# Presentation: 194301

## National Science Foundation Support of Undergraduate Research in the 

**Chemical Sciences **

- Joan Frye, Ph. D.
- Staff Associate
- Office of Integrated Activities
- 703-292-8040; jfrye@nsf.gov

## Expanding Undergraduate Research

**The “Carnegie Challenge”**
**NRC: “Bio 2010”**
**U.S. News and World Report Rankings**

**Creating knowledge**
**Communicating knowledge**

## Research Experiences for Undergraduates

-  **(REU) program supports active research ****	****participation by  undergraduate students**

-  **Involve** **students in meaningful ways in ongoing ****	****research programs **

-  **Two mechanisms for support of student research: ****	****REU Supplements and REU Sites**

-  **$60,000-70,000/yr for 3 years is typical for REU Sites**
** ****Each REU site supports an average of 9 students**

## FY1987 through FY2006

**FY1987 through FY2006**

## FY1987 through FY2006

**FY1987 through FY2006**

## FY1987 through FY2006

**FY1987 through FY2006**

## FY1987 through FY2006

## Slide 8

## Strategy for Expanding Undergraduate Research

**	****	****	****Target Audience**
**   ****First- and second-year college students**
**   ****All postsecondary institutions**
**	****	****	****   ****Principles**
**   ****Academic year focus**
**   ****New models and partnerships **
**   ****Scalability and sustainability**
**   ****Real research: cutting-edge problems, tools          ****	****and methods**

## Undergraduate Research Collaboratives

**  ****Expand collaborations**
**  ****Broaden undergraduate research ****	****opportunities**
-  **Enhance capacity and infrastructure in support ****	****of and commitment to excellence in ****	****undergraduate education**
-  **Awards of up to $2.7M over five years**

**Undergraduate Research Collaboratives**

## The Center for Authentic Science Practice in Education      CASPiE     CHE 04-18902

**Partner Institutions****College of DuPage****Harold Washington College****Moraine Valley Community College****Olive-Harvey College **

**Instrument Network Goals**Provide Students with access to research-level instrumentation | Allow for remote calibration and operation of instruments via the Internet | Produce research-quality data | Enable high sample throughput and Internet-based data archiving and retrieval

**The Center for Authentic Science Practice in Education      ****CASPiE****     **CHE 04-18902

**Course Implementation**Each institution will have a slightly different implementation timeline, with the common goal of involving freshmen and sophomores as part of their regular curriculum.

**Evaluation of the Program**What are the best ways to adapt and implement the CASPiE modules for the mainstream curriculum? What is the structure of a research module that best achieves the goals of the CASPiE program? What are the long-term educational impacts of adopting the CASPiE model?

## Workflow

*** ******for CASPiE ***
***Instrument***
*** ******Network***

*operations within different colored regions occur at different times*

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**Undergraduate Research Collaboratives (URC)**
**Research for 1****st**** and 2****nd**** year college students**

## Undergraduate Research Collaboratives (URC)

**CHE 05-32242**

**Undergraduate Research Collaboratives (URC)**
**Research for 1****st**** and 2****nd**** year college students**

- _[Augustana](http://ed.augie.edu/%7Echem/)__[ College](http://ed.augie.edu/%7Echem/)_ in Sioux Falls, SD, _[Mount Marty College](http://www.mtmc.edu/)_ in Yankton, SD, _[Sinte](http://www.sinte.edu/index2.htm)__[ ](http://www.sinte.edu/index2.htm)__[Gleska](http://www.sinte.edu/index2.htm)__[ University](http://www.sinte.edu/index2.htm)_ in Mission, SD, _[Dordt](http://www.dordt.edu/academics/departments/chemistry/)__[ College](http://www.dordt.edu/academics/departments/chemistry/)_ in Sioux Center, IA, _[Buena Vista University](http://www.bvu.edu/academics/catalog/2004-05/programdescriptions/chemistry.asp)_ in Storm Lake, IA, _[Fort Berthold Community College](http://www.fbcc.bia.edu/)_ In New Town, ND, _[Briar Cliff University](http://www.briarcliff.edu/departments/chemistry/)_ in Sioux City, IA, and** **_[The University of South Dakota](http://www.usd.edu/chemistry)_, Vermillion, SD.

