Federal Sponsors
IUSE: Innovation in Two-Year College STEM Education
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Description: The twin goals of the ITYC program are to (1) center students in the effort to advance innovation and promote success in STEM education at two-year colleges, and (2) enhance the capacity of two-year colleges to harness the talent and potential of their student and faculty populations through innovative disciplinary, multi-department, and college-wide efforts.
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Accelerating Research Translation (ART)
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Description: Supports institutions of higher education in building capacity, infrastructure and training to accelerate research translation, strengthen technology transfer and create sustained economic and societal impacts across the U.S.
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Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Description: Supports efforts to improve the adoption of cyberinfrastructure resources by the research community and integrate core literacy, skills in advanced cyberinfrastructure, and computational and data-driven methods into undergraduate and graduate education.
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Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Bridge Program
Sponsor: NASA
Description: The program’s primary goal is to develop sustainable partnerships among institutions historically under-resourced by NASA. These partnerships are expected to focus on paid research and engineering student positions with the goal of transitioning undergraduate students to graduate schools and/or employment by NASA or related institutions. Faculty involvement is encouraged but not required in Bridge proposals.
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Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Program (R16)
Sponsor: NIH
Description: This program supports investigator-initiated research that falls in the NIH mission areas. Institutions must award undergraduate or graduate degrees in biomedical sciences, have received $6M or less per year total costs from Research Project Grants in the previous two fiscal years before application and have either at least 25% of undergraduate students receiving Pell Grants, or be recognized as a HBCU or TCU.
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Funding for Accelerated Inclusive Research (FAIR)
Sponsor: Department of Energy
Description: FAIR aims to build research capacity, infrastructure, and expertise at institutions historically underrepresented in the Office of Science portfolio, including minority serving institutions (MSIs) and emerging research institutions (ERIs). FAIR supports mutually beneficial relationships between MSIs and ERIs with partnering institutions to perform basic research in fields supported by the Office of Science.
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