NSF National Resource Coordination Center on Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE Center)

NSF 24-596

NSF seeks proposals to create an NSF National Resource Coordination Center on Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) (IUSE Center) that will be an intellectual partner to the IUSE: EDU community and NSF. Working in concert with the IUSE: EDU program, the goal of the IUSE Center is to serve as a focal point and intellectual partner for the IUSE: EDU community. The objectives of the IUSE Center are to:

• Enhance the reach and influence of IUSE investments by facilitating communication, engagement, and networking among IUSE: EDU award recipients, prospective recipients, and other stakeholders; and
• Provide support and resources for development and maintenance of IUSE: EDU projects, especially for prospective recipients and those underrepresented in the IUSE: EDU award recipient community.

The IUSE Center will be expected to work collaboratively with NSF and the IUSE: EDU community to design, implement, and execute its activities and ensure the inclusion of diverse educators and education researchers representing the full range of the nation's talent pool, of eligible institutions and organizations, and of STEM education efforts funded through the IUSE: EDU Program.

Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization: 1

Institutional Internal Review: If you plan to submit a proposal for this RFP, please send a concept paper to Shawn Chester, Associate Vice Provost for Research at shawn.chester@njit.edu by September 27, 2024 for institutional internal review. The concept paper should include title, project summary, intellectual merit, boarder impact, investigator team, budget summary and any specific institutional resources or cost-sharing needed. In case the number of concept papers exceeds the institutional limit requirement, the internal review will provide selection recommendations for institutional submission.

Cooperative Agreement

Limit on Number of Proposals per Organization: 1

$7,500,000 - ore award 

Please see below institutional submission Shawn Chester, Associate Vice Provost for Research at shawn.chester@njit.edu by September 27 for internal review

Institutional Internal Review: If you plan to submit a proposal for this RFP, please send a concept paper to Shawn Chester, Associate Vice Provost for Research at shawn.chester@njit.edu by September 27, 2024 for institutional internal review. The concept paper should include title, project summary, intellectual merit, boarder impact, investigator team, budget summary and any specific institutional resources or cost-sharing needed. In case the number of concept papers exceeds the institutional limit requirement, the internal review will provide selection recommendations for institutional submission.

November 14, 2024

• Ellen M. Carpenter, telephone: (703) 292-5104, email: elcarpen@nsf.gov
• Jennifer E. Lewis, telephone: 703) 292-7340, email: jenlewis@nsf.gov
• Eleanor Sayre, telephone: (703) 292-2997, email: esayre@nsf.gov