Past National NASA EPSCoR Research Groups

NASA EPSCoR Research Group grants are awarded nationally each year. For the past several years, Montana groups have been successful in winning a number of these large awards. Pre-Proposals are submitted to the Montana NASA EPSCoR office each fall and a single group is selected to submit full proposals for the national competition.

Past Research Initiation Awards

Research Initiation grants are awarded competitively through internal and external review of proposals. These are intended as seed money, are for one year of funding, and are not renewable. Awardees are required to submit a follow-on proposal to NASA for regular research funding during the year of the grant. Research Initiation funding can be used for graduate or undergraduate student support, materials and supplies, facility use fees, domestic travel, and faculty time (though this is not a funding priority). Contact us if you have questions on allowed costs.

Past International Space Station Awards

International Space Station description: Utilization of the ISS further strengthens the relationships between NASA and the EPSCoR jurisdictions in the pursuit of national priorities for the advancement of science. This use of the ISS will also open new paths for the jurisdictions to compete for and win much larger spaceflight research projects. NASA EPSCoR, through the jurisdiction’s proposed research projects, provide the ground-based research for this effort. All proposed projects are mature enough to transition to a flight experiment with little or no additional NASA funding.

Past Rapid Response Research Awards

The R3 is a collaborative effort between NASA EPSCoR and the NASA Mission Directorate programs/offices. The goals of R3 are to provide a streamlined method to address research issues important to NASA, and to enable NASA EPSCoR researchers to work with NASA to solve research issues impacting the Agency’s programs/missions. New solicitations are issued each year and awards are chosen at the national level.