Tag Archive for ‘National Science Foundation’
NSF Program Announcements with Limited Submissions Sought for MRSECs, CSBR, and PFC
The National Science Foundation has issued the following program announcements which allow UND to submit only a limited number of submissions. Thus, if you are interested in submitting a proposal to NSF for the program, please let us know as soon as possible (barry.milavetz@UND.edu or 777.4280). Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers #13-556 http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13556/nsf13556.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click Materials [...]
NSF-CAREER Proposal-Writing Workshop
ND EPSCoR is sponsoring a National Science Foundation CAREER grant proposal workshop at UND on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 in Swanson Hall, Room 10-12, 11:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (lunch will be provided). Presenters will be from The Implementation Group (TIG), a consulting firm from Washington, DC. Attendance at this workshop does not mean one [...]
Particulate and Multiphase Processes
FON: PD-14-1415 AGENCY: National Science Foundation; Directorate for Engineering; Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ITEM: Notice seeking proposals to support fundamental and applied research on phenomena governing particulate and multiphase processes, including flows of suspensions of particles, drops or bubbles, granular and granular-fluid flows, flow behavior of micro or nano-structured fluids, aerosol [...]
Thermal Transport Processes
FON: PD-14-1406 AGENCY: National Science Foundation; Directorate for Engineering; Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ITEM: Notice seeking proposals for engineering research aimed at gaining a basic understanding of the thermal transport phenomena at nano/micro and macro scales in (1) cooling and heating of equipment and devices, (2) energy conversion, power generation and [...]
Environmental Health and Safety of Nanotechnology
FON: PD-14-1179 AGENCY: National Science Foundation; Directorate for Engineering; Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ITEM: Notice seeking proposals to support efforts to examine and mitigate the environmental effects of nanotechnologies. Proposed research should aim to understand, evaluate, and lessen the impact of nanotechnology on the environment and biological systems. Areas of interest [...]
Energy for Sustainability
FON: PD-14-7644 AGENCY: National Science Foundation; Directorate for Engineering; Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ITEM: Notice seeking proposals to support fundamental research and education that will enable innovative processes for the sustainable production of electricity and transportation fuels. Areas of interest include: Biomass Conversion, Biofuels & Bioenergy. Photovoltaic Solar Energy, Photovoltaic Solar [...]
Environmental Sustainability
FON: PD-14-7643 AGENCY: National Science Foundation; Directorate for Engineering; Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ITEM: Notice seeking engineering research proposals that seek to balance society’s need to provide ecological protection and maintain stable economic conditions. Four principal general research areas include: Ecology, Green Engineering, Ecological Engineering, and Earth Systems Engineering. Innovative proposals [...]
Fluid Dynamics
FON: PD-14-1443 AGENCY: National Science Foundation, Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) ITEM: Notice seeking proposals that contribute to basic understanding; thus enabling the better design; predictability; efficiency; and control of systems that involve fluids. Encouraged are proposals that address innovative uses of fluids in materials development; manufacturing; biotechnology; nanotechnology; clinical diagnostics and drug [...]
Environmental Engineering
FON: PD-14-1440 AGENCY: National Science Foundation; Directorate for Engineering; Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ITEM: Notice seeking proposals for fundamental research and educational activities across the broad field of environmental engineering. Transformative research which applies scientific and engineering principles to avoid or minimize solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges, resulting from human activity, [...]
Engineering and Systems Design
FON: PD-13-1464 AGENCY: National Science Foundation; Directorate for Engineering; Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation ITEM: Notice seeking proposals that supports descriptive and normative research leading to a theory of engineering design and an understanding of systems engineering, specifically the basic processes and phenomena underlying a view of design where the system life-cycle context [...]
Widening Implementation & Demonstration of Evidence Based Reforms
FON: 13-552 AGENCY: National Science Foundation; Directorate for Education & Human Resources; Division of Undergraduate Education ITEM: Notice seeking proposals to substantially increase the scale of application of highly effective methods of STEM teaching and learning in institutions of higher education, by employing instructional materials and methods that have a convincing evidentiary basis of effectiveness. [...]
Research Experiences for Undergraduates
FON: 13-542 AGENCY: National Science Foundation; Multiple Directorates ITEM: Notice seeking proposals to support active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the REU program. ACTION: [...]
Dimensions of Biodiversity
FON: 13-536 AGENCY: National Science Foundation; Multiple Directorates ITEM: Notice seeking proposals that target and integrate three dimensions of biodiversity: (1) genetic diversity; (2) taxonomic/phylogenetic diversity; and (3) functional diversity. Genetic diversity includes, but is not limited to, nucleotide sequence diversity at neutral or coding loci or genomic (proteomic, transcriptomic) diversity. Taxonomic/phylogenetic diversity refers to [...]
Broadening Participation Research Initiation Grants in Engineering
FON: 13-534 AGENCY: National Science Foundation; Directorate for Engineering; Multiple Divisions ITEM: Notice seeking proposals designed to promote the development of early career faculty who will become champions for diversity and broadening participation of underrepresented groups in engineering throughout their careers. BRIGE awards will enable early career faculty to integrate effective diversity and broadening participation [...]
Hydrologic Sciences
FON: 13-531 AGENCY: National Science Foundation; Directorate for Geosciences; Division of Earth Sciences ITEM: Notice seeking proposals focusing on the fluxes of water in the environment that constitute the water cycle as well as the mass and energy transport function of the water cycle in the environment. ACTION: Proposals are due June 3, 2013, December [...]
Sensors and Sensing Systems
AGENCY: National Science Foundation; Directorate for Engineering; Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation FON: PD-13-1639 ITEM: Notice seeking proposals for fundamental research on sensors and sensing systems. Such fundamental research includes the discovery and characterization of new sensing modalities, fundamental theories for aggregation and analysis of sensed data, fundamentally new approaches for data transmission, [...]
NSF Seeks More Research to Broaden Participation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) directorates for Education and Human Resources (EHR) and Social, Behavioral, and Economic sciences (SBE) have issued a dear colleague letter seeking additional research on the Science of Broadening Participation (SBP). Researchers from social, behavioral, economic, and education disciplines are encouraged to develop proposals for research that will ultimately increase the [...]
SUNRISE Summer Undergraduate Research Featured Wednesday August 8th
The University will host the 10th annual SUNRISE Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Program Poster Session from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, August 8, on the second floor of Harrington Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Light snacks and beverages will be served. SUNRISE faculty in chemistry and chemical engineering mentor [...]
NSF INSPIRE FY 12 Awards and FY 13 Opportunities
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced 11 new awards for the Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE) program. Approximately 40 more awards are expected to be announced in the coming weeks, for a total of more than $30 million in FY 12 support from the Office of Integrative Activities and other [...]
Wait a Nanosecond! UND Scientist Scores Another Patent in Study of Ultra-Tiny Particles
A UND scientist was awarded a patent for a breakthrough method that reliably produces nanoparticles that may prove useful in medical, environmental and many other creative biotech applications. The Office of Intellectual Property Commercialization and Economic Development is reporting that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently issued patent number 8,183,300 for a “Method for [...]
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