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NSF
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Tom Brady, Division Director,
IOB Tbrady_at_nsf.gov Anu Singh, Science Assistant,
IOB Asingh_at_nsf.gov Maya Anderson, Program
Technology Analyst, IOB Manderso_at_nsf.gov Grinnell
College April 2, 2005 2005
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National Science Foundation
National Science Board
Director Deputy Director
Inspector General
Staff Offices
Computer Information Science Engineering
Mathematical Physical Sciences
Biological Sciences
Geosciences
Engineering
Social, Behavioral Economic Sciences
Budget, Finance Award Management
Information Resource Management
Education Human Resources
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Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI)

• Impact Statement (maximum length 5 pages)
  
• Impact of the proposed research activity on
• The research environment of the institution
• The career(s) of the faculty participants, and
• The ability of the involved department(s) to
  prepare students for entry into
  advanced-degree programs and/or careers in
  science and engineering

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Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)

• Supports teacher-scholars who will become the
  academic leaders of the 21st century
• Supports plans that effectively integrate
  research and education
• BIO minimum of 100,000 per year for 5 years
• New, broader eligibility criteria

Deadline Annually in Late July Program
Announcement NSF-02-111
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Directorate forMathematical and Physical Sciences
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Division of Chemistry
Division of Materials Research
Division of Mathematical Sciences
Division of Physics
Division of Astronomical Sciences
Office of Multidisciplinary Activities
MPS-1
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Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) Home Page
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Division of Mathematical Sciences
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Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic
SciencesTwo Research DivisionsSocial and
Economic Sciences (SES)Behavioral and Cognitive
Sciences (BCS)
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Social Behavioral Economic Sciences (SBE) Home
Page
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Goals in Supporting the Social, Behavioral and
Economic Sciences

• Increase fundamental understanding of human
  behavior and society
• Provide societal relevance by providing
  information on critical national problems such as
  terrorism, business failures, global workforce,
  Americas educational system, and the implication
  of large-scale transformational changes for
  ethnic and cultural diversity and equality

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Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES)

• Focuses on economic, legal, political and social
  systems, organizations, and institutions
• Intellectual and social contexts that govern the
  development and use of science and technology

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Social and Economic Sciences (SES)
Programs

• Decision, Risk, Management Science
• Economics
• Innovation and Organizational Change
• Law and Social Science
• Methodology, Measurement Statistics
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Societal Dimensions of Eng., Science, Tech.
• Science Technology Studies

Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic
Sciences
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Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences

• Focuses on human cognition, language, social
  behavior, and culture
• Interactions between human societies and the
  physical environment

Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic
Sciences
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Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS)
Programs

• Archaeology Archaeometry
• Cultural Anthropology
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Developmental Learning Sciences
• Geography Regional Science
• Linguistics
• Perception, Action, Cognition
• Physical Anthropology
• Social Psychology

Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic
Sciences
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Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) Mary
Clutter, Assistant Director Joann Roskoski,
Executive Officer
Information and Automation Resources Unit (IAR)
Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Mike
Willig, Division Director Penny Firth, Deputy
Director
Division of Integrative Organismal
Biology (IOB) Tom Brady, Division Director Judy
Verbeke, Deputy Director
Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) Machi
Dilworth, Division Director Muriel Poston, Deputy
Director
Division of Molecular and Cellular
Biosciences (MCB) Maryanna Henkart, Division
Director Jerry Cohen, Deputy Director
Ecological Biology
HumanResources
BehavioralSystems
Biomolecular Systems
Ecosystem Science
Developmental Systems
Research Resources
Cellular Systems
Population Evolutionary Processes
Genes and Genome Systems
Environmental Structural Systems
Plant Genome Research Program
Systematic Biology Biodiversity Inventories
Functional Regulatory Systems
Emerging Frontiers (EF)
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Biological Sciences Home Page
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Major BIO Responsibilities

• Long-Term Ecological Research
• Systematic Biology (Biodiversity)
• Evolutionary Biology
• Environmental Biology
• Plant Biology
• Bioinformatics
• Non-medical Microbial Biology

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BIO Areas of EmphasisFY2005 Budget Request

• NSF-wide Priority Areas
• Biocomplexity in the Environment
• Nanoscale Science and Engineering
• Mathematical Sciences
• Human and Social Dynamics
• Increased award size and duration

