Important Updates

DOE Announces $100M for Transformative Clean Energy Solutions

In support of the Biden Administration’s climate innovation agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $100 million in funding for transformative clean energy technology research and development via its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) OPEN 2021 funding opportunity. The first of billions of dollars of DOE R&D opportunities to be announced this year, this funding will help identify cutting-edge, disruptive clean energy technologies to address the climate crisis.

NSF Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2)

Synopsis. Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) funds research projects that identify (1) factors that are effective in the formation of ethical STEM researchers and (2) approaches to developing those factors in all STEM fields that NSF supports.

Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS)

Synopsis. The national research cyberinfrastructure (CI) ecosystem is essential to computational- and data-intensive research across all of 21st-century science and engineering (S&E), driven by rapid advances in a wide range of technologies; increasing volumes of highly heterogeneous data; and escalating demand by the research community. Research CI is a key catalyst for discovery and innovation and plays a critical role in ensuring US leadership in S&E, economic competitiveness, and national security, consistent with NSF's mission.

NIH Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity

Synopsis.

The Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity seeks to recognize those institutions whose biomedical and behavioral science departments, centers, or divisions have achieved sustained improvement in gender diversity.

NIH opportunity for early stage investigators looking to explore new research directions

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently released a new opportunity: the Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant. This special program is limited to early stage investigators (ESIs) proposing projects that represent a change in research direction for the Principal Investigator.