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Emerging Frontiers (EF)

EF Special Announcement

If you're a new visitor to the Directorate for Biological Sciences website or just want a quick visual and textual summary of our areas of support, please visit the "About BIO" web page where we have added a new interactive organization chart.

See BIO Dear Colleague Letters (Updated 11/22/11)

Information about Centers supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences is now posted on the Division of Biological Infrastructure web page.

Programs and Funding Opportunities

Key: Crosscutting Crosscutting | NSF Wide Flag NSF-wide

EF Active Solicitations
bullet Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections  (ADBC)
bullet Dimensions of Biodiversity FY2012
bullet MacroSystems Biology:
bullet Ocean Acidification Crosscutting
Current Activities: no longer receiving proposals - EF
bullet Advancing Theory in Biology  (ATB)
bullet Assembling, Visualizing, and Analyzing the Tree of Life  (AVAToL)
bullet Innovations in Biological Imaging and Visualization  (IBIV)
bullet National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
bullet Surpassing Evolution: Transformative Approaches to Enhance the Efficiency of Photosynthesis

Featured NSF-wide Programs

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NSF Educational Opportunities by Audience

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Upcoming Due Dates See All

Research Experiences for Undergraduates
(NSF  09-598) Full Proposal: June 1, 2012, Deadline for REU Site proposals requiring access to Antarctica. All other REU Site proposals must be submitted to the August REU deadline.

Research Coordination Networks
(NSF  11-531) Full Proposal: June 15, 2012, RCN UBE and UBE Incubator Track

Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers Program
(NSF  12-516) Letter of Intent: June 29, 2012

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program
(NSF  11-533) Full Proposal: July 2, 2012

Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
(NSF  11-690) Full Proposal: July 23, 2012, BIO, CISE, EHR, OCI


News See All

a Twin Otter aircraft Full Airborne Observation Platform Embarks on Inaugural Journey
Released May 2, 2012
News From the Field
biology graphic Finding the Roots and Early Branches of the Tree of Life
Released April 19, 2012
News From the Field
skyline of Leipzig, Germany Live Fast, Die Young
Released April 18, 2012
News From the Field

Discoveries See All

Image of snow-covered Mount Washington, N.H. The Snows of Mount Washington
Climate and environmental change in the U.S. northeast corridor
Released  March 2, 2012

Photo of a teacher with two students carrying out a science experiment. "Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology" Initiative Charts New Path for College-level Biology
Meeting the needs of the 21st Century
Released  January 24, 2012

Photo of a panda wearing a GPS collar meandering through the Wolong Nature Reserve Prowling Pandas Become Policy Advisers
Vanessa Hull evaluates the impacts of zoning on pandas in Wolong Nature Reserve in southwestern China
Released  December 14, 2011

Image of lunge and wing-threat behavior between a pair of male fruit flies. Angry Flies May Help Explain Human Aggression
Caltech biologist David Anderson and his colleagues identify a brain chemical involved in promoting aggression in flies
Released  January 29, 2010

Photo of the Northern House mosquito. West Nile Virus: The Search for Answers in Chicago’s Suburbs
The pattern of West Nile virus in Chicago’s suburbs may hold the answers to understanding this disease
Released  August 11, 2009




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