  • Scalable Lethality
Approximately 25 awards are anticipated.

DOD_NavalPostGrad
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission 
Sponsor Deadline for White Papers and Full Proposals: Rolling through May 31, 2019 
Award Amount: The funded amount and period of performance of each proposal selected for award will vary depending on the research area and the technical approach to be pursued by the applicant selected.
 
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is interested in receiving proposals for research initiatives that offer potential for advancement and improvement in the NPS core mission of graduate education and research. Readers should note that this is an announcement to declare NPS's solicitation in competitive funding of meritorious research initiatives across a spectrum of science and engineering, business, politics and public/foreign policy, operational and information sciences, and interdisciplinary disciplines that are in line with the NPS's graduate education and research mission.
 
Additional information on the Naval Postgraduate School's graduate education and research mission is available at:

DoD_PolyPilot2
Sponsor Deadline for Abstracts (strongly encouraged): August 14, 2019
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: September 3, 2019
Award Amount: The level of funding for individual awards made under this solicitation has not been predetermined and will depend on the scope and quality of the proposals received, as well as the availability of funds. Approximately 10 awards at the $100,000 level for 12-month projects are anticipated throughout the duration of this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA).
 
DARPA's Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is seeking participants for a pilot program designed to utilize modern connectivity to rapidly develop promising basic research pathways and then efficiently develop basic research proposals. DSO's intent is to fund research proposals resulting from this pilot program. As with other recent DARPA/DSO opportunity announcements, the goal of this program is to deliver research proposals that seek to investigate innovative approaches to enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. In particular, this announcement is intended to support the DSO mission to anticipate scientific surprise.
 
Note that submission of abstracts and proposals is not mandatory to participate in the Polyplexus platform. Researchers who desire to participate due to curiosity; the desire to learn, teach, or explore; or any other constructive reason are encouraged to do so. Pilot participation is open to all scientists and engineers who want to engage in this online platform. 

A Proposers Day webcast was held on September 13, 2018. The webcast registration site will remain open for the entire period of performance of this BAA to allow new participants to access the platform. Registration at this time will only generate an invitation to apply for an account on the Polyplexus platform. 


DOD_ONRSab
OSP Deadline: Review not required for individual fellowships
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: Rolling (proposals must be submitted 6 months prior to the start of the proposed sabbatical)
Award Amount: Participants receive a monthly stipend making up the difference between salary and sabbatical leave pay from their home institution. Relocation and travel assistance are provided to qualifying participants. Appointments will last for a minimum of one semester to a maximum of one year in length.
 
The Sabbatical Leave Program provides an opportunity for faculty members to engage in scholarly, creative, professional, research, or other academic activities at a sponsoring U.S. Navy Laboratory that will enhance the faculty member's further contributions to their institution. This program is residential and all work must be completed on site.
 
Expected benefits of the Sabbatical Leave Program:
  • Broaden the scope and horizon of faculty member's research interests and provide a foundation for future research collaborations.
  • Provide an understanding of the Department of the Navy research interests and the technological implications thereof, thus enhancing the abilities of Fellows to pursue and obtain funding for research at their home institution.
  • Foster lasting relationships between Fellows and the researchers at the Navy laboratories.
Applicants are required to identify a mentor at a Participating Laboratory that matches the applicant's research interests.
 

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DOE_terrestrial
Sponsor Deadline for Pre-Applications (required): January 24, 2019
Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: March 29, 2019
Award Amount: $1,000,000 maximum for 3-year projects; $300,000 maximum for 1- to 2-year exploratory ("high risk") projects
 
The Terrestrial Ecosystem Science (TES) program in the Climate and Environmental Sciences Division, Biological and Environmental Research program of the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), announces its interest in receiving research applications seeking to improve the understanding and representation of terrestrial ecosystems in ways that advance Earth system model parameterizations and capabilities. This FOA will consider applications that utilize and couple measurements, experiments, modeling and/or synthesis of terrestrial ecosystems across a continuum from the subsurface to the top of the vegetated canopy and from molecular to global scales. TES hereby announces its interest in grant applications that advance the understanding and predictive representation of terrestrial ecosystem in the following areas: 1) Interactions and feedbacks between aboveground and belowground processes; and, 2) The role of disturbance at the terrestrial-aquatic interface. Applicants are required to pose their research applications in the context of representing terrestrial ecosystem processes in ways that improve the predictability of Earth system models.


DOE_lowtemp
Sponsor Deadline for Pre-Applications (required): January 25, 2019
Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: March 25, 2019
Award Amount: $300,000-$1,700,000/year
 
The DOE program in Fusion Energy Sciences hereby announces its interest in receiving cooperative agreement proposals for centers and designated user facilities in low temperature plasma science and engineering. Centers, that are cohesive and synergistic, should be formed by a closely-interacting group of investigators. Designated user facilities should be similar to the ones outlined in Chapter 5 of the 2016 Frontiers of Plasma Science Workshops report and may be hosted by a group of institutions or a single institution. Both centers and user facilities should be able to address one or more topical areas at the frontier of low temperature plasma science and engineering. Specific research areas of interest include:
  • interfacial plasma (i.e., low temperature plasma coming into contact with liquid to produce new chemical reactivity through a gas-liquid interface);
  • interaction of plasma with biomaterials (e.g., understanding how plasma-produced chemical reactivity is delivered through multiple interfaces, such as liquid, cells, tissue, polymers);
  • control of plasma-electromagnetic interaction (e.g., fundamental understanding of how radio-frequency electromagnetic power produces controllable plasmas to enable microelectronics processing);
  • Plasma catalysis (e.g., understanding the plasma reactivity and catalyst selectivity);
  • Plasma aided combustion (e.g., control of pulsed plasmas to improve the efficiency of chemical processing);
  • Interface between plasma and solid-state physics (e.g., understanding the boundary layer between plasma and solid-state surface);
  • Coherent structures (e.g., understanding electric self-organization in low temperature plasmas);
  • Other emerging areas such as plasma aided aeronautics, plasma process control through machine learning, etc.
Consistent with the recommendation made in the 2016 Frontiers of Plasma Science Workshops report, the goal of this FOA is to steward designated user facilities and/or centers that will have the capability for a broad spectrum of plasma parameter measurements and have significant potential for advancing fundamental and applied research in low temperature plasmas.


DOE_ASR
Sponsor Deadline for Pre-Applications (required): January 28, 2019
Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: March 14, 2019
Award Amount: $150,000-$750,000 for up to 3 years
 
The Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program in the Climate and Environmental Sciences Division (CESD), Biological and Environmental Research program of the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, supports research on key cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and radiative transfer processes that affect the Earth's radiative balance and hydrological cycle, especially processes that limit the predictive ability of regional and global models. ASR hereby announces its interest in research grant applications for observational, data analysis, and/or modeling studies that use observations supported by CESD, including the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) scientific user facility and the ASR program to improve understanding and model representation of aerosol processes at ARM sites; warm boundary-layer processes; convective cloud processes; and Southern Ocean cloud and aerosol processes.


DOE_earlycar
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline (required): February 6, 2019
Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline (if invited): April 29, 2019
Award Amount: $750,000 for five years. Larger awards (historic maximum of $960,000) are possible with sufficient justification. The ceiling for an application is $1,000,000 over five years.
 
The DOE Early Career Research Program supports the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research careers in the disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science. Opportunities exist in the following program areas:
  • Advanced Scientific Computing Research
  • Biological and Environmental Research
  • Basic Energy Sciences
  • Fusion Energy Sciences
  • High Energy Physics
Applicants must be untenured Assistant or Associate Professors who received doctorates no earlier than 2008. If a Principal Investigator has multiple doctorates, the discipline of the one they have earned within the 10-year eligibility window should be relevant to the proposed research.
 
Recent Harvard recipients include Kang Kuen Ni (CCB, 2018), Theodore Betley (CCB, 2012), and Matthew Schwartz (Physics, 2010).