• BIO Emphasis Areas
• Plant Genomics
• Microbial Biology
• Arabidopsis 2010 Project
• Broadening Participation
• Major Research Equipment and Facilities
• National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)

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Division of Environmental Biology
DEB Organization

• Ecological Biology Cluster
• Ecosystem Science Cluster
• Population and Evolutionary Processes Cluster
• Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories
  Cluster

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DEB Ecological Biology Cluster

• Natural and managed ecosystems
• Terrestrial, wetlands and freshwater habitats
• Experimental, observational, theoritical
  modeling
• Conceptual and synthetic linkages
• Multiple scales geographic and/or ecological

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DEB Ecosystem Science Cluster

• Biogeochemistry
• Decomposition of organic matter
• Belowground nutrient cycling and energy flow
• Primary productivity
• Radioactive gas flux
• Element budgets on watershed, regional,
  continental, or global scales
• Relationships between diversity and ecosystem
  function
• Ecosystem services,Landscape dynamics
• Long-Term Ecological research

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DEB Population and Evolutionary Processes
Cluster

• Population processes
• Evolutionary ecology
• Evolutionary genetics
• Molecular population biology

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DEB Systematic Biology and Biodiversity
Inventories Cluster

• Taxonomy
• Classification
• Phylogenetics
• Expeditionary work to discovery, document and
  describe plant, animal, and microbial diversity

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Division of Integrative Organismal Biology
IOB Organization

• Behavioral Systems
• Developmental Systems
• Environmental and Structural Systems
• Functional and Regulatory Systems

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IOB Behavioral Systems Cluster

• Focuses on the development, function, mechanisms,
  and evolution of behavior, biological rhythms,
  and interactions between organisms including
  animals, plants, and microbes
• social and reproductive behavior
• behavioral ecology and physiology
• neural and hormonal mechanisms of behavior
  immunology of behavior
• biological bases of learning, cognition, and
  communication

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IOB Developmental Systems Cluster

• Focuses on the nature, control, and evolution of
  those processes that comprise the life cycle of
  organisms
• mechanisms of gametogenesis, fertilization,
  embryogenesis, differentiation, pattern
  formation, and morphogenesis
• development, regeneration, and aging of the
  nervous system
• genomic approaches, gene networks, integration of
  developmental gene pathways, and computational
  approaches are included. 

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IOB Environmental and Structural Systems Cluster

• Focuses on the function and evolution of
  organisms in their physiochemical and biotic
  environments
• physiological ecology,
• functional morphology,
• animal sensation and movement,
• molecular bases of tissue biomechanical
  properties,
• environmental genomics. 

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IOB Functional and Regulatory Systems Cluster

• Focuses on fundamental physiological mechanisms
  and how they have evolved, with emphasis on
  organisms as integrated systems.
• comparative physiology
• Neurophysiology
• mechanisms of solute transport
• comparative or evolutionary immunology
• Includes research at the genetic, genomic,
  cellular, tissue, organ, system, and organismal
  levels of organization. 

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Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences
MCB Organization

• Biomolecular Systems Cluster
• Cellular Systems Cluster
• Gene and Genome System Cluster

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MCB Biomolecular Systems Cluster

• Structure, function, dynamics, interactions,
  and interconversions of biological molecules
• Integrating theoretical, computational, and
  experimental approaches to the study of
  biological molecules and their functional
  complexes
• Mechanistic studies of the regulation and
  catalysis of enzymes and RNA
• Higher-order characterization of the biochemical
  processes

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MCB Cellular Systems Cluster

• Structure, function, and regulation of plant,
  animal and microbial cells, and their
  interactions with the environment and with one
  another
• Studies of the structure, function, and assembly
  of cellular elements, including eukaryotic and
  prokaryotic cell walls and envelopes
• Intracellular and transmembrane signal
  transduction mechanisms and cell-cell signaling
  processes, including those that occur in biofilms
  
• Microbial Observatories and Microbial
  Interactions and Processes

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MCB Gene and Genome Systems Cluster

• Genomes and genetic mechanisms in all
  organisms, whether prokaryote, eukaryote, phage,
  or virus
• Structure, maintenance, expression, transfer, and
  stability of genetic information in DNA, RNA, and
  proteins and how those processes are regulated
• Genome organization, molecular and cellular
  evolution, replication, recombination, repair,
  and vertical and lateral transmission of
  heritable information
• Processes that mediate and regulate gene
  expression, such as chromatin structure,
  epigenetic phenomena, transcription, RNA
  processing, editing and degradation, and
  translation.

