February 20, 2007 - How to Compete for Funding at NSF
A short presentation will cover the basics of how NSF is organized, how to determine which directorate and program to apply to, how to identify and analyze NSF funding opportunities and how proposals to NSF are evaluated.
Panel Members:
- Biology (BIO) – Kirk Winemiller (Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries) and Timothy Hall (Dept. of Biology)
- Computer, Information Science and Engineering (CISE) – A.L. Narasimha Reddy (Dept. of Electrical Engineering)
- Engineering (ENG) – Thomas Wood (Dept. of Chemical Engineering) and Yu Ding (Dept. of Industrial Engineering)
- Education and Human Resources (EHR) – Janie Schielack (Dept. of Mathematics)
- Geosciences (GEO) – Richard Orville (Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences)
- Math and Physical Sciences (MPS) – Jim Calvin (Dept of Statistics) and Wenhao Wu (Dept. of Physics)
- Social, Behavioral and Economics Sciences (SBE) –Eddie Harmon-Jones (Dept. of Psychology); Samuel Cohn (Dept of Sociology)
NSF Structure - List of NSF Directorates and Programs (handout)
Example Project Description Outline
Secrets of Success at NSF handout by Thomas Wood
More Information
Presentation on Writing Effective Research Grant Proposals (2006)
To sign up for e-mail notification of funding opportunties direct from NSF
Presentation: "Twelve Steps to a Winning Research Proposal" by George Hazelrigg, NSF program officer
Semester-long Grant writing Workshop - Fall 2008 (applications due Sept. 1st)