DOE_magfus
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline (required): February 11, 2019
Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: March 26, 2019
Award Amount: Up to $2,500,000 per year for up to 3 years
 
The DOE program in Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) hereby announces its interest in receiving new or renewal grant applications for fundamental theoretical and computational research for public benefit, relevant to magnetic confinement configurations. The specific areas of interest of this FOA are:
  1. Macroscopic Stability
  2. Confinement and Transport
  3. Boundary Physics
  4. Plasma Heating & Non-inductive Current Drive, and
  5. Energetic Particles

DOE_biogeo
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline (required): February 14, 2019
Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: April 11, 2019
Award Amount: Up to $600,000 for 3-year Standard applications; Up to $200,000 for 1- to 2-year Exploratory applications.
 
The goal of the SBR program is to advance a robust predictive understanding of how watersheds function as integrated hydro-biogeochemical systems and how these systems respond to perturbations caused by changes in water availability and quality, contaminant release, nutrient cycling, land-use, vegetation cover, and snowmelt timing. This FOA will consider Standard and Exploratory applications that focus on measurements, experiments, and modeling to provide improved quantitative and predictive understanding of how hydrobiogeochemical processes function in watershed systems. SBR is seeking research applications on topics in the following areas: a) Ecohydrology and Hydro-biogeochemistry, and b) Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry. Applicants should familiarize themselves with the SBR Science Focus Area (SFA) programs at the DOE National Laboratories (https://doesbr.org/research/sfa/). All projects are required to clearly delineate an integrative, hypothesis-driven approach and clearly describe the existing needs and gaps in state-of-the-art models.

DOE_arpa-e
Sponsor Deadline: Varies by topic
Award Amount: Varies by topic; Cost sharing is required, see solicitation for more detail
 
The objective of this solicitation is to support high-risk R&D leading to the development of potentially disruptive new technologies across the full spectrum of energy applications. Topics under this FOA will explore new areas of technology development that, if successful, could establish new program areas for ARPA-E, or complement the current portfolio of ARPA-E programs. Applications to this solicitation must have the potential for high impact - if successful, it could create a new class or new trajectory for an energy technology, with the potential to make a significant impact on ARPA-E's Mission Areas. Awards under this program may take the form of analyses or exploratory research that provides the agency with information useful for the subsequent development of focused technology programs. Alternatively, awards may support proof-of-concept research for a particular new technology, either in an area not currently supported by the agency or as a potential enhancement to an ongoing focused technology program.
 
This FOA will only accept applications in prespecified Targeted Topics:
  1. Extremely Durable Concretes and Cementitious Materials
    Full Application Submission Deadline: 9:30 AM ET, February 18, 2019
    ARPA-E is interested in receiving Full Applications in support of advancing extremely durable concretes and cementitious materials. This topic seeks research towards concrete that outlasts conventional concrete, reduces lifetime O&M expenses and their associated energy requirements, and therefore greatly reduces cement/concrete. Work under this program will consist of early stage research.
  2. Leveraging Innovations Supporting Nuclear Energy
    Full Application Submission Deadline: 9:30 AM ET, February 18, 2019
    It is clear that a substantial reduction of construction cost, O&M cost, and construction time, in combination with targeting reactor plant operation for commercial viability, is required to fundamentally enhance the competitiveness and attractiveness of nuclear energy. The ARPA-E MEITNER Program (DE-FOA-0001798) is already investigating several innovative technologies that forward this goal. The purpose of this Targeted Topic is to address key technology gaps in the portfolio.
  3. Downhole Tools to Enable Enhanced Geothermal Systems
    Full Application Submission Deadline: 9:30 AM ET, February 18, 2019
    ARPA-E seeks novel low-cost sensor technologies capable of mitigating risks and lowering costs in EGS development by better characterizing rock formations and fluid enthalpy at depth. Technologies of interest include but are not limited to fiber-optic sensors and enthalpy measurement devices, as well as companion electronics and communications equipment. Successful projects will facilitate reservoir creation and maintenance, reduce unexpected reservoir behavior, and ultimately lower costs associated with EGS. Successful technologies developed for this purpose may also offer side benefits in applications including O&G, subsurface energy/CO 2  storage, aerospace and automotive engineering, nuclear energy, and space exploration.
DOE_bioimaging
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline (required): April 4, 2019
Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: May 20, 2019
Award Amount: $500,000-$750,000/year for 3 years
 
The DOE Biological Systems Science Division in Biological and Environmental Research hereby announces its interest in receiving applications to support fundamental research towards enabling new bioimaging approaches to achieve an advanced understanding of plant and microbial systems relevant to bioenergy research.
 
New quantum dot (QD)-based-imaging approaches including quantum probes and sensors, and complementary optical imaging instrumentation, are needed to allow the observation and characterization of multiple complex biological processes occurring within living plant and microbial systems, including rhizosphere and soil microbiomes. Processes of interest include, but are not limited to measuring enzyme function within cells, tracking metabolic pathways in vivo, monitoring the transport of materials within cells or across cellular membranes, monitoring signaling processes between cells within plant-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions. Development of probes and sensors with desirable optical properties functionalized with specific biologically active molecules to interact and bind with specific cellular targets of interest are encouraged. Proposed approaches should enable dynamic localization and imaging to facilitate testing and validation of hypothesized cellular processes. It is expected that applications will make use of quantum-dot enabled approaches for imaging of biological targets non-destructively and in real time, to dramatically enhance our ability to measure biological processes in and among living cells.

DOE_Other
Other DOE Opportunities
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA)

IARPA_deep
OSP review not required for responses
Response Deadline: January 17, 2019
 
IARPA is seeking information on research efforts in the area of machine learning with a particular focus on deep learning. This request for information (RFI) is issued solely for information gathering and planning purposes and does not constitute a formal solicitation for proposals. 
 
This RFI seeks capability statements relating to machine and deep learning. Responses to this RFI should address the following points:
  1. Respondent's capabilities in the realm of machine and deep learning. Of specific interest is the respondent's knowledge of, and experience implementing, current, cutting-edge machine learning techniques.
  2. Respondent's ability to perform research and development at the TOP SECRET//SCI level. This includes the presence of qualified, cleared personnel as well as appropriate network access.

IARPA_sails
OSP review not required
Response Deadline: January 31, 2019
 
IARPA is seeking interested parties to thoroughly review the Draft BAA Funding Opportunity Description at the link above and provide comments, questions, suggested changes, and feedback by January 31, 2019. IARPA does not anticipate posting responses to any comments, questions, suggested changes, and/or feedback received; however, all input will be considered in developing the Final BAA. The SAILS Program is envisioned to begin November 2019 and end by December 2021.
 
The SAILS program aims to develop methods for creating AI/ML models robust to attacks against privacy. The goal is to provide a mechanism by which model creators can have confidence that their trained models will not inadvertently reveal sensitive information. Towards this end, SAILS will focus on a variety of problem domains, such as speech, text, and image, as well as black box (minimum knowledge of the targeted AI/ML model) and white box (full of knowledge of the targeted AI/ML model) access modes. Performers will be expected to develop techniques to defend against attacks while maintaining high-performance, both in terms of accuracy as well as time to train the model or perform a single inference, of the underlying AI/ML model. These techniques include but are not limited to new training procedures, new  model architectures, or new pre-/post-processing procedures. Developed methods will be scored against state-of-the-art baselines within the chosen domain while using published model vulnerabilities.


National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

NASA_FINESST
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: February 1, 2019
OSP Deadline: January 25, 2019
Award Amount: The maximum amount of a FINESST award is $45,000 per 12-months and up to $135,000 total for a period of performance maximum of 36 months. The university should prorate the FINESST stipend and allowances if the projected schedule for completion is known to be less than 12 months.
 
Through this Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) solicitation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD) solicits proposals from accredited U.S. universities for research grants to begin in the 2019-2020 Academic Year that identify an individual pursuing a graduate degree in Earth and space sciences related disciplines, as the participating Future Investigator (FI). The purpose of the FINESST is to provide relevant research and/or technology development project training in disciplines needed to achieve the goals of NASA SMD. FINESST grants are for student-designed research projects that contribute to SMD's science, technology and exploration goals. FINESST succeeds the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF).

NASA_MSFC
Sponsor Deadlines for Step-1 Proposals (required): May 1, 2019
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Award Amount: NASA awards will range from $10,000 to $100,000 for up to 12 months, and must be matched or exceeded by Offeror contributions. Contributions can be cash, in-kind (non-cash) resources, or a combination of each.
 
