The
Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network
has received support from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
to provide technical assistance to broaden participation
in NSF's
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. QEM conducted a two-day workshop focused on
the FY 2011 CAREER Program on January 28-29, 2011, in Albuquerque, NM, at the Albuquerque Marriott, 2101 Louisiana Boulevard, NE. Eligible science
and engineering junior faculty at minority-serving institutions
and eligible underrepresented minority faculty at non-minority-serving
institutions who plan to submit CAREER proposals in the 2011 competition were invited to participate in this workshop.
Through the CAREER Program, NSF is seeking to sustain and strengthen
the Nation’s science, mathematics, and engineering capabilities
and to promote the use of those capabilities in service to society.
In particular, CAREER supports the early career development activities
of those teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic
leaders of the 21st century. The minimum CAREER award, including indirect costs, will total $400,000 over a five-year period, except in the case of the Biological Sciences where the minimum request must be for $500,000 over a five-year period (approximately $100,000/year). Cost-sharing is not required or allowed.
To be eligible
to submit a proposal to the CAREER Program, a faculty member
must: (1) hold a doctoral degree in a field
of science or engineering supported by NSF; (2)
be untenured but on the tenure track as an assistant professor
at her/his institution by October 1, 2011; (3)
have not previously received a CAREER award; and (4)
have not competed more than two times in the NSF CAREER Program.
Applicants must be actively engaged in research and teaching.
The Albuquerque workshop was designed to assist eligible faculty in further developing their proposal ideas prior to the CAREER Program’s July 2011 deadlines (dates in July vary be NSF Directorate). The latest Program guidelines (NSF 11-690) can be downloaded
at: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11690/nsf11690.htm.
REGISTRATION:
To register for the workshop, the completed registration form was due to Shirley McBay, Project Director, at smmcbay1@qem.org by Friday, December 10, 2010. Workshop registrants also were required to submit a one-page project summary of the proposal that would be submitted to the Foundation’s CAREER program. The required project summary was due to Shirley McBay by Friday, December 17, one week after the workshop registration deadline.
The project summary, of not more that one page in length, is to be prepared in accordance with the NSF Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) of the Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures (PAPP) Guide (NSF 11-1) (http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf101) – See Chapter II-2.C.b.
........ CAREER Proposal Writing Tips ....... NSF 11-038 (CAREER FAQs for 2011-2013 submissions)
2011 CAREER Deadlines -- July 25: BIO, CISE, EHR, OCI -- July 26: ENG -- July 27: GEO, MPS, SBE, OPP
According to the GPG (Chapter II, page 7), “the proposal must contain a summary of the proposed activity suitable for publication, not more than one page in length. It should not be an abstract of the proposal, but rather a self-contained description of the activity that would result if the proposal were funded. The summary should be written in the third person and include a statement of objectives and methods to be employed. It must clearly address in separate statements (within the one-page summary):
• the intellectual merit of the proposed activity; and
• the broader impacts resulting from the proposed activity.
It should be informative to other persons working in the same or related fields and, insofar as possible, understandable to a scientifically or technically literate lay reader. Proposals that do not separately address both merit review criteria within the one-page Project Summary will be returned without review.” .
CAREER WORKSHOPS TO DATE
Location |
Date |
Agenda |
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Washington DC |
February 4-5, 2005 |
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Memphis TN |
February 10-11, 2006 |
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Las Vegas NV |
February 9-10, 2007 |
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Washington DC |
May 30-31, 2008 |
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New Orleans LA |
February 27-28, 2009 |
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Las Vegas NV |
February 19-20, 2010 |
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Albuquerque NM |
January 28-29, 2011 |