Upcoming NSF due dates for Mid-Career Advancement, AISL, MMS, and IUSE:EHR programs
Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL)
- Deadline: January 18, 2022
The National Science Foundation’s AISL program seeks to advance new approaches to and evidence-based understanding of the design and development of STEM learning opportunities for the public in informal environments; provide multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences; advance innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments; and engage the public of all ages in learning STEM in informal environments.
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources (IUSE:EHR)
- Deadline: January 19, 2022
The IUSE: EHR is a core NSF STEM education program that seeks to promote novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. The program features two tracks: (1) Engaged Student Learning and (2) Institutional and Community Transformation. Several levels of scope, scale, and funding are available for each track.
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)
- Deadline: January 27, 2022
The MMS program is an interdisciplinary program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences that supports the development of innovative analytical and statistical methods and models for those sciences. MMS seeks proposals that are methodologically innovative, grounded in theory, and have potential use for multiple fields in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences.
Mid-Career Advancement (MCA)
- Deadline: February 7, 2022
Through the MCA program, NSF is seeking proposals from mid-career scientists at the associate professor rank (or equivalent) who wish to substantively advance their research program and career trajectory. A primary objective of the MCA is to ensure that scientists and engineers remain engaged and active in cutting-edge research at a critical career stage replete with constraints on time that can impinge on research productivity, retention, and career advancement. Thus, by re-investing in mid-career researchers, NSF hopes to enable a more diverse scientific workforce (more women, persons with disabilities, and underrepresented minorities) at high academic ranks.
The Office of Research and Graduate Education’s pre-award staff looks forward to hearing from faculty who would like to submit an application to any of these programs.