Re-post from BIO BUZZ (Directorate for Biological Sciences - BIO) Recap: BIO-wide Office Hours BIO Virtual Office Hours Slides The Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) held a series of four virtual office hours during the week of March 30 to provide an opportunity for researchers from across the biological sciences to ask concerns about the …
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NSF STEM Diversity and Inclusion Video Exhibition Challenge
Have you been the recipient of NSF funding for a project that included partnerships for increasing diversity and inclusion in the STEM workforce? Want to win one of (4) $2,500 Expert’s Choice Awards or one of (2) $1250 People’s Choice Awards AND be featured on various NSF platforms? The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites you …
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BIO-wide Virtual Office Hours
As you may have seen, Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Assistant Director Joanne Tornow, PhD, wrote to the biological sciences community to share information about NSF’s current operations in light of COVID-19 and provide guidance to current awardees. In that letter, Dr. Tornow noted that BIO staff are interested in hearing how BIO and NSF …
March Virtual Office Hour with The Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS): IMAGiNE and PlantSynthBio DCLs
Please join us for our monthly information session to learn about ongoing and new opportunities at NSF! The March IOS Virtual Office Hour will be held March 19th from 1pm-2pm EST. This Office Hour will include discussion of two recent Dear Colleague Letters (DCLs) NSF 20-044 IMAGiNE 2020: Organisms in a Dynamic Environment and NSF …
Repost: DCL: Developing and Supporting the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) User Community
Our colleagues in the Division of Environmental Biology have written a post detail the new Dear Colleague Letter for the NEON program. More detailing about the DCL can be found here (NSF 20-033). NEON completed construction and became fully operational in early 2019. The NSF BIO Directorate has issued a Dear Colleague letter expanding on its interest …
Repost from OAD: Reintegrating Biology Workshop Series Outcomes
The BIO Directorate considers integrative approaches to understanding life’s key innovations as essential for understanding the full diversity of mechanisms regulating fundamental biological processes. The Reintegrating Biology series of workshops) included a combination of virtual and in-person events and provided a venue for the broader biological community to discuss the opportunities and challenges for integrating …
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January Virtual Office Hour with The Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)!
Please join us for our monthly information session to learn about ongoing and new opportunities at NSF! The January IOS Virtual Office Hour will be held January 16th, 2020 from 1pm-2pm EST. This Office Hour will include discussion of recent solicitations and Dear Colleague Letters that have been announced by NSF, a discussion of the …
GRFP 2020 Applicant Webinar Information Notice
**For applicants interested in pursuing a Graduate Research Fellowship the Program Directors of the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) will be hosting a series of webinars to provide information and answer questions. Please see the schedule below for dates, times, and registration information. Remember, applications for the Life Sciences (e.g., Biology) is October 21st, 2019.** Dear …
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Re-integrating Biology Town Halls
Register for the upcoming Reintegrating Biology Virtual Town Hall, which will take place the week of September 16, 2019. Reposted on behalf of our colleagues from the Office of the Assistant Director. “Biology has the goal of understanding the processes that generate and sustain life. Despite this unifying principle, the actual practice of modern biology …
Now Hiring: Deputy Division Director!
Re-posted from our DEB colleagues: https://debblog.nsfbio.com/2019/07/01/now-hiring-deputy-division-director/ The Directorate for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation is seeking a Deputy Division Director for the Division of Environmental Biology (DEB). This is a Senior Executive Service (SES) position within the Federal government, which can be filled as either a Federal employee, or as a rotator (Intergovernmental Personnel …
