June 25, 2025

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NSF webinars & office hours:

On June 20, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in No. 1:25-cv-11231-IT, vacated NSF’s 15% Indirect Cost Rate policy (NSF 25-034). In compliance with the court’s decision, NSF will not implement the policy at this time.

Many in the CISE community may be asking: Should I submit an NSF CAREER proposal this July? 

The short answer is yes. If you have a compelling idea that is ready and the time to put together a strong proposal, you should move forward. The longer answer involves civics, reasoning under uncertainty and the intrinsic value of proposal writing. 

The President's Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request, if enacted, would affect CAREER. However, the budget request represents one of multiple possible scenarios and the President's Budget Request is not the only or last step in the federal budget process. While CAREER is listed on page 27 of the President's Budget Request under "Emphasis Programs," with a "0%" and a dash in the FY 2026 request column, this does not mean that the CAREER program is being eliminated.

Additionally, you might be wondering if it makes sense to save your limited CAREER tickets for a better budget year. Unfortunately, just as we can't predict the outcome of the FY 2026 budget, future budgets are also uncertain. This reinforces our suggestion to submit when you are ready.  

Writing a CAREER or Small Core proposal helps clarify your research ideas and long-term goals. The number of proposals submitted is one indication of the research community's ideas and capacity to receive funding. Receiving feedback from a review panel is a valuable step toward refining your research agenda and sharpening your grant writing skills.  

The bottom line is that we remain eager to fund impactful research through CAREER awards in FY 2026, and we look forward to receiving your exciting proposals. 

Learn more about the President's Budget Request for NSF.

Learn more about the federal budget cycle.

CISE funding opportunities

The Forum on Cyber Resilience serves as an independent, trusted venue in which experts from industry, academia, and government can work collaboratively to explore emerging critical challenges related to the security, trustworthiness, and resilience of the nation's computing, communications systems, and critical infrastructures. Blending expertise in technology, policy, national security, and the law, the Forum convenes senior representatives and serves both as a readily available source of insight and expertise and as a body committed to anticipating and thinking about future trends. Forum activities inform stakeholders through convenings, dialogues, and published workshop summaries and through engagements with consensus study committees.

We invite you to submit suggestions for experts to participate in this activity. The call for experts closes on July 8, 2025.

NASA invites applications for the 6th cohort of the Spaceflight Technology, Applications, and Research (STAR) virtual training focused on the science and technology behind biological experiments in space. STAR is designed to encourage networking and collaborations in spaceflight technologies, applications, and research across all areas interested in space and biological sciences. This course aims to facilitate the entry of researchers into space biology and preparation for spaceflight experiments using NASA and commercial platforms. The STAR course will cover both fundamental and applied aspects of the field of space biology, as well as practical aspects of preparing for, conducting, and analyzing the results of spaceflight experiments. 

The STAR-6 Application uses the Request for Information (RFI) response structure in the NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES). The full text of the STAR RFI, including application submission instructions, can be found here. Responses must be submitted electronically using the NSPIRES web site. 

Submitting a STAR application does not guarantee course acceptance. NASA does not award funding for course participation nor otherwise pay for the information solicited. Applicants who are accepted will be notified via email on or after July 31, 2025. Declined applicants will also be notified. The course will take place virtually from September 2025 – February 2026 (estimate) with sessions held weekly for two hours each. The STAR course is subject to cancellation at any time, even after notification of acceptance.

Wednesday, July 9

This session will present an overview of the EPSCoR Workshop Opportunities solicitation, along with a case study of a successful workshop on quantum computing, information, science, and engineering, followed by ample time for Q&A.

Session Panelists: Ben McCall, NSF Program Director and lead of the EPSCoR Workshop Opportunities program, and Samee Khan, Professor and Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State University.

Advance registration is required. Click here to register. 

This virtual networking event in support of the U.S. National Science Foundation Verticals-enabling Intelligent Network Systems (NSF VINES) program, NSF 25-539 solicitation, is aimed at providing a venue for U.S. investigators who may be interested in exploring potential teaming opportunities with international collaborators from participating foreign countries.

To accommodate time zone differences, NSF will host two 3-hour sessions (see below).

In each session, the format will be a set of parallel breakout rooms where participants will have a chance to pitch their capabilities and needs and network to potentially team up for an NSF VINES collaborative project. Participation in this event is registration-based, entirely voluntary and does not constitute any form of NSF endorsement.

• Session 1: Thursday, July 10, 2025, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. EDT (targeted to U.S., India, Finland and Sweden)
• Session 2: Thursday, July 10, 2025, 7 - 10 p.m. EDT (targeted to U.S., Japan, and potentially India)

Register for the webinar.

The NSF Engineering Directorate proudly supports early-career engineers as they chart the course of their future.  Keep an eye out for upcoming webinars and deadlines.

NSF Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) (NSF 24-590). The NSF ERI program provides up to $200,000 over 24 months to support faculty who are not affiliated with "very high research activity" R1 institutions, including community colleges, who lack significant federal funding. Proposals are due Sept. 16, 2025.

NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (NSF CAREER) (NSF 22-586). NSF CAREER awards provide $500,000 or more over five years to help recipients build a foundation for leadership in integrating education and research. Proposals are due July 23, 2025.

Watch an NSF CAREER webinar.

August 12, 2025, Overland Park Convention Center

Join your friends, colleagues, collaborators and hundreds of life sciences professionals from across the country for this unique, one-day conference. We bring together cutting-edge scientists, inventors, industry leaders, and the next generation of bioscientists to celebrate Midwest life sciences and explore emerging opportunities in a diverse and dynamic meeting.

Sessions Include:
•    Entrepreneurship and Investing
•    Innovation Resources in the Region
•    Cutting Edge Research in Biomaterials
•    Advances in Medical Devices
•    Economic Development and the Bioscience Landscape
•    Al Trends and Health Systems Evolution
•    Breakthroughs in Basic and Translational Science
•    Navigating Research Funding Challenges
•    Dynamic Exhibition Hall
•    Integrated Science Poster and Art Gallery
•    The Brewseum - an Interactive Museum for the Science of Brewing
•    Startup Pitch Competition

More information and registration can be found here.