Under this program, NASA seeks to award cooperative agreements for technology development partnerships with United States commercial businesses and/or colleges and universities with the goal of developing a technology to meet a specific NASA need at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), as well as those of the partner. This goal will be accomplished by selecting Offerors who will cooperatively share in the development cost of the technology that meets the specified NASA need. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center located in Huntsville, Alabama, is one of NASA's largest and most diversified installations. The Marshall Center provides leadership in the complex engineering of space transportation and propulsion systems, large space structures and systems, and scientific research to make human space exploration a reality.
 
This CAN will follow a 2-step process for proposal submissions. Step-1 of the proposal process is submission of a White Paper by the Offeror. The Offeror may submit a Step-1 White Paper at any time prior to the due date of either one of two White Paper open periods. In Step-2 of the process, NASA will assess each White Paper submitted in the 2 applicable open periods and invite selected Offerors to submit a full project Proposal.
 
Multiple awards are anticipated.

NASA_unsol
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling through September 30, 2019
Award Amount: Proposed budget should be commensurate with the scope of the project.
 
NASA encourages the submission of unique and innovative proposals that will further the Agency's mission. While the vast majority of proposals are solicited, a small number of unsolicited proposals that cannot be submitted to those solicitations and yet are still relevant to NASA are reviewed and some are funded each year. Proposals should be submitted at least six months in advance of the desired starting date.

Before any effort is expended in preparing a proposal, potential proposers should:
  1. Review the current versions of the NASA Strategic Plan and documents from the specific directorate, office, or program for which the proposal is intended to determine if the work planned is sufficiently relevant to current goals to warrant a formal submission.
  2. Potential proposers must review current opportunities to determine if any solicitation already exists to which the potential project could be proposed.
  3. Potential proposers should review current awards (e.g., by doing key word searches at Research.gov, or at the NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) grant status page, and the NASA Life and Physical Sciences Task Book) to learn what, if any, related work is already funded by NASA. Such preparation reduces the risk of redundancy, improves implementation, and sometimes results in collaboration.
After those three things have been done, the proposer may contact an appropriate NASA person to determine whether NASA has any interest in the type of work being proposed and if any funding is currently available. Proposals should be submitted at least six months in advance of the desired starting date.

NASAJohnsonSpace
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to sponsor deadline
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals: Rolling through December 31, 2019 (see solicitation for schedule of review cycles)
Award Amount: Details below
 
This announcement is for the development of experiment hardware with enhanced capabilities; modification of existing hardware to enable increased efficiencies (crew time, power, etc.); development of tools that allow analyses of samples and specimens on orbit; enhanced ISS infrastructure capabilities (eg, communications or data processing); and specific technology demonstration projects. Submission of a white paper is recommended in advance of a full proposal.
 
Within the NASA International Space Station (ISS) Research Integration Office, the Technology and Science Research Office (TSRO) and Commercial Space Utilization Office (CSUO) act as "gateways" to the ISS. The Technology and Science Research Office serves as the gateway for NASA-funded technology demonstrations. The Commercial Space Utilization Office serves as the gateway for non-NASA government-funded investigations, as well as non-profit or commercially-funded investigations.
 
Proposed technology demonstrations submitted to TSRO should address at least one of the technology areas mentioned in the ISS Technology Demonstration Plans .

NASA also seeks technological concepts via CSUO related to the National Lab Thrust Areas and to expand the onboard research and analytical capabilities. The general thrust areas are:
  • Innovative uses of the ISS or ISS hardware that leverage existing capabilities to stimulate both utilization of the ISS and economic development in the U.S.
  • Other improvements to existing ISS capabilities, including but not limited to infrastructure, in situ analytical tools, and communication/data transmittal, to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the technology demonstrations and science investigations performed on the ISS.
  • Unique partnering arrangements that leverage NASA's existing capabilities but increase the commercial participation in research and on board services. 
Funds are not currently available for awards under this NASA Research Announcement (NRA). The Government's ability to make award(s) is contingent upon the availability of appropriated funds from which payment can be made and the receipt of proposals that NASA determines acceptable for award under this NRA. Successful proposals will have launch and integration costs covered by NASA. 


Other NASA Opportunities
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH_NCIPathway
University Area Pre-Proposal Deadline: January 28, 2019 by 5:00PM
Sponsor Deadline (if nominated): February 26, 2019
Eligible Applicants: Applicants must have no more than 2 years of postdoctoral research experience as of the application due date and must be in mentored, postdoctoral training positions. Parental, medical, or other well-justified leave for personal or family situations of generally less than 12 months duration is not included in the 2-year eligibility limit, nor is clinical training with no research involvement (e.g., full-time residency training)
 
The objective of the NCI Pathway to Independence Award for Outstanding Early Stage Postdoctoral Fellows (K99/R00) is to help outstanding postdoctoral researchers complete needed, mentored training and transition in a timely manner to independent tenure-track (or equivalent) faculty positions. The K99/R00 award is intended to foster the development of a creative, independent research program that will be competitive for subsequent independent funding and that will help advance the mission of the NCI. This program is designed for outstanding postdoctoral fellows with research and/or clinical doctoral degrees who do not require extended periods of mentored research training beyond their original doctoral degrees before transitioning to research independence, which is common for those working in data science and cancer control science.
 
Please Note: This is a limited submission opportunity and the University Area (FAS, SEAS, etc) may submit a combined total of three applications  to  RFA-CA-19-029  and/or  RFA-CA-19-030 . Additionally, each application must be in a different scientific area as defined below:
 
  1. Data Science, defined as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry in which quantitative and analytical approaches, processes, and systems are both developed and used to extract knowledge and insights from increasingly large and/or complex sets of data. This includes cancer-focused data integration and visualization, systems biology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, informatics, genomics, precision oncology, and developing analytics for epidemiological or biostatistical studies. 
  2. Cancer Control Science, defined as basic and applied research in the behavioral, social, and population sciences to create or enhance interventions that, independently or in combination with biomedical approaches, reduce cancer risk, incidence, morbidity, and mortality, and improve quality of life. This includes research in epidemiology, behavioral sciences, health services, surveillance, cancer survivorship, and healthcare policy.
  3. Other Sciences, which includes all scientific fields supported by the NCI that are not included in (A) or (B). Applicants proposing research in (C) "Other Sciences" may apply only if it is reasonable to expect them to transition to independence with an abbreviated period of mentored research training beyond their original doctoral degrees. 

OtherNIHOpps
Other NIH Opportunities

National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: Dear Colleague Letters

NSFDCL_fairness
OSP Deadline: N/A
Sponsor Deadline: N/A
Award Amount: N/A
 
With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), CISE invites principal investigators (PIs) to submit proposals to its core programs [spanning the   Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) , and   Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)   divisions and the   Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) ] that contribute to discovery in research and practice related to fairness, ethics, accountability, and transparency (FEAT) in computer and information science and engineering. Specifically, CISE is interested in receiving, through these programs:
 
  • Proposals pertaining to general topics in computer and information science and engineering while also integrating or applying approaches to advance FEAT; and
  • Proposals whose primary foci are on methods, techniques, tools, and evaluation practices as means to explore implications for FEAT.
 
In explorations and use of FEAT, PIs are strongly encouraged to select and articulate their own disciplinary or interdisciplinary definitions consistent or aligned with these concepts. This DCL is not a special competition or a new program. Proposals responsive to this DCL will be reviewed with other proposals submitted to CISE's core program solicitations and in accordance with NSF's merit review criteria as well as any additional solicitation-specific review criteria identified in the corresponding solicitations.

NSTDCSTEMFuture
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline: varies by program
Award Amount: varies

Through this DCL, NSF aims to support STEM educational research and development projects whose results can enable our country to better prepare its scientific and technical workforce for the future; use technological innovations effectively for education; advance the frontiers of science; and adapt to both new work environments and new education pathways needed to prepare students at all levels for those environments. This DCL encourages educational research and development proposals that are original, creative, and tran sformative, and that can help the nation educate the STEM workforce of the future, in contexts of: 
This DCL will support three categories of proposals:
  1. Proposals focused on educational transformation: These proposals will leverage technology, computation and/or big data to develop, implement, and analyze educational interventions designed to prepare a diverse workforce, researchers, and innovators of the future. Proposals that explore how students learn to integrate knowledge across disciplines to solve complex problems fall into this category. 
  2. Proposals focused on the science of teaching and learning: These proposals will leverage technology, computation and/or big data to develop, implement, and analyze new tools for assessing and evaluating convergent education strategies that aim to promote student learning at all levels
  3. Planning grants, Research Coordination Networks, Conference, and Workshop Proposals: These proposals will create communities of STEM educators to address convergent curriculum and pedagogical challenges across disciplinary boundaries brought about by the human-technology frontier, the data revolution, or both.
To determine whether a research topic is within the scope of this DCL, principal investigators are strongly encouraged to contact the director(s) of the participating program(s) to which they plan to submit their proposal.