**NPURC supports an ambitious approach to transforming the undergraduate research culture of several regional colleges and universities including**:

## Undergraduate Research Consortium: Research Experiences to Enhance Learning (URC-REEL) Award:  CHE 05-32250

**University of Akron (UA)**
**Bowling Green State University (BGSU)**
**Capital University (CU)**
**Central State University (Ctlsu)**
**University of Cincinnati (UC)**
**Cleveland State University (CSU)**
**Columbus State Community College (CSCC)**
**University of Dayton (UD)**
**Kent State University (KSU)**
**Miami University of Ohio (MU)**
**Ohio University (OU)**
**University of Toledo (UT)**
**Wright State University (WSU)**
**Youngstown State University (YSU)**
**The Ohio State University (OSU)**

## Opportunities for Primarily Undergraduate Institutions

-  EHR Directorate- *Division of Undergraduate Education*
-  RUI: Research at Undergraduate Institutions, NSF-wide
-  REU: training programs for undergraduates
-  ROA:  Research Opportunity Awards at Undergraduate
-  URC: Undergraduate Research Centers
- For instrumentation:
- 	-Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement
- 	-Major Research Instrumentation program (MRI)
- 	-Regular (divisional) instrumentation programs

## RUI Mechanism in NSF Research Divisions

-   Designed to support Research in Undergraduate Institutions
-   RUI is a mechanism, not a separate funding stream
-   “RUI” should be designated in the title of the proposal
-   RUI eligibility and  impact statements must be                         	included
-   Check _[http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm](http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm)__ for announcement_

## RUI Proposal Pressure

**RUI Proposal Pressure**

***NSF Division of Chemistry***

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**Number of Proposals**

**# Awarded**

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## Research Opportunity Awards (ROA)

- Provide support for faculty from PUIs to participate in 	ongoing, NSF-funded research projects for limited 	periods, usually a summer
- Goal -- Provide research experience for faculty to 	enhance 	research at home institution and host lab, improve 	research & teaching
- Funded as supplements to active NSF grants
- Salary or stipend for undergraduate faculty
- Travel to host lab and/or to attend a meeting
- Research supplies
- Making connections with an NSF grantee:
- Network at scientific meetings
- Consult NSF FastLane list of awards in relevant program
- Contact NSF Program Director in your area of interest (Consult the NSF web site for contact information)

## Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement

-  Directorate for Education and Human Resources
-   -Division of Undergraduate Education

-  “Adaptation and Implementation track” supports
-   acquisition of instrumentation for *teaching*

-  In contrast to MRI, which supports acquisition
-   of instrumentation for *research*

-  Other “tracks” support course and curriculum
*   *development

## Major Research Instrumentation

-   Foundation-wide activity (NSF cross-cutting)
-   Administered by both the Office of Integrative Activities (OIA)
-    and individual directorates
-   NSF overall -  FY03:~$86M, FY04:~$109, FY05: ~$89 M
-   CHE: FY03, $11.2 M.   CHE: FY04, $12.1 M . CHE: FY05, $12.2 M
- 	(in FY04, $7.0 M went to PUIs, in FY05, $7.2 M went to PUIs)
-   Emphasis must be on research

## Divisional Instrumentation Programs

- Primarily Undergraduate Institutions

-   Can submit as RUI
-   BIO, GEO, Materials Research, Chemistry, all have standing
-     instrumentation programs in addition to MRI
-   Cost-sharing has been eliminated from most NSF programs

## National Online Poster Session REU Leadership Group

**Database searchable by:**
**  ****author**
**  ****title**
**  ****discipline**
**  ****home/host institution**
**  ****mentor**
**  ****geographic location**
**  ****year**

**Target audience:**
**  ****students/parents/families**
**  ****home/host institutions**
**  ****prospective REU participants**
**  ****general public**
**  ****funding agencies**
**  ****Congress**

**National Online Poster Session REU Leadership Group**

## Your Chemistry Division Program Officers

- Organic Dynamics:  Ty Mitchell, Marty Pomerantz, Phil Shevlin
- Theoretical:  Raima Larter, Joyce Guest
- Experimental Physical:  Charles Pibel, Ron Christensen
- Analytical:  George Janini, Zev Rosenzweig, Kelsey Cook, Steve Bernasek
- Inorganic:  Mike Clarke, Carol Bessel, John Gilje, Joe Templeton
- Instrumentation:  Bob Kuczkowski
- Multi-investigator Projects:  Kathy Covert
- Cyber-enabled Chemistry: Celeste Rohlfing
- REU and URC Programs: Rich Foust, Ron Christensen

## For more information:

**   ****www.nsf.gov/chem**

## Overview of the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program

**Office of Integrative Activities**
**National Science Foundation**

**http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/programs/mri/**

## MRI: Purpose

- The MRI program
- is designed to increase access to scientific and engineering equipment for research and research training in U.S. academic institutions.
- seeks to improve the quality and expand the scope of research and research training in science and engineering, and to foster the integration of research and education by providing instrumentation for research-intensive learning environments.
- encourages the development and acquisition of research instrumentation for shared use across academic departments, among research institutions, and in concert with private sector partners.

