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NSF announces an investment of $30 million to support new interdisciplinary, fundamental research projects for the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation, or EFRI, program. Awardees will work on projects that involve engineering brain-inspired systems and creating safe and sustainable engineered living systems. Each $2 million, four-year award integrates research with ethical, legal, and social considerations and with broadening participation activities.

NSF is tackling challenges related to climate, sustainability, food, energy, pollution and the economy through a $30 million investment to advance six convergent research teams from Phase 1 to Phase 2 of NSF's Convergence Accelerator Track E: Networked Blue Economy.

The NSF Expanding Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering program supports work in quantum fundamentals; metrology and control; co-design and systems; and education and workforce development. NSF invested $21,397,566 in 2022 ExpandQISE awards. Recipients from EPSCoR jurisdictions include:

The potential for future pandemics is an ever-present and growing threat, whether they are due to known diseases like monkeypox or Ebola, or an as-yet-unknown infection. Nearly $26 million in new awards from NSF will support interdisciplinary investigations and collaborations that aim to predict and prevent the next infectious disease outbreak, significantly contributing to national security, public health and economic stability. NSF’s investments will support nearly 500 researchers located at nearly 50 institutions in 22 states and DC, including the following EPSCoR jurisdictions:

NASA’s Physical Sciences Research Program has selected five ground-based proposals in response to the Physical Sciences Informatics System call for proposals. This program element is part of Science Mission Directorate (SMD) Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences - 2021 (ROSES-2021) solicitation. One of the projects represents the EPSCoR jurisdictions:

President Joe Biden has chosen Renee Wegrzyn, a 45-year-old applied biologist with a background in industry and government, to head his new agency for biomedical innovation, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).

President Joe Biden signed an executive order laying out a strategy to bolster domestic biomanufacturing and reduce reliance on China for new medicines, chemicals and other products.

Selected organizations will work with ERVA staff and volunteers to create and execute visioning events that convene top researchers from various sectors and other interested parties. During these invitation-only sessions, an interdisciplinary group of experts from the public and private sectors will identify bold and transformative new engineering research directions with the goal of catalyzing the engineering community's pursuit of innovative, high-impact research that benefits society.

The 8th Biennial National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence (NISBRE) will be held virtually Dec 12-14, while the 2024 and 2026 NISBRE will be held in Washington, DC.

NSF is accelerating 5G solutions to assist the US government and critical infrastructure operators to communicate securely anywhere and anytime.