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The National Science Foundation has issued the following Important Notice concerning the impact of sequestration on the NSF programs: Notice No. 133 February 27, 2013    IMPORTANT NOTICE TO  PRESIDENTS OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES  AND HEADS OF OTHER NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  AWARDEE ORGANIZATIONS    Subject: Impact of FY 2013 Sequestration Order on NSF Awards    [...]

Beginning March 18, 2013, the NSF FastLane system will begin automated compliance checking of required sections of full proposals.  NSF’s announcement is available here:   http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/autocheck/outreach_notice.pdf   Additional information can be found here:  http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/autocompliance.jsp   A webinar  on the subject will be presented on March 8 from 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.  To register, e-mail webinars@research.gov.

From NSF (Included as part of notice correspondence) – A new version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG), (NSF 13-1) has been issued.  The PAPPG is comprised of documents relating to the Foundation’s proposal and award process and consists of the: (a) Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) for guidance on the [...]

From NSF Release: Reminder – “new NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 11-1) goes into effect for proposals submitted, or due, on or after January 18, 2011.   The significant changes to the PAPPG include 1) a requirement that all proposals submitted to NSF contain an up to two page Data Management [...]

NSF to Require Data Management Plans from Grantees.On May 10, NSF announced that around October 2010, it will require  that all grant proposals include a data management plan in the form of a two-page supplementary document that will be subject to peer review. This step is part of the agency’s efforts to address how best [...]

Effective December 1, 2009, NSF will begin reinstating the option to prepare and submit proposals via either use of Grants.gov or the NSF FastLane system. The Grants.gov submission option will be reflected in all new funding opportunities issued on or after December 1, as well as in all packages associated with active program descriptions. In [...]

NSF has published new guidance that will go into effect January 4, 2010 : Grant Proposal Guide: Summary of Significant Changes: Chapter II – Section C.2j, Special Information and Supplementary Documentation – has new guidance added regarding complying with the mentoring requirement of the America COMPETES Act. Each proposal that requests funding to support postdoctoral [...]

The NSF has announced the Academic Research Infrastructure Program: Recovery and Reinvestment (ARI-R²) program.  The program announcement is available here:   http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09562/nsf09562.htm. There is a limit on the number of proposals that can be submitted so this program will fall under our Limited Submissions Policy, available here: http://www.research.vcu.edu/osp/limitedsubmission.htm The proposal limitation description (directly from the [...]

NSF has announced the Major Research Instrumentation-Recovery and Reinvestment competition.  The program announcement is available here: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09561/nsf09561.htm There is a limit on the number of proposals that can be submitted so this program will fall under our Limited Submissions Policy, available here: http://www.research.vcu.edu/osp/limitedsubmission.htm The proposal limitation description (directly from the program announcement): The parameters of this [...]