UC San Diego has received a three-year, nearly $1 million NSF ExLENT award to launch the Experiential Semiconductor Training in Emerging Nano-Technologies (ExSTENT) program.

The National Solar Observatory (NSO) has received $19 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to design the Next-Generation Ground-based Solar Observing Network (ngGONG).

Boise State University has secured a $7.4 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the largest NSF award in the university’s history, to establish AWESOME: the Center for Advancing Workforce Experience through Semiconductors, Outreach,…

The National Science Foundation has awarded funding to support a collaboration between the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University aimed at developing more efficient, longer-lasting catalysts for pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Florida State University researchers have received a $2.3 million National Science Foundation grant, the largest ever for FSU’s Department of Computer Science, to build AI-powered tools for managing wildfires in hurricane-prone regions like the Florida…

The University of Nevada, Reno, in partnership with Great Basin College and the Elko County School District, has received a five-year, $775,000 National Science Foundation award to address the shortage of STEM teachers in rural Nevada.

The University of New Mexico (UNM), in partnership with national labs and universities across the U.S., has received a $4 million National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) program to advance the design…

Presentation slides now available in review of The National Science Foundation's Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) program's informational webinar on August 28th, 2025. The subject: CPS: Foundations and Connected Communities program; part of the…

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a new solicitation to create the National AI Research Resource Operations Center (NAIRR-OC); a major step toward transitioning the NAIRR Pilot, launched in 2024, into a sustainable national program.

The Kavli Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) have awarded a new round of funding through the Neurobiology in Changing Ecosystems (NiCE) initiative, supporting interdisciplinary research at the intersection of neuroscience, ecology…

The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for STEM Education has issued a Dear Colleague Letter inviting supplemental funding requests to support the Presidential AI Challenge: Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth.

Vanderbilt University researchers Brett V. Benson and Brett J. Goldstein are sounding the alarm on the rise of AI-driven propaganda, urging urgent action from academia, government, and industry.

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $3 million to establish the NSF ACE-3D Chip Design Hub at the University of Chicago, a national center to accelerate domestic semiconductor innovation.

Two faculty members and two graduate students from Oklahoma State University’s Boone Pickens School of Geology recently returned from a five-week NSF-funded international research expedition aboard the R/V Roger Revelle, studying sediment and seawater…

The U.S. National Science Foundation and NVIDIA have announced a $152 million public-private partnership to create the Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI), led by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). The initiative will produce…

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded $29.2 million through its EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) to advance transformative, multi-state research in historically underfunded jurisdictions.