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Project	Awardee	Amount	Date
EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP): Building a Next-G... ↗	Brown University	≈$1.7M	Mar 15, 2027
What young people learn when AI writes the code — treating t... Explained	University of California-Irv...	≈$1.3M	Jan 1, 2027
Layering coarse-but-frequent over fine-but-rare satellite vi... Explained	University of Wisconsin-Madi...	≈$1.1M	Jan 1, 2027
A $2M scholarship award for low-income students in AI, robot... Explained	University of Colorado at Bo...	≈$2M	Jan 1, 2027
About $1.31M to the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa — 155 d... Explained	University of Alabama Tuscal...	≈$1.3M	Jan 1, 2027
A $3M award for Athena, the national AI institute pursuing b... Explained	Duke University	≈$3M	Nov 1, 2026
$3.00M to the University of California San Diego — phase two... Explained	University of California-San...	≈$3M	Nov 1, 2026
About $3.00M to build AI into the curriculum at the Universi... Explained	University of The Virgin Isl...	≈$3M	Oct 15, 2026
Supporting the compute researchers use: eight awards side by... Explained	University of California-San...	≈$7M	Oct 1, 2026
Capturing data that exists only right after a disaster, in a... Explained	University of California-Ber...	≈$1.6M	Oct 1, 2026
Printing tissue from the tip of a catheter without opening t... Explained	Harvard University	≈$1.6M	Oct 1, 2026
NSF AI award $4M: an optimization institute for turning pred... Explained	Georgia Tech Research Corpor...	≈$4M	Oct 1, 2026
About $1.41M to the West Virginia University Research Corpor... Explained	West Virginia University Res...	≈$1.4M	Oct 1, 2026
NSF AI award $4M: an AI institute for dynamic systems that o... Explained	University of Washington	≈$4M	Oct 1, 2026
AI-guided synthesis of two-dimensional materials, jointly wi... Explained	Pennsylvania State Univ Univ...	≈$1.4M	Oct 1, 2026
Training technicians rather than researchers — stacking geos... Explained	San Bernardino Valley Colleg...	≈$1M	Oct 1, 2026
Treating what generative AI produces as a health risk in its... Explained	Clemson University	≈$1.2M	Oct 1, 2026
AI supporting the learning of people who will teach — rather... Explained	Texas A&M University	≈$2M	Oct 1, 2026
New risks where computation and electricity meet — $1.20M to... Explained	Virginia Polytechnic Institu...	≈$1.2M	Oct 1, 2026
"Cloud Conversations" — an AI assistant that builds research... Explained	University of Chicago	≈$2.5M	Oct 1, 2026
IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT: ASCEND-Advancing STEM Competencies a... ↗	Langston University	≈$2.2M	Sep 15, 2026
PARAPET, a research platform for using data while protecting... Explained	San Diego State University F...	≈$5M	Sep 15, 2026
"Sagebrush" opens AI inference compute to researchers nation... Explained	University of Texas at Austi...	≈$5M	Sep 15, 2026
The audience moves to children in school: a renewal built on... Explained	North Carolina State Univers...	≈$4M	Sep 1, 2026
The audience shifts from students to working adults: a renew... Explained	Georgia Tech Research Corpor...	≈$3.8M	Sep 1, 2026
NSF award $2M: AI for wildfire evacuation — built for roads... Explained	University of Southern Calif...	≈$2M	Sep 1, 2026
About $1.62M to untether AI factories bound by millions of c... Explained	Northeastern University	≈$1.6M	Sep 1, 2026
A U.S.-Japan project building an open AI radio platform — NS... Explained	Northeastern University	≈$1M	Sep 1, 2026
When the network breaks is exactly when radio should see — r... Explained	Princeton University	≈$1.4M	Sep 1, 2026
Learning AI from your own movement — sensors, learning and s... Explained	University of Florida	≈$1.2M	Sep 1, 2026
NSF award $3M: putting AI into a STEM curriculum with studen... Explained	Tennessee State University	≈$3M	Sep 1, 2026
About $1.49M for neurodiverse middle schoolers to build AI-e... Explained	TERC Inc	≈$1.5M	Sep 1, 2026
Opening the AI black box from the mathematics side - trainin... Explained	University of Wisconsin-Madi...	≈$1.6M	Sep 1, 2026
Hardening the standard by which AI agents talk to each other... Explained	University of Illinois at Ur...	≈$1.5M	Sep 1, 2026
About $1.79M to predict how carbon and water cycles interloc... Explained	University of Florida	≈$1.8M	Sep 1, 2026
Placing AI as a partner in argument rather than a tutor — co... Explained	Washington State University	≈$1.3M	Sep 1, 2026
Watching what happens inside the metal while it is being bui... Explained	Prairie View A & M Universit...	≈$1.2M	Sep 1, 2026
Tracking an endangered right whale and its prey at once — bi... Explained	Rutgers University New Bruns...	≈$1.1M	Sep 1, 2026
MATRIX-MIP, a shared platform for materials that survive ext... Explained	University of Wisconsin-Madi...	≈$4M	Sep 1, 2026
Pulling rare earths out of coal waste with microbes and AI —... Explained	Montana Technological Univer...	≈$1.3M	Sep 1, 2026
Supporting the forming of conjectures rather than producing... Explained	University of California-Los...	≈$1.1M	Sep 1, 2026
About $1.36M to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — machi... Explained	Woods Hole Oceanographic Ins...	≈$1.4M	Sep 1, 2026
Recovering critical minerals with microbes, the process desi... Explained	University of Alaska Anchora...	≈$3.8M	Sep 1, 2026
Mathematical foundations for higher-order scientific laws —... Explained	University of California-San...	≈$1M	Sep 1, 2026
AI environmental surveillance of threats to food production... Explained	University of Hawaii	≈$2M	Sep 1, 2026
CREATE-AI Water, a center applying AI to agricultural water... Explained	Texas A&M University-Kingsvi...	≈$5M	Sep 1, 2026
$2.00M to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln — environmental... Explained	University of Nebraska-Linco...	≈$2M	Sep 1, 2026
Predicting the start switch of plant genomes with AI — BIO-A... Explained	Michigan State University	≈$1.7M	Sep 1, 2026
Operationalizing the National Science Data Fabric (NSDF) for... Explained	University of Tennessee Knox...	≈$9M	Sep 1, 2026
Two to ten bits per second of intent, expanded by context —... Explained	IN VIRTUALIS LLC	≈$1.3M	Aug 15, 2026

Source: official U.S. government open data. This is an organized index, not an official U.S. government site. "Explained" links to our summary page; otherwise links go to the official primary source.

About this dataset

This list holds research awards made by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF is a principal funder of U.S. basic research, and the outcome of its competitive awards — project title, recipient institution, and amount — is public.

How to read it

The award amount usually covers several yearsNSF awards fund a multi-year project period, so the figure shown is normally the estimated total for the whole period rather than an annual budget. Year-by-year funding is tracked separately.
Awards go to projects, and to institutionsThe award is made to a proposed project, and the recipient is generally the institution rather than the individual. If the principal investigator moves, the award may be transferred.
Scope, not merit, drives the biggest numbersLarge awards tend to fund multi-institution centers or shared infrastructure such as computing and instrumentation, rather than a single lab. Size does not map onto scientific importance.

FAQ

What is the NSF?

The National Science Foundation, a U.S. federal agency. Separate from the NIH, which leads on medical research, it funds competitive basic research across mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science, and the social sciences.

Does the whole award go to the research itself?

No. An award covers direct costs plus the institution's indirect costs, so not all of it is spent on the research activity.