NSFDCL_seeking
OSP Deadline: N/A
Sponsor Deadline: January 31, 2019
Award Amount: N/A
 
NSF is conducting planning and programmatic activities to contribute to the development of a new approach on international experiences for graduate students. NSF's new approach has three goals for graduate education:
 
  1. To Advance Science: International research experiences should occur in settings and locations that are appropriate to the nature of the science; these experiences should build graduate students' research capacity and global perspectives.
  2. To Enhance the Educational Experience: These experiences should introduce graduate students in science and engineering to international research opportunities early in their careers so that they are able to forge long-term collaboration with international science and engineering researchers for mutually beneficial outcomes.
  3. To Improve Professional Development: The experiences should contribute to the professional development and future career opportunities of young scientists and engineers.
 
To ensure that all stakeholders' perspectives are considered, NSF is targeting outreach across these communities:
 
  • Researchers working with graduate students;
  • All graduate students, regardless of prior international experience; and
  • Representatives of organizations that fund international graduate student experiences.
 
NSF would also like to invite input from the scientific community on this new approach. Comments from the interested community should be submitted by January 31, 2019. The NSF asks that community members focus their comments on mechanisms by which NSF can meet its three goals, as listed above.


NSFDCL_leadership
OSP Deadline: January 25, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: February 1, 2019
Award Amount: up to $15,000 in supplemental funding
 
Researchers in many areas of science and engineering (S&E) are pursuing innovative computational techniques to advance our understanding of the natural world, such as by substantially increasing the resolution of computer simulations and expanding the use of predictive data-driven models derived from large experimental data sets often from disparate sources. With this Dear Colleague Letter, NSF invites supplemental requests for access to leadership-class computing resources to enable progress on fundamental S&E research that would otherwise not be possible. Two NSF leadership-class computing resources, Blue Waters and Frontera, will be available for allocation with an award start date of April 1, 2019.
 
  • Blue Waters: PIs with active NSF awards and a compelling need for significant computation requirements to solve grand challenge problems in S&E are invited to submit supplemental funding requests for allocations on Blue Waters. NSF anticipates 125 million node hours will be available for allocation as supplements to active NSF awards for the period April through December 2019, and further anticipates these node hours will be distributed among five to six such supplemental funding requests with clearly justified goals for solving significant grand challenge research problems in any S&E domain. More information about Blue Waters can be found here.
  • Frontera: PIs with active NSF awards are invited to submit supplemental funding requests for an early-science allocation on Frontera system. Early-science teams will closely collaborate with the Frontera project team to prepare and port scientific codes at the largest scale, and lessons learned from Frontera early-science users will be incorporated into future operational support for the system. A key goal of this early-science allocation is to support S&E research that would not otherwise be possible without access to this unique new leadership-class computing capability. NSF anticipates 34 million node hours will be available for allocation as supplements to active NSF awards for the period between April and December 2019, and further anticipates these node hours will be distributed among 15 to 20 such supplemental funding requests. More information about Frontera can be found here.
NSFDCL_transition
OSP Deadline: March 8, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: March 15, 2019
Award Amount:
Supplemental funding requests may not exceed more than one-third of the original award amount or $400,000 (whichever is less).
 
Through this Dear Colleague Letter, NSF CISE wishes to notify the community of its intention to support   Transition to Practice (TTP) supplemental funding requests for active awards funded through its   Cyber-Physical Systems   (CPS) and   Smart and Connected Communities   (S&CC) programs . Funded TTP supplements will provide support for periods of up to two years.  TTP activities relevant to each of the programs could include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
  • In the case of active CPS awards that do not include a previously funded TTP option:
    • Accelerated maturation of the research technology readiness level, moving from laboratory and subscale deployment to integration in operational CPS in one or more application domains; and/or
    • Integration of research with one or more industrial or other transition partner(s), thereby demonstrating real-world utilization in an operational environment.
  • In the case of active S&CC awards:
    • Expanding pilot activities to one or more communities-which could be in a new city, town, or region-considering the unique character(s) and challenge(s) of that (those) new community(ies);
    • Increasing the scale of the research beyond what was envisioned in the original project, which may create new technological and social challenges that would need to be overcome for successful integration within a community; and/or
    • Partnering with industry, as well as a community including a state or local government, to harden or commercialize the technology or approach emerging from the research project for performance in a larger, real-world context.
 
PIs interested in submitting TTP supplemental funding requests are strongly encouraged to contact one of the program directors listed in the Dear Colleague Letter prior to submitting.

NSFDCL_SUS
OSP Deadline: March 15, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: March 22, 2019
Award Amount: up to $50,000


NSF is calling for conference  proposals on "Concepts for Advancing Sustainable Urban Systems (SUS) Research Networks." The conference proposals are to be submitted via FastLane to the Environmental Sustainability program ( PD 18-7643 ) in the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport System Division of NSF's Directorate for Engineering. The most recent solicitation on Research Networks can be found here In January 2018, NSF's Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education (ACERE) completed the report entitled "Sustainable Urban Systems: Articulating a Long-Term Convergence Research Agenda." This report is accessible here . Preparation of conference proposals should be guided, but not constrained, by the ACERE report and the most recent Research Networks solicitation. In particular, it would be beneficial for conference proposals to include plans to identify activities that could catalyze strong industry-municipality-academia collaborations on use-inspired research that has high potential for significant societal and sustainability impacts. It would also be advantageous for proposals to describe activities that will develop a deeper understanding of urban systems as integrated, social-ecological-technological systems and that will improve education related to SUS themes.

NSFDCL_REUsupplemental
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline: Request for supplemental funding may be submitted any time but priority will be given to requests received before March 30, 2019
Award Amount:  $8,000 per student per year

The NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) invites grantees with active CISE awards to submit requests for  Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Supplemental  funding, following the guidelines in the NSF REU program solicitation . To be eligible for this opportunity, a student must be a US citizen or permanent resident of the US. The duration for new requests is typically one year. REU stipend support helps encourage talented students to pursue research-based careers, while providing meaningful research experiences. The participation of students from groups underrepresented in computing - underrepresented minorities, women, and persons with disabilities - is strongly encouraged.  In addition, CISE encourages submission of REU supplemental funding requests that specifically afford US veterans an opportunity to engage in meaningful research experiences.

NSFDCLD3SC
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission 
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling; EAGER, RAISE, and supplemental funding requests can be submitted at any time but are encouraged by April 15, 2019
Award Amount:  varies by program type

This Dear Colleague Letter invites research proposals that utilize modern data science in the context of chemical and chemical engineering research. Successful D3SC proposals will emphasize  new information that can be obtained from better utilization of data (including data from multiple laboratories, techniques, and/or chemical systems), and how this can lead to new research directions . Proposals that foster and strengthen interactions among chemists and data scientists, and that jointly engage theory, modeling, and experimentation to advance research goals are strongly encouraged. The most competitive proposals will provide detailed discussion of specific data-enabled approaches to be used, the significant chemical problem to be studied, new fundamental chemical knowledge to be gained and the broader relevance of the proposed activities to other areas of chemical research. Proposal elements that consider error and uncertainty analysis, record and store appropriate metadata, and determine the robustness and reliability of data are encouraged. Examples of possible topics include (but are not limited to) using tools of data visualization, data mining, machine learning (including emerging approaches such as deep learning and active learning), or other data analysis approaches to:
  • Accelerate the discovery of homogeneous or heterogeneous catalysts with improved activity and selectivity, as well as the discovery of new catalytic transformations;
  • Advance the design of new chemical species and/or synthetic reactions, and forecast improved synthetic conditions;
  • Map the mechanisms by which chemicals interact and transform, both covalently and noncovalently, and predict structure/property relations based on existing chemical datasets;
  • Discover principles of multiscale organization underlying emergent chemical phenomena in macromolecular systems;
  • Enable real-time feedback loops between chemical data collection and processing for rapid identification and correlation of key events during chemical measurements;
  • Harness chemistry's rich, diverse but distributed datasets and identify novel ways of sharing and utilizing chemical data derived from multiple instruments, datatypes, and locations;
  • Develop innovative approaches for integrating, correlating, and analyzing chemical simulation or measurement data to provide new chemical insights.
NSFSitS
OSP Deadline: April 10, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for IUCRC Planning Grant Preliminary Proposal: April 17, 2019 (second round)
Award Amount:
The award amount for a planning grant seeking to establish a new IUCRC is $15,000 per academic institution with a 12-month duration. The $15,000 is for all applicable planning expenses including travel to the IUCRC "boot camp" and is inclusive of applicable Indirect Costs. 
 
