National Science Foundation (NSF)

Cognitive Neuroscience

NSF 02-031

FULL PROPOSAL TARGET DATE(S):

January 15 of each year, July 15 of each year.

The Cognitive Neuroscience emphasis seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

(1) Individual Investigator Research Projects.

(2) Workshops.

(3) Doctoral dissertation improvement grants.

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Dear Colleague Letter: Law and Social Science Research Experiences for Graduates (REG) Supplements NSF 02-014

Deadline: March 1 annually

The National Science Foundation announces the Law and Social Science Research Experiences for Graduates (REG) program, a program for support of active research participation by graduate students. The REG program seeks to expand student participation in all kinds of research -- whether disciplinary or interdisciplinary in focus -- encompassing efforts by individual investigators, groups, centers, national facilities and others. The REG program contributes to the NSF goal of developing a diverse, internationally competitive, and globally-engaged scientific and engineering workforce. It draws on the integration of research and education to attract a diversified pool of talented students into careers in science and engineering and to help ensure that they receive the best education possible.

The Law and Social Science Research Experiences for Graduates program aims to provide appropriate and valuable educational experiences for graduate students through research participation. REG projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specially designed for the purpose. REG projects feature high quality interaction of students with faculty and/or other research mentors and access to appropriate facilities and professional development opportunities. REG opportunities are an excellent way to reach broadly into the student talent pool of our nation. NSF is particularly interested in increasing the participation in research of women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities. REG projects are strongly encouraged to involve students who are members of these groups. Underrepresented minorities are African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Native Pacific Islanders.

The Law and Social Science REG program welcomes projects with an international dimension. The design of such projects is based on the opportunity at hand, but typically involves partnering of an experienced REG project in the U. S. with international collaborators in a selected organization or institution. Successful projects arise from shared commitment to research and education in a focused area. Projects supported by a REG Supplement may be carried out during the summer months, during the academic year, or both. The term of REG Supplements may not generally exceed that of the underlying research project.

The categories of proposers identified in the Grant Proposal Guide are eligible to submit proposals under this program announcement/solicitation. Principal Investigator: Proposals may be submitted by universities in support of Principal Investigators (PIs) holding existing NSF grants from the Law and Social Science program. The PI must be currently serving as PI or co-PI on a NSF grant. Eligible Student Participants: Graduate student participants supported with NSF funds in these supplements must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its possessions. A graduate student is a student who is enrolled in a degree program (part-time or full-time) leading to a Ph.D. degree. Students who are transferring from one institution to another and are enrolled at neither institution during the intervening summer may participate. College graduates who have not yet enrolled and students who have received their Ph.D. degrees and are no longer enrolled as graduate students generally are not eligible.

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