In 1995, the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA) was established in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences and charged with facilitating and supporting opportunities that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. OMA works in partnership with the five MPS Divisions (Astronomical Sciences, Chemistry, Materials Research, Mathematical Sciences, and Physics) to respond more effectively to the excellence and creativity of the MPS communities, particularly to proposals that, because of their subject, scope, or multi-investigator or multidisciplinary nature, did not readily fit the existing MPS program structure.

OMA provides a focal point in the Directorate for partnerships (e.g., with other agencies, industry, national laboratories, state and local governments, and international organizations), seeds crosscutting research in areas of particular promise, and supports innovative experiments in education that could lead to new paradigms in graduate and undergraduate education in the mathematical and physical sciences, particularly in multidisciplinary settings.

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Write to the Head, Office of Multidisciplinary Activities, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Room C9000, Alexandria, VA 22314; or contact the office by telephone, 703-292-8800.