NSF generative AI policy

 

https://new.nsf.gov/news/notice-to-the-research-community-on-ai

BoCP funded project

biodiversity on a changing planet. $16 M on 15 unique projects from 2022 to 1/1/2023

https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/biodiversity-changing-planet-bocp

Collaborative Research: BoCP Implementation: Using the Past to Predict the Future: How Physiology and other Functional Traits Determine Survival/Extinction in W. Atlantic Mollusks

Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: The impact of climate change on functional biodiversity across spatiotemporal scales at Lake Tanganyika, Africa

Collaborative Research: BoCP-Design: US-China: Functional divergence between females and males: consequences of climate-induced shifts in composition of dioecious plant population

Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: BioFI- Biodiversity Forecasting Initiative to Understand Population, Community and Ecosystem Function Under Global Change https://bio2fi.github.io/ , many R package, satellite sensing data

BoCP-Design: Developing network-based models to evaluate functional biodiversity responses to climate change and species invasions,  John Largier, Geerat Vermeij, marine ecology

Collaborative Research: BoCP-Design: US-China: Functional divergence between females and males: consequences of climate-induced shifts in composition of dioecious plant populations

BoCP-Design: Climate change and ecosystem functioning: reducing critical uncertainties about ecosystem acclimation,  Peter Adler,Utah,  https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=bJlawwIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

BoCP-Implementation: US-China: Trait innovations in the fig mutualism and their contributions to increased patterns of biodiversity

Collaborative Research: BoCP-Design: A multidomain microbial consortium to interrogate organic matter decomposition in a changing ocean

Collaborative Research: BoCP-Design: US-Sao Paulo: The roles of stochasticity and spatial context in dynamics of functional diversity under global change

Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: Biodiversity and stability on a changing planet: plant traits and interactions that stabilize or destabilize ecosystems and populations

BoCP-Implementation: Eco-evolutionary dynamics of rewilding: Real-time genetic monitoring of large-mammal community reassembly

Collaborative Research: BoCP-Design US-Sao Paulo: Land use change, ecosystem resilience and zoonotic spillover risk,  https://wordpress.clarku.edu/fsangermano/  EcoHealth https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/2023/01/ecohealth-alliance-awarded-over-200k-to-address-challenges-in-biodiversity-science

Collaborative Research: BoCP-Design: US-South Africa: Turning CO2 to stone: the ecosystem service of the oxalate-carbonate pathway and its sensitivity to land use change

BoCP-Implementation: Functional diversity of the smallest predators in the current and future ocean

NIH disclosing, Other support

 

Guidance for Disclosing Domestic & International Affiliations, Support and Collaborations in Sponsored Projects

https://research.rice.edu/sparc/news/guidance-disclosing-domestic-international-affiliations-support-and-collaborations-sponsored 

https://grants.nih.gov/faqs#/other-support-and-foreign-components.htm

NIH Other Support

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/forms/othersupport.htm 

how to request NSF supplemental funding

 

REU cost effectiveness

 ratio of F / G in budget = REU cost effectivness

Common reasons for returned REU reports:

* including students outside of the reporting period

* not include a print copy of SALG URSSA survey report

* not filling in all info on each REU participant

* not including title and abstracts of student research

Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS): Funding to Broaden Participation in the Biological Sciences

 

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18088/nsf18088.jsp

NSF Computational Data-Enabled Science and Engineering

NSF has released a new version of its Computational Data-Enabled Science and Engineering program. The CDS&E program encourages research that pushes the envelope of science and engineering through computation and data, welcoming proposals in any area of research supported by the participating divisions. A proposal may address topics that develop or enable interactions among theory, computing, experiment, and observation to achieve progress on hitherto intractable science and engineering problems.

 

The participating divisions and their deadlines are below. Each division has specific emphasis areas. See the solicitation for details: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505920. I strongly encourage everyone whose work falls under one of these divisions to explore the solicitation and see if it would make sense to prepare a proposal!