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Division of Biological Infrastructure
Examples of Research Areas Supported by DBI

• Research Experiences for Undergraduates Sites
• Undergraduate Mentorship in Environmental Biology
• Collaborative Research at Undergraduate
  Institutions
• Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories
• Instrument Development for Biological Research
• Biological Databases and Informatics
• Living Stock Collections
• Biological Research Collections

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Research Experiences for Undergraduates

• Effective for attracting and retaining

undergraduates in careers in mathematics,
science and engineering

• Incorporates active research experience

• REU supplements to PIs with existing awards

• REU sites NSF 04-584

Sites Deadline Aug. 17, 2004
Supplement Deadline Contact your Program
Officer for details.
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Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology

• Institutional awards to give students research
  experience in environmental biology - broadly
  defined
• Proposals should emphasize factors that enable
  underrepresented groups to enter and remain in
  environmental biology
• Major emphasis on direct student participation in
  research during the academic year and summer,
  with students remaining in program for gt 1 year

Program Announcement NSF 05-558 Preliminary
proposal Deadline May 18th 2005 Full proposal
Deadline October 17th 2005
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Field Stations Marine Labs Program

• Successful projects have
• Demonstrated infrastructure need
• High potential biological impact
• Broad user base
• Educational outreach

Read the Program Announcement for more
information. Program Announcement NSF
05-550 April 26, 2005
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Major Research Instrumentation Program

• NSF wide program, BIO managed review
• Designed to improve the condition of scientific
  and engineering equipment and facilities for
  research and research training
• Awards for instrumentation will range from
  100,000 to 2 million.

Deadline 3rd Thursday in January,
annually Program Announcement NSF-05-515
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE FOR TEACHERS

• 1-year supplement to current NSF Awards
• help build long term collaborative relationships
  between K-12 teachers of science and mathematics
  and the NSF research community
• encourages researchers to form partnerships with
  teachers at inner city schools and less well-
  endowed school districts

Consult with the Program Director of your
particular NSF award. Dear Colleague Letter NSF
05-524
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Research Opportunity Award
Supplementary funding through ongoing NSF
research grants to allow faculty at predominantly
undergraduate institutions or secondary schools
to participate in research activities under the
aegis of NSF-supported investigators

• details located within the RUI program
  announcement

Consult with the Program Director of your
particular NSF award. Dear Colleague Letter NSF
05-548
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Research Assistantships for Minority High School
Students (RAMHSS)

• Involves high school minority students in
  research
• Provides funding supplements to PIs supported by
  NSF
• Academic year and summer

Contact the Program Officer in the appropriate
program for details.
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Plant Genome Research Program

• Overall Program Goals
• Support research on the structure, organization
  and function of plant genomes, elucidate
  fundamental biological processes
• Accelerate the acquisition and utilization of new
  knowledge and innovative technologies
• Focus is on plants of economic importance and
  plant processes of potential economic value.
• FY04-05 Program (NSF 04-510)
• Virtual Center Awards in Plant Genome Research
• Individual and Small Group Awards in Plant Genome
  Research

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Individual and Small Group Awards in Plant Genome
Research (ISGA-PGR)

• 300,000 500,000 per year for up to 5 years
• Projects can build on existing PGRP tools

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What is ?

• A continent-wide research tool consisting of
  geographically distributed regional
  observatories, networked via state of the art
  communications
• A virtual lab for research to obtain a predictive
  understanding of the environment
• Collectively, a network of networked
  environmental research facilities and instruments

National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
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Emerging Frontiers - Virtual Division

• An incubator for 21st century biology
• Multidisciplinary research and networking
  activities
• Synergy between disciplines
• New initiatives for later integration into core
  programs
• Currently includes
• All NSF-wide Priority Areas
• Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research
• Tree of Life
• Microbial Genome Sequencing Project
• Ecology of Infectious Diseases
• Research Collaboration Networks

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Award Supplement Opportunities

• Research Experiences for Teachers (RET)
• Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
• Research Opportunity Awards (ROA)
• Research Assistantships for Minority High School
  Students (RAMHSS)
• Facilitation Award for Scientists and Engineers
  with Disabilities

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