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 recently conducted a two-day workshop focused on
the FY 2010 CAREER Program for eligible science
and engineering junior faculty at minority-serving institutions
and for eligible underrepresented minority faculty at non-minority-serving
institutions who plan to submit CAREER proposals in the 2010 competition.
The workshop took place on Friday and Saturday, February 19-20, 2010, in Las Vegas, NV at the Marriott Las Vegas Suites, 325 Convention Center Drive.
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, 2010; (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 Las Vegas workshop was designed to assist eligible faculty in further developing their proposal ideas prior to the CAREER Program’s July 2010 deadlines (dates in July vary be NSF Directorate). The latest Program guidelines (NSF 08-557) can be downloaded
at: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf08557.
Participants were required to register by Friday, January 15, 2010 as well as submit to QEM a one-page project summary of the proposal that would be submitted to the Foundation’s CAREER program. The project summary, of not more that one page in length, should be prepared in accordance with the NSF Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) of the Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures (PAPP) Guide (NSF 10-1) (http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf101) – See Chapter II. Workshop participants were required to submit project summaries to Shirley McBay, Project Director, at smmcbay1@qem.org by Friday, January 22, 2010............ CAREER Proposal Writing Tips
According to the GPG, the summary should be a self-contained description of the activity that would result if a proposal were funded. In addition to including a statement of objectives and methods to be used, the one-page summary must clearly and separately address both of NSF’s two Merit Review Criteria: Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts. The Foundation will return, without review, proposals whose project summaries do not clearly address these two criteria.
FYI – Previous QEM/NSF CAREER workshops took place February 27-28, 2009 in New Orleans, LA; May 30-21, 2008 in Washington, DC; February 9-10, 2007 in Las Vegas, NV; February 10-11, 2006 in Memphis, TN; and February 4-5, 2005 in Washington, DC.
FY 2009 CAREER WORKSHOP•February 27-28, 2009 • New Orleans, LA ... View AGENDA
View February 2006 Memphis Workshop Agenda/Presentations