 

Directorate	Division and Program	Submission Window or Target Date
ENG	Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems	September 01, 2021 - September 15, 2021   September 01- September 15, Annually Thereafter
ENG	Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation	September 01, 2021 - September 15, 2021   September 01- September 15, Annually Thereafter
MPS	Division of Mathematical Sciences	September 01, 2021 - September 15, 2021   September 01- September 15, Annually Thereafter
MPS	Division of Chemistry - Chemical Catalysis (CAT), Chemical Structure, Dynamics and Mechanisms-A (CSDM-A), Chemical Structure Dynamics and Mechanisms-B (CSDM-B), Chemical Synthesis (SYN), Chemical Theory, Models and Computational Methods (CTMC)	September 01, 2021 - September 30, 2021   September 01 - September 30, Annually Thereafter
MPS	Division of Materials Research	October 15, 2021   October 15, Annually Thereafter
MPS	Division of Astronomical Sciences - Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation	October 01, 2021 - November 15, 2021   October 01 - November 15, Annually Thereafter
CISE	Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure	October 01, 2021 - November 01, 2021   October 01 - October 31, Annually Thereafter
ENG	Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems	October 01, 2021 - November 01, 2021   October 01 - October 31, Annually Thereafter
MPS	Division of Chemistry - Chemical Measurement and Imaging (CMI), Chemistry of Life Processes (CLP), Environmental Chemical Sciences (ECS), and Macromolecular, Supramolecular and Nanochemistry (MSN)	October 01, 2021 - November 01, 2021   October 1 - October 31, Annually Thereafter
MPS	Division of Astronomical Sciences - Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants	October 01, 2021 - November 15, 2021   October 01 - November 15, Annually Thereafter
MPS	Division of Physics: Investigator-Initiated Research Projects	Per specific program

  

nsf no cost extension on research.gov

 

NCE

https://www.purdue.edu/business/sps/pdf/NCE%20Request%20Process%20in%20Fastlane.pdf

Free evaluation

SALG URSSA .(BIO funded sites use this free evaluations)
https://spot.colorado.edu/~laursen/accessURSSA.html

Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research at the Interface of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences  (DMS/NIGMS)

due Sep 18, 2019

Joint DMS/NLM Initiative on Generalizable Data Science Methods for Biomedical Research (DMS/NLM)

Joint DMS/NLM Initiative on Generalizable Data Science Methods for Biomedical Research  (DMS/NLM)

https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505604&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund
due Jan 16, 2019

