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Invites current AISL and ITEST award recipients to request supplemental funding for in-person STEM programming and activities that highlight NSF-funded informal STEM learning experiences to commemorate NSF’s 75th anniversary on May 10, 2025.

Invites proposals that apply new, integrative approaches to understand molecular, biophysical, cellular and circuit-level neural processes underlying adaptation and resilience in response to changing environments organisms face due to anthropogenic activity.

Invites proposals focused on plant genetic transformation to certain existing programs at NSF and USDA. Proposals can involve basic research, long-term studies, tool development or applications emphasizing potential outcomes with societal benefit.

Announces NSF plans to support NHERI operations from FY 2026 to FY 2035, providing the natural hazards engineering community access to research infrastructure, education and community outreach activities related to civil infrastructure.

Encourages two-year colleges to submit proposals that are focused on implementing the discovery-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute SEA-PHAGES curriculum in laboratory courses within biosciences programs.

Encourages proposals to form a national network of professionals focused on developing new connections and partnerships for climate action through university-community partnerships.

Encourages supplemental funding requests for transitioning essential jurisdiction-wide activities and personnel of NSF EPSCoR State Offices, including administrative support, sustaining partnerships, research infrastructure, education and outreach.

Encourages proposals for activities that inform and support efforts to increase the participation, inclusion and well-being of all, to include LGBTQI+ individuals in STEM to promote a diverse and innovative science and engineering workforce.

Encourages transatlantic collaborative research proposals in the biological sciences focused on areas at the intersection of the National Science Foundation and the UK Research and Innovation Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

Encourages Planning Grants that expand existing test beds and infrastructure to make them AI-ready and appropriate for use in evaluating the impact and effect of AI tools and systems on users.

Encourages supplemental funding requests from POSE recipients to complete the mandatory I-Corps Training, which is focused on developing robust and sustainable open-source ecosystems.

Encourages supplemental funding requests from active NSF-funded wireless researchers to conduct experiments on NSF’s Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research.

Encourages proposals and supplemental funding requests to expand the NAIRR Pilot community through community outreach, research training and support for educators to bring inclusive AI educational experiences to classrooms nationwide.