NSF Upcoming Funding Opportunities

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: August 20, 2025

Program Guidelines: NSF 23-601

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 supporting student research:

Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS)

Full Proposal Target Date: August 18, 2025

Program Guidelines: PD 23-1321

The Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Program (DRMS) supports scientific research directed at increasing understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations and society. DRMS supports research with solid foundations in theories and methods of the social and behavioral sciences. This social and behavioral science research should advance knowledge, address fundamental scientific and societal issues and have strong broader impacts. DRMS funds ...
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Decision, Risk and Management Sciences - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DRMS-DDRIG)

Full Proposal Target Date: August 18, 2025

Program Guidelines: NSF 23-618

The Decision, Risk and Management Sciences Program (DRMS) supports scientific research directed at increasing understanding and effectiveness of decision making by individuals, groups, organizations and society. DRMS supports research with solid foundations in theories and methods of the social and behavioral sciences. This social and behavioral science research should advance knowledge, address fundamental scientific and societal issues and have strong broader impacts. DRMS funds doctoral ...
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Biological Oceanography (BioOce)

Full Proposal Target Date: August 15, 2025

Program Guidelines: PD 23-1650

The Biological Oceanography Program supports fundamental research in biological oceanography and marine ecology in environments ranging from estuarine, coastal, and open ocean systems to the deep sea, as well as in the Great Lakes. Proposals submitted to the Program must have a compelling context in population, community, or ecosystem ecology or oceanography, as well as address topics that will ...
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Chemical Oceanography

Full Proposal Target Date: August 15, 2025

Program Guidelines: PD 98-1670

The Chemical Oceanography Program supports research into the chemistry of the oceans and the role of the oceans in global geochemical cycles. Areas of interest include chemical composition, speciation, and transformation; chemical exchanges between the oceans and other components of the Earth system; internal cycling in oceans, seas, and estuaries; and the use of measured chemical distributions as indicators of physical, biological, and geological processes.


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Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro)

Full Proposal Target Date: August 15, 2025

Program Guidelines: PD 24-1699

The Cognitive Neuroscience (CogNeuro) program seeks to fund proposals that can advance our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying human cognition and behavior. Funded proposals typically relate precise and rich quantifications of physiological responses and behavior in ways that advance theory (Intellectual Merit). Funded proposal also typically strengthen the field through, for example, outreach, mentoring the next generation of diverse cognitive neuroscientists, and/or ...
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Cultural Anthropology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (CA-DDRIG)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: August 15, 2025

Program Guidelines: NSF 24-605

The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support basic scientific research on the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability.

Contemporary cultural anthropology is an arena in which diverse research traditions and methodologies are valid in investigations of human cultural variation. Recognizing the breadth of the field's contributions to science, the Cultural Anthropology Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, ...
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Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (CA-SR)

Full Proposal Target Date: August 15, 2025

Program Guidelines: NSF 25-502

The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support fundamental, systematic anthropological research and training to increase understanding of the causes, consequences and complexities of human social and cultural variability. The Cultural Anthropology Program welcomes proposals from researchers in all sub-fields of cultural anthropology and research at any temporal or spatial scale. Methodologies and approaches employed may include ethnographic field research, surveys, ...
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Physical Oceanography

Full Proposal Target Date: August 15, 2025

Program Guidelines: PD 98-1610

The Physical Oceanography Program supports research on a wide range of topics associated with the structure and movement of the ocean, with the way in which it transports various quantities, with the way the ocean's physical structure interacts with the biological and chemical processes within it, and with interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere, solid earth and ice that surround it.


