The Nevada NASA EPSCoR program requests Letter of Intent (LOI) and Pre-proposals for the National NASA EPSCoR Research CAN. Faculty at Nevada System of Higher Education institutions, particularly junior faculty, women, and members of other underrepresented populations are encouraged to apply. Faculty who have a current National NASA EPSCoR Research CAN project are not eligible to apply while their project is on-going. Pre-proposals must include Co-PIs from at least three NSHE institutions.

The Nevada NASA EPSCoR program announces available funding for Workshop and Travel support for NASA collaboration and proposal development. The goal is to facilitate new research collaborations among NASA Centers and NSHE faculty by competitively awarding travel grants and workshop funds.

The programmatic focus is to further engage and utilize Nevada’s unique resources and talent for enhancing greater scientific discovery and developing new technologies to address NASA’s mission goals. The request for seed grant funds may be based on outcomes from prior workshops/meetings with NASA Personnel; however, these funds should not augment existing funded research projects.  Research Infrastructure Development (RID) activities should target unique activities that increase Nevada’s competitiveness.

We anticipate that the National NASA EPSCoR Research CAN will be released in December 2016 or January 2017. To allow sufficient time to select and develop a strong full proposal from Nevada, a letter of intent and pre-proposals are being solicited in advance of the Federal CAN release. It is anticipated that only one full proposal per EPSCoR state will be permitted.

We are currently basing this solicitation on past solicitations and at this time, do not anticipate any drastic changes to occur.