National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Technology, Innovations, & Partnerships (TIP) Directorate Funding Opportunities Workshop

This workshop will provide a brief overview of the NSF’s TIP directorate and its research funding opportunities. Established in 2022, the TIP directorate is the agency’s first new directorate in over 30 years. TIP is a crosscutting platform that collaboratively integrates with NSF's existing directorates and fosters partnerships — with government, industry, nonprofits, civil society and communities of practice — to leverage, energize and rapidly bring to society use-inspired research and innovation.  At this event you will hear about the work done across the directorate, focusing on the EPIIC, ExLENT, and POSE programs. 

Speaker Information: 

Dr. Rebecca Shearman 

Rebecca Shearman is a Program Director at the National Science Foundation and has been part of the in Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) since its inception. She helped to stand up several new programs within the Innovation and Technology Ecosystems (ITE) Division within TIP, including The Regional Innovation Engines (NSF Engines) program, Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT) program, and Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) program. She is also working to grow TIP’s workforce development initiatives.  Prior to joining NSF, Becky was an Associate Professor of Biology at Framingham State University for ten years, where her focus was on undergraduate education, program and curriculum assessment, and diversity equity and inclusion in STEM higher education. She received her BA in biology at Franklin and Marshall College and her Ph.D. in developmental evolutionary biology from the University of Chicago.  

This event is hybrid format with links to in person and zoom locations provided in the calendar invites registrants will receive upon completing the registration form above.