Office of Research

NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM)

Limited Submissions

This FOA replaces NSF 21-550

The main goal of the S-STEM program is to enable low-income, talented domestic students to pursue successful careers in promising STEM fields. Ultimately, the S-STEM program wants to increase the number of low-income students who graduate and contribute to the American innovation economy with their STEM knowledge. Recognizing that financial aid alone cannot increase retention and graduation in STEM, the program provides awards to Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) to fund scholarships and to adapt, implement, and study effective evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities that support recruitment, retention, transfer (if appropriate), student success, academic/career pathways, and graduation in STEM.

The program seeks to 1) increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need obtaining degrees in S-STEM eligible disciplines and entering the US workforce or graduate programs in STEM; 2) improve support mechanisms for future scientists, engineers, and technicians, with a focus on low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need; and 3) advance our understanding of how interventions or evidence-based curricular and co-curricular activities affect the success, retention, transfer, academic/career pathways, and graduation of low-income students in STEM.

Scholars must be domestic low-income, academically talented students with demonstrated unmet financial need who are enrolled in an associate, baccalaureate or graduate degree program in an S-STEM eligible discipline.

Application Instructions

Please submit:

  1. A one-page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach
  2. Biosketch or CV of the PI (not NIH format)

to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday, December 23, 2021. 

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

NSF 22-527

Deadlines
12/23/2021 UW Internal Deadline Closed
02/10/2022 OSP Deadline
02/22/2022 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Maximum Number of Applications

2 (2 from non-overlapping S‐STEM eligible disciplines.)

Eligible groups
  • All campus

Inquiries and Contact Information

Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.

For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.