## MRI:  Eligible Institutions

- Ph.D. granting institutions
- academic institutions that have produced more than 20 Ph.D.s or D. Sci.’s in all NSF-supported disciplines during the previous two academic years
- Non-Ph.D. granting institutions
- two and four year colleges and universities that have produced fewer than 20 Ph.D.s or D.Sci.’s in all NSF-supported disciplines during the previous two academic years
- Non-degree granting institutions
- independent non-profit research institutions, research museums, and legally incorporated consortia of eligible institutions

## MRI:  FY 2005 Overview

**Instrumentation Acquisition or Development**
**Two proposals for acquisition or development; a third for development.  An institution may be part of a consortium**
**Award size--$100,000 to $2 Million**
**(exceptions for non-Ph.D. granting institutions and for mathematical and social, behavioral and economic sciences)**
**Cost sharing--None required**
**Deadline for proposal submission:  January 26, 2006**

## MRI: Evaluation Criteria

**NSB Approved Merit Review Criteria:**
**Intellectual merit of the proposed activity**
**Broader impacts of the proposed activity **
**including integration of research and education and integrating diversity into the proposed activities**
**Additional Considerations:**
**Plans for using the new or enhanced research capability in teaching, training or learning.**

## MRI: Evaluation Criteria

**Management Plan**
**Instrument Acquisition: Does the plan include sufficient infrastructure and technical expertise to allow effective usage of the instrument?  Does it provide institutional commitments for operations and maintenance?**
**Instrument Development: Does the plan have a realistic schedule and mechanisms to deal with potential risks?  Is the appropriate technical expertise available?  Is the cost of the new technology justified?  Is there sufficient rationale for development of a new instrument.**

## MRI: Other Review Considerations

**Integration of Research and Education**
**A principle strategy in support of NSF’s goals**
**Integrating Diversity into NSF Programs, Projects, and Activities**
**NSF is committed to the principle of diversity**
**PIs are expected to address these issues in their proposal so that reviewers can fully respond to both NSF merit review criteria.**

## FY 2005* Snapshot

**Number of Proposals Submitted: 786**
**Dollars Requested: $473,579,186**
**Number of Awards: 255**
**Dollars Awarded: $93,690,810**
**Success Rate: 34*%**
**Average Award: $367,415**
**Number of States that Participated: 52^**
**Number of Institutions that Participated: 437**
**Number of Institutions Awarded: 209**

**^****all states plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia; *35 proposals still pending.**

- *incomplete: 9/28/2004

## FY 2005 Map of Awards

- *Data is as of September 20, 2005, when 35 proposals were still pending

## FY 2005* Awards by Directorate

- *incomplete: 9/28/2004

## MRI Proposal and Award Information by Fiscal Year (FY 1998-2004)

- *incomplete: 9/28/2004

## MRI: Non Ph.D. Granting Institutions

**FY 2005***
**Number of Proposals Submitted: 282**
**Dollars Requested: $97,930,185**
**Number of Awards: 109***
**Dollars Awarded: $26,116,4728***
**Success Rate: 41%***
**Average Award: $239,601***
**Number of States Represented: 45^**
**Number of Institutions Represented: 202**

**FY 2004**
**Number of Proposals Submitted: 311**
**Dollars Requested: $160,417,484**
**Number of Awards: 128**
**Dollars Awarded: $45,432,193**
**Success Rate: 42%**
**Average Award: $354,939**
**Number of States Represented: 44^**
**Number of Institutions Represented: 253**

- ^includes Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia; *35 proposals still pending

- *incomplete: 9/28/2004

## MRI: Minority Serving Institutions

**FY 2005***
**Number of Proposals Submitted: 80**
**Dollars Requested: $41,298,845**
**Number of Awards: 26***
**Dollars Awarded: $9,241,854***
**Success Rate: 35%**
**Average Award: $355,456***
**Number of States Represented: 21^**
**Number of Institutions Represented: 52**

**FY 2004**
**Number of Proposals Submitted: 56**
**Dollars Requested: $30,771,608**
**Number of Awards: 24**
**Dollars Awarded: $8,063,111**
**Success Rate: 43%**
**Average Award: $335,963**
**Number of States Represented: 16^**
**Number of Institutions Represented: 54**

- ^ includes Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia; 35 proposals pending

- *incomplete: 9/28/2004