Funding Landscape and New Limited Submission Opportunities for the Week of March 3, 2025 | Please share this information with department heads and eligible faculty. | | Limited Submission Opportunities | | Description: The NSF EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) aims to enhance the capacity and competitiveness of EPSCoR jurisdictions by providing funding to graduate degree-awarding institutions to support NSF EPSCoR Graduate Fellows as they pursue graduate degrees in the disciplines specified by the NSF Directorates and Office that are participating in the EGFP funding program. Limitation: one application per institution Internal Submission Deadline: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 Sponsor Deadline: Monday, June 2, 2025
| Description: The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program seeks proposals that explore ways for graduate students in research-based master's and doctoral degree programs to develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies needed to pursue a range of STEM careers. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas, through a comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs. Limitation: two applications per institution Internal Submission Deadline: Monday, July 14, 2025 Sponsor Deadline: Monday, September 8, 2025
| | Description: Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) is a mid-scale infrastructure program in the Division of Materials Research (DMR) designed to accelerate advances in materials research. MIPs respond to the increasing complexity of materials research that requires close collaboration of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams and access to cutting edge tools. Limitation: one application per institution Internal Submission Deadline: Thursday, April 3, 2025 Sponsor Deadline: Thursday, May 15, 2025 | | | |