Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST)
Funds research centres at minority-serving institutions, with a preliminary proposal and an NSF invitation required before the full one.
CREST funds whole research centres at minority-serving institutions, to build research capability rather than to pay for one project. A centre is expected to integrate education and research, raise the research productivity of individual faculty, and bring in students historically underrepresented in science and engineering.
NSF sets a high bar for what a successful centre does: reach national re…
Establishing and running research centres at minority-serving institutions that integrate education and research in an NSF-supported field, build institutional research capability, and broaden participation in science and engineering. Phase I funds five years on a topic; Phase II continues or redirects it.
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