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Upcoming Virtual Office Hours will be held on May 16th
On April 18th, 2019 program directors from the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) held the first monthly Virtual Office Hour. Office hours are open to all and will occur on the 3rd Thursday of each month from 1-2 pm eastern. During office hours, a program director from each research cluster in IOS (Behavioral Systems, …
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Ask a PD: When to submit and other question about no deadlines review
Q: When is the best time to submit a proposal? Ans: The best time to submit is as soon as you think your proposal is ready! With no deadlines, program directors are not required to have panels during specific times of the year. Instead they can convene a panel as soon as they feel they …
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March Mammal Madness is back!
March Madness is upon us once again, not only for basketball fans, but for fans of science as well. Principal Investigator Katie Hinde from Arizona State University has just what you need if you'd like to mix your competitive spirit with scientific knowledge - March Mammal Madness! The 7th annual competition will begin Today, March …
March Mammal Madness!
March Madness is upon us, not only for basketball fans, but for fans of science as well. Principal Investigator Katie Hinde from Arizona State University has just what you need if you'd like to mix your competitive spirit with scientific knowledge - March Mammal Madness! The 6th annual competition has just begun, but there's still …
IOS EDGE Webinar: December 19, 3:30pm EST
The Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) in the Directorate for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation will host a live webinar to talk about the Enabling Discovery Through Genomic Tools (EDGE) program and answer questions from participants on Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at 3:30 PM Eastern Time. A standalone solicitation for EDGE (NSF 18-506) …
Tips for preparing your CAREER proposal
The deadline for CAREER (NSF17-537) proposal submission, 19 July, 2017, is fast approaching. Below we are reposting tips for CAREER submission from an earlier blog. You will also want to consult the current Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG NSF 17-1). You may also want to check out our prior postings on full proposal submission …
Share Your Ideas on Cyberinfrastructure
A new NSF Dear Colleague Letter (DCL; NSF 17-031) has been posted: Request for Information on Future Needs for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to Support Science and Engineering Research (NSF CI 2030). From the DCL: “NSF Directorates and Offices are jointly requesting input from the research community on science challenges and associated cyberinfrastructure needs over the next …
DEB & IOS Preliminary Proposal System Evaluation Update
Our independent evaluation contractor, Abt, closed the PI and Reviewer surveys in mid-November. At present, they are working on analyzing the survey results. These results will be brought together with analyses of stakeholder interviews and programmatic (proposal, award, and review process) data that Abt has already completed to produce a full evaluation. We are expecting […] …
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Tips for preparing your CAREER proposal
Today we are reposting an earlier post about preparing your CAREER proposal…this year’s deadline is July 20, 2016. The current solicitation is NSF 15-555.
The deadline for CAREER proposal submissions is fast approaching. Here are some tips from IOS program officers on preparing your proposal:
1. Panel Review: Although there is a separate solicitation for CAREER proposals, most clusters in IOS review these proposals at disciplinary panels that also consider full proposals submitted through the core IOS solicitation. Thus, you can expect your reviewers to be familiar with the research area in general, and in many cases with the specific conceptual and technical approaches discussed in your proposal.
2. Intellectual Merit: The same criteria apply for CAREER proposals and regular full proposal submissions (http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/merit_review/overview.pdf). Whether the work is hypothesis-driven or discovery-based, a clearly articulated conceptual framework should be in place, with the aims thematically linked but not tightly dependent on each another. The work proposed should fit the five-year duration required by the program. The goal is to make it clear to…
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