Plasma Physics (NSF)

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31270
• Date: 03 September 2020
• Published date: 03 September 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: NSF said the overarching purpose of HDR

Central will be to increase the impact of the HDR Big

Idea by supporting coordination and communication

among all HDR projects, and by sharing HDR efforts

and outcomes with the public.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-600

Improving Undergraduate STEM Education:

Hispanic-Serving Institutions (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Improving Undergraduate STEM

Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions announcement

for Track 1—Planning or Pilot Projects (PPP) and

Track 2—Implementation and Evaluation Projects

(IEP) to enhance the quality of undergraduate science,

technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)

education and to increase the recruitment, retention

and graduation rates of students pursuing associate or

baccalaureate degrees in STEM.

Deadline: Jan. 13, 2021.

Funds: Fifteen to 25 PPP awards for two-year-long

projects and up to 10 IEP awards for three- to ve-year-

long projects. Awards range from $200,000 to $800,000.

Eligibility: Nonprot organizations.

Areas: NSF said the PPP track seeks to enhance

undergraduate STEM education and build capacity

at less-resourced institutions and to increase these

institutions’ ability to compete for NSF funding from other

programs. The IEP track seeks to design and implement

a new educational practice or practices, and/or adapt/

replicate evidence-based practices that are already

known to be effective.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-599

International Research Experiences for Students

(NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the International Research Experiences

for Students (IRES) announcement to support

international research and research-related activities for

U.S. science and engineering students.

Deadline: Nov. 12, 2020.

Funds: $10 million for up to 32 awards.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: NSF said Track I: IRES Sites projects engage

a group of undergraduate and/or graduate students in

active high-quality collaborative research, in principle at

an international site with mentorship from researchers

at a host lab, and Track II: Advanced Studies Institutes

(ASIs) projects are intensive short courses with related

activities that engage advanced graduate students

in active learning and research at the frontiers of

knowledge. ASIs typically range in length from 10 to 21

days and, in principle, must be held outside the United

States.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-598

Plasma Physics (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Plasma Physics announcement

to generate an understanding of the fundamental

principles governing the physical behavior of a plasma

via collective interactions of large ensembles of free

charged particles, as well as to improve the basic

understanding of the plasma state as needed for other

areas of science and engineering.

Deadline: Nov. 16, 2020.

Funds: Awards vary by project scope and may be up to

three years in length.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: NSF said funding supports research that can be

categorized by several broad, sometimes overlapping

subareas of the discipline, including: magnetized

plasmas in the laboratory, space and astrophysical

environments; high-energy-density plasmas; low-

temperature plasmas; dusty, ultra-cold and otherwise

strongly coupled plasmas; non-neutral plasmas; and

intense eld-matter interaction in plasmas.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# PD-20-1242

CISE Research Initiation Initiative (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Computer and Information Science

and Engineering Research Initiation Initiative (CRII)

announcement to support research independence

among early-career academicians who specically lack

access to adequate organizational or other resources.

Deadline: Nov. 2, 2020, and Sept. 20, 2021.

Funds: $10 million total for up to 60 awards.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities and nonprot

organizations.

Areas: NSF said CRII awards will be given to

researchers to undertake exploratory investigations,

acquire and test preliminary data, develop collaborations

within or across research disciplines and/or develop new

algorithms, approaches and system designs/prototypes,

which together or separately may lead to improved

capacity to write successful proposals submitted to other

programs in the future.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-593

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