Division of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities (EFMA) | NSF - National Science Foundation

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Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities (EFMA)

Targets important cutting-edge opportunities and long-term challenges for engineering that may address national needs, and supports multidisciplinary studies and facilities.

Engineering researchers to bend rules (of classical physics)

Quantum photonic processor

Quantum technologies to advance secure communication

Announcements

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News

NSF announces awards for soft robotics research December 20, 2018
Why Frances Arnold’s Nobel Prize is a significant achievement for engineering December 10, 2018
2D materials skip the energy barrier by growing one row at a time December 6, 2018

Funding Opportunities

Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering - Ideas Labs
(NSF 19-543) Posted December 12, 2018
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2
(NSF 19-542) Posted December 11, 2018
Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research
(NSF 19-541) Posted December 6, 2018

Upcoming Due Dates

Major Research Instrumentation Program: (NSF 18-513) Full Proposal: January 22, 2019
EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (RII Track-2 FEC) (NSF 18-589) Full Proposal: January 25, 2019
Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR): Institutes for Data-Intensive Research in Science and Engineering - Ideas Labs (NSF 19-543) Preliminary Proposal: January 28, 2019

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