Collaborative Research: New Bayesian Nonparametric Paradigms of Personalized Medicine for Lung Cancer Award Number:1463233; Principal Investigator:Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani; Co-Principal Investigator:IGNACIO WISTUBA; Organization:University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:09/01/2015; Award Amount:$789,984.00; Relevance:64.0; Novel Bayesian Inference for Microbial Community Studies Using High-Throughput Sequencing Data Award Number:1662427; Principal Investigator:Ju Hee Lee; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:University of California-Santa Cruz;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:07/01/2017; Award Amount:$208,461.00; Relevance:64.0; Mechano-Biologically Informed Molecular Models of Flow Sensitive Biopolymers Award Number:1463234; Principal Investigator:Edmund Webb III; Co-Principal Investigator:Alparslan Oztekin, Xuanhong Cheng, Xiaohui Zhang; Organization:Lehigh University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:09/15/2015; Award Amount:$1,161,993.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Modeling the Coupling of Epigenetic and Transcriptional Regulation Award Number:1462049; Principal Investigator:Jianhua Xing; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:University of Pittsburgh;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:09/15/2015; Award Amount:$693,343.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: New Bayesian Nonparametric Paradigms of Personalized Medicine for Lung Cancer Award Number:1854003; Principal Investigator:Subharup Guha; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:University of Florida;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:09/01/2018; Award Amount:$356,553.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Statistical Methods for Integrated Analysis of High-Throughput Biomedical Data Award Number:1661802; Principal Investigator:Pradeep Ravikumar; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:Carnegie-Mellon University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:09/01/2016; Award Amount:$173,461.00; Relevance:64.0; Kinetics-Driven Drug Discovery Using Persistent Homology, Rare-Event Molecular Dynamics and Experimental Data Award Number:1761320; Principal Investigator:Alex Dickson; Co-Principal Investigator:Kin Sing Lee, Guowei Wei; Organization:Michigan State University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:07/15/2018; Award Amount:$586,610.00; Relevance:64.0; Bayesian Methods for Protein Fibrillization: Model Integration and Network Dynamics Award Number:1361425; Principal Investigator:Carter Butts; Co-Principal Investigator:Rachel Martin; Organization:University of California-Irvine;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:10/01/2014; Award Amount:$1,308,441.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Early Mammalian Embryo Development: Stochastic Modeling and Experiments Award Number:1562078; Principal Investigator:William Holmes; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:Vanderbilt University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:06/01/2016; Award Amount:$292,765.00; Relevance:64.0; A Mathematical-Experimental Strategy to Discern the Molecular Basis of "Successful Mucus" Award Number:1462992; Principal Investigator:M. Gregory Forest; Co-Principal Investigator:David Hill; Organization:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:09/15/2015; Award Amount:$959,999.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Comparative Study of Desert and Non-desert Rodent Kidneys Award Number:1263995; Principal Investigator:Anita Layton; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:Duke University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:09/15/2013; Award Amount:$544,864.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Urban Vector-Borne Disease Transmission Demands Advances in Spatiotemporal Statistical Inference Award Number:1761603; Principal Investigator:Edward Ionides; Co-Principal Investigator:Aaron King; Organization:University of Michigan Ann Arbor;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:07/15/2018; Award Amount:$121,314.00; Relevance:64.0; Computational Cell Motility Model Educed from Single-Cell and High-Throughput Phenotype Analysis Award Number:1361375; Principal Investigator:Richard Superfine; Co-Principal Investigator:Michael Falvo, Sorin Mitran; Organization:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:08/15/2014; Award Amount:$1,053,451.00; Relevance:64.0; Advancing the Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases through Bayesian Phylogenetics Award Number:1264153; Principal Investigator:Marc Suchard; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:University of California-Los Angeles;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:09/15/2013; Award Amount:$1,530,985.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Infection Multiplicity and Virus Evolution, from Experiments to Large Scale Multi-Population Stochastic Computations Award Number:1662096; Principal Investigator:David Levy; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:New York University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:09/01/2017; Award Amount:$276,000.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Geometric Elucidation of Supramolecular Assembly and Allostery with Experimental Validation Award Number:1563291; Principal Investigator:Maria Kurnikova; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:Carnegie-Mellon University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:09/01/2016; Award Amount:$247,962.00; Relevance:64.0; Decoding Strain-Level Variation in the Human Microbiome Award Number:1563159; Principal Investigator:Katherine Pollard; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:The J. David Gladstone Institutes;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:08/01/2016; Award Amount:$1,599,996.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Modeling the Coupling of Epigenetic and Transcriptional Regulation Award Number:1463137; Principal Investigator:Guang Yao; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:University of Arizona;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:09/15/2015; Award Amount:$566,062.00; Relevance:64.0; Statistical Methods for Differential Network Biology with Applications to Aging Award Number:1561814; Principal Investigator:Ali Shojaie; Co-Principal Investigator:Mathias Drton, Daniel Promislow; Organization:University of Washington;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:07/01/2016; Award Amount:$1,188,872.00; Relevance:64.0; Algebraic Geometric Approaches to Biological Complexity Award Number:1462629; Principal Investigator:Jeremy Gunawardena; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:Harvard University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:09/15/2015; Award Amount:$1,447,148.00; Relevance:64.0; Statistical Methods for High-Resolution Multiscale Analysis in DNA Interactions Award Number:1562665; Principal Investigator:Jennifer Phillips-Cremins; Co-Principal Investigator:Nancy Zhang; Organization:University of Pennsylvania;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:05/01/2016; Award Amount:$1,395,955.00; Relevance:64.0; Adaptive Queueing in Intracellular Networks Award Number:1463657; Principal Investigator:Lev Tsimring; Co-Principal Investigator:Jeff Hasty, Ruth Williams; Organization:University of California-San Diego;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:09/15/2015; Award Amount:$1,600,000.00; Relevance:64.0; Multi-Scale Models for Membrane Fission Catalyzed by the Endosomal Sorting Complexes Required for Transport Award Number:1661900; Principal Investigator:Saverio Spagnolie; Co-Principal Investigator:Anjon Audhya, Saverio Spagnolie; Organization:University of Wisconsin-Madison;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:07/01/2017; Award Amount:$600,000.