The Science and Technology Centers (STC): Integrative Partnerships program supports innovative, potentially transformative, complex research and education projects that require large-scale, long-term awards. STCs conduct world-class research through partnerships among academic institutions, national laboratories, industrial organizations, and/or other public/private entities, and via international collaborations, as appropriate. They provide a means to undertake important investigations at the interfaces of disciplines and/or fresh approaches within disciplines. STC investments support the NSF vision of advancing discovery, innovation and education beyond the frontiers of current knowledge, and empowering future generations in science and engineering.
Centers provide a rich environment for encouraging future scientists, engineers, and educators to take risks in pursuing discoveries and new knowledge. STCs foster excellence in education by integrating education and research, and by creating bonds between learning and inquiry so that discovery and creativity fully support the learning process.
NSF expects STCs to demonstrate leadership in the involvement of groups traditionally underrepresented in science and engineering at all levels within the Center. To achieve their diversity objectives, STCs are expected to involve individuals from underrepresented groups as members of the Center faculty, and as students actively engaged in Center activities. STCs are strongly encouraged to form meaningful, substantive and long-term partnerships with minority-serving institutions, women's colleges and institutions that primarily serve students with disabilities, thereby providing formal connections with institutions that serve large populations of underrepresented students interested in STEM.
Centers undertake activities that will facilitate knowledge transfer, i.e., the mutual exchange of scientific and technical information among the Center partners and others with the objective of disseminating and utilizing knowledge broadly in multiple sectors.
For more information about NSF Science & Technology Centers, please check out the NSF website at http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/programs/stc/.
STC UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI)
BEACON: An NSF Center for the Study of Evolution in Action
Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems (EBICS)
Center for Science of Information (CSoI)
Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S)
Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes (CMMAP)
Center for Layered Polymeric Systems (CLiPS)
Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction (CMOP)
Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE)
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CRESIS)
Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST)
Center for Biophotonics Science & Technology (CBST)
Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM)
Center of Materials & Devices for Information Technology Research (CMDITR)
National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED)
Center of Advanced Materials for the Purification of Water with System (WaterCAMPWS)
Center for Adaptive Optics (CfAO)
Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN)
Center for Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes (CERSP)
Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC)
Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas (SAHRA)