Funding Opportunities For students: Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program (ASEE) (Dec 1) The Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program is an opportunity for students pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines to receive a full scholarship and be gainfully employed by the Department of Defense (DoD) upon degree completion. National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (ASEE) (Dec 7) As a means of increasing the number of U.S. citizens and nationals trained in science and engineering disciplines of military importance, the Department of Defense (DoD) plans to award fellowships in April 2019, subject to the availability of funds. Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship (NASEM/NRC/PGAD) (Jan 8, 2019) Awards will be made to individuals who, in the judgment of the review panels, have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and For Faculty: EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (NSF) (Nov 26) The mission of EPSCoR is to assist the National Science Foundation in its statutory function “to strengthen research and education in science and engineering throughout the United States and to avoid undue concentration of such research and education.” Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (NSF) (Nov 27) Computational neuroscience provides a theoretical foundation and a rich set of technical approaches for understanding the principles and dynamics of the nervous system. Building on the theory, methods, and findings of computer science, neuroscience, biology, the mathematical and physical sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, engineering, and other fields, computational neuroscience employs a broad spectrum of approaches to study structure, function, organization, and computation across all levels of the nervous system. NSF/Intel Partnership on Foundational Microarchitecture Research (NSF) (Nov 28) The NSF/Intel Partnership on Foundational Microarchitecture Research will support transformative microarchitecture research targeting improvements in instructions per cycle (IPC). Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation 2019 (NSF) (Nov 29) The Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities (EFMA) in the Directorate for Engineering provides funding opportunities for interdisciplinary teams of researchers to embark on rapidly advancing frontiers of fundamental engineering research. Gen-4 Engineering Research Centers (NSF) (Nov 30) The program continues to focus on advancing an engineered system through inclusive cross-disciplinary and cross-sector partnerships, while placing greater emphasis on research that leads to societal impact through convergent approaches, engaging stakeholder communities, and strengthening team formation. Small Business Technology Transfer Program Phase I (NSF) (Dec 4) The NSF STTR program focuses on transforming scientific discovery into products and services with commercial potential and/or societal benefit. Unlike fundamental research, the NSF STTR program supports startups and small businesses in the creation of innovative, disruptive technologies, getting discoveries out of the lab and into the market. Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NSF) (Dec 7) This program calls for innovative, convergent, boundary-crossing proposals that can best capture those opportunities and map out new research frontiers. NSF seeks proposals that are bold and risky, and transcend the perspectives and approaches typical of disciplinary research efforts. Enabling Access to Cloud Computing Resources for CISE Research and Education (NSF) (Dec 20) Increasingly, data- and compute-intensive research and education efforts are benefiting from access to cloud computing platforms, which provide robust, agile, reliable, and scalable infrastructure. CISE Community Research Infrastructure (NSF) (Jan 8, 2019) This research infrastructure will specifically support diverse communities of CISE researchers pursuing focused research agendas in computer and information science and engineering. This support involves developing the accompanying user services and engagement needed to attract, nurture, and grow a robust research community that is actively involved in determining directions for the infrastructure as well as management of the infrastructure. Visiting Faculty Program (DOE/OS) (Jan 10, 2019) The Visiting Faculty Program (VFP), formerly called Faculty and Student Teams (FaST), seeks to increase the research competitiveness of faculty members and their students at institutions historically underrepresented in the research community in order to expand the workforce vital to the Department of Energy (DOE) mission areas. Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (NSF) (Jan 23, 2019) The objective of the Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) program is to develop, deploy and integrate security solutions that benefit the scientific community by ensuring the integrity, resilience and reliability of the end-to-end scientific workflow. IUSE / Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (NSF) (Jan 24, 2019) The goal of the RED program is to catalyze revolutionary, not incrementally reformist, changes to the education of the next generation of engineers. Revolutionary means radically, suddenly, or completely new; producing fundamental, structural change; or going outside of or beyond existing norms and principles. Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (NSF) (Feb 4, 2019) MGI recognizes the importance of materials science and engineering to the well-being and advancement of society and aims to “deploy advanced materials at least twice as fast as possible today, at a fraction of the cost.” MGI integrates materials discovery, development, property optimization, and systems design with a shared computational framework. Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Data Science Corps (NSF) (Feb 4, 2019) The Big Ideas represent unique opportunities to position our Nation at the cutting edge of global science and engineering leadership by bringing together diverse disciplinary perspectives to support convergence research. | 
