# Presentation: 703067

## Crosscutting and Special Interest Programs

- NSF Regional Grants Conference
- March 13-14, 2006
- Boulder, CO

**Hosted by:  The University of Colorado at Boulder****	****	**

## Ask Early, Ask Often!!

**Ask Early, Ask Often!!**

**Jody Chase**
- Program Director, EHR
- lchase@nsf.gov
- (703) 292-8682
**Lloyd Douglas**
- Program Director, MPS
- ldouglas@nsf.gov
- (703) 292-4862

**Joan Frye**
- Staff Asscoiate, OIA
- jfrye@nsf.gov
- (703) 292-8040
**Alfonso Ortega**
- Program Director, ENG
- aortega@nsf.gov
- (703) 292-7494

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## Programs for Specific Groups/Purposes

**Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)**
**Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI)**
**Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)**
**Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)**
**Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program **
**Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)**
**NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education**
**ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers **
**Human and Social Dynamics (HSD)**

## Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)

**Program Solicitation:**
- _[NSF 98-142](http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf98142)_
**Website:**
- _[http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf98142](http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf98142)_
**Deadlines & Contact Information:**
- Contact Disciplines

## Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)

**Goals:**
**Catalyze industry-university partnerships**
**Encourage innovative application of academe’s intellectual capabilities**
**Bring industry’s perspective and integrative skills to academe**
**Promote high quality research and broaden educational experiences in industrial settings**
**Proposal Requirements:**
**Co-PI  from industry**
**Industry-university agreement on Intellectual Property**
**Statement describing the industrial R&D contribution**
**Specific plan for industry/university interaction**

## Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI)

**Cost Sharing:**
**Required for faculty internships and postdoctoral visits for Faculty in Industry awards**
**Eligibility Restrictions:**
**U.S. institutions of higher education that confer degrees in research areas normally supported by NSF may submit proposals on behalf of faculty members with full-time appointments**** **
**Only U.S. citizens or permanent residents eligible for fellowships**

## Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI)

**Program Solicitation:**
**NSF 00-144**
**Website:**
**http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5518&from=fund**** **
**Deadlines and Contacts:**
**Contact discipline**

## Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI)

**Goals**
**Support high quality research with **
**  **** ****active involvement of undergraduates **
**Strengthen the research environment in undergraduate institutions**
**Promote integration of  **
**   ****research and education in **
**   ****undergraduate institutions**

## Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI)

**Eligibility:**
**20 or fewer Science and Engineering Ph.D. in 2 years**
**Proposal Types:**
**Regular research**
**Multi-user instrumentation**
**Research Opportunity Awards**

## Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)

**Program Solicitation:**
- _[NSF 05-515](http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05515)_
**Website:**
- _[http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/programs/mri/](http://www.nsf.gov/od/oia/programs/mri/)_** **
**Deadlines:**
**Fourth Thursday in January**
**Contact Information:**
**Phone: (703) 292-8040**
**E-mail: **_[mri@nsf.gov](mailto:mri@nsf.gov)_** **

## Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)

**Goal - to increase access to scientific and engineering equipment in U.S. academic institutions.**
**Supports instrument acquisition and development.**
**Three proposals per institution.**
**Award size - $100,000 to $2 million**

## Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)

**Program Solicitation:**
- NSF 06-525
**Website:**
- _[http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12759&org=NSF](http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12759&org=NSF)_
**Deadlines:**
- Preliminary Proposal:		March 27, 2006
- Full Proposal (Invitation Only):  	September 29, 2006
**Contact Information:**
- Coordinating Committee members are listed on the IGERT web page:
- _[http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/igert/cc.jsp](http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/igert/cc.jsp)_
**Grants.gov:**
- This program offers the option of submitting proposals via Grants.gov

## Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)

**Goals**
**To catalyze a cultural change in graduate education, for students, faculty, and institutions, by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in  a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. **
**To facilitate diversity in student participation  and preparation, and to contribute to the development of a diverse, globally-engaged, science and engineering workforce.**

## Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)

**Proposals should:**
**Be integrative, research-based, graduate education and training activities in emerging areas of science and engineering**
**Be organized around an interdisciplinary theme involving a diverse group of faculty members and other investigators with appropriate expertise in research and teaching**
**Provide students with experience relevant to both  academic and nonacademic careers**
**Awards:**
**For new projects, the first year award will be up to $400,000 and in amounts up to $600,000 for each of the next four years**
**For renewals, awards will be made in amounts up to $600,000 per year for a duration of five years**

## Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

**Program Solicitation:**
- _[NSF 05-579](http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05579)_
**Website:**
- _[http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5262](http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5262)_
**Deadlines:****	****	****2006****	****	****	****2007**
- BIO/CISE/EHR:		July 18, 2006		July 17, 2007
- ENG:			July 19, 2006		July 18, 2007
- GEO/MPS/SBE/OPP:	July 20, 2006		July 19, 2007
**Contact Information:**
- Division CAREER contacts listed on the CAREER Web page:
- _[http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/career/contacts.](http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/career/contacts.jsp)__[jsp](http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/career/contacts.jsp)_

## Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

**CAREER Program Objectives**** **
**Strongly encourage new faculty, emphasizing planning of an integrated academic career**
**Develop faculty who are both highly productive researchers and dedicated, effective educators**
**Form partnership with college or university to encourage balanced career development             of individual faculty**
**Increase participation of women,             members of underrepresented                   minority groups, and persons                            with disabilities**

## Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

**CAREER Guidelines **
**Review process varies by Directorate, and may be by mail, panel, or combination**
**Normal indirect cost rate applies **
**5 year duration**
**Minimum Award: $400K over 5 years (Proposers to the Biological Sciences Directorate (BIO) must submit                budget requests for a minimum                       of $500K for the 5-year duration).**

## Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

**CAREER Development Plan should include:**
**The objectives and significance of the proposed integrated research and education activities; **
**The relation of the research to the current state of knowledge in the field and of the education activities to the current state of knowledge on effective teaching and      learning in one’s field of study;**
**An outline of the plan of work,             describing the methods and                 procedures to be used, including         evaluation of the education                   activities;**

## Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

**Program Solicitation:**
- NSF 05-592
**Website:**
- http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517&from=fund
**Deadlines:**
- REU Sites:    August 17, 2006
- REU Sites (Antarctic Program):    June 7, 2006
- REU Supplements:    Contact Discipline
**Contact Information: **
- NSF Contacts can be found at:
- http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/reu_contacts.jsp

## Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

**REU Sites**
**Goals:**
**Initiate and conduct undergraduate research-participation projects**
**Create research environment with   strong faculty-student interaction**
**Recruitment:**
**Significant percentage of                students from outside                            host institution**

## Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

**REU Supplements**
**Goal:**
**Attract undergraduates into science by providing an active research experience**
**Guidelines:**
**Add one or two students to an active ongoing project**
**Must be U.S. citizen or permanent resident**
**No indirect costs (administrative              allowance of 25% of student stipend)**
**Awards 6K**
**Ask Program Officer about due dates**

## NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education

**Program Solicitation:**
- _[NSF 05-553](http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05553)_ (Currently being revised)
**Website:**
- http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5472
**Deadlines:**
- Letter of Intent:		May 4, 2005
- Full Proposal:			June 2, 2005
**Contact Information:**
**Sonia Ortega (EHR): ****	**	**Carolyn Piper (EHR)**
- Phone: (703) 292-5198		Phone: (703) 292-8697
- E-mail: sortega@nsf.gov 	E-mail: cpiper@nsf.gov

## NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education

**Focus**
**SMET fellows serve in K-12 schools as resources**
**Awards**
**200-500K per year for up to 3 years**
**Eligibility**
**SMET’s Master’s and Doctoral               degree granting institutions**

## NSF Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education

**Expected Outcomes:**
**Improved communication and teaching skills for fellows**
**Enriched learning by K-12 students**
**Professional development opportunities for K-12 teachers**
**Strengthened partnerships between institutions of higher education                  and local school districts**

## ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers 

**Program Solicitation:**
- _[NSF 05-584](http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05584)_
**Website:**
- _[http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383](http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383)_
**Deadlines:**
- July 15, 2005:		Leadership Awards:
- July 20, 2005 :		Institutional Transformation Awards
- January 27, 2006:	Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, 			and Dissemination
**Contact Information:**
- Alice Hogan (SBE): (703) 292-7238; _[ahogan@nsf.gov](mailto:ahogan@nsf.gov)_

## ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers

**Goal:**
**Increase the representation and advancement of women in academic S&E careers, thereby contributing to the  development of a more           diverse S&E workforce**

## ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers

**Three Types of Awards**
**Institutional Transformation**
**Improve institutional climate**
**Leadership**
**Recognize contributions by individuals and institutions, and enable further progress**
**Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination **
**Supports the analysis, adaptation, dissemination    and use of existing innovative materials and  practices that have been demonstrated to be  effective in increasing representation and participation of women in academic                    science and engineering careers**

## Human and Social Dynamics (HSD)

**Program Solicitation:**
- NSF 06-509
**Website:**
- http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11678&from=fund
**Deadlines:**
- Exploratory Proposals:	February 14, 2006
- Full Research Proposals:	  February 21, 2006
**Contact Information: **
- NSF Contacts can be found at:
- http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/hsd/contacts.jsp

## Human and Social Dynamics (HSD)

**Aims to stimulate and support growth in knowledge about human action and development as well as organizational, cultural and societal adaptation and change**
**Funding Amount: $50 million**
**Second Year Emphases:**
**Agents of Change (AOC)**
**Dynamics of Human Behavior (DHB)**
**Decision Making, Risk, and Uncertainty (DRU)**