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Discrete and Topological Models for Template-Guided Genome Rearrangements Award Number:1800443; Principal Investigator:Natasa Jonoska; Co-Principal Investigator:Masahiko Saito; Organization:University of South Florida;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:08/01/2018; Award Amount:$173,065.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Discrete and Topological Models for Template-Guided Genome Rearrangements Award Number:1764366; Principal Investigator:Laura Landweber; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:Columbia University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:08/01/2018; Award Amount:$189,179.00; Relevance:64.0; Emergent properties of synthetic microbial consortia Award Number:1361240; Principal Investigator:Tomas Gedeon; Co-Principal Investigator:Jeffrey Heys, Ross Carlson; Organization:Montana State University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:08/01/2014; Award Amount:$745,616.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Infection Multiplicity and Virus Evolution, from Experiments to Large Scale Multi-Population Stochastic Computations Award Number:1662146; Principal Investigator:Natalia Komarova; Co-Principal Investigator:Dominik Wodarz; Organization:University of California-Irvine;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:09/01/2017; Award Amount:$266,812.00; Relevance:64.0; Inference of Network Dynamics and Architecture in Neural Systems with Data-Driven Methods Award Number:1361145; Principal Investigator:Eli Shlizerman; Co-Principal Investigator:Jeffrey Riffell; Organization:University of Washington;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:08/01/2014; Award Amount:$879,377.00; Relevance:64.0; Phenotype Engineering by Signaling Network Modification Award Number:1361251; Principal Investigator:Adriana Dawes; Co-Principal Investigator:Helen Chamberlin; Organization:Ohio State University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:08/15/2014; Award Amount:$1,280,030.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research - Combining Heterogeneous Data Sources to Identify Genetic Modifiers of Diseases Award Number:1761941; Principal Investigator:Steven Finkbeiner; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:The J. David Gladstone Institutes;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:08/01/2018; Award Amount:$292,287.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Combining Heterogeneous Data Sources to Identify Genetic Modifiers of Diseases Award Number:1761903; Principal Investigator:Benjamin Shaby; Co-Principal Investigator:Daisy Philtron; Organization:Pennsylvania State Univ University Park;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:08/01/2018; Award Amount:$47,699.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Statistical Methods for RNA-seq Based Transcriptomic Analysis of Macrophage Function in Spinal Cord Injury Award Number:1662139; Principal Investigator:Jianqing Fan; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:Princeton University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:07/01/2017; Award Amount:$400,000.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Statistical Methods for RNA-seq Based Transcriptomic Analysis of Macrophage Function in Spinal Cord Injury Award Number:1661727; Principal Investigator:Yi Ren; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:Florida State University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:07/01/2017; Award Amount:$400,000.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Geometric Elucidation of Supramolecular Assembly and Allostery with Experimental Validation Award Number:1563234; Principal Investigator:Meera Sitharam; Co-Principal Investigator:Mavis Agbandje-McKenna; Organization:University of Florida;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:09/01/2016; Award Amount:$594,199.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Urban Vector-Borne Disease Transmission Demands Advances in Spatiotemporal Statistical Inference Award Number:1761612; Principal Investigator:Mercedes Pascual; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:University of Chicago;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:07/15/2018; Award Amount:$372,296.00; Relevance:64.0; A telescopic algorithm for two-dimensional hidden Markov models with application to genetic studies Award Number:1701433; Principal Investigator:Xiang-Yang Lou; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:Arkansas Childrens Hospital Research Institute;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:07/01/2016; Award Amount:$1,492,518.00; Relevance:64.0; Single-cell to population-based analysis of the microRNA-p53 interaction network Award Number:1361355; Principal Investigator:Lan Ma; Co-Principal Investigator:Leonidas Bleris; Organization:University of Texas at Dallas;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:08/01/2014; Award Amount:$744,324.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Statistical Modeling of Mechanosensing by Cell Surface Receptors Award Number:1660504; Principal Investigator:C. F. Jeff Wu; Co-Principal Investigator:Cheng Zhu; Organization:Georgia Tech Research Corporation;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:08/01/2017; Award Amount:$300,000.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Statistical Modeling of Mechanosensing by Cell Surface Receptors Award Number:1660477; Principal Investigator:Ying Hung; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:Rutgers University New Brunswick;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:08/01/2017; Award Amount:$94,699.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Synthetic Microbial Consortia Award Number:1662305; Principal Investigator:Kresimir Josic; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:University of Houston;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:07/01/2017; Award Amount:$300,324.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Synthetic Microbial Consortia Award Number:1662290; Principal Investigator:Matthew Bennett; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:William Marsh Rice University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:07/01/2017; Award Amount:$458,442.00; Relevance:64.0; Multiscale Models for Predicting the Effectiveness of Mitigation Efforts in Controlling Vector-Borne Epidemics Award Number:1563531; Principal Investigator:James Hyman; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:Tulane University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:05/01/2016; Award Amount:$434,289.00; Relevance:64.0; Collaborative Research: Early Mammalian Embryo Development: Stochastic Modeling and Experiments Award Number:1562176; Principal Investigator:Qing Nie; Co-Principal Investigator:Ken Cho; Organization:University of California-Irvine;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:06/01/2016; Award Amount:$907,035.00; Relevance:64.0; Combined Modeling and Experimental Study of the Mechanisms of Growth Patterns in Stem Cell Homeostasis in Plants Award Number:1762063; Principal Investigator:Mark Alber; Co-Principal Investigator:Amit Roy Chowdhury, Venugopala Gonehal, Weitao Chen; Organization:University of California-Riverside;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:07/01/2018; Award Amount:$522,094.00; Relevance:64.0; Mathematical Methods to Infer Biological Mechanisms From Single Cell Data Award Number:1562497; Principal Investigator:Johan Paulsson; Co-Principal Investigator:; Organization:Harvard University;NSF Organization:DMS Start Date:04/01/2016; Award Amount:$635,740.00; Relevance:64.0;

