Limited Submission Opportunity: NSF Scholarships in STEM Network (S-STEM-Net) 2025
URL: https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/s-stem-net-scholarships-stem-network
OBJECTIVES:
Through this solicitation, NSF seeks to foster a network of S-STEM stakeholders and further develop the infrastructure needed to generate and disseminate new knowledge, successful practices and effective design principles arising from NSF S-STEM projects nationwide. The ultimate vision of the legislation governing the S-STEM parent program (and of the current S-STEM-Net solicitation) is that all Americans, regardless of economic status, should be able to contribute to the American innovation economy if they so desire.
To support collaboration within the S-STEM network, NSF will fund several S-STEM Research Hubs (S-STEM-Hub). The S-STEM Network (S-STEM-Net) will collaborate to create synergies and sustain a robust national ecosystem consisting of multi-sector partners supporting domestic low-income STEM students in achieving their career goals, while also ensuring access, inclusion, and adaptability to changing learning needs. The Hubs will investigate evolving barriers to the success of this student population. It will also disseminate the context and circumstances by which interventions and practices that support graduation of domestic low-income students (both undergraduate and graduate) pursuing careers in STEM are successful.
S-STEM-Hub projects should:
- identify, develop, and support promising innovative research ideas that generate valuable new knowledge on the US higher education enterprise in general and the S-STEM community in particular;
- gather, analyze, and utilize the data and insights resulting from the experiences of those participating in S-STEM projects to share information about what works and what does not under given circumstances, regarding low-income STEM student achievement;
- share and leverage effective practices on a national scale to improve the achievement and success of domestic low-income students pursuing careers in STEM (including veterans, graduate students, and students in rural areas, if appropriate);
- provide intellectual infrastructure for collaborations with potential to expand the knowledge base about support for domestic low-income, high-achieving STEM students;
- develop mechanisms for dissemination of successful practices, the context in which they work and research results; and,
- ensure that the Research Hub’s activities are inclusive of the broad collection of institutions with S-STEM projects in the research focus of interest including, but not limited to, 2-year colleges, PUIs, minority-serving institutions, and/or research-intensive universities, as appropriate.
FUNDING INFORMATION:
Up to $3 million over a 5-year period.
ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS:
BU may submit only 1 S-STEM-Hub proposal. There are no restrictions or limits on who may serve as a PI.
INTERNAL SELECTION PROCESS:
Interested investigators should submit the following materials via InfoReady Review by: 2/7/2025
- Questions outlined in InfoReady Review application
- 2-page Proposal Statement describing the rationale for creating a Research Hub at BU, identify relevant stakeholders and any potential collaborating constituents and institutions, and justification for why the proposal must be done through collaboration
- A brief budget summary for the proposed project
- Up-to-date CV or biosketch for lead PIPrincipal Investigator View Boston University's policy on...
As necessary, a faculty committee drawn from both campuses will review internal proposals and select a nominee.
DEADLINES:
Internal Materials Due: Friday, February 7, 2025, 11:59 pm EST
External Deadline: Wednesday, March 26, 2025