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Full Proposal Deadline Date: May 22, 2013
EarthCube Building Blocks

Program Guidelines: NSF 13-529

EarthCube is a community-driven activity sponsored through a partnership between the NSF Directorate of Geosciences and Office of Cyberinfrastructure to transform the conduct of geosciences research and education. EarthCube aims to create a well-connected and facile environment to share data and knowledge in an open, transparent, and inclusive manner, thus accelerating the ability of the geosciences community to understand and predict the Earth system.

Achieving EarthCube will ...
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Full Proposal Deadline Date: May 22, 2013
EarthCube Conceptual Designs

Program Guidelines: NSF 13-529

EarthCube is a community-driven activity sponsored through a partnership between the NSF Directorate of Geosciences and Office of Cyberinfrastructure to transform the conduct of geosciences research and education. EarthCube aims to create a well-connected and facile environment to share data and knowledge in an open, transparent, and inclusive manner, thus accelerating the ability of the geosciences community to understand and predict the Earth system.

Achieving EarthCube will ...
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Full Proposal Deadline Date: June 14, 2013
RCN UBE & UBE incubator Track

Program Guidelines: NSF 13-520

The goal of the RCN program is to advance a field or create new directions in research or education by supporting groups of investigators to communicate and coordinate their research, training and educational activities across disciplinary, organizational, geographic and international boundaries.  RCN provides opportunities to foster new collaborations, including international partnerships, and address interdisciplinary topics.  Innovative ideas for implementing ...
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Full Proposal Window: June 17, 2013

Program Guidelines: NSF 12-602

The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to develop and nurture a national innovation ecosystem that builds upon fundamental research to guide the output of scientific discoveries closer to the development of technologies, products and processes that benefit society.

In order to jumpstart a national innovation ecosystem, NSF has established the NSF Innovation Corps Teams Program (NSF I-Corps Teams). The NSF I-Corps Teams purpose is to identify NSF-funded researchers who will receive ...
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Full Proposal Deadline Date: June 7, 2013

Program Guidelines: NSF 13-538

Continuing its long-standing commitment of supporting groundbreaking research in large-scale networking systems, the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) invites research teams to submit innovative and creative proposals that leverage and enhance existing Future Internet Architecture (FIA) designs and seek to create and demonstrate prototype systems that will be tested and evaluated in one or more relevant environments. Proposing teams should include ...
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Full Proposal Deadline Date: June 3, 2013

Program Guidelines: NSF 12-540

The CISE-MPS Interdisciplinary Faculty Program in Quantum Information Science is designed to promote research in the area of Quantum Information Science (QIS) by providing resources to allow QIS researchers and researchers from the CISE or MPS disciplines to actively engage in joint research efforts, addressing problems at the interface between the mathematical and physical sciences and computer and information sciences through long-term visits by faculty to a host ...
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Full Proposal Deadline Date: June 3, 2013
Integrative (INT) Proposals

Program Guidelines: NSF 13-543

The goal of the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Program is to accelerate the development and use of innovative approaches that would support the much needed transformation of healthcare from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive, proactive, evidence-based, person-centered and focused on well-being rather than disease. Approaches that partner technology-based solutions with biobehavioral health research are supported by multiple agencies of the federal government including the ...
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Full Proposal Deadline Date: May 29, 2013
INSPIRE Track 1 Full Proposals

Program Guidelines: NSF 13-518

The INSPIRE awards program was established to address some of the most complicated and pressing scientific problems that lie at the intersection of traditional disciplines.  It is intended to encourage investigators to submit bold, exceptional proposals that some may consider to be at a disadvantage in a standard NSF review process; it is not intended for proposals that are more appropriate for existing award mechanisms.  INSPIRE is open to ...
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Full Proposal Deadline Date: May 29, 2013
Director's INSPIRE Awards Full Proposals

Program Guidelines: NSF 13-518

The INSPIRE awards program was established to address some of the most complicated and pressing scientific problems that lie at the intersection of traditional disciplines.  It is intended to encourage investigators to submit bold, exceptional proposals that some may consider to be at a disadvantage in a standard NSF review process; it is not intended for proposals that are more appropriate for existing award mechanisms.  INSPIRE is open to ...
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Full Proposal Deadline Date: May 28, 2013
Exploratory (EXP) Proposals

Program Guidelines: NSF 13-543

The goal of the Smart and Connected Health (SCH) Program is to accelerate the development and use of innovative approaches that would support the much needed transformation of healthcare from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive, proactive, evidence-based, person-centered and focused on well-being rather than disease. Approaches that partner technology-based solutions with biobehavioral health research are supported by multiple agencies of the federal government including the ...
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Full Proposal Deadline Date: May 24, 2013
Deadline for REU Site proposals requiring access to Antarctica. All other REU Site proposals must be submitted to the August REU deadline.

Program Guidelines: NSF 13-542

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation. REU projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the REU program. This solicitation features two mechanisms for support of student research: (1) REU Sites are based on independent proposals to initiate and ...
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Document Number: nsf20130032

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Document Number: cise20130011

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Document Number: cise20130005

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Document Number: nsf20130028

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Document Number: nsf20130033

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The University of Chicago launched the first secure cloud-based computing system that enables researchers to access and analyze human genomic cancer information without the costly and cumbersome infrastructure normally needed to download and store massive amounts of data.

The Bionimbus Protected Data Cloud, as it is called, enables researchers who are authorized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to access and analyze data in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) ...
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Letter of Intent Deadline Date: May 14, 2013
for Integration and Deployment Projects (INDPs) only

Program Guidelines: NSF 11-587

Through the Cyberlearning: Transforming Education program, NSF seeks to integrate advances in technology with advances in what is known about how people learn to

• better understand how people learn with technology and how technology can be used productively to help people learn, through individual use and/or through collaborations mediated by technology;

• better use technology for collecting, analyzing, ...
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Full Proposal Deadline Date: May 14, 2013

Program Guidelines: NSF 13-539

The National Science Foundation's Directorates for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), Engineering (ENG), Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), and Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) are coordinating efforts to identify bold new concepts with the potential to contribute to significant improvements in the efficiency of radio spectrum utilization, and in the ability for traditionally underserved Americans to benefit from current and future wireless-enabled ...
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