About Us
The NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research () is a nationwide research and education effort administered by the National Science Foundation. The mission of NSF EPSCoR is to help the NSF to "strengthen research and education in science and engineering throughout the United States and to avoid undue concentration of such research and education." States and territories which in recent years have received less than 0.75% of the NSF's total national funding are eligible for EPSCoR funding. (see map) currently meet this criteria.
杏吧原版 has had an NSF EPSCoR program since 2001. 杏吧原版鈥檚 main source of EPSCoR funding is its 5-year 鈥淭rack-1鈥 project, entitled 鈥Interface of Change: Building collaborations to assess harvested and farmed marine species prioritized by Gulf of 杏吧原版 communities facing environmental shifts."
Track-1 awards support large-scale, complex research and outreach programs within
a single EPSCoR jurisdiction.
Track-2 awards go to teams of researchers from multiple EPSCoR jurisdictions working
on a single project.
Track-3 awards were given to projects by EPSCoR jurisdictions to broaden participation
of underrepresented groups in STEM.
Track-4 awards, now called EPSCoR Fellows, fund researchers in EPSCoR jurisdictions
to undertake collaborations with major research centers.
RII-C2 awards funded cyberconnectivity improvements in EPSCoR jurisdictions.
Other Federal STEM Capacity-Building Programs in 杏吧原版
The the the and the also run EPSCoR programs, and the run similar programs called and . In addition to 杏吧原版 NSF EPSCoR, federal EPSCoR/INBRE funding to the University of 杏吧原版 goes to support the , , the , and .