As a result of the Federal Stimulus Package, known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the National Science Foundation – Major Research Instrumentation Program has announced a call for proposals that is separate from the annual January submission deadline. Proposals for this research instrumentation must be for research in disciplines of interest to the National Science Foundation.
The full proposal deadline is Aug. 10. Eligible organizations may submit a maximum of three proposals, independent of the number of proposals that may have been submitted under the National Science Foundation 09-502 Major Research Instrumentation competition. However, proposals that wholly or substantially duplicate those that were accepted for review under National Science Foundation 09-502 will not be accepted for this competition. A maximum of two submissions can be for instrument acquisition. If three proposals are submitted, at least one submission must be for instrument development.
The Major Research Instrumentation Program catalyzes new knowledge and discoveries by empowering the nation's scientists and engineers with state-of-the-art research instrumentation. The Major Research Instrumentation Program enables research-intensive learning environments that promote the development of a diverse workforce and next generation instrumentation, as well as facilitates academic/private sector partnerships.
Once again, this stimulus-funded solicitation is different from the usual Major Research Instrumentation Program. This does not need matching funds from the university, and has a limit of three per university (two instrument purchases and one development).
Notify Kay Sizer at kay.sizer@ndsu.edu as soon as possible or by July 1 if you are planning to submit a proposal. If more than three NDSU groups plan to submit, the Office of Research, Creative Activities and Technology Transfer will need to coordinate an internal competition at NDSU to determine which proposals will be allowed to be submitted to the National Science Foundation by the deadline.
May 20, 2009