This DCL encourages the submission of planning grant proposals, through the submission process described in the   IUCRC solicitation , for an eventual SitS-themed IUCRC. The planning grant theme should integrate fundamental science and engineering knowledge in different disciplines with the aim of developing a next generation of sensor systems capable of in situ measurement of dynamic soil biological, physical, and chemical variables over time and space in managed and unmanaged soils. These sensor systems will also require associated advances in ground penetration, data transmission, data analytics, dynamic models, and visualization tools. If successful, these research concepts will enable scientists and engineers to advance basic understanding of dynamic processes in soils and provide the underlying science and engineering to enable others to develop new ways of studying soil properties and managing soils and natural resources. Advances in measurement systems, understanding, and models will provide new capabilities that will enable practitioners to use new sensors, models, and time series data to achieve a better understanding of soil processes and higher efficiencies of resource use; this improved understanding will in turn help meet societal goals such as less contamination of soil and water supplies and greater food security, as well as address the "National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenge" of managing the Nitrogen cycle.
 
For information on the appropriate SitS themes, please see the earlier NSF DCL on Signals in the Soil (https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf18047). For submitting a SitS-Themed IUCRC planning grant preliminary proposal, please review the current IUCRC program solicitation (https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf17516). Submitters are strongly encouraged to contact IUCRC Program Officers Prakash Balan (pbalan@nsf.gov) or Andre Marshall (awmarsha@nsf.gov) and relevant SitS Program Officers at SitSquestions@nsf.gov for guidance and topic approval prior to submitting a preliminary proposal for an IUCRC planning grant. 

NSFDCL_stemworkforce
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission of proposal
Sponsor Deadline: varies; please see details
Award Amount: varies; please see details
 
NSF seeks proposals that will broadly inform development of personalized learning systems or generalize the research results generated during the deployment of online courses. This could be accomplished either by using the data generated by those systems or by studying the systems themselves. NSF encourages innovative educational research and development proposals that will help the nation educate the STEM workforce of the future. For example, proposals may address topics including but not limited to:
 
  • effective design of personalized learning systems for STEM education at any level;
  • factors that increase persistence, motivation, self-efficacy, and retention of learners;
  • the influence of public/private partnerships on workforce preparation;
  • the design of educational interventions that meet workplace expectations for knowledge and competencies; and
  • measuring the effectiveness of these interventions for different audiences.
 
Proposals responding to this DCL should be made through one of the existing NSF programs listed below. Supplemental funding requests responding to this DCL for existing awards in the programs listed below are also welcome. To determine whether a research topic is within the scope of this DCL, principal investigators are strongly encouraged to contact the managing NSF Program Officer(s) of the participating program(s) to which they plan to submit their proposal. These programs include:
 

NSFCISE_Stimulating
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission of a full proposal
Sponsor Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Varies by award type
 
The  Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) program supports projects that provide new empirical insights, expand theoretical understanding, facilitate development of computational and bioengineered systems, promote new educational approaches, and generate new hypotheses that connect physical, biological, and cognitive mechanisms. With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to stimulate work in educational neuroscience in the NCS program through foundational grants, noting that advances in neural systems can have significant implications for research on education. While the 2018 application period for the foundational component of this award has passed, NSF continues to accept applications on a rolling basis for capacity-building proposals through conference proposals and Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) proposals. NSF will accept LOIs and proposals for Foundations awards again in 2019 and 2020.

NSFDCLPhotonics
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline: varies by award
Award Amount: varies by award

With this Dear Colleague letter (DCL), the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) and the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) within the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation continue to encourage innovative exploratory and translational research by academic researchers and small businesses in all aspects of integrated photonics that utilize the current silicon photonics capabilities resident in AIM Photonics. Research projects utilizing the AIM Photonics fabrication process technologies via multi-project wafer runs should have an objective to bring a specific innovation to integrated photonics circuits and components or to demonstrate a new approach that uses integrated photonics as its differentiator. Examples of such challenges may include:
  • Research into new applications of PICs that have promise of breakthrough performance due to the use of an integrated photonic component;
  • New devices that are realizable within AIM Photonics standardized integrated silicon photonics processes;
  • PIC implementations that have innovative contributions to advancements of photonics circuits (i.e., low power, greater bandwidths and dynamic ranges, better tolerances, new topologies, etc.);
  • Innovative design approaches and new models of integrated photonics devices/circuits; and
  • Materials and attachment technologies for incorporating integrated photonics into novel packages.
Academic researchers   who plan on utilizing the capabilities of AIM Photonics may submit unsolicited proposals to the ECCS Electronic, Photonic, and Magnetic Devices (EPMD) core program via FastLane or Grants.gov at any time with no deadline
( https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=245720&org=ECCS ). Proposals responding to a specific solicitation must follow the solicitation's specified deadline date. Submission as CAREER proposals can be accepted by ECCS, with the solicitation deadline in July each year. 

National Science Foundation: Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (NSF: CISE)

NSFCISE_DMREF
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission of a full proposal
Sponsor Submission Window: January 28, 2019 - February 4, 2019
Award Amount: $1M - $1.75M over 4 years, plus $8,000 - $20,000 in Google credits

DMREF is the primary program by which NSF participates in the   Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) for Global Competitiveness . MGI recognizes the importance of materials science and engineering to the well-being and advancement of society and aims to "deploy advanced materials at least twice as fast as possible today, at a fraction of the cost." MGI integrates materials discovery, development, property optimization, and systems design with a shared computational framework. This framework facilitates collaboration and coordination of research activities, analytical tools, experimental results, and critical evaluation in pursuit of the MGI goals. Consistent with the  MGI Strategic Plan , DMREF highlights four sets of goals:
  • Leading a culture shift in materials science and engineering research to encourage and facilitate an integrated team approach;
  • Integrating experimentation, computation, and theory and equipping the materials science and engineering communities with advanced tools and techniques;
  • Making digital data accessible, findable, and useful to the community; and
  • Creating a world-class materials science and engineering workforce that is trained for careers in academia or industry.

Accordingly, DMREF will support activities that significantly accelerate materials discovery and/or development by building the fundamental knowledge base needed to design and make materials and/or devices with specific and desired functions or properties. This will be accomplished through forming interdisciplinary teams of researchers working synergistically in a "closed loop" fashion, building a vibrant research community, leveraging data science, providing ready access to materials data, and educating the future MGI workforce. Specifically, achieving this goal will involve modeling, analysis, and computational simulations, validated and verified through sample preparation, characterization, and/or device demonstration.

NSFCISE_EarthCube
OSP Deadline: February 4, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: February 11, 2019
Award Amount: $1M - $2M per year for 3 years, pending availability of funds

EarthCube is a community-driven activity to transform the conduct of geosciences research and education, sponsored through a partnership between the NSF Directorate of Geosciences and the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. EarthCube aims to accelerate the ability of the geosciences community to understand and predict the Earth system by enabling access to geosciences data. EarthCube will require a long-term dialog between NSF and the interested scientific communities to develop new modes for sharing data that is thoughtfully and systematically built to meet the current and future needs of geoscientists.

This solicitation seeks the services of a qualified organization to act as the EarthCube Office. This organization will provide the services required to maintain and manage the community governance structures and to carry out activities consistent with EarthCube priorities as guided by community governance. The award, to be administered as a Cooperative Agreement, is intended to cover an initial 3-year period.


