NSF EAGER grants: recently funded projects and award sizes

Project length

Up to 2 years

Budget

Up to $300,000 in total

Project Description

Up to 8 pages

First step

Email a short summary to a program officer and get agreement to submit

Limits change between notices: the notice you apply to is what counts.

EAGER has no solicitation of its own: proposals are submitted under the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide after a program officer agrees to consider one. See all open NSF funding.

• Collaborative Research: EAGER: NAIRR Pilot: An AI infrastructure to advance research in reducing poverty and informing social policy

  Neeti Pokhriyal · SUNY at Buffalo, NY · CSE · $158K · Sep 1, 2026

  This project builds an artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure that enhances access to computational power, datasets, and models that support research on social policy and poverty. It will develop a novel trustworthy AI infrastructure that will 1) integrate, curate, and process diverse policy-related data sets; 2)…

• EAGER: AI Skills Observatory: A Data-Driven, Federated Pilot for Observing AI Workforce Transformation

  Jo Webber · POD NETWORK, LLC, CA · TIP · $290K · Aug 21, 2026

  Artificial intelligence is reshaping workforce skill requirements faster than traditional labor-market systems can track. New skill combinations are emerging across industries, employers are changing job requirements, and universities are adjusting programs and courses in response. Yet the infrastructure for…

• EAGER: Investigating Relationships Between Beach Soil Stability and Groundwater Dynamics

  Jonathan Hubler · Villanova University, PA · ENG · $400K · Aug 20, 2026

  This EArly-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award will support research that advances fundamental understanding of beach sand stability under changing water levels and coastal groundwater flow conditions. This promotes progress in coastal science research and informs the design and maintenance of…

• EAGER: Exploring Robot-K9 Teaming through Canine Cognitive Modeling and Multimodal Communication

  Balakrishnan Prabhakaran · SUNY at Albany, NY · ENG · $400K · Aug 19, 2026

  Canines and humans team together in a variety of situations, with dogs providing assistance and companionship to the elderly and disabled, detecting explosives and illicit drugs for law enforcement, and herding and protecting livestock in agriculture, among many other roles. Self-sufficient canine-robot teams offer…

• Collaborative Research: EAGER: Toward Provenance-Based Explainable Differential Privacy

  Anna Squicciarini · Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, PA · CSE · $150K · Aug 18, 2026

  This project supports research on provenance-based explanations for differentially private (DP) computations. DP provides rigorous protection for sensitive data, but systems often disclose only a privatized output and a declared privacy budget. Auditors, analysts, and data consumers may not know how an output was…

• Collaborative Research: EAGER: Toward Provenance-Based Explainable Differential Privacy

  Chenxi Qiu · University of North Texas, TX · CSE · $150K · Aug 18, 2026

  This project supports research on provenance-based explanations for differentially private (DP) computations. DP provides rigorous protection for sensitive data, but systems often disclose only a privatized output and a declared privacy budget. Auditors, analysts, and data consumers may not know how an output was…

• EAGER: Project BASELINE - Building Faculty Capacity via Biodiversity and Community Partnerships

  Esther Widiasih · University of Hawaii, HI · EDU · $164K · Aug 18, 2026

  This project aims to serve the national interest by exploring methods to connect STEM faculty to relevant real-world data to be analyzed and at the same time increase the use and facility with usage of artificial intelligence (AI). Through the EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) program, IUSE and the…

• EAGER: From Mitigation to Exploitation: A Cross-Layer Co-Design Framework for Robust In-Memory Computing

  Xiaobo S Hu · University of Notre Dame, IN · CSE · $296K · Aug 17, 2026

  Conventional computers must move data from the memory units to the process units to perform computations. For data-intensive applications such as artificial intelligence (AI), this data movement often consumes much more time and energy than the computation itself. In-memory computing (IMC), an emerging computing…

• EAGER: AI applied to mitigation of satellite interference with optical astronomy

  John A Tyson · University of California-Davis, CA · MPS · $387K · Aug 13, 2026

  The 10-year Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) survey began in mid-2026. However, a massive surge in low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite launches, driven by over a million pending license applications for new ultra-bright constellations, severely threatens the quality of Rubin imagery. Some…

• EAGER: Quantifying National and Economic Security Risks and Opportunities in the International Semiconductor R&D Landscape

  Erica R Fuchs · Carnegie Mellon University, PA · O/D · $303K · Aug 12, 2026

  Global leadership in science and technology is becoming increasingly distributed, with rapid advances in strategic technologies occurring across multiple countries. At the same time, governments are implementing new research security policies to protect national interests while preserving the openness that has long…

• EAGER: Leveraging Human-centered Technologies to Enabling Micro-retrofit Energy-saving Opportunities in Homes

  Stephen Lee · University of Pittsburgh, PA · CSE · $150K · Aug 12, 2026

  For many U.S. households, home energy bills are one of the largest and least flexible expenses and take up a large share of their income. While programs and technologies to reduce home energy use exist, they often require large upfront costs. As a result, the households that would benefit most from lower bills are…

• EAGER: Characterizing Design Knowledge Generation During Prototype Testing for Advanced Manufacturing and AI/ML-Enabled Product Innovation

  Carlye A Lauff · University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, MN · ENG · $200K · Aug 11, 2026

  The objective of this EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) project is to characterize how prototype testing sessions generate actionable design knowledge during early-stage product innovation. Engineering teams need better ways to learn during early-stage design to support advanced manufacturing and…

• EAGER: Embedding Electrical Intelligence into Bioprinted Muscle for Autonomous Biomanufacturing

  Amir K Miri · New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ · ENG · $200K · Aug 11, 2026

  This EArly-concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award supports foundational research to advance intelligent biological manufacturing — an emerging field in which living muscle tissue is engineered to simultaneously build itself, sense its own development, and report its readiness for use, without relying on…

• Collaborative Research: EAGER: Mitigating Technostress in AI-Mediated Undergraduate Engineering Labs

  Idalis Villanueva · University of Florida, FL · ENG · $249K · Aug 11, 2026

  Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly influencing engineering education and the requirements for the future STEM workforce. Engineering education degree programs build engineering laboratories, in which students must integrate conceptual knowledge, procedural skills, and real-time decision-making. AI-supported…

• Collaborative Research: EAGER: Mitigating Technostress in AI-Mediated Undergraduate Engineering Labs

  Saira Anwar · Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, TX · ENG · $150K · Aug 11, 2026

  Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly influencing engineering education and the requirements for the future STEM workforce. Engineering education degree programs build engineering laboratories, in which students must integrate conceptual knowledge, procedural skills, and real-time decision-making. AI-supported…

1. 1Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, PA4
2. 2University of Florida, FL4
3. 3University of California-Davis, CA3
4. 4University of California-Los Angeles, CA3
5. 5University of Pittsburgh, PA3
6. 6Carnegie Mellon University, PA2
7. 7Computing Research Association, DC2
8. 8Cornell University, NY2
9. 9Johns Hopkins University, MD2
10. 10Lehigh University, PA2

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