Forum on Preparing NSF-Career proposals Friday April 15, 2011, in Cox 166
Links for NSF CAREER proposals
NSF CAREER: General Information
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503214
NSF CAREER: Solicitation, 11-690
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=503214&ods_key=nsf11690
NSF CAREER: Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11038/nsf11038.pdf
This forum on writing successful NSF Career awards was unique among the many grant-writing workshops at UM. First, it was unusual in the bread of its support, from the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering, Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and SEEDS. Second, and more important, it focused on only one type of grant, the NSF Career awards, for which only junior faculty are eligible (see the general information link above for eligibility details), thus giving more pertinent advice to those who would be interested in writing such a grant. In the forum, four faculty who had received NSF CAREER awards in the past each spoke for ten minutes and then answered questions on what elements are important to success. Their PowerPoint presentations are below, as is a handout from Dr. Clement that relates the advice of a special NSF panel that met to consider the educational plans of multiple applications in Atmospheric Sciences, and made recommendations to the NSF Program officers and to applicants on what elements contributed to a sucessful-- or an unsuccessful-- proposal.
Resources:
Amy Clement, Atmospheric Sciences, RSMAS, Powerpoint (56KB) and Handout from the NSF panel (56 KB)
Manohar Murthi, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, PowerPoint (64 KB)
Albert Uy, Aresty Chair in Tropical Ecology, Biology Department, College of Arts and sciences, PowerPoint (4.8 MB)
Jamie Walls, Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, PowerPoint (852 KB)
Presenters:
Dr. Amy Clement (RSMAS), Dr. Manohar Murthi (CoE), Dr. Albert Uy (A&S), Dr. Jamie Walls (A&S)
Organizers:
Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele (CoE). Drs. Robert Cowen and Amy Clement (RSMAS), Dr. Angel Kaifer (A&S)
