News & Updates

The DOE has announced six grand prize winners of the Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize. The prize seeks to foster a just and equitable clean energy future by investing in community-led innovation and entrepreneurship programs in areas historically underserved by federal funding. The winning teams in this first-of-its-kind competition will receive $250,000 each for their entrepreneurship, job-training, mentorship, and other solutions to expand clean energy and economic opportunities in underserved communities.

NSF has announced 34 semifinalists for the first-ever NSF Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) competition, spanning nearly all key technology areas and societal and economic challenges highlighted in the "CHIPS and Science Act." The NSF Engines will be led by universities, nonprofits,businesses and other organizations from across US states and territories. NSF is releasing the list of semifinalists to transparently encourage teaming among diverse organizations, innovation, and regional growth.

The US Supreme Court has found that Harvard and the University of North Carolina's admissions policy violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The US Supreme Court has ruled that universities cannot consider a prospective student's race when deciding admission.

NSF, in partnership with the American Association of Community Colleges, has selected 12 teams to advance to the final round of the Community College Innovation Challenge, set to take place in June 2023.

NSF is seeking one or more organizations to develop, launch and run a Builder Platform to support the anticipated NSF Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, awardees. The three-year Builder Platform contract will be a central component of the NSF Engines program, functioning as a human-centered network of support structures and offerings that will empower the NSF Engines with the tools, skills, networks and access to capital needed to thrive and attain success. The team running the platform will be responsible for providing the tailored support networks and offerings needed by and vital to the growth of individual NSF Engines.

A new visioning report from the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA) considers 12 “big ideas” in transportation infrastructure, vehicles and transportation modes, data, and people and communities to prioritize for engineering research investment to advance progress toward more sustainable, equitable transportation systems. Given transportation’s central role in society, boldly re-envisioning how all modes can benefit current and future generations is a compelling priority. Engineering-led research will take a central role in shifting transportation from an obstacle to negotiate to a quality-enhancing experience.

The one-pagers for the February 28 EPSCoR/IDeA Coalition and EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation Meeting and the March 1 Visits to the Hill from the DoD, DOE, NASA, NSF and USDA/NIFA EPSCoR and the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences IDeA jurisdictions have been gathered into one document and can be viewed as a flipbook online. (The flipbook is also downloadable as a PDF!)

The NSF’s Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) wishes to announce to the community a new collaboration with the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). This collaboration is based on a recent Memorandum of Understanding between the Directorate of Engineering (ENG), MPS, and NIBIB to encourage and foster scientific exchanges in areas of mutual interest. Specifically, a Dear Colleague Letter invites requests to fund workshops addressing the science drivers of active matter biomaterials with the potential to advance our understanding of abiotic-biotic interfaces and be developed into next generation biomedical technologies. The Division of Materials research (DMR) within MPS and NIBIB collaboration is specifically interested in laying the scientific groundwork necessary for competitive proposals for the exploration of new biomedically-relevant active materials and the drivers needed to be medically applicable as these new materials transition from discovery to development.

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Join Enhance Science and NIH Diversity Program Consortium for the third annual #FaceOfScience social media campaign celebrating inclusive excellence in science!

Just like the in-person grants conferences, the NSF Virtual Grants Conference is a must, especially for new faculty, researchers and administrators.