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Biology
On Friday and Saturday,
November 14-15, 2008,
QEM Network conducted a proposal development and evaluation
workshop in Washington, DC to assist eligible Biology faculty
at accredited minority institutions and eligible underrepresented
minority Biology faculty at other accredited institutions in
the preparation of proposals for submission to the National Science
Foundation’s
Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO). To be eligible for support from QEM
to attend the workshop, faculty had to meet each of the following
criteria: (1) hold the rank of assistant professor or above; (2)
be tenured or tenure track; (3) teach Biology courses taken by
students majoring in Biology/Biological Sciences; and (4) be actively
engaged in research. Registration forms from faculty at two-year
institutions that do not have rank and tenure systems will be considered
provided these faculty meet conditions (3) and (4). This workshop The workshop is designed to accommodate
40 eligible faculty. QEM will cover travel and lodging expenses
for eligible participants who have not received QEM support to
participate in a QEM/BIO workshop and who have submitted the required
one-page project summary by the deadline indicated below. Other
eligible faculty may participate at their own or their institution's
expense. QEM will provide meals during the workshop for all registered
participants who have submitted the required one-page project summary. The required one-page summary must be prepared according to the NSF Grant ProposalGuide (GPG) http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/papp/gpg_2.jsp#IIC2b (pageII-7). According to the GPG, the summary should be a self-contained description of the activity that would result if a proposal were funded. In addition to including a statement of objectives and methods to be used, the one-page summary must clearly and separately address both of NSF's two Merit Review Criteria: Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts. The Foundation will return proposals without review that do not separately and clearly address the two criteria in the project summary. The workshop will focus on programs in the following divisions within the Foundation's Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO):
BIO also supports projects within the Emerging Frontiers (EF) Division. The Directorate especially encourages proposals from three or more investigators, who may come from more than one institution, for collaborative studies focused on a single problem. The Directorate does not normally provide support for "research with disease-related goals, including work on the etiology, diagnosis or treatment of physical or mental disease, abnormality, or malfunction in human beings or animals." Additional information on the Directorate’s programs and various deadlines can be found at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_list.jsp?org=BIO&ord=date. ======================== QEM/NSF BIO WORKSHOPS TO DATE
For more information, please contact Shirley McBay (smmcbay1@qem.org) or Althea Burns (aburns@qem.org) or via telephone at 202-659-1818. |
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