Internal Funding Opportunity

Kansas NSF EPSCoR First Awards

Current focus: Research in resiliency and smart infrastructure

The First Award program helps early career, tenure-track faculty become more competitive for funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) by 1) encouraging early career faculty to submit proposals to the NSF (or other federal funding agency) as soon as possible after their first faculty appointment, and 2) by accelerating the pace of their research and the quality of their subsequent proposals.

First Awards are intended as single-investigator awards to support the principal investigator's (PI) research at their institution. While including Co-PIs, other senior personnel, and sub-awards to other institutions is prohibited, applicants are encouraged to include collaborators or mentors from the ARISE team in their proposal. Applicants are allowed to contact team members to discuss how project ideas may relate to the current ARISE project.