National Science Foundation (NSF); Racial Equity in STEM Education 

Due: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 

Funding Amount: Up to $5 Million 

ABOUT: NSF seeks to support bold, groundbreaking, and potentially transformative projects that contribute to advancing racial equity in STEM education and workforce development through practice and/or fundamental or applied research. 

Collectively, proposals funded by this solicitation will: (1) substantively contribute to institutionalizing effective research-based practices, policies, and outcomes in STEM environments for those who experience inequities caused by systemic racism and the broader community; (2) advance scholarship and promote racial equity in STEM in ways that expand the array of epistemologies, perspectives, ideas, theoretical and methodological approaches that NSF funds; and (3) further diversify project leadership (PIs and co-PIs) and institutions funded by NSF.

Each proposal should include a rigorous plan to generate knowledge and/or evidence-based practice via fundamental or applied research. Projects may focus on, but are not limited to:

• building theory; developing research, evaluation, and assessment methods; conducting pilot projects and feasibility studies;

• testing approaches and interventions;

• assessing the potential, efficacy, effectiveness, and scalability of approaches and interventions;

• changing institutional, organizational, and structural practices and policies;

• establishing, cultivating, and assessing authentic partnerships with communities impacted by systemic racism; conducting syntheses, meta-syntheses, meta-analyses, and systematic literature reviews;

• convening conferences that explore a theory, topic, method, or issue related to the program goals in order to drive research and practice forward; and/or

• focusing on affective, behavioral, cultural, social components, and implications.

**Please note this opportunity will also cycle in October 2023, so if you're not ready to apply this January, please keep it in mind for later in 2023.

APPLY: For a detailed program description, please see the solicitation attached in the portal announcement, or follow the link to the NSF’s Racial Equity in STEM program page. Prospective PIs are encouraged to send a one-page concept paper to EHRRacialEquity@nsf.gov in advance of submitting a proposal.

NOTE: If you are interested in applying or have any questions, please contact our Pre-Award Specialists Pia Gabriel at pg12@humboldt.edu, Kaz Wegmuller at kaz.wegmuller@humboldt.edu, or Jocelyne Takatsuno at jt366@humboldt.edu  before December 17, 2022.