St. Olaf College Government and Foundation Relations New Proposals Submitted in calendar year 2010 by NSM Faculty 29 Federal and Foundation proposals submitted totaling $6,047,450. There were 13 new grants received in 2010 totaling $986,885. New Proposals Submitted in calendar year 2011 by NSM Faculty 31 Federal and Foundation proposals submitted totaling $6,304,512. There were 17 new grants received in 2011 totaling $2,501,002 with 6 proposals pending a decision totaling $2,329,678.
Where to Submit @ NSF Discipline-based Directorates: Biological Sciences (BIO) Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering (CISE) Engineering (ENG) Geosciences (GEO) Mathematical & Physical Sciences (MPS) Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE) Education & Human Resources (EHR)
Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide Applying for grants and Managing Awards http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf09_1/index.jsp?or g= NSF
Preparing the Proposal: Start Early (3-6 months before deadline)! Review NSF Award Abstracts (Fastlane) Talk to your NSF Program Director Talk to your colleagues; have experienced colleagues review a draft and comment Recruit and describe university infrastructure support for your proposed project Address the merit review criteria Compliance checks (PAPP)
Give careful consideration Two NSF Merit Review Criteria Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts Integration of Research and Education Integration of Diversity into projects and activities Additional program-specific Review Criteria (listed in the program announcement) Institutional data—know thyself and tell the reader.
Program directors: available to you for advice and appointments (conference booths, visits to NSF) Program directors are your contacts for becoming a reviewer and panelist Do your homework before you meet with or call program officers, prepare specific questions Program directors can help you find out about other programs and make contacts across the Foundation
Review Process Overview You reviewer reviewer Program Panel reviewer Director reviewer reviewer reviewer reviewer Program Director or $ $
Who Gets Funded (Ideal World) “ Gray ” Zone Typically funded “Almost Almost Never Always funded Funded”
Grant Opportunities Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Research Fellowships http://www.sloan.org/program/1 Research Corporation (Laura Listenberger) http://www.rescorp.org/grants-and-awards Association for Women in Math-Travel Grants http://sites.google.com/site/awmmath/programs/travel- grants The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. http://www.dreyfus.org/awards/overview_and_program s.shtml National Institute of Justice (Doug Beussman) http://www.nij.gov/funding/welcome.htm
Fulbright Fellowships (Anne Walter, Mike Swift) http://fulbright.state.gov/grants/scholar- program/us-citizen.html NIH Area grants R15 (Eric Cole, Jeff Schwinefus) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/area.htm National Science Foundation Social and Economic Sciences (SES) http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=SES All disciplines http://www.nsf.gov/funding/ American Chemical Society-ACS Petroleum Research Fund ( Jason Engbrecht, Jeff Schwinefus) http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb= true&_pageLabel=PP_FUNDING&node_id=136&use _sec=false&__uuid=ee7edf19-05d6-4334-a326- 490ddd2f8801
Nygaard Foundation (Kay Smith, Howard Thorsheim) http://www.stolaf.edu/president/nygaard/ American Heart Association-AHA , Fellowship http://my.americanheart.org/professional/Councils/ Fellowship/Fellowship_UCM_316914_SubHomePag e.jsp Search by Federal Agency at Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov/search/agency.do Department of Energy-DOE Environmental Protection Agency-EPA Department of Natural Resources-DNR Department of Agriculture-USDA
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