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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000"><em><font face="Helvetica" size="1">Dear Coleagues,</font></em></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><em><font face="tahoma" size="1">Below is a recent NSF announcement and I was wondering if any of your institutions would be interested in partnering with Cameron University. Cameron would probably not be able to take a lead on this, but it certainly
would work as a co-partner.</font></em></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><em><font face="tahoma" size="1">Thanks.</font></em></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><em><font face="tahoma" size="1">Tony Wohlers</font></em></div>
<div dir="ltr"><em><font face="tahoma" size="1">Academic Research Director</font></em></div>
<div dir="ltr"><em><font face="tahoma" size="1">Cameron University</font></em></div>
<div dir="ltr"><em><font face="tahoma" size="1"><a href="mailto:awohlers@cameron.edu">awohlers@cameron.edu</a></font></em></div>
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<h4><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">Eligible Applicants</span></h4>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
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<h4><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">Additional Information on Eligibility:</span></h4>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">*Organization Limit: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -Non-profit, non-academic organizations: Independent museums, observatories, research labs, professional societies and
similar organizations in the U.S. associated with educational or research activities. -Universities and Colleges - Universities and two- and four-year colleges (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting on behalf
of their faculty members. Such organizations also are referred to as academic institutions.
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">National Science Foundation
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<h4><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">Description</span></h4>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">A virtual organization is a group of individuals whose members and resources may be dispersed geographically, but who function as a coherent unit through the use of cyberinfrastructure. Virtual
organizations are increasingly central to the science and engineering projects funded by the National Science Foundation. Focused investments in sociotechnical analyses of virtual organizations are necessary to harness their full potential and the promise
they offer for discovery and learning.?? The Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) program supports fundamental scientific research, particularly advances in social, organizational and design science understanding, directed at advancing the
understanding of how to develop virtual organizations and under what conditions virtual organizations can enable and enhance scientific, engineering, and education production and innovation. Levels of analysis may include (but are not limited to) individuals,
groups, organizations, and institutional arrangements. Disciplinary perspectives may include (but are not limited to) anthropology, complexity sciences, computer and information sciences, decision and management sciences, economics, engineering, organization
theory, organizational behavior, social and industrial psychology, public administration, political science and sociology. Research methods may span a broad variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including (but not limited to): ethnographies, surveys,
simulation studies, experiments, comparative case studies, and network analyses. VOSS funded research must be grounded in theory and rooted in empirical methods. It must produce broadly applicable and transferable results that augment knowledge and practice
of virtual organizations as a modality. VOSS does not support proposals that aim to implement or evaluate individual virtual organizations.
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf10504" target="_blank"><font color="#000099">NSF Publication 10-504
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<h4><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:</span></h4>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">NSF grants.gov support<br>
grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov<br>
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<h4><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'">Synopsis Modification History</span></h4>
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