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The National Science Foundation Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Program FY14 Solicitation (NSF 13-608) was released on September 30, 2013. AISL Program Officers are holding two types of webinars focused on this solicitation: AISL Webinar – 101 Introduction to the Solicitation: focuses on the key elements of the solicitation, including changes and new components. This ... Read more

The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) will host the 2016 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Principal Investigator (PI) Meeting, as part of our cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF). The meeting will be held February 29th – March 2nd, 2016, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel in North Bethesda, MD, ... Read more

The Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) will host the 2016 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Principal Investigator (PI) Meeting, as part of our cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF). The meeting will be held February 29th to March 2nd, 2016, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel in North Bethesda, MD, ... Read more

Informational webinars and key documents

Ahead of the 2021 Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Awardee Meeting hosted virtually by CAISE in October, the National Science Foundation provided technical assistance materials to help support current projects attending the meeting. We are making these materials available for projects who may have missed the meeting and for potential AISL applicants. CAISE will provide a summary and disseminate content ... Read more

Join a conversation with Dr. James Moore, head of STEM education for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Learn more and register.

August 21, 2018 The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected Dr. Karen Marrongelle to serve as head of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). EHR supports fundamental research that enhances learning and teaching, and broad efforts to achieve excellence in U.S. science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, at all levels and in ... Read more

Are you interested in bringing together STEM and computing inside and outside of the classroom? If so, you should learn more about the National Science Foundation’s STEM+C Program for the opportunity to receive funding. The deadline to submit proposals is July 2, 2018. Read the full program description and FAQs. A synopsis from the NSF ... Read more

The Advancing Informal STEM Learning program (AISL) has awarded RAPID funding to projects that are addressing the STEM learning, science communication and public engagement aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.   ​How People Learn Rapidly: COVID-19 as a Crisis of Socioscientific Understanding and Educational Equity.​ Award Number: 2028370; Principal Investigator: Angela Calabrese Barton; Co-Principal Investigator: Leslie Herrenkohl, Elizabeth Davis; Organization: University of ... Read more

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is initiating a national search for the Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources (EHR). We seek your assistance in the identification of visionary candidates to lead the Directorate during the coming years. Dr. Joan Ferrini-Mundy served in the position from 2011 through 2016, with Dr. James Lewis serving as ... Read more

The NSF/EHR CAREER Working Group is hosting a webinar to answer participants’ questions about developing and submitting proposals to the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). The webinar will provide information specific to CAREER submissions to EHR and will give participants the opportunity to interact ... Read more

The workshop is intended to provide guidance and mentorship to prospective CAREER applicants to the NSF Directorate for Education and Human Resources. It will serve as an opportunity for participants to gain a better understanding of the program, including eligibility requirements, the application process, and outcomes of past CAREER awardees, and for participants to interact ... Read more

On February 18, National Science Foundation Program Officers and staff from the Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning (CIRCL) held a webinar on the latest Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies solicitation. The Cyberlearning program funds projects that integrate emerging technologies with advances in what we know about how people learn. An archive of the webinar ... Read more

On December 18, 2018, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a new Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) seeking conference proposals on “Concepts for Advancing Sustainable Urban Systems Research Networks.” The submission deadline is March 22, 2019 by 5:00 p.m., submitter’s local time. Informal STEM education and science communication professionals might consider contributing to or participating in a ... Read more

The National Science Foundation has a new Dear Colleague Letter: Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Incubators and Conferences for STEM Education Research with a Focus on Education Equity. Proposal deadlines are 7/1/2022, 9/1/2022, and 3/1/2023. Join an informational webinar on June 14, 3-4PM ET.   May 11, 2022 Dear Colleagues: With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the ... Read more

The National Science Foundation has a new Dear Colleague Letter: Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Incubators and Conferences for STEM Education Research with a Focus on Education Equity. Proposal deadlines are 7/1/2022, 9/1/2022, and 3/1/2023. Join an informational webinar on June 14, 3-4PM ET.   May 11, 2022 Dear Colleagues: With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the ... Read more

The National Science Foundation has a new Dear Colleague Letter: Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure Incubators and Conferences for STEM Education Research with a Focus on Education Equity. Proposal deadlines are 7/1/2022, 9/1/2022, and 3/1/2023. Join an informational webinar on June 14, 3-4PM ET.   May 11, 2022 Dear Colleagues: With this Dear Colleague Letter (DCL), the ... Read more

In April, CAISE participated in the Broader Impacts Infrastructure Summit convened by the University of Missouri and the Broader Impacts Infrastructure Network. Dr. France Cordova, recently appointed Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), spoke for the first time publicly in the plenary session, along with American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) President ... Read more

The Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is conducing a nationwide search for temporary Program Directors. Appointments may be made for up to two years, with possible extension for an additional year by mutual agreement. Formal consideration of applications will begin at two ... Read more

The Discovery Research PreK-12 program (DRK-12), funded by the National Science Foundation, seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computer science (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of STEM education innovations and approaches. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education ... Read more

Join NSF for an information session focused on the DRK-12 program’s new partnership development project type, announced in 2023, during which program directors will answer participants’ questions. Learn more and register.

There are currently several Program Director positions available at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL).  Please refer to the following Dear Colleague Letters to further explore these opportunities: Dear Colleague Letter: Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), ... Read more

The National Science Foundation Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) will host webinars to inform researchers about opportunities to submit proposals to the EHR Core Research (ECR) program announcement (NSF 13-555). ECR seeks proposals that will help synthesize, build and/or expand research foundations in the following core areas: STEM learning, STEM learning environments, workforce ... Read more

The Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL), at the National Science Foundation announces a nationwide search for temporary program directors with expertise at the intersections between computer science (as well as related fields) and research on science, technology, engineering or mathematics learning. Formal ... Read more

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released its fiscal year 2018 budget request to Congress. NSF’s FY 2018 Budget Request is $6.653 billion, a decrease of $840.98 million (-11.2 percent) over the FY 2016 Actual investment. This funding will support approximately 8,000 new research grants, with an estimated funding rate of 19 percent for research ... Read more