Cooperative Agreement NR170211XXXXC004

This $657,239 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program provides organizational and logistical support for the Physical Oceanography Dissertations Symposium (PODS) and Dissertations Symposium in Chemical Oceanography (DISCO) biennial meetings in 2024 and 2026. These symposia will create cohorts of early-career professionals in the fields of geochemistry and physical oceanography, facilitate networking and collaboration, and enable the participants to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of New Mexico (UNM) to host a two-day conference titled "Improving the Research and Innovation Enterprise Across the Southwest Region". The conference aims to (1) enhance the collective understanding of challenges facing the research enterprise in the Southwest U.S., (2) formulate next steps for individual and collective action to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program, provides $172,794 to Oregon State University (OSU) to host a two-day conference for NSF Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) CAREER awardees on November 21-22, 2024. The conference aims to create formal and informal opportunities for interaction between current IOS CAREER awardees, enabling them to share successes and challenges of their ongoing projects, stimulate discussion...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $425,000 to The Brookings Institution to host a series of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) conferences over a 3-year period. The main activities include: Hosting six BPEA conferences, with approximately 5-6 research papers presented and discussed at each event. The final versions of the papers, discussion comments, and conference summaries...

This $184,750 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), will support the Interdisciplinary Antarctic Earth Science Conference in 2022 and 2024. The Conference and associated planning workshop will bring together U.S. researchers from bio-, cryo-, geo- and atmospheric sciences conducting Antarctic research. Over a 2.5 day hybrid format, the Conference will facilitate collaboration and data sharing...

This $100,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) supports the North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law's third annual Law & Technology Summit. The two-day conference will focus on examining the equity and justice implications of generative AI, particularly in healthcare applications. The summit will feature keynote speeches, panel discussions, workshops, and roundtables involving a...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to host a conference on "Inclusive Collaboration Resources: Enhancing Research Support Infrastructure at Minority Serving Institutions." The goal is to develop best practices and resources to improve equitable research collaboration and retention of diverse STEM researchers. The conference will convene research enterprise...

This $150,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will provide partial support for three Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) symposia to be held in 2024 and 2025. The FOE symposia, organized by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), bring together early career engineers from academia, industry, and government to share cutting-edge research, innovations, and emerging opportunities across various engineering disciplines. The award will...

This Project Grant award of $120,910 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support a hybrid conference on "MEE HUBS: A Hybrid Conference in Microbial Ecology and Evolution" to be held from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025. The conference will integrate microbiology, evolutionary ecology, physics, and mathematics to drive innovation in fundamental and applied research questions related to microbiomes. The project will develop a...

This Project Grant award of $142,783.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports the organization and hosting of the NSF Spectrum Week 2024 conference in Arlington, Virginia from May 13-17, 2024. The event brings together three major programs funded through the NSF Spectrum Innovation Initiative (SWIFT, NRDZ, and SPECTRUMX) to hold collaborative meetings and social events. New elements for 2024 include co-location and coordination with the IEEE DySPAN 2024 conference, participation...