NSF no-deadline calls

Update on No-Deadline by dbiblogger

Following up on a previous post, “Upcoming Changes for Fiscal Year 2019 Award Submission,” new solicitations to replace previous solicitations in the DBI Research Resources Cluster will be made available after mid-year 2018.  Programs affected include:

• Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI -NSF 15-582)
• Collections in Support of Biological Research (CSBR - NSF 15-577)
• Improvements in Facilities, Communications, and Equipment at Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories (FSML - NSF 16-506)
• Instrument Development for Biological Research (IDBR - NSF 13-561)

For more information on the move to "no-deadline", please see the Dear Colleague Letter (NSF 18-011) and the Frequently Asked Questions.

Subscribe to the BLOG and stay tuned for updates!

NSF fastlane requirement update

You are receiving this email because you have been identified as having an in-process proposal or in-process Proposal File Update (PFU) in FastLane.

Effective January 29, 2018, NSF will implement changes in FastLane and Research.gov to support the following policy updates in the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 18-1) and to run updated Budget Justification page limit automated compliance checks in FastLane:

Standard Collaborators and Other Affiliations Template Implementation:

• The revised PAPPG (NSF 18-1) incorporates the standard Collaborators and Other Affiliations (COA) template that has been in pilot phase in FastLane since April 2017.
• FastLane system instructions will be updated in accordance with the new policy.
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on the COA template are available at https://nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/coa.jsp.

Budget Justification Page Limitation Increase:

• The Budget Justification page limitation will increase from three pages to five pages.
• To align with the new policy, FastLane will run an automated compliance check for the Budget Justification page limitation across several proposal types and will generate an error or warning when the submission validation compliance check is not met.
• Compliance checks are run during “Check Proposal,” “Forward to SPO,” and “Submit Proposal.” The complete list of FastLane automated compliance checks effective January 29, 2018, is available at https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/autocheck/compliancechecks_jan18.pdf.

