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Explore active grant opportunities from National Science Foundation. We've laid out the essentials — deadlines, awards, eligibility — with a direct link to apply on Grants.gov.

38 open opportunities

Chemical Evolution of the Solid Earth and Volcanology

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#25-516

Life and Environments Through Time

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#25-517

Geospace Cluster

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-24-7789

Infrastructure Cluster

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-24-7791

Multilateral Partnerships Leveraging Excellence

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $200K#PD-24-7298

Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-24-8084

Research in the Formation of Engineers

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-24-1340

Condensed Matter and Materials Theory

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#23-611

Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Programs

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#23-612

Catalysis

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-1401

Engineering of Biomedical Systems

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-5345

Cellular and Biochemical Engineering

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-1491

Process Systems, Reaction Engineering, and Molecular Thermodynamics

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-1403

Disability and Rehabilitation Engineering

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-5342

Energy, Power, Control, and Networks

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-18-7607

Combustion and Fire Systems

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-1407

Particulate and Multiphase Processes

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-1415

Interfacial Engineering

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-1417

Biophotonics

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-7236

Environmental Sustainability

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-7643

Electrochemical Systems

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-7644

Thermal Transport Processes

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-1406

Nanoscale Interactions

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-1179

Fluid Dynamics

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-1443

Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-18-7564

Electronics, Photonics and Magnetic Devices

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-18-1517

Manufacturing Systems Integration

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-229Y

Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs: No Deadline Pilot

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#22-606

Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-22-7569

Facilities for Atmospheric Research and Education

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-22-1529

Biosensing

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-20-7909

Advanced Manufacturing

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-19-088Y

Engineering for Civil Infrastructure

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-19-073Y

Engineering Design and Systems Engineering

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-19-072Y

Biomechanics and Mechanobiology

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $5K–$400K#PD-19-7479

Operations Engineering

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-19-006Y

Mechanics of Materials and Structures

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-19-1630

National Facilities

National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-05-1743

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