# Presentation: 406704

## NSF

**Notes:**
Image and Text Slide: NSF logo and text “Enabling the nation’s future through discovery, learning and Innovation”

Caption:  The National Science Foundation has been a partner with the science and engineering community on this journey of discovery.  From the early days of NSF Net and Mosaic, to the birth of the Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, to the Terascale Computer System, NSF has worked with the science and engineering community to foster collaboration, to support frontier research in computing and network science, and to educate the next generation of scientists and engineers to carry discovery forward.

Source: NSF, S. Raimo

NSF Funded: Yes

Website: N/A

## Tom Brady,  Division Director, IOB

**Tom Brady,  Division Director, IOB**
- _[Tbrady@nsf.gov](mailto:Tbrady@nsf.gov)_
**Anu Singh, Science Assistant, IOB**
- _[Asingh@nsf.gov](mailto:Asingh@nsf.gov)_
**Maya Anderson, Program Technology Analyst, IOB**
**Manderso@nsf.gov**
**Grinnell College**
**April 2, 2005 **
**2005**

## 		National Science Foundation

**            ****Inspector **
**           ****General**

** ****National Science **
**          ****Board**

**     ****Staff Offices**

**Computer & **
**Information**
**Science**
**& Engineering**

**Engineering**

** ****Geosciences**

**Mathematical**
**   ****& Physical**
** ****Sciences**

**Social, Behavioral**
** ****& Economic**
**   ****Sciences**

**Education **
** ****& Human **
**Resources**

** ****Budget,  **
** ****Finance  **
**  ****& Award **
**  ****Management**

** ****Information Resource **
** ****Management**

**Biological **
**  ****Sciences**

**	****	****National Science Foundation**

**Director**
**  ****Deputy Director**

## Slide 4

## Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) 

**Impact Statement (maximum length 5 pages)**
**Impact of the proposed research activity on:**
-  The research environment of the institution
-  The career(s) of the faculty participants, and
-  The ability of the involved department(s) to prepare   	students for entry into advanced-degree programs 	and/or careers in science and engineering

## Faculty Early Career Development Program  (CAREER)

**Supports plans that effectively integrate research and education**
**BIO minimum of $100,000 per year for 5 years **
**New, broader eligibility criteria**

**Faculty Early Career Development Program  ****(CAREER)**

**Deadline:  Annually in Late July**
- Program Announcement:  NSF-02-111** **

## Directorate forMathematical and Physical Sciences

***Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences***

***Division of***
***Chemistry***

***Division of***
***Materials***
***Research***

***Division of***
***Mathematical***
***Sciences***

***Division of***
***Physics***

***Division of***
***Astronomical***
***Sciences***

*Office of Multidisciplinary Activities*

**Directorate for****Mathematical and Physical Sciences**

- MPS-1

## Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Home Page

## Slide 9

## Division of Mathematical Sciences

***MPS-5***

## Slide 11

## Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic SciencesTwo Research DivisionsSocial and Economic Sciences (SES)Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

## Social Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE) Home Page

## Goals in Supporting the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences

- Increase fundamental understanding of human behavior and society
- Provide societal relevance by providing information on critical national problems such as terrorism, business failures, global workforce, America’s educational system, and the implication of large-scale transformational changes for ethnic and cultural diversity and equality

## Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES)

- Focuses on economic, legal, political and social systems, organizations, and institutions
- Intellectual and social contexts that govern the development and use of science and technology

## Social and Economic Sciences (SES)

- Decision, Risk, & Management Science
- Economics
- Innovation and Organizational Change
- Law and Social Science
- Methodology, Measurement & Statistics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Societal Dimensions of Eng., Science, & Tech.
- Science & Technology Studies

- Programs

**Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences**

## Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences

- Focuses on human cognition, language, social behavior, and culture
- Interactions between human societies and the physical environment

**Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences**

## Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)

- Archaeology & Archaeometry
- Cultural Anthropology
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Developmental & Learning Sciences
- Geography & Regional Science
- Linguistics
- Perception, Action, & Cognition
- Physical Anthropology
- Social Psychology**	****	****          ****	****	**

