[Okgrantsmanship] 2015 NSF Budget Request Brochure

[Mason, Linda]

Summary of the 2015 NSF Budget Request for Grants

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.

The 2015 budget request -
Includes a 1.2% increase in total
Includes a $43.25 million in Educational Programs

FY 2015 INITIATIVES
* Cognitive Science and Neuroscience: $29 million
* Cyber-Enabled Materials, Manufacturing, and Smart Systems (CEMMSS): $213 million
* Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science, Engineering, and Education (CIF21): $125 million
* Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES): $139 million
* Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC): $100 million
* Clean Energy: $362 million
* Advanced Manufacturing: $151 million
* Research at the Interface of Biological, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Engineering (BioMaPS): $29 million
* NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps): $25 million
* Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF): $333 million
* Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE): $118 million
* NSF Research Traineeships (NRT): $58 million


One priority goal is to increase public access to quality peer-reviewed publications.

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.


See all the brochure at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14041/nsf14041.pdf. It has been said that "As goes NSF, so go all the federal funding agencies."



Dr. Linda Mason
Coordinator of Grant Writing
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
655 Research Parkway, Suite 200
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
405-225-9486 desk
405-706-8757 cell
405-225-9230 FAX
lmason at osrhe.edu<mailto:lmason at osrhe.edu>
www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/<http://www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/>

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.

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