October 3, 2022
Federal Funding News and Opportunities
The purpose of the Preventive Medicine Residency program is to increase the number, quality, and diversity of preventive medicine residents and physicians to support access to preventive medicine and to integrate population health with primary care to improve the health of communities.
The Advanced Transportation Technologies and Innovative Mobility Deployment Program (ATTIMD), also known as the Advanced Transportation Technology and Innovation (ATTAIN) Program, provides funding to deploy, install, and operate advanced transportation technologies to improve safety, mobility, efficiency, system performance, intermodal connectivity, and infrastructure return on investment. These model technology deployments are expected to provide benefits in the form of:
- reduced traffic-related fatalities and injuries, traffic congestion and improved travel time reliability, and/or transportation-related emissions;
- optimized multimodal system performance;
- improved access to transportation alternatives, including for underserved populations, and/or integration of payment systems;
- public access to real-time integrated traffic, transit, and multimodal transportation information to make informed travel decisions;
- cost savings to transportation agencies, businesses, and the traveling public; and/or
- other benefits to transportation users and the general public.
The Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program funds purpose-driven innovation to build data and technology capacity and expertise for state and local governments. Communities should target their real-world challenges where the use of new technologies and approaches can create benefits.
Note: Institutions of Higher Education are not eligible applicants but can partner with a local government to plan and prototype promising transportation-related technologies.
The Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities Program supports humanistic research that examines the relationship between technology and society. The National Endowment for Humanities is particularly interested in projects that examine current social and cultural issues that are significantly shaped by technology.
The Advanced Chip Engineering Design and Fabrication Applications (ACED Fab) program aims to leverage the complementary academic talent and engineering strengths of semiconductor research in the U.S. and Taiwan to enable chip design and fabrication to advance semiconductor science, Engineering, and education. Proposals are encouraged to target emerging applications, including, but not limited to:
- High-performance, low-power circuits and systems;
- Edge-AI sensing, computing, and communication; Quantum computing and communication chips; and
- Emerging semiconductor heterogeneous integration.
An ACED Fab proposal must be an integrated collaborative effort between the U.S. and Taiwan researchers. The research project must aim to bring a specific innovation to integrated circuit prototypes that demonstrate advanced functionality and utilize advanced fabrication technology as differentiators. The scope of an ACED Fab proposal must include at least one semiconductor chip design for tape-out utilizing fabrication process technologies of Taiwan’s semiconductor foundries via multi-project wafer runs within the duration of the project.
The Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation (CSSI) program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure (CI). The program continues to emphasize integrated CI services, quantitative metrics with targets for delivery and usage of these services, and community creation. The CSSI program anticipates three classes of awards:
- Elements: These awards target small groups that will create and deploy robust services for which there is a demonstrated need, and that will advance one or more significant areas of science and engineering.
- Framework Implementations: These awards target larger, interdisciplinary teams organized around the development and application of services aimed at solving common research problems faced by NSF researchers in one or more areas of science and engineering, and resulting in a sustainable community framework providing CI services to a diverse community or communities.
- Transition to Sustainability: These awards target groups who would like to execute a well-defined sustainability plan for existing CI with demonstrated impact in one or more areas of science and engineering supported by NSF. The sustainability plan should enable new avenues of support for the long-term sustained impact of the CI.
National Science Foundation Racial Equity in STEM Education proposals due January 17, 2023
Racial inequities often create barriers to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) knowledge generation, as well as access to and participation in all aspects of STEM education, research, and the workforce. In ongoing efforts to address these disparities, the National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to support bold, groundbreaking, and potentially transformative projects that contribute to advancing racial equity in STEM education and workforce development. Collectively, proposals funded by this solicitation will: substantively contribute to institutionalizing effective research-based practices, policies, and outcomes in STEM environments for those who experience inequities caused by systemic racism and the broader community; advance scholarship and promote racial equity in STEM in ways that expand the array of epistemologies, perspectives, ideas, theoretical and methodological approaches that NSF funds; and further diversify project leadership and institutions funded by NSF.
