The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCOR) announces a funding opportunity for Research and Education Innovation awards in the focus area of microbiome science, particularly in areas that are related to the current Kansas NSF EPSCoR focus of microbiomes as broadly construed to be in aquatic, plant and / or soil systems. REI Awards are for small projects. They either allow for networking and planning or for the immediate pursuit of larger projects for developing new transformational concepts. These are awarded for both research and education, given their close relationship.
These awards are in the same spirit as and share goals with NSF (Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) awards for high risk/high gain research ideas. The full request for proposals with submission instructions is available at https://wsu.news/nsfepscoropp. Proposals are due by 5 p.m. Friday, June 29.
