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Engagement Opportunities in NASA STEM 2025 (EONS 2025) - Notice of Funding Opportunity

This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) entitled Engagement Opportunities in NASA STEM – 2025 (EONS-2025), solicits proposals for competitive funding opportunities in support of the programs administered by NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM). EONS-2025 is an omnibus announcement that includes a wide range of NASA STEM Engagement opportunities for basic and applied science and technology research and education. Specific opportunities will be issued periodically throughout the year, as Appendices to this solicitation with individual requirements and milestones. The following Appendix to EONS-2025 has been released:

Appendix 3: Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP)

Aeronautics Community Engagement Impact Research (ACEIR) 2.0

Full Proposals due at 11:59 pm Eastern Time on June 16, 2025

The NASA Office of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Engagement (OSTEM) Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) Aeronautics Community Engagement Impact Research (ACEIR 2.0) activity is an opportunity for Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) to conduct interdisciplinary research into the impacts and benefits of future air transportation technology and infrastructure on communities.

MSIs will apply their unique expertise and community relationships to this area of local, regional, and national interest. Working with the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD), MSIs will contribute to developing safe, community-based, financially sustainable, and replicable approaches to and implementation of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) to support the future of aviation for all. 

 

MSIs will engage their faculty, students, and community partners in research through MUREP ACEIR Institutes, build capacity at their institutions through innovative programming, and contribute to broadening the future STEM workforce skilled in Advanced Air Mobility.

 

Please see the full NOFO on the MUREP ACEIR 2.0 landing page on NSPIRES for more details.

Three optional pre-proposal webinars will be held prior to the proposal submission due date. Prospective proposers may ask questions about this opportunity during the webinar and may also receive technical assistance from project staff. The pre-proposal webinar will take place on:

  • May 8, 2025, at 3:00 pm Eastern Time
  • May 22, 2025, at 3:00 pm Eastern Time
  • June 10, 2025, at 3:00 pm Eastern Time

Connection details will be posted on the MUREP ACEIR 2.0 landing page on NSPIRES prior to the webinar. 

For all general inquiries, please contact: NASAACEIR@nasaprs.com.

Past Events

The Center for Community Engaged Teaching and Research (CETR) Interim Director and CETR’s 2024-25 Faculty Fellow Facilitated Two Learning Communities In The Spring of 2025:

A faculty learning community (FLC) focused on aligning a course syllabus with the new CEL designation, including information about resources and support for faculty including finding community partners, helping with logistics, and with risk management processes. Nine faculty members participated. This FLC was co-facilitated by CETR’s 2025 Faculty Fellow Anat Schwartz.

A multi stake-holder, learning community (MLC) (participants include faculty, students, community partners, and CETR staff) focused on co-creating the mission and vision for CETR, and content for CETR’s evolving website. Five faculty members, three students, two CETR staff members, and five community partners participated. All four sessions were planned and co-facilitated collaboratively with CETR’s 2025 Faculty Fellow Anat Schwartz, CETR’s Spring 2025 Student Fellow Cynthia De La Torre, and CETR's spring 2025 Community Partnerships Fellow Ray Lopez-Chang.

Toro Hours

Center for Community Engaged Teaching and Research (CETR)

California State University Dominguez Hills

Locker Student Union (LSU), Room 326-327

Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 2:30 pm to 1:00 pm

On April 15, members of the Committee, joined by CETR staff, two faculty members and a student shared CETR’s collaborative, multi-stakeholder evolving approach to community engagement, and about the CEL designation during the Toro Hour. Included was an example of a community engaged course and an example of a community-based research project.

Research Symposium, Community Based Research Panel Session (CETR and CHHSN)

March 6 & 7, 2025

Webinar: Democracy Inventory Tool

(A project co-sponsored by Campus Compact and the Association of American Colleges and Universities – AAC&U)

(Via Zoom)

Wednesday, March 5, 2025, 11:00am-12:00pm

LEAD California Southern California Regional Gathering   

Center for Community Engaged Teaching and Research (CETR)

California State University Dominguez Hills

Library (LIB) 5th Floor 

Thursday February 20, 2025, 9:30 am to 2:00 pm   

On February 20, 2025 from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm, the Center for Community Engaged Teaching and Research at CSUDH hosted LEAD California's Southern California Regional gathering. Lead California is a state-wide organization that supports colleges and universities with community engagement initiatives. The event started with a Land Acknowledgement statement. Other agenda items included a brief overview of the Center for Community Engaged Teaching and Research (CETR) by Dean of Undergraduate Studies Dr. Kimberly Costino, and three breakout groups focused on Models of College Corps at various institutions; a conversation about the recent Los Angeles wildfires; and on the collaborative, multi-stakeholder community engagement approach evolving at DH through CETR. 

In attendance were 30, representing 9 of Southern California colleges and universities, including CSU Long Beach, Cerritos College, Peperdine University, Pitzer College, University of San Diego, Cal Poly Pomona, Layola Marymount University and the University of Southern California. CSUDH's participants included faculty, students, CETR staff, and a community partner. 

Faculty & Community Partners Lunch Meeting

Center for Community Engaged Teaching and Research (CETR)

California State University Dominguez Hills

Locker Student Union (LSU), Room 328

Thursday, December 5, 2024, 11:30 am to 1:00 pm

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