Category: NSF

  • NSF CAREER Awards

    NSF CAREER Awards

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    I can’t think of any solicitation which connects as well to a sponsor’s goals as the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER program. NSF states it wants to not only keep the United States at the “leading edge of discovery” in…

  • Q&A with NSF Fellowship Awardee, PhD Chemistry Student

    Q&A with NSF Fellowship Awardee, PhD Chemistry Student

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    Over 13,000 students applied to the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) from the National Science Foundation (NSF), but only 2,000 succeeded in receiving an award. Candace Benjamin, UT Dallas PhD student and “super scientist” in the Gassensmith Lab, shines among…

  • Federal Funding Opportunities for New and Young Faculty

    Federal Funding Opportunities for New and Young Faculty

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    A quick search of research opportunities for new faculty/investigators in the grant searching database Pivot yielded 6,544 results. That is a lot of opportunities and they vary in sponsor types (federal government, private institutions, and professional societies), areas of research,…

  • Q&A with Computer Scientist Ryan McMahan

    Q&A with Computer Scientist Ryan McMahan

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    Dr. Ryan McMahan is an assistant professor in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Arts, Technology and Emerging Communications. His research focuses on the “effects of system fidelity for virtual reality (VR) applications…

  • NABI Develops Broader Impacts Guiding Principles

    NABI Develops Broader Impacts Guiding Principles

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    The National Association for Broader Impacts (NABI) Broader Impacts Working Group has developed a guiding document for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) broader impacts (BI) criterion. Released on December 8, 2015, this document exists to assist NSF program managers, proposal…

  • Solicit and Acquire: NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation Program

    Solicit and Acquire: NSF’s Major Research Instrumentation Program

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    Taken directly from the National Science Foundation (NSF) solicitation: “The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) serves to increase access to shared scientific and engineering instruments for research and research training in the nation’s institutions of higher education, not-for-profit museums, science…