The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate has some upcoming solicitation deadlines. Check them out! Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC) Full Proposal Deadline Date: June 14, 2021 The Broadening Participation in Computing Program (BPC) aims to significantly increase the number of U.S. citizens and permanent residents receiving post-secondary degrees in the computing disciplines and to encourage the participation of other underrepresented groups in the discipline. It seeks to engage the computing community to develop and implement innovative methods, frameworks, and strategies to improve the recruitment and retention of these students through undergraduate and graduate degrees. Projects that target stages of the academic pipeline through faculty ranks are encouraged. […]

An increasing number of National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) solicitations, including the CISE Core Programs (for which SMALL Projects do not have a submission deadline), are eligible for cloud access via the CloudBank portal to the AWS, Azure, GCP, and IBM clouds. These clouds offer enormous capacity and rich software stacks. Another plus: access through CloudBank is not subject to indirect cost. For further information: An AWS Public Sector Blog post by Deep Medhi (NSF) and Sanjay Padhi (AWS): https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/simplifying-access-cloud-resources-researchers-cloudbank/ A webinar featuring Deep Medhi, Sanjay Padhi, and Mike Norman (UCSD; PI of NSF’s CloudBank effort): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtdhxFOrIcM&feature=youtu.be CloudBank: https://www.cloudbank.org/ July 2018 workshop report “Enabling […]

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) will host a one-day workshop on CAREER Proposal Writing on April 5, 2021. This workshop will be held virtually. The goal of this workshop is to introduce junior CAREER-eligible faculty to the NSF CAREER program and help them to prepare their CAREER proposals to target CISE programs. Attendees will have the opportunity to improve their skills in proposal writing, as well as to interact with NSF program directors from different CISE divisions (CCF, CNS, IIS and OAC) and recent NSF CAREER awardees. The workshop is also open to multidisciplinary researchers with a CISE-specific focus, including cyber-infrastructure. […]

A Message from CISE Leadership Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community,  Happy New Year!  2020 certainly brought its share of challenges, and our sympathies are with all of you most directly affected by them.  Along the way, 2020 also brought many exciting opportunities and successes for the CISE community.   AP CS Principles: For example, the College Board recently reported that the workforce—especially among young women, students of color, and first-generation students—setting them on a path to declaring a CS or STEM major in college. Specifically, the report found that AP CSP students are more likely to declare a major in STEM and more than THREE times as likely (an 11.7 percentage point increase) to declare a major in computer science than similar students who attended high school […]

Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 16, 2021 The far-reaching impact and rate of innovation in the computer and information science and engineering fields has been remarkable, generating economic prosperity and enhancing the quality of life for people throughout the world. More than a decade ago, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) established the Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions) program to build on past successes and provide the CISE research and education community with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, fundamental research agendas that promise to define the future of computing and information. In planning Expeditions projects, investigators are strongly encouraged to come […]

Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) Full Proposal Window: January 25, 2021 DMREF is the primary program by which NSF participates in the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) for Global Competitiveness. 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. Learn more here.  EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (RII Track-2 FEC) Full Proposal Deadline Date: January 25, 2021 The Established Program to Stimulate […]