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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt">Summary of the 2015 NSF Budget Request for Grants<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Last year, NSF reviewed 233,000 proposals. Topics were varied. It is time for YOU to volunteer to become an NSF proposal reviewer. Send your brief vita and a request to become a reviewer for any NSF program
to the program director. Contact information will be included at the end of each program solicitation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">The 2015 budget request – <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Includes a 1.2% increase in total<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Includes a $43.25 million in Educational Programs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">FY 2015 INITIATIVES <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">• Cognitive Science and Neuroscience: $29 million
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">• Cyber-Enabled Materials, Manufacturing, and Smart Systems (CEMMSS): $213 million
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">• Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science, Engineering, and Education (CIF21): $125 million
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">• Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES): $139 million
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">• Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC): $100 million</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">• Clean Energy: $362 million <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">• Advanced Manufacturing: $151 million
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">• Research at the Interface of Biological, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Engineering (BioMaPS): $29 million
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">• NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps): $25 million
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">• Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF): $333 million
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">• <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE): $118 million</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">• NSF Research Traineeships (NRT): $58 million<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">One priority goal is to increase public access to quality peer-reviewed publications.
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<p class="Pa9"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">By September 30, 2015, NSF-funded investigators will be able to deposit versions of their peer-reviewed articles in a repository that will make them available to the public.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">See all the brochure at <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14041/nsf14041.pdf">
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14041/nsf14041.pdf</a>. It has been said that “As goes NSF, so go all the federal funding agencies.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva";color:#1F497D">Dr. Linda Mason<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Coordinator of Grant Writing
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:lmason@osrhe.edu"><span style="color:blue">lmason@osrhe.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">Do not be afraid to give your time to writing grant proposals. Time given to planning proposals is never time lost, but is rather time gained, so that
our research, our programs, our collaborations and indeed our whole profession may become more profoundly significant.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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