NSF Build and Broaden 2.0: Enhancing Social, Behavioral and Economic Science Research and Capacity at Minority-Serving Institutions Grant

Deadline: Friday, March 5, 2021

Total Funding Available: $5,000,000; NSF anticipates making 25-30 awards

About: Build and Broaden 2.0 (B2 2.0) encourages research collaborations between scholars at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and scholars in other institutions or organizations. Growing the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce is a national priority. National forecasts of the impending shortage of science and engineering skills and essential research workforce underscore a need to expand opportunities to participate in STEM research (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, 2012) (Link to 2012 report). NSF has taken steps to expand participation by focusing on research communities that are not well-represented in the federal research system. Through these steps, NSF is working to expand the volume and increase the diversity, interconnectedness, and effectiveness of the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce.

Build and Broaden 2.0 is designed to support fundamental research in the SBE sciences by scholars at minority-serving institutions (MSIs). Proposals are invited from single Principal Investigators based at MSIs and from multiple co-investigators from a group of MSIs. Principal Investigators who are not affiliated with MSIs may submit proposals, but must collaborate with PIs, co-PIs, or Senior Personnel from MSIs and describe how their project will foster research partnerships or capacity-building with at least one MSI as a primary goal of the proposed work. Proposals may address any of the scientific areas supported by SBE. 

Apply: The full proposal deadline date is March 5, 2021 (Link to solicitation).

For more information about Build and Broaden 2.0, please read the FAQs for the solicitation (Link to FAQs) or consider attending our informational webinar on February 09, 2021 at 2 PM EST (Link to webinar information). You can also check out this blog post written by the Deputy Assistant Director of NSF SBE, Dr. Kellina Craig-Henderson (Link to blog post).

If you are interested in applying for this grant or have any questions, please contact our Pre- Award Specialists Erika Wright at emw7@humboldt.edu or Pia Gabriel at pg12@humboldt.edu