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Scholarships in STEM Network (S-STEM-Net)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: August 14, 2025

Program Guidelines: NSF 23-536

Through this solicitation, NSF seeks to foster a network of S-STEM stakeholders and further develop the infrastructure needed to generate and disseminate new knowledge, successful practices and effective design principles arising from NSF S-STEM projects nationwide. The ultimate vision of the legislation governing the S-STEM parent program[1] (and of the current S-STEM-Net solicitation) is that all Americans, regardless of economic status, should be able to contribute to the American ...
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Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems (CS2)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: August 12, 2025

Program Guidelines: NSF 24-571

Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems (CS2) is a joint program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE). The program addresses challenges that are both core to DOE’s mission and essential to NSF’s mission of ensuring broad scientific progress. The program’s overarching goal is to elevate correctness as a fundamental requirement for scientific computing tools and tool chains, spanning low-level libraries through complex ...
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ECosystem for Leading Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering (ECLIPSE)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: August 12, 2025
Proposal deadline specified above for: OIA - EPSCoR Research Incubators for STEM Excellence Research Infrastructure Improvement Program

Program Guidelines: PD 24-110Z

Plasma science is a transdisciplinary field of research where fundamental studies in many disciplines, including plasma physics, plasma chemistry, materials science, and space science, come together to advance knowledge for discovery and technological innovation.  The primary goal of the ECosystem for Leading Innovation ...
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EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: EPSCoR Research Incubators for STEM Excellence (E-RISE)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: August 12, 2025

Program Guidelines: NSF 25-522

The Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) supports the mission of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) by promoting nationwide scientific progress. Through this program, NSF fosters partnerships among academic institutions, government entities, industry, and non-profits. These collaborations aim to drive long-term improvements in research infrastructure, enhance R&D capacity, and boost the research competitiveness of eligible EPSCoR jurisdictions, including ...
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Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL)

Full Proposal Target Date: August 6, 2025

Program Guidelines: PD 19-127Y

Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence (SL) supports potentially transformative research that develops basic theoretical insights and fundamental knowledge about principles, processes and mechanisms of learning, and about augmented intelligence — how human cognitive function can be augmented through interactions with others or with technology, or through variations in context. 

The program supports research addressing learning in individuals and in groups, ...
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Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program

Full Proposal Target Date: August 5, 2025

Program Guidelines: PD 20-1260

The primary aim of the Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program is to foster the continuing health of the mathematical sciences research community as a whole. In addition, the program complements the Workforce Program in the Mathematical Sciences in its goal to increase the number of well-prepared U.S. based individuals who successfully pursue careers in the mathematical ...
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Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: August 4, 2025
Deadline for all grant types offered under this solicitation.

Program Guidelines: NSF 22-629

Synopsis of Program:

Science and Technology Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the conceptual foundations, historical developments and social contexts of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), including medical science. The STS program supports proposals across a broad spectrum of research that uses historical, philosophical and social scientific methods to investigate STEM theory and practice. STS research may be ...
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Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS)

Full Proposal Target Date: August 1, 2025

Program Guidelines: NSF 25-507

The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes, consequences, or evolution of the spatial dimensions of human behaviors, activities, and dynamics as well as their interactions with environmental and social processes across a range of scales. Contemporary geographical research encompasses diverse research traditions and methodologies. Recognizing the breadth of ...
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Law & Science (LS)

Full Proposal Target Date: August 1, 2025
Standard and Collaborative Research, and Conference Proposals

Program Guidelines: PD 21-128Y

The Law & Science Program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, as well as studies of how science and technology are applied in legal contexts. The Program is inherently interdisciplinary and multi-methodological. Successful proposals describe research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between human behavior and law, legal institutions, or legal processes; or the interactions of ...
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Perception, Action & Cognition (PAC)

Full Proposal Window: August 1, 2025
The July-August proposal window is for research proposals only.

Program Guidelines: PD 09-7252

The aim of the PAC program is to support empirically grounded, theoretically engaged and methodologically sophisticated research in a wide range of topic areas related to human perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions. The PAC program welcomes a wide range of perspectives and a variety of methodologies (including computational modeling if the goal is to expand explanatory theories of human perception, action, or cognition). PAC strongly encourages proposals that ...
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Biological Anthropology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (BA-DDRIG)

Full Proposal Window: July 31, 2025

Program Guidelines: NSF 23-504

The Biological Anthropology Program seeks to advance scientific knowledge about the processes that have shaped biological diversity in living and fossil humans and their primate relatives through support of basic research on human and primate evolution, biological variation, and interactions between biology, behavior and culture. The program supports a portfolio of research that demonstrates engagement with biological anthropological and evolutionary theory; includes diverse and ...
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