New “Substitute Negotiator” Associated Document for Change of Principal Investigator (PI) Requests:

• A new “Substitute Negotiator” Associated Document will be available in FastLane’s Notifications and Requests module when a “Change of PI” request is made (e.g., to be utilized in cases where a former employee or Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) is being reappointed as a PI or Co-PI to an award they were previously involved with).

New “Other Request” Type:

• A new “Other Request” type will be added to Research.gov’s Notifications and Requests module. This request will be reviewed and approved by the NSF Program Officer.

New Award Abstract Text:

• In connection with NSF’s transparency and accountability efforts for award abstracts, the Foundation will add the following final paragraph to all award abstracts for awards with start dates of March 1 or later: “This award reflects NSF’s statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation’s intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.”

Note about Proposal File Updates (PFU):

The automated compliance checks also apply when a PFU is performed on a proposal. The compliance checks will be run on all sections of the proposal, regardless of which section was updated during the PFU. Proposers should be aware that if a proposal was previously submitted successfully, a PFU performed on the proposal will be prevented from submission if the proposal does not comply with the compliance checks in effect at the time.

We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues. To learn about all the changes to the PAPPG (NSF 18-1), be sure to view the latest webinar.

For IT system-related questions, please contact FastLane User Support at 1-800-673-6188 or fastlane@nsf.gov. Policy-related questions should be directed to policy@nsf.gov. 

Regards,

The FastLane Team at the National Science Foundation

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NSF R&D ranking of universities

Rankings by total R&D expenditures

https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=herd

fastlane collaborative proposal

collaborative proposal from multiple institutions

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappg17_1/pappg_2.jsp

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappg17_1/pappg_2.jsp#IID3

For non-lead organizations: cover sheet, biographic sketches,  budget and justification, C&P, Facility, Collaboration and other affiliations.

To submit the collaborative proposal, the following process must be completed:²⁹

(i) Each non-lead organization must assign their proposal a proposal PIN. This proposal PIN and the temporary proposal ID generated by FastLane when the non-lead proposal is created must be provided to the lead organization before the lead organization submits its proposal to NSF.

(ii) The lead organization must then enter each non-lead organization(s) proposal PIN and temporary proposal ID into the FastLane lead proposal by using the "Link Collaborative Proposals" option found on the FastLane "Form Preparation" screen.

(iii) All components of the collaborative proposal must meet any established deadline date, and failure to do so may result in the entire collaborative proposal being returned without review.

(iv) If funded, both lead and non-lead organizations are required to submit separate annual and final project reports. These reports should reference the work of the collaborative, while focusing on the distinct work conducted at each funded organization.

UTC indirect cost 36%

UTC indirect charge is 36% for modified total direct cost for any federal grants (including NIH and NSF).

important concepts/skills in undergraduate QBIO education and training

Important concepts

• Modeling approach:
•  ODE
•  PDE
•  Discrete
•  Analytic versus simulation
• Bistability, bifurcation
• Visualization of quantitative models
• 
  

NSF RCN elements

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15527/nsf15527.htm

ll RCN proposals (including RCN-UBE) must conform to the following 7 guidance items:

