In April-May 2024, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education in collaboration with American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) offered a series of 60-minute proposal preparation webinars focused on the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program and the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program (associated with undergraduate education related to STEM preservice teacher preparation). The recordings and slide decks for each webinar are available below.
- IUSE with a focus on preservice teacher education
- IUSE with a focus on K-12 STEM teacher preparation
- Noyce Track 1: Scholarships & Stipends and Capacity Building
- Track 2 Teaching Fellowships & Track 3 Master Teaching Fellowships
- Track 4 Research
- Research Experiences in STEM Settings (RESS)
Read the new Noyce solicitation, NSF 23-586 and the IUSE solicitation, NSF 23-510.
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General Information About and Resources for Preparing Proposals for the NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program
Who May Submit Proposals?
For proposals centered on Capacity Building and Tracks 1-3: Applicants can include universities and 2- or 4-year colleges (including community colleges, tribal colleges and other minority-serving institutions) accredited in, and having a campus located in the United States, or U.S. nonprofit entities that have established consortia among such institutions of higher education.
For Track 4 Noyce Research proposals: In addition to institutions of higher education, professional societies and similar organizations that are directly associated with educational or research activities may submit proposals.
For RESS proposals: Proposals for STEM research experiences for pre-service or in-service teachers may be submitted at any time following consultation with and consent of a Noyce Program Officer.
Who May Serve as PI?
The PI/co-PI team must include at least one faculty member from a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics department in an institution of higher education and at least one education faculty member in an institution of higher education.
The submission date for all 2024 proposals for the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program is August 27, and the last Tuesday of August, annually thereafter.
Resources
NSF Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program solicitation 23-586.
NSF Proposal and Awards Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) NSF 24-1. Includes instructions on items such as required biosketches, required Data Management Plan, IRB approval, allowable budget items, and so on.
Proposal Preparation Toolkit
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General Information About and Resources for Preparing Proposals for the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program
For more information contact:
Betty Calinger
bcalinge@aaas.org