- Programs

**Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences**

## Directorate for Biological Sciences

**Population & ****Evolutionary Processes**

**Directorate for Biological Sciences**
**(BIO)**
- Mary Clutter, Assistant Director
- Joann Roskoski, Executive Officer

**Information and Automation Resources Unit **
**(IAR)**

**Division of **
**Environmental  Biology**
**(DEB)**
- Mike Willig, Division Director
- Penny Firth, Deputy Director

**Ecological Biology**

**Ecosystem**
**Science**

**Division of Integrative Organismal Biology**
**(IOB)**
- Tom Brady, Division Director
- Judy Verbeke, Deputy Director

**Behavioral****Systems**

**Developmental **
**Systems**

**Environmental &****Structural Systems**

**Research**
**Resources**

**Human****Resources**

**Division of**
**Biological Infrastructure**
**(DBI)**
- Machi Dilworth, Division Director
- Muriel Poston, Deputy Director

**Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences**
**(MCB)**
- Maryanna Henkart, Division Director
- Jerry Cohen, Deputy Director

**Biomolecular**
**Systems**

**Cellular Systems**

**Genes and Genome**
**Systems**

**Emerging Frontiers (EF)**

**Plant Genome**
**Research Program**

**Systematic Biology &****Biodiversity Inventories**

**Functional & ****Regulatory Systems**

**Notes:**
This is the way BIO directorate is set up to handle funding the next generation of biology.  
EF is a virtual units that crosses all unit.  It is designed to flexible enough to meet the changing needs of the community. 

## Biological Sciences Home Page

- Biological Sciences Home Page

## Major BIO Responsibilities

- Long-Term Ecological Research
- Systematic Biology (Biodiversity)
- Evolutionary Biology
- Environmental Biology
- Plant Biology
- Bioinformatics
- Non-medical Microbial Biology

## BIO Areas of EmphasisFY2005 Budget Request

**NSF-wide Priority Areas**
- Biocomplexity in the Environment
- Nanoscale Science and Engineering
- Mathematical Sciences
- Human and Social Dynamics
- Increased award size and duration

**BIO Emphasis Areas**
- Plant Genomics
- Microbial Biology
- Arabidopsis 2010 Project
- Broadening Participation
**Major Research Equipment and Facilities**
- National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)

## Division of Environmental Biology

- Ecological Biology Cluster
- Ecosystem Science Cluster
- Population and Evolutionary 	Processes Cluster
- Systematic Biology and Biodiversity 	Inventories Cluster

**DEB Organization**

## DEB: Ecological Biology Cluster

- Natural and managed ecosystems
- Terrestrial, wetlands and freshwater habitats
- Experimental, observational, theoritical & modeling
- Conceptual and synthetic linkages
- Multiple scales – geographic and/or ecological

## DEB: Ecosystem Science Cluster

- Biogeochemistry
- Decomposition of organic matter
- Belowground nutrient cycling and energy flow
- Primary productivity
- Radioactive gas flux
- Element budgets on watershed, regional, continental, or global scales;
- Relationships between diversity and ecosystem function
- Ecosystem services,Landscape dynamics
- Long-Term Ecological research

## DEB: Population and Evolutionary Processes Cluster 

- Population processes
- Evolutionary ecology
- Evolutionary genetics
- Molecular population biology

## DEB: Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories Cluster

- Taxonomy
- Classification
- Phylogenetics
- Expeditionary work to discovery, document and describe plant, animal, and microbial diversity

## Division of Integrative Organismal Biology

- Behavioral Systems
- Developmental Systems
- Environmental and Structural Systems
- Functional and Regulatory Systems

- IOB Organization

## IOB: Behavioral Systems Cluster

- Focuses on the development, function, mechanisms, and evolution of behavior, biological rhythms, and interactions between organisms including animals, plants, and microbes:
- social and reproductive behavior
- behavioral ecology and physiology
- neural and hormonal mechanisms of behavior; immunology of behavior
- biological bases of learning, cognition, and communication

## IOB: Developmental Systems Cluster

- Focuses on the nature, control, and evolution of those processes that comprise the life cycle of organisms
- mechanisms of gametogenesis, fertilization, embryogenesis, differentiation, pattern formation, and morphogenesis
- development, regeneration, and aging of the nervous system
- genomic approaches, gene networks, integration of developmental gene pathways, and computational approaches are included.

