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he NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY program supports collaboration among K-12 educators, technologists, and researchers to develop innovative solutions to persistent challenges in learning and workforce development. These challenges are identified by K-12 students, families, and educators. The program aims to create and scale evidence-based practices, tools, and technologies that improve learning outcomes and prepare students for a digital, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven future.

A key focus is early exposure to AI to build curiosity, understanding, and readiness for future careers. The program encourages partnerships across sectors - schools, universities, industry, government, and nonprofits - to co-design responsive, technology-based solutions.

NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY program includes two phases: Planning and Development. Planning proposals help teams explore one of several focus areas. Only teams awarded Planning grants may submit Development proposals, which support the growth and implementation of promising ideas.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

Program Overview
Research laboratories will host up to two high-school STEM teachers who are alumni of the EnCorps program for an eight-week summer placement. Teachers will learn about the lab’s research through appropriate training and hands-on activities. The goals are for them to gain a deeper understanding of the science and its significance, use the knowledge and skills learned to develop curricular activities, and, together with the lab, learn and practice the art of effectively communicating complex research concepts to public audiences.

Science Communication Commitment
A central component of this program is collaborative science outreach. The PI and a designated in-lab mentor (a PhD student or postdoc) must commit to participate in science communication training alongside the teachers. This will be supported by three virtual training sessions with a science communication coach. Together, the lab team and teachers are asked to develop a public-facing communication product about the research and its importance to society, e.g., videos, op-eds, or podcasts, designed to communicate about the lab’s research and its importance to students, the high school community, and the broader public. Teachers will also gain experience that helps them expose students to STEM research and career paths.

Eligibility
Any principal investigator at Stanford is allowed to apply; preference will be given to faculty who have previously received a W.M. Keck Foundation research grant, including Bridge Funding, and/or are willing to consider an application with EnCorps in the future to the NSF RET program call.

Managing Unit: VPDoR, CFR

These grants are for specific one-year research projects which are hypothesis-driven and focus on areas related to survivorship and supportive care of children and adolescents with cancer. Applications are accepted from Ph.D., D.N.P., M.D./D.O. holders. Examples include but are not limited to: studies related to the burden of morbidity, cause-specific mortality, understanding the pathogenesis of treatment-related complications, patient-reported outcomes or quality of life, health communication, health promotion, and psychosocial support across the trajectory from diagnosis to survivorship or end-of-life care.

Managing Unit: SCI (Stanford Cancer Institute)

TechAccess: AI-Ready America is a national-scale initiative to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) readiness and adoption across the U.S. by strengthening coordination, leveraging partnerships and resources, filling gaps, and scaling what works — so local and state priorities can lead in shaping an AI-driven economy that benefits all Americans.

Unlike initiatives centered around K – 16 education, AI-Ready America additionally reaches businesses, public-serving organizations, and individuals, among others, expanding access to AI knowledge, tools, and resources. The program also emphasizes practical implementation through hands-on assistance and workforce up-skilling, including experiential learning such as internships, project-based work, and apprenticeships, to ensure stakeholders can effectively apply and innovate with AI.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

he purpose of this program is to provide and build the national capacity of environmental education training for education professionals across the U.S., enabling them to effectively teach about environmental issues. Training may be provided for both formal (e.g., classroom teachers and faculty at colleges and universities) and non-formal educators (e.g., educators in museums, nature centers and other non-formal venues). It also may be provided in both pre-service (e.g., for students in teacher education programs and/or colleges of education and faculty) and in-service settings (e.g., for classroom teachers and other practicing educators).

Environmental education training refers to professional learning activities such as classes, online courses, workshops, communities of practice, seminars, and conferences which are designed to prepare education professionals to effectively teach about environmental issues. Building national capacity of environmental education training includes, but is not limited to, developing and disseminating environmental education guidelines, developing and implementing state educator certification programs, and providing access to information about high-quality programs and resources.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

The Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) program supports national-scale, operational cyberinfrastructure systems and services that advance open, data-intensive, and AI-driven science and engineering research, innovation, and education. Projects must broadly serve the research and education community across multiple disciplines, enabling diverse users to access, integrate, and connect data with resources such as computing, facilities, instrumentation, and repositories. Proposals that primarily benefit a single discipline, project, or application are not supported.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

The DOE is soliciting applications from interdisciplinary teams to address the Genesis Mission National Science and Technology Challenges. This initiative supports a broader national effort, established through a recent Executive Order, to advance AI-driven innovation for solving complex energy, environmental, and security challenges.

The program aims to accelerate scientific discovery and R&D workflows through the development of advanced AI models and frameworks. Competitive projects will demonstrate how AI enables a clear “AI advantage,” providing capabilities, efficiencies, or insights beyond conventional approaches.

Projects funded under this solicitation are expected to propose an approach or cluster of related approaches that will be pursued in two phases in the following topic areas: advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, quantum information science, semiconductors and microelectronics, discovery science, and energy.

Teams are encouraged to leverage DOE resources, including National Laboratories, user facilities, industry partnerships, and academic collaborations. Successful outputs are expected to contribute to and integrate with platforms such as the American Science Cloud.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

This grant is tailored for tenure-track faculty members in their first to fourth year at United States institutions, holding M.D. and/or Ph.D. degrees. It aims to support these early-career scientists in establishing their research projects to a point where they can secure NIH R01 or other independent funding. Faculty must be engaged in basic and translational research that has the potential to make fundamental advances in biomedical science.

Managing Unit: SoM

The NQNI program will empower researchers nationwide to advance critical and emerging technologies. Through NQNI, NSF will establish an open-access network of research facilities to spur innovations in future quantum technologies, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, manufacturing, biotechnology, and other areas of national priority.

The NQNI solicitation establishes a competition for a network of university user facility Sites. The selection of user facility Sites will be based on their technical capabilities and instrumentation (specifically, fabrication, characterization, and expertise) to address current and anticipated user needs across quantum information science and engineering (QISE), nanoscience, nanoengineering, and nanotechnology. Site selection will also be based on plans to open facilities and instrumentation for external use, education, training, outreach, and workforce development.

Managing Unit: VPDoR

This call for nominations will prioritize translational applications that move knowledge and discovery gained from basic research to its eventual translation into patient and population benefit. The ideal applicant will propose innovative research that will be an important step towards the eventual goal of improving the lives of people at risk of diabetes or living with the disease - and the pathway to this impact is clear.

Managing Unit: SoM

This call for nominations will prioritize translational applications that move knowledge and discovery gained from basic research to its eventual translation into patient and population benefit. The ideal applicant will propose innovative research that will be an important step towards the eventual goal of improving the lives of people at risk of diabetes or living with the disease - and the pathway to this impact is clear.

Managing Unit: SoM

Catalyst Awards provide an opportunity to conduct preliminary work on high-risk, high-reward research addressing a wide variety of clinical disease areas. The target of the Falk Catalyst Award’s funding are projects at the intersection of technology and clinical science, intended to move from basic science insights towards solutions, techniques, and tools that can be transferred to clinical practice in the near term. The Catalyst Research Award Program provides one to two years of seed funding to enable planning and development of projects,teams, tools,techniques, and management infrastructure necessary to successfully compete for two- to three-year awards through the Transformational Research Award Program. The work proposed in the Catalyst submission will serve to demonstrate the scientific promise, infrastructure, methods, and preliminary data in support of further transformational research.

Managing Unit: SoM