1. Topic/focus of research coordination. For all tracks, research coordination network (RCN) proposals should identify a clear theme as the focus of its activities. RCN proposals should spell out the theoretical and/or methodological foundations of the network's proposed activities, and should specify what activities will be undertaken, what new groups of investigators will be brought together, what products will be generated by network activities, and how information about the network and opportunities to participate will be disseminated. The proposal should also outline the expected benefits of the network's activities in moving a field forward and the implications for the broader community of researchers, educators and engineers.
2. Principal investigator (PI). Although research coordination networks are expected to involve investigators from multiple sites, a single organization must serve as the submitting organization for each proposal. Of the two types of collaborative proposal formats described in the Grant Proposal Guide, this solicitation allows only a single proposal submission with subawards administered by that lead organization. The PI is the designated contact person for the project and is expected to provide leadership in fully coordinating and integrating the activities of the network. Strong, central leadership and clear lines of responsibility are essential for successful networking.
3. Steering committee. Members of the steering committee will be network participants that assume key roles in the leadership and/or management of the project. The steering committee should be representative of the communities of participants that will be brought together through the RCN. It must include all Co-PIs, if any are listed on the cover page of the proposal, and any other senior personnel, including any foreign collaborators involved as leaders or otherwise considered senior personnel. Therefore, the steering committee constitutes all the senior personnel for the RCN proposal. The name and home organization of each steering committee member should be listed in the project summary. As these individuals are all senior personnel, their Biographical Sketches and Current and Pending Support statements must be included in the appropriate sections of the proposal.
4. Network participants. The size of a network is expected to vary depending on the theme and the needs of the proposed activity. The network may be regional, national, or international. It is expected that a proposed network will involve investigators at diverse organizations. The inclusion of new researchers, post-docs, graduate students, and undergraduates is encouraged. Specific efforts to increase participation of underrepresented groups (women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities) must be included. In the proposal, an initial network of likely participants should be identified. However, there should be clearly developed mechanisms to maintain openness, ensure access, and actively promote participation by interested parties outside of the initial participants in the proposed network.
5. Coordination/management mechanism. The proposal should include a clearly defined management plan. The plan should include a description of the specific roles and responsibilities of the PI and the steering committee. Mechanisms for allocating funds, such as support for the work of a steering committee, should be clearly articulated. The plan should include provisions for flexibility to allow the structure of the participant group to change over time as membership and the network's foci evolve. Mechanisms for assessing progress and the effectiveness of the networking activities should be part of the management plan.
6. Information and material sharing. The goals of this program are to promote effective communication and to enhance opportunities for collaboration. Proposers are expected to develop and present a clearly delineated understanding of individual member's rights to ideas, information, data and materials produced as a result of the award that is consistent with the goals of the program. Infrastructure plans to support the communication and collaboration should be described. When the proposed activity involves generation of community resources such as databases or unique materials, a plan for their timely release and the mechanism of sharing beyond the membership of the RCN must be described in the Data Management Plan, a required Supplementary Document. In addition, a plan for long-term maintenance of such resources must be described without assuming continued support from NSF.
7. International participation. NSF encourages international collaboration, and we anticipate that many RCN projects will include participants, including steering committee members, from outside the US. International collaborations should clearly strengthen the proposed project activities. As NSF funding predominantly supports participation by US participants, network participants from institutions outside the US are encouraged to seek support from their respective funding organizations, notably participants from developed countries. NSF funds may not be used to support the expenses of the international scientists and students at their home organization. For RCN projects that involve international partners, NSF funds may be used for the following:

Travel expenses for US scientists and students participating in exchange visits integral to the RCN project

RCN-related expenses for international partners to participate in networking activities while in the US.

RCN-related expenses for US participants to conduct networking activities in the international partner's home laboratory.

NSF computational education programs

CS for all, computer science for all

STEM+C (computing partnership)

ITEST (innovative technology experience for students and teachers)
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5467


https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1311902&HistoricalAwards=false

Spelman NSF day

* cost sharing is prohibited.

* NSF-wide and cross-cutting programs: HBCUs, RAPID/EAGER, ADVANCE, GRFP, MRI, RUI/ROA, REU/RET.

RAPID such as ebola virus in 2014, aspect of urgency.
https://www.nsf.gov/geo/plr/opp_advisory/briefings/may2010/gpg_rapid_eager.pdf
" PI(s) must contact the NSF program officer(s) whose expertise is most germane to the proposal topic before submitting a RAPID proposal. This will facilitate determining whether the proposed work is appropriate for RAPID funding."

EAGER, Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER), high risk and high reward. Internal review. 

ADVANCE: women in academics and science. 

MRI: an equipment to enhance "existing research" with more possibilities. 


For PUI: 
RUI: no more than 20 PhD degrees in 2 year period in all-NSF supported fields. 
ROA: research opportunity award, supplements to existing awards, such as support to visiting a large lab to learning new skills. 

RUI has better rate than regular proposals.