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Programs and Activities
The Office of Integrative Activities leads the following NSF interagency and cross-cutting programs and activities:
Programs
Activities
Academic Research Infrastructure Program: Recovery and Reinvestment (ARI-R²) is designed to support 21st century research and research training infrastructure in our Nation's academic institutions, independent research museums, independent non-profit research laboratories, and non-profit research consortia. ARI-R² will revitalize existing research facilities so that they provide next-generation research infrastructure and facilitate the integration of researchers with shared resources such as remote instruments and research platforms, data repositories, and national computing facilities.
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) is NSF's bold five-year initiative to create revolutionary science and engineering research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational thinking. "Computational thinking" is defined comprehensively to encompass computational concepts, methods, models, algorithms, and tools.
Ethics in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Online Resource Center competition proposes to fund one award to support a multidisciplinary team of researchers who will create an online resource center that develops, compiles, and maintains resources related to ethics in science, mathematics, and engineering.
Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR)
strengthens science and engineering research and education throughout the United States by providing strategic programs and opportunities that advance sustainable R&D capabilities, capacity, and competitiveness in EPSCoR jurisdictions.
Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) strengthens the U.S. scientific enterprise by investing in state-of-the-art research instrumentation at our Nation’s universities, research museums, and non-profit research organizations as well as by providing researchers and students access to cutting-edge scientific and engineering equipment.
Science and Technology Centers (STC) Integrative Partnerships supports innovative, potentially transformative, complex research and education projects that require large-scale, long-term awards. Partnering with academic institutions, national laboratories, industrial organizations, and/or other public/private entities, STCs conduct research at the intersection of multiple disciplines and foster excellence in education by creating bonds between learning and inquiry so that discovery and creativity fully support the learning process.
OIA administers Committee of Visitors (COV) reviews for NSF, relying on the judgment of external experts to maintain high standards of program management, to provide advice for continuous improvement of NSF performance, and to ensure openness to the research and education community served by the Foundation. COV reviews provide NSF with assessments of the quality and integrity of program operations and program-level technical and managerial matters pertaining to proposal decisions; and comments on how the results generated by awardees have contributed to the attainment of NSF's mission and goals.
OIA administers Developing STEM Talent on behalf of NSF through several professional development programs for aspiring scientists and engineers; including the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows and the Summer Scholars Internship programs.
Honorary Awards such as the President’s National Medal of Science and the NSF Alan T. Waterman Award are administered through the Office of Intergrative Activities. OIA also coordinates within NSF the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and supports efforts involving two other Presidential awards that recognize outstanding mathematics and science teachers as well as science, engineering, and mathematics mentors.
Neuroscience explores the research frontiers that increase cross-fertilization and mutual benefit between neuroscience and the broad physical sciences.
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