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U.S. National Science Foundation

Directorate for STEM Education
     Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings

Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitting organization’s local time):

     January 08, 2025

     Second Wednesday in January, Annually Thereafter

Important Information And Revision Notes REVISED: Goal #3, Broadening Participation in STEM REMINDER: Requirements for all proposals: 5 keywords in Project Summary; Goals to be addressed; Solicitation Specific Review Criteria, List of Proposal Personnel REMINDER: All proposals must articulate a clear rationale describing why a project is informal learning and how it adds value to the informal STEM learning community. REMINDER: The AISL program prefers collaborative proposals to be submitted using the single-entity option (submitted by one organization with sub-awards). For collaborative proposals uploaded as separate linked submissions from multiple organizations, the minimum one-year budget amount is $75,000 for each organization for each project year.

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NSF 24-121

August 28, 2024

Dear Colleagues:

Understanding the neurobiological mechanisms that underlie neural, physiological, and behavioral responses to anthropogenic environmental change is of vital importance in today’s rapidly evolving world. The nervous system serves as an interface between an organism and its environment, and through it, perceives, responds, and adapts to change. Anthropogenic stressors such as noise pollution, ocean acidification, chemical pollution, temperature fluctuation and other human-generated environmental perturbations pose severe threats to organisms, thereby affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services. Research in the area of neurobiology in changing ecosystems holds promise to reveal novel scientific insights that will contribute to understanding neural adaptation and resilience at molecular, biophysical, cellular, and circuit level (Michaiel and Bernard 2022; O’Donnell 2018).

Opportunities for investigation of neurobiology in changing ecosystems specifically cover modulatory, homeostatic, adaptive, and/or

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NSF 24-120

August 28, 2024

Dear Colleagues:

Plant genetic transformation, a process of introducing DNA, RNA, and proteins into plant cell/tissue and the regeneration of transformed materials, is of vital importance for both basic and applied research. In basic research, the generation of knock-out mutants, targeted mutagenesis, or over-expressing lines by plant transformation is a key approach for the functional characterization of genes. In applied research, genetic transformation enables genome editing and transgenesis that allows precise and knowledge-based gene modifications for plant breeding.

Except for Arabidopsis thaliana and a few other species from the Brassicaceae family, which can be transformed using non-tissue culture-based technique, most plant species require complex transformation and regeneration protocols with extensive in vitro culture procedures. These protocols are time-consuming, expensive, and often technically demanding. For many plant species, regeneration

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PROGRAM BASICS

What is the goal of the NSF Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program?

The goal of the NSF POSE program is to fund new open-source ecosystem (OSE) managing organizations, each responsible for the creation and maintenance of infrastructure needed for efficient and secure operation of an OSE focused on a specific open-source product or class of products. The early and intentional formation of such managing organizations is expected to enhance the distributed development process, improve coordination of developer contributions, increase the size of the user community, and enable more focused route to impactful technologies.

The POSE program is not intended to fund:

compensation for the developers of the open-source research products, including tools and artifacts; existing, well-resourced open-source communities, organizations, and/or ecosystems; or the development of products that are unavailable for open use.

Proposers working on a product where

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