NSFCISE_Campus
Campus Cyberinfrastructure
OSP Deadline: February 12, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: February 20, 2019
Award Amount: varies; please see details below

The Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) program invests in coordinated campus-level networking and cyberinfrastructure improvements, innovation, integration, and engineering for science applications and distributed research projects. Learning and workforce development (LWD) in cyberinfrastructure is explicitly addressed in the program. Science-driven requirements are the primary motivation for any proposed activity. Each program area will support awards pursuant to the following budget and duration:
  1. Data-Driven Networking Infrastructure for the Campus and Researcher awards will be supported at up to $500,000 total for up to 2 years;
  2. Regional Connectivity for Small Institutions of Higher Education awards will be supported at up to $800,000 total for up to 2 years;
  3. Network Integration and Applied Innovation awards will be supported at up to $1,000,000 total for up to 2 years;
  4. Campus Computing and the Computing Continuum awards will be supported at up to $400,000 total for up to 2 years; and
  5. Cyber Team-Research and Education CI-based Regional Facilitation awards will be supported at up to $1,400,000 total for up to 3 years.


NSFcise_adpating
OSP Deadline: February 25, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: March 4, 2019
Award Amount: up to $10M for up to 5 years (Category I); up to $5M for up to 5 years (Category II)
 
The intent of this solicitation is to request proposals from organizations willing to serve as service providers (SPs) within the NSF Innovative High-Performance Computing (HPC) program to provide advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) capabilities and/or services in production operations to support the full range of computational- and data-intensive research across all of science and engineering (S&E). The current solicitation is intended to complement previous NSF investments in advanced computational infrastructure by provisioning resources, broadly defined in this solicitation to include systems and/or services, in two categories:
  • Category I, Capacity Systems: production computational resources maximizing the capacity provided to support the broad range of computation and data analytics needs in S&E research; and
  • Category II, Innovative Prototypes/Testbeds: innovative forward-looking capabilities deploying novel technologies, architectures, usage modes, etc., and exploring new target applications, methods, and paradigms for S&E discoveries.

Please Note:  This is a limited submission opportunity, and Harvard may submit only one proposal. If you are interested in applying, please contact Erin Hale at erin_hale@harvard.edu.


National Science Foundation: Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences (NSF: MPS)

NSFMPS_MIP
OSP Deadline: January 28, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: February 4, 2019
Award Amount: See description below
 
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 teams and access to cutting edge tools. These tools in a user facility benefit both a user program and in-house research, which focus on addressing grand challenges of fundamental science and meet national needs. MIPs embrace the paradigm set forth by the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), which strives to "discover, manufacture, and deploy advanced materials twice as fast, at a fraction of the cost," and conduct research through iterative "closed-loop" efforts among the areas of materials synthesis/processing, materials characterization, and theory/modeling/simulation. In addition, they are expected to engage the emerging field of data science in materials research. Each MIP is a scientific ecosystem, which includes in-house research scientists, external users and other contributors who, collectively, form a community of practitioners and share tools, codes, samples, data and know-how. The knowledge sharing is designed to strengthen collaborations among scientists and enable them to work in new ways, fostering new modalities of research and education/training, for the purpose of accelerating discovery and development of new materials and novel materials phenomena/properties, as well as fostering their eventual deployment.
 
The scientific focus of the MIP program is subject to change from competition to competition. The first MIP competition in 2015 focused on developing new bulk and thin-film crystalline hard materials. The second MIP competition, in 2019, focuses on the convergence of materials research with biological sciences for developing new materials.
 
The number of awards will depend on the availability of funds and the quality of the proposals. Awards totaling $15,000,000 to $25,000,000 over a five-year period are anticipated. The proposed budget must be commensurate with the scope of the project and thoroughly justified in the proposal. MIP funding is provided yearly. Pending the availability of funds, it is anticipated that $12,000,000 will be available in Fiscal Year 2019.
 
Please Note:  This is a limited submission opportunity and only one proposal may be submitted with Harvard as the lead.  If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please contact Erin Hale in FAS Research Development at  erin_hale@fas.harvard.edu .

NSFMPS_ATD
Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD)
OSP Deadline: February 11, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: February 19, 2019
Award Amount:
Anticipated funding amount is $3,000,000 in FY19. Estimated number of awards and funding amounts are subject to the availability of funds.

The Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD) program supports research on new ways to use spatiotemporal datasets to develop quantitative models of human dynamics. The objectives include improved representation of complicated group dynamics and the development of algorithms that can process data in near real-time to accurately identify unusual events and forecast future threats indicated by those events. The ATD program will support research projects that aim to develop novel mathematical and statistical algorithms for analysis of large geospatial datasets. Means to quantify confidence levels are desired, as are insights into new spatiotemporal datasets and valuable means of assembling them. Models may range from those that address activities of individuals to those applicable to small groups or entire nations. These models may leverage mathematical research areas including, but not limited to, point processes, time series, dynamical systems, partial differential equations, and optimal control. Models that depend almost entirely on the spatial and temporal aspects of the data are of greatest interest. General applications of interest include threat detection, predictive analytics, human mobility, and human geography.
 
A second topic has been added for FY 2019: mathematical theory to guide the use of artificial neural networks (ANN) for computer vision tasks. Subjects of interest include cost functions for training ANNs, non-uniqueness of cost function minima, and dependence of performance on factors like training data quality, task complexity, and network depth. Of particular interest is the theory related to transfer learning - modifying an ANN trained for one set of tasks to do a new task, using only a small amount of training data for the new task.

NSFMPS_CBMS
OSP Deadline: April 19, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: April 26, 2019
Award Amount: $35,000 for 1 year
 
The NSF-CBMS Regional Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences are a series of five-day conferences that usually feature a distinguished lecturer delivering ten lectures on a topic of important current research in one sharply focused area of the mathematical sciences. CBMS refers to the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, which publicizes the conferences and disseminates the resulting conference materials. Support is provided for about 30 participants at each conference. Proposals should address the unique characteristics of the NSF-CBMS conferences, as outlined in the full summary.
National Science Foundation: Directorate for Engineering (NSF: ENG)

NSFeng_transport
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission
Sponsor Deadline: December 7, 2018 - March 15, 2019
Award Amount: up to $400,000 over up to 4 years
 
The Division of Chemical, Bioengineering and Environmental Transport (CBET) in the Engineering Directorate of the NSF is partnering with The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) to solicit research projects in the general field of fluid dynamics, particulate and multiphase processes, combustion and fire systems, and thermal transport processes that can utilize the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab to conduct research that will benefit life on Earth. Because NSF and CASIS have a common interest in research and development in transport, thermal, combustion, and fluid phenomena at microgravity conditions, NSF and CASIS have developed a collaboration to jointly support research that can take advantage of the opportunities afforded by conducting experiments in the ISS. The purpose of this solicitation is to attract proposals that make use of the ISS National Lab for research projects in the fields related to the Transport Phenomena Cluster programs. Responsive proposals will describe using the ISS National Lab for development and testing of fluid dynamics, particulate and multiphase processes, combustion and fire systems, and thermal transport processes that will lead to Earth-based applications and increase the return on the U.S. investment in the ISS National Lab.

NSFeng_tissue
NSF/CASIS Collaboration on Tissue Engineering and Mechanobiology on the International Space Station (ISS) to Benefit Life on Earth
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission of a full proposal
Sponsor Submission Window: February 1, 2019 - February 15, 2019
Award Amount: up to $400,000 over up to 3 years


The Divisions of Chemical, Bioengineering and Environmental Transport (CBET) and Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Infrastructure (CMMI) in the Engineering Directorate of the NSF are partnering with The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) to solicit research projects in the general fields of tissue engineering and mechanobiology that can utilize the International Space Station (ISS) National Lab to conduct research that will benefit life on Earth. Because NSF and CASIS have a common interest in research and development in transformative biomedical engineering projects that utilize microgravity conditions, NSF and CASIS have developed a collaboration to jointly support research that can take advantage of the opportunities afforded by conducting experiments in the ISS. The purpose of this solicitation is to attract proposals that make use of the ISS National Lab for flight research projects in the field of biomedical engineering. Responsive proposals will describe how they will utilize the ISS National Lab to develop novel ideas into discovery-level and transformative projects that integrate engineering and life sciences.

