ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Beginning March 18, 2013, the NSF will enhance the FastLane system to
begin automated compliance checking of all required sections of proposals.
Click here for more information.
• Are You Getting Credit for Your Research?
• NSF IGERT Competition FY2013
We have received word from the National Science Foundation (NSF) regarding the
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT). While
the agency expects to release a solicitation this year, the next competition depends
on the FY 2014 NSF Budget. NSF does not anticipate being able to release a solicitation
until after the submission of the President’s FY 2014 Request to Congress, which may
not be submitted until sometime in March. At this point it seems likely that the next
IGERT solicitation will not be released until later this spring or early summer, with a
proposal deadline at least 90 days after that.
Note, too, that the IGERT is a limited submission competition. Researchers planning to
submit an IGERT proposal should follow the University guidelines for limited submissions:
http://ospa.siu.edu/_common/documents/limited-submission-form.pdf.
We’ll send out an announcement of the solicitation once it is announced. If you have any
questions, please contact the OSPA Research Project Specialist for your college.
UPCOMING DEADLINES:
NSF: Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education (INSPIRE) - The INSPIRE awards program was established to address some of the most complicated and pressing scientific problems that lie at the intersection of traditional disciplines. It is intended to encourage investigators to submit bold, exceptional proposals that some may consider to be at a disadvantage in a standard NSF review process; it is not intended for proposals that are more appropriate for existing award mechanisms. INSPIRE is open to interdisciplinary proposals on any NSF-supported topic, submitted by invitation only after a preliminary inquiry process initiated by submission of a required Letter of Intent. For additional information about this program see: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2013/nsf13518/nsf13518.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click
DEADLINES: Letters of Intent are required. Full proposal is by invitation only.
Letter of Intent Due Date(s) (required):
INSPIRE Track 1 Inquiries: March 29, 2013
Research Opportunities at National Laboratories
National Institutes of Health: High-End Instrumentation Grant Program (S10)
The ORIP High-End Instrumnetation Grant (HEI) program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase a single major item of equipment to be used for biomedical research that costs at least $750,000. The maximum award is $2,000,000. Instruments in this category include, but are not limited to, biomedical imaging systems, NMR spectrometers, mass spectrometers, electron microscopes and supercomputers.