## IOB: Environmental and Structural Systems Cluster

- Focuses on the function and evolution of organisms in their physiochemical and biotic environments
- physiological ecology,
- functional morphology,
- animal sensation and movement,
- molecular bases of tissue biomechanical properties,
- environmental genomics.

## IOB: Functional and Regulatory Systems Cluster

- Focuses on fundamental physiological mechanisms and how they have evolved, with emphasis on organisms as integrated systems.
- comparative physiology
- Neurophysiology
- mechanisms of solute transport
- comparative or evolutionary immunology
- Includes research at the genetic, genomic, cellular, tissue, organ, system, and organismal levels of organization.

## Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences

- Biomolecular Systems Cluster
- Cellular Systems Cluster
- Gene and Genome System Cluster

**MCB Organization**

## MCB: Biomolecular Systems Cluster

-    Structure, function, dynamics, interactions, and interconversions of biological molecules
- Integrating theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches to the study of biological molecules and their functional complexes
- Mechanistic studies of the regulation and catalysis of enzymes and RNA
- Higher-order characterization of the biochemical processes

## MCB: Cellular Systems Cluster

**   ****Structure, function, and regulation of plant, animal and microbial cells, and their interactions with the environment and with one another**
- Studies of the structure, function, and assembly of cellular elements, including eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell walls and envelopes
- Intracellular and transmembrane signal transduction mechanisms and cell-cell signaling processes, including those that occur in biofilms
- Microbial Observatories and Microbial Interactions and Processes

## 
  Genomes and genetic mechanisms in all organisms, whether prokaryote, eukaryote, phage, or virus 

Structure, maintenance, expression, transfer, and stability of genetic information in DNA, RNA, and proteins and how those processes are regulated
Genome organization, molecular and cellular evolution, replication, recombination, repair, and vertical and lateral transmission of heritable information
Processes that mediate and regulate gene expression, such as chromatin structure, epigenetic phenomena, transcription, RNA processing, editing and degradation, and translation. 

-   Genomes and genetic mechanisms in all organisms, whether prokaryote, eukaryote, phage, or virus
- Structure, maintenance, expression, transfer, and stability of genetic information in DNA, RNA, and proteins and how those processes are regulated
- Genome organization, molecular and cellular evolution, replication, recombination, repair, and vertical and lateral transmission of heritable information
- Processes that mediate and regulate gene expression, such as chromatin structure, epigenetic phenomena, transcription, RNA processing, editing and degradation, and translation.

**MCB: Gene and Genome Systems Cluster**

## Division of Biological Infrastructure

**Examples **of Research Areas Supported by DBI

- Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites
- Undergraduate Mentorship in Environmental Biology
- Collaborative Research at Undergraduate Institutions
- Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories
- Instrument Development for Biological Research
- Biological Databases and Informatics
- Living Stock Collections
- Biological Research Collections

## Research Experiences for Undergraduates 

**Research Experiences for Undergraduates**** **

**Effective for attracting and retaining **

**  ****undergraduates in careers in mathematics, **

**  ****science and engineering **

**Incorporates active research experience**

**REU sites****: **** NSF 04-584**

**REU supplements to PIs with existing awards**

**Sites Deadline: Aug. 17, 2004**

**Supplement Deadline:  Contact your Program Officer for details****.**

## Undergraduate Mentoring in 

**Environmental Biology**

**Institutional awards to give students research experience in environmental biology - *****broadly defined***
**Proposals should emphasize factors that enable underrepresented groups to enter and remain in environmental biology**
**Major emphasis on direct student participation in research during the academic year and summer, with students remaining in program for > 1 year**