NSF:ENG
Other NSF: ENG Opportunities
National Science Foundation: Crosscutting and Interdisciplinary

NSFCross_Epigenetics
OSP Deadline: January 25, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: February 1, 2019
Award Amount: up to $500,000 over up to 3 years (Track 1); up to $3M over up to 5 years (Track 2)

The purpose of the Understanding the Rules of Life: Epigenetics (URoL:Epigenetics) program is to enable innovative research and to promote multidisciplinary education and workforce training in the broad area of epigenetics. The URoL:Epigenetics program is a wide collaboration across Directorates/Offices within the National Science Foundation with a focus on understanding the relationship between epigenetic mechanisms associated with environmental change, the resultant phenotypes of organisms, and how these mechanisms lead to robustness and adaptability of organisms and populations.
 
Successful projects of the URoL:Epigenetics Program are anticipated to use complementary, interdisciplinary approaches to investigate how epigenetic phenomena lead to emergent properties that explain the fundamental behavior of living systems. Ultimately, successful projects should identify general principles ("rules") that underlie a wide spectrum of biological phenomena across size, complexity (e.g., molecular, cellular, organismal, population) and temporal scales (from sub-second to geologic) in taxa from anywhere within the tree of life.  URoL:Epigenetics projects must integrate perspectives and research approaches from more than one research discipline (e.g., biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, geology, mathematics, physics, social and behavioral sciences).  The interdisciplinary scope of URoL:Epigenetics projects also provides unique training and outreach possibilities to train the next generation of scientists in a diversity of approaches and to engage society more generally.


NSFCross_HDRDSC
Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Data Science Corps (DSC)
OSP Deadline: 5 business days prior to submission of a full proposal
Sponsor Deadline: January 28, 2019 - February 4, 2019
Award Amount: Awards will typically be in the range of $1,000,000 to $1,200,000 for 3 years.

NSF's  Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR)   Big Idea is a visionary, national-scale activity to enable new modes of data-driven discovery, allowing fundamentally new questions to be asked and answered in science and engineering frontiers, generating new knowledge and understanding, and accelerating discovery and innovation. The  Data Science Corps  is one of the components of the HDR ecosystem, focusing on building capacity for harnessing the data revolution at the local, state, national, and international levels to help unleash the power of data in the service of science and society. The  Data Science Corps  will provide practical experiences, teach new skills, and offer teaching opportunities, in a variety of settings, to data scientists and data science students. It will also strive to promote data literacy and provide basic training in data science to the existing workforce across communities. As a first step in establishing the  Data Science Corps , this solicitation focuses specifically on enabling participation by undergraduate students in the  Data Science Corps by supporting student stipends for participation in data science projects and supporting integration of real-world data science projects into classroom instruction.
 
Please Note:  This is a limited submission opportunity, and Harvard may submit no more than one proposal to this opportunity. If you are interested in applying, please contact Erin Hale ( erin_hale@fas.harvard.edu ).
NSFCross_HDR
Preliminary Proposal Deadline: January 28, 2019
OSP Deadline for Full Proposals (if selected): June 12, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if selected): June 19, 2019
Award Amount: Up to a total of $20 million is available for 10 - 15 two-year awards stemming from full proposals that will be developed in the Ideas Lab workshop.
 
NSF's  Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) Big Idea  is a national-scale activity to enable new modes of data-driven discovery that will allow fundamental questions to be asked and answered at the frontiers of science and engineering. The HDR Institutes activity seeks to create an integrated fabric of interrelated institutes that can accelerate discovery and innovation in multiple areas of data-intensive science and engineering. HDR Institutes will be developed through a two-phase process involving conceptualization followed by convergence. The Ideas Labs contribute uniquely to the conceptualization phase of the HDR Institutes DIRSE activity by creating an environment for interdisciplinary teams, comprising individual participants with complementary expertise, to emerge organically through an iterative process. The process is designed to bring together diverse expertise into several Ideas Labs based on focused yet broadly applicable data-intensive research themes.
 
Submission of the preliminary proposal will be considered an indication of availability to attend and participate through the full course of a five-day Ideas Lab, which will be held at a location near the NSF headquarters in Alexandria, VA, on April 22 - April 26, 2019. It should be noted that travel to an Ideas Lab, accommodation, refreshments, and meals will be covered by NSF. Following the Ideas Labs, teams may be selected to submit full proposals to NSF by the June 19, 2019, deadline. Participation in an Ideas Lab is required to be eligible to submit a full conceptualization proposal pursuant to this solicitation.

NSFCross_training
OSP Deadline: January 30, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: February 6, 2019
Award Amount: up to $300,000 over up to 2 years (Pilot Projects); up to $500,000 (Small) or up to $1M (Medium) over up to 4 years (Implementation Projects); up to $500,000 over up to 2 years (Large-Scale Project Conceptualization Projects)
 
The goals of this solicitation are to  (i) ensure broad adoption of CI tools, methods, and resources by the research community in order to catalyze major research advances and to enhance researchers' abilities to lead the development of new CI; and (ii) integrate core literacy and discipline-appropriate advanced skills in advanced CI as well as computational and data-driven science and engineering into the Nation's educational curriculum/instructional material fabric spanning undergraduate and graduate courses for advancing fundamental research. This solicitation calls for innovative, scalable training, education, and curriculum/instructional materials-targeting one or both of the solicitation goals-to address the emerging needs and unresolved bottlenecks in scientific and engineering research workforce development, from the postsecondary level to active researchers. The funded activities, spanning targeted, multidisciplinary communities, will lead to transformative changes in the state of research workforce preparedness for advanced CI-enabled research in the short- and long-terms. As part of this investment, this solicitation also seeks to broaden CI access and adoption by (i) increasing or deepening accessibility of methods and resources of advanced CI and of computational and data-driven science and engineering by a wide range of  scientific disciplines  and  institutions  with lower levels of CI adoption to date; and (ii) harnessing the capabilities of larger segments of diverse underrepresented groups. Proposals from, and in partnership with, the aforementioned communities are especially encouraged.
 

NSFCross_Spectrum
OSP Deadline: February 6, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: February 13, 2019
Award Amount: up to $750,000 over up to 3 years

The research and technology challenges underlying spectrum efficiency, security, and energy efficiency are inter-related and require innovations across the physical, networking and higher layers. The SpecEES program is aimed at enabling cross-disciplinary team research that transcends the traditional boundaries of existing NSF programs to tackle the spectrum efficiency, energy efficiency and security challenges in the conception, design and realization of future wireless networks. Research and development on next-generation wireless communications and networking will drive information technology and innovation-based economic growth. SpecEES will advance spectrum utilization through synergistic breakthroughs in spectrum efficiency, energy efficiency, and security.

 
NSFCross_NNA
OSP Deadline: February 7, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: February 14, 2019
Award Amount: up to $3M over up to 5 years (Track 1: Research Grants); up to $250,000 over up to 24 months (Track 2: Planning Grants)

Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) seeks innovations in Arctic observational networks and fundamental convergence research across the social, natural, environmental, and computing and information sciences, and engineering that address the intersection of natural, social, and built systems. NNA promotes initiatives that empower new research communities, diversifies the next generation of Arctic researchers, integrates the co-production of knowledge, and engages partnerships, particularly among international stakeholders. NNA also strongly encourages projects that include or focus on advancing STEM education and workforce development objectives on the scientific themes described below.

Major goals of NSF's NNA Big Idea include:
  • Improved understanding of Arctic change and its local and global effects that capitalize on innovative and optimized observation infrastructure, advances in understanding of fundamental processes, and new approaches to modeling interactions among the natural environment, built environment, and social systems.
  • New enhanced research communities that are diverse, integrative, and well-positioned to carry out productive research at the intersections of Arctic natural and built environments and social systems.
  • Research outcomes that inform U.S. national security and economic development needs and enable resilient, sustainable Arctic communities.

