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NIST MEP Competitive Awards Program

NIST MEP Disaster Assessment Program

NLM Information Resource Grants to Reduce Health Disparities and Promote Health for All (G08 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)

NOAA Great Lakes Fish Habitat Restoration Partnership Grants

Norman Y. Mineta Japanese American Confinement Education Grants

Novel Mechanism Research on Neuropsychiatric Symptoms (NPS) in Alzheimer's Dementia (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

Novel Mechanism Research on Neuropsychiatric Symptoms (NPS) in Alzheimer's Dementia (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)

NPS Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Units (CESU) Master Cooperative Agreements

NRL Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Basic and Applied Research

NRL WIDE BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT

NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships

NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages

NSF EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program

NSF National Innovation Corps Teams (NSF National I-Corps (TM) Teams) program

NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program

NSF STEM K-12

NSF Trailblazer Engineering Impact Award

NSF-DFG Lead Agency Opportunity in Chemistry and Chemical Process and Transport Systems

NSF's Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative

Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers (T42)

Occupational Safety and Health Training Project Grants (T03)

Ocean and Coastal Mapping Center 2026

Ocean Drilling Program

Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination

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