Plasma Physics (NSF)

• Date: 21 May 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31073
• Published date: 21 May 2020

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Grants alert (cont.)

communities, people, places and economic opportunity

via physical spaces or new relationships.

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Plasma Physics (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Plasma Physics announcement to

support research that can be categorized by several

broad, sometimes overlapping subareas of the discipline.

Deadline: Nov. 16, 2020.

Funds: Up to 25 awards with project periods of four to

ve years.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: NSF said subareas include: 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. The focus of the Plasma

Physics program is 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.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# PD-18-1242

Antarctic Research (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Antarctic Research announcement to

support cutting-edge research.

Deadline: Proposals are accepted at any time.

Funds: $55 million total.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: NSF said a core focus of Antarctic sciences is

to support research to: expand fundamental knowledge

of Antarctic systems, biota and processes; improve

understanding of interactions among the Antarctic region

and global systems; and utilize the unique characteristics

of the Antarctic region as a science-observing platform.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# 20-568

Communities of learners of underrepresented

discoverers in engineering and science (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Inclusion across the Nation

of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented

Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES)

announcement to improve collaborative efforts aimed at

enhancing the preparation, increasing the participation

and ensuring the contributions of individuals from

groups that have been historically underrepresented and

underserved in the science, technology, engineering

and mathematics enterprise such as African Americans,

Alaska Natives, Hispanics, Native Americans, Native

Hawaiians, Native Pacic Islanders, persons with

disabilities, persons from economically disadvantaged

backgrounds, and women and girls.

Deadline: Letters of Intent, Oct. 5, 2020; proposals, Jan

26, 2021.

Funds: Up to $3 million a year for up to three awards.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: NSF said a hallmark of the NSF INCLUDES

program is the focus on the ve design elements of

collaborative infrastructure to achieve systemic change.

Collaborative infrastructure refers to the process by

which partnering organizations come together to map

out mutually reinforcing activities through: (1) shared

vision; (2) partnerships; (3) goals and metrics; (4)

leadership and communication; and (5) expansion,

sustainability and scale.

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Discovery Research PreK-12 (NSF)

Scope: The National Science Foundation seeks

applications for the Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-

12) announcement to enhance the learning and teaching

of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and

computer science by pre-K–12 students and teachers,

through research and development of STEM education

innovations and approaches.

Deadline: Oct. 7, 2020.

Funds: $64 million total for up to 60 awards ranging

from $450,000 to $5 million.

Eligibility: Unrestricted.

Areas: NSF said the DRK-12 program invites proposals

that address immediate challenges that are facing

pre-K–12 STEM education, as well as those that

anticipate radically different structures and functions of

pre-K–12 teaching and learning. There are three major

research and development strands: (1) assessment, (2)

learning and (3) teaching. The program recognizes the

synergy among the three strands and that there is some

overlap and interdependence among them. However,

proposals should identify a clear focus of the proposed

research efforts (i.e., assessment, learning or teaching)

consistent with the proposal’s main objectives and

research questions. The program supports six types of

projects: (1) exploratory, (2) design and development,

(3) impact, (4) implementation and improvement, (5)

syntheses and (6) conferences. All six types of projects

apply to each of the three DRK-12 program strands.

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