NSFCross_midscale2
Sponsor Deadline for Letter of Intent: February 8, 2019
OSP Deadline for Preliminary Proposal: March 4, 2019
Preliminary Proposal Deadline: March 11, 2019
Full Proposal Deadline (if invited): August 2, 2019
Award Amount: $20M - $70M over up to 5 years
 
The Mid-scale Research Infrastructure Program is aimed at transforming scientific and engineering research fields as well as science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education research fields by making available new capabilities, while simultaneously training early-career researchers in the development, design, and construction of cutting-edge infrastructure. The NSF Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 Program (Mid-scale RI-2) supports implementation of projects that comprise any combination of equipment, instrumentation, computational hardware and software, and the necessary commissioning and human capital in support of implementation of the same. The total cost for Mid-scale RI-2 projects ranges from $20 million to below the minimum award funded by the Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) Program, currently $70 million. Mid-scale RI-2 projects will directly enable advances in any of the research domains supported by NSF, including STEM education. Projects may also include upgrades to existing research infrastructure.

The Mid-scale RI-2 Program emphasizes strong scientific merit and response to an identified need of the research community, technical and managerial readiness for implementation, and a well-developed plan for student training and involvement of a diverse workforce in mid-scale facility development, and/or associated data management. Mid-scale RI-2 will consider only the implementation (typically construction or acquisition) stage of a project, including a limited degree of advanced development immediately preparatory to implementation. It is thus intended that Mid-scale RI-2 will support projects in high states of readiness for implementation, i.e., those that have already matured through previous developmental investments. Accordingly, Mid-scale RI-2 does not support pre-implementation (early-stage design or development). Mid-scale RI-2 also does not support post-implementation research, operations or maintenance, the anticipated source(s) of which are expected to be discussed in the proposal.

Please Note: A Letter of Intent is required for this opportunity and must be submitted by an Authorized Organizational Representative via Fastlane.


NSFCross_IdeasLab
Preliminary Proposal Deadline: February 8, 2019
OSP Deadline: May 22, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: May 30, 2019
Award Amount: $750,000 - $1M per year for up to 4 years
 
This solicitation describes an Ideas Lab focused on CubeSat Innovations to push the envelope of space-based research capabilities by simultaneously developing enabling technologies in several domains, including propulsion systems, sensor design, electronic circuits, antennas, satellite-to-ground and satellite-to-satellite communications and wireless networking, and power management. The vision of this Ideas Lab is to support research and engineering technology development efforts that will lead to new science missions in geospace and atmospheric sciences using self-organizing CubeSat constellations/swarms. The resulting new crosscutting concepts in CubeSat technology are expected to transform and stimulate CubeSat-enabled science and engineering research supported by NSF. The realization of self-organizing CubeSats will also require innovative approaches in educating, training, and developing a cross-disciplinary workforce with the relevant expertise spanning propulsion systems, sensors, circuits, antennas, wireless communications and networking, radio-frequency interference issues, and power management. It is anticipated that these innovations in CubeSat technology and education will enable new mission concepts for Cube-Sat based science investigations.
 
An Ideas Lab is an intensive meeting that brings together multiple diverse perspectives to focus on finding innovative cross-disciplinary solutions to a grand challenge problem. The ultimate aim of this Ideas Lab is to develop cutting edge CubeSat technologies that will enable a constellation/swarm of 10-100 satellites and transform space-based science investigations. The aspiration is that bringing together researchers from diverse scientific and engineering backgrounds will stimulate fresh thinking and innovative approaches that will provide a fertile ground for new and bold ideas on the design and fabrication of CubeSat sensors and circuits, antennas, inter-satellite and satellite-to-ground communications and networking, and innovative CubeSat missions. The goal is to form teams of scientists and engineers, who are experts in their respective domains, to come together and form interdisciplinary teams that will develop innovative and transformative ideas that will eventually be submitted as full proposals to address the challenges of building a CubeSat constellation/swarm of 10-100 CubeSats.

This Ideas Lab will take place at Airlie in Warrenton, VA, from March 11 to March 15, 2019. Submission of the preliminary proposal will be considered an indication of availability to attend and participate through the full course of the five-day Ideas Lab. Following the Ideas Lab, teams may be selected to submit full proposals to the NSF by the May 30, 2019 deadline. These full proposals must reflect the outline developed at the meeting.


NSFCross_MidScale
OSP Deadline for Preliminary Proposals: February 11, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Preliminary Proposals: February 19, 2019
OSP Deadline for Full Proposals (if invited): May 13, 2019
Sponsor Deadline for Full Proposals (if invited): May 20, 2019
Award Amount:
"Implementation" projects may have a total project cost ranging from $6 million to below $20 million. Only "Design" projects may request less than $6 million, with a minimum request of $600,000 and a maximum request below $20 million.

The Mid-scale Research Infrastructure Big Idea is intended to provide NSF with an agile, Foundation-wide process to fund experimental research capabilities in the mid-scale range between the MRI and MREFC thresholds. Within Mid-scale RI-1, proposers may submit two types of projects, "Implementation" and "Design". Design and Implementation projects may comprise any combination of equipment, infrastructure, computational hardware and software, and necessary commissioning. Design includes planning (preliminary and final design) of research infrastructure with an anticipated total project cost that is appropriate for future Mid-scale RI-1, Mid-scale RI-2 or MREFC-class investments. Mid-scale RI-1 uses an inclusive definition of implementation, which can include traditional stand-alone construction or acquisition and can include a degree of advanced development leading immediately to final system acquisition and/or construction.
 

NSFCross_NRI2.0
National Robotics Initiative 2.0: Ubiquitous Collaborative Robots (NRI-2.0)
OSP Deadline: February 11, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: February 19, 2019
Award Amount: $250,000 - $750,000 for up to 3 years (Foundational Projects); $500,000 to $1.5M for up to 4 years (Integrative Projects)

The NRI-2.0 program builds upon the original National Robotics Initiative (NRI) program to support fundamental research in the United States that will accelerate the development and use of collaborative robots (co-robots) that work beside or cooperatively with people. The focus of the NRI-2.0 program is on ubiquity, which in this context means seamless integration of co-robots to assist humans in every aspect of life. Collaboration between academic, industry, non-profit, and other organizations is encouraged to establish better linkages between fundamental science and engineering and technology development, deployment, and use.

The program supports four main research thrusts that are envisioned to advance the goal of ubiquitous co-robots: scalabilitycustomizabilitylowering barriers to entry, and societal impact. Topics addressing scalability include how robots can collaborate effectively with multiple humans or other robots; how robots can perceive, plan, act, and learn in uncertain, real-world environments, especially in a distributed fashion; and how to facilitate large-scale, safe, robust and reliable operation of robots in complex environments. Customizability includes how to enable co-robots to adapt to specific tasks, environments, or people, with minimal modification to hardware and software; how robots can personalize their interactions with people; and how robots can communicate naturally with humans, both verbally and non-verbally. Topics in lowering barriers to entry should focus on lowering the barriers for conducting fundamental robotics research and research on integrated robotics application. This may include development of open-source co-robot hardware and software, as well as widely-accessible testbeds. Outreach or using robots in educational programs do not, by themselves, lower the barriers to entry for robotics research. Topics in societal impact include fundamental research to establish and infuse robotics into educational curricula, advance the robotics workforce through education pathways, and explore the social, economic, ethical, and legal implications of our future with ubiquitous collaborative robots.

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OSP Deadline: February 27, 2019
Sponsor Deadline: March 6, 2019
Award Amount: up to $150,000 for 1 year (Planning Grants); up to $1.5M over up to 3 years (Medium Research Grants); $1.5M - $3M over up to 4 years (Large Research Grants)
 
A proposal for a research grant in the FW-HTF program must focus on advancing fundamental understanding of future work, and potential improvements to work, workplaces, workforce preparation, or work outcomes for workers and society. It must be convergent research that addresses the technological as well as the human and societal dimensions and potential impact of future work, and in doing so, make significant contributions to both intellectual merit and broader impact. Achieving this goal requires integration and convergence of disciplines across computer science, engineering, learning sciences, research on education and workforce training, and social, behavioral, and economic sciences. A convergent perspective is essential to understand and shape long-term social and economic drivers, so that advanced intelligent technology will strengthen the social fabric. A convergent perspective also provides insights into education and re-skilling, so that the benefits of emerging technology can be conferred upon all citizens.

 
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Other NSF: Crosscutting and Interdisciplinary Opportunities
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Erin Hale
Senior Research Development Officer
erin_hale@fas.harvard.edu | 617-496-5252

Jennifer Corby
Research Development Officer
jcorby@fas.harvard.edu | 617-495-1590


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