- Program Announcement: NSF 05-558
- Preliminary proposal Deadline: May 18th 2005
- Full proposal Deadline: October 17th 2005

## Field Stations & Marine Labs Program

**Field Stations & Marine Labs Program**

- Successful projects have:
- Demonstrated infrastructure need
- High potential biological impact
- Broad user base
- Educational outreach

**Read the Program Announcement for more information.**
- Program Announcement: NSF 05-550
- April 26, 2005

## Major Research Instrumentation Program 

**NSF wide program, BIO managed review**
**Designed to improve the condition of scientific and engineering equipment  and facilities for research and research training**
**Awards for instrumentation will range from $100,000 to $2 million.****  **

**Deadline: 3****rd**** Thursday in January, annually**
- Program Announcement: NSF-05-515

## RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR TEACHERS

**help build long term collaborative relationships between K-12 teachers of science and mathematics and the NSF research community**
**encourages researchers to form partnerships with teachers at inner city schools and less well- endowed school districts**

**RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR TEACHERS**

**Consult with the Program Director of your particular NSF award.**
- Dear Colleague Letter: NSF 05-524

## Research Opportunity Award 

**Supplementary funding through ongoing NSF research grants to allow faculty at predominantly undergraduate institutions or secondary schools to participate in research activities under the aegis of NSF-supported investigators  **

**details located within the RUI program announcement**

**Consult with the Program Director of your particular NSF award.**
- Dear Colleague Letter: NSF 05-548** **

## Minority High School Students (RAMHSS) 

**Minority High School Students (RAMHSS****)**

**Involves high school minority students in research**
**Provides funding supplements to PIs supported by NSF**
**Academic year and summer **

**Contact the Program Officer in the appropriate program for details.**** **

## Plant Genome Research Program

- _Overall Program Goals_
- Support research on the structure, organization and function of plant genomes, elucidate fundamental biological processes
- Accelerate the acquisition and utilization of new knowledge and innovative technologies
- Focus is on plants of economic importance and plant processes of potential economic value.
- _FY’04-’05 Program (NSF 04-510)_
- Virtual Center Awards in Plant Genome Research
- Individual and Small Group Awards in Plant Genome Research

## Individual and Small Group Awards in Plant Genome Research  (ISGA-PGR)

- $300,000 – $500,000 per year for up to 5 years
- Projects can build on existing PGRP tools

## What is                    ? 

**National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)**

- A continent-wide research tool consisting of geographically distributed **regional observatories**, networked via state of the art communications
- A virtual lab for research to obtain a predictive understanding of the environment
- Collectively, a network of networked environmental research facilities and instruments

**What is                    ?**** **

## Emerging Frontiers - Virtual Division

**An incubator for 21****st**** century biology**
- Multidisciplinary research and networking activities
- Synergy between disciplines
- New initiatives for later integration into core programs
**Currently includes:**
- All NSF-wide Priority Areas
- Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research
- Tree of Life
- Microbial Genome Sequencing Project
- Ecology of Infectious Diseases
- Research Collaboration Networks

## Award Supplement Opportunities

**Award Supplement Opportunities**

- Research Experiences for Teachers (RET)
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
- Research Opportunity Awards (ROA)
- Research Assistantships for Minority High School Students (RAMHSS)
- Facilitation Award for Scientists and Engineers with Disabilities

## Useful URLs - Bookmark!!

**NSF Home Page:**
- 	http://www.nsf.gov
**Search NSF Awards:**
- 	http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/
**Search NSF Documents On-Line:**
- 	http://www.nsf.gov/publications/ods/
**FastLane Home Page:**
- 	https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/fastlane.jsp
**NSF Custom News Service:**
- 	http://www.nsf.gov/mynsf/
**Grant Proposal Guide (GPG):**
- 	http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key=nsf0423
**Guide to Programs:**
- http://www.nsf.gov/ pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key=nsf04009