News & Updates

NSF has announced changes to the names of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources and the Division of Human Resource Development. To more accurately reflect and communicate the values and totality of the agency’s work with STEM education, including supporting Americans from every background, in each state, who have the potential to participate in STEM, the directorate will now be known as the Directorate for STEM Education, or EDU, and the division will be known as the Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM, or EES. All name changes are effective immediately and do not affect the work done by EDU.

Dear IDeA Community,

Dear IDeA Community,

The High-Risk, High-Reward Research program, supported by the Common Fund at the NIH has awarded 103 new research grants to support highly innovative scientists who propose visionary and broadly impactful meritorious behavioral and biomedical research projects. The awards total approximately $285 million in support over five years beginning in 2022.

NSF has announced the first Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems, or POSE, program awards to more than 20 Phase I projects. Researchers will create ecosystems for materials science research, renewable energy adoption, natural hazards, health data sciences and informatics, supply chain monitoring, and many other important applications.

As the nation celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month, NSF's Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program has awarded 48 grants to Hispanic-serving institutions in Fiscal Year 2022, totaling approximately $27 million to support various projects.

Manufacturing underpins US economic prosperity, security and employment. The White House recently published the US National Strategy for Advanced Manufacturing, with the NSF playing a critical role.

The DOE opened applications for the $7 billion program to create regional clean hydrogen hubs (H2Hubs) across the country, which will form a critical arm of America's future clean energy economy. As part of a larger $8 billion hydrogen hub program funded through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the H2Hubs will be a central driver in helping communities across the country benefit from clean energy investments, good-paying jobs, and improved energy security.

Ensuring that every citizen has access to STEM experiences is a critical piece to building an equitable research enterprise. Since 1979, NSF has addressed the need for geographic diversity through EPSCoR.

The DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) awarded its first-ever Zero Energy Design Designation (ZEDD) seal of recognition to 17 leading educational programs that are preparing tomorrow’s architectural and engineering leaders to design and build the most sustainable buildings possible. This new DOE designation distinguishes post-secondary academic programs that impart the best practices of zero-energy design on students and require them to apply those building science concepts in actual projects.