Programs of Interest

1. Programs of Interest NSF Tribal College Workshop November 14, 2008

2. Ask Early, Ask Often!

3. Programs of Interest to Tribal Colleges • Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3) • Advanced Technological Education (ATE) • Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) • Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) • NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) • Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) • Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) • Research Initiation Grants (RIG) • Research Opportunity Award (ROA) Supplements • Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) • Tribal College & Universities Program (TCUP) • Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences (URM)

4. Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3) • Challenges institutions to think strategically about the creative integration of NSF-funded awards towards a whole that exceeds the sum of its parts. • Institutional integration is not limited only to EHR awards but can include other NSF awards with a STEM educational focus.

5. Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3) • I3 Goals • Increase synergy and collaboration across NSF-funded projects and within/between institutions, towards an educational environment where artificial boundaries are significantly reduced and the student experience is more fully integrated; • Expand and deepen the footprints of NSF-funded projects and enhance their sustainability; • Promote innovative programming, policies, and practices to encourage the integration of STEM research and education;

6. Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3) • I3 Goals (Cont’d) • Provide additional avenues to broaden participation by those underserved in STEM research and education, especially underrepresented minorities, women, and people with disabilities; attend to seamless transitions across critical educational junctures; and/or provide more effectively for a globally engaged workforce; and • Encourage STEM educational or related research in domains that hold promise for promoting intra- or inter-institutional integration and broader impacts.

7. Advanced Technological Education (ATE) • Focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. • Involves partnerships between academic institutions and employers to promote improvement in the education of science and engineering technicians at the undergraduate and secondary school levels. • A secondary goal is articulation between two-year and four-year programs for K-12 prospective teachers that focus on technological education.

8. Advanced Technological Education (ATE) • Preliminary Proposals (optional) due April 23, 2009 • Full Proposals due October 15, 2009 • ATE Program Website: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5464 • Contact Information • Eileen L. Lewis ellewis@nsf.gov (703) 292-4627 • Gerhard L. Salinger gsalinge@nsf.gov (703) 292-5116 • Linnea A. Fletcher lafletch@nsf.gov (703) 292-4634 • David B. Campbell dcampbel@nsf.gov (703) 292-5093

9. Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) • Seeks to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for all undergraduate students. • Supports efforts to create, adapt, and disseminate new learning materials and teaching strategies, develop faculty expertise, implement educational innovations, assess learning and evaluate innovations, and conduct research on STEM teaching and learning. • Supports three types of projects representing three different phases of development, ranging from small, exploratory investigations to large, comprehensive projects.

10. Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) • Full Proposals for Phase 2 and 3 proposals due January 12, 2009 • CCLI Program Website:http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5741 • Contact Information: • Myles Boylan mboylan@nsf.gov (703) 292-4617 • Russell Pimmel rpimmel@nsf.gov (703) 292-4618 • Terry Woodin twoodin@nsf.gov (703) 292-4657

11. Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) • Responds to current concerns and projections about shortages of STEM professionals and information technology workers in the United States and seeks solutions to help ensure the breadth and depth of the STEM workforce. • Supports the development, implementation, testing and scale-up of models, as well as research studies to address these questions and to find solutions.

12. Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) • New Program Solicitation currently under development • Program Website: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5467 • Contact Information: • Julia V. Clark jclark@nsf.gov (703) 292-5119 • Sylvia M. James sjames@nsf.gov (703) 292-5333 • Larry E. Suter lsuter@nsf.gov (703) 292-5144 • DRLITEST@nsf.gov (703) 292-8628

13. NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) • Provides grants to institutions of higher education to support scholarships for academically talented, financially needy students, enabling them to enter the workforce following completion of an associate, baccalaureate, or graduate level degree in science and engineering disciplines. • Grantee institutions are responsible for selecting scholarship recipients, reporting demographic information about student scholars, and managing the S-STEM project at the institution.

14. NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) • New Program Solicitation currently under development • Program Website: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5257 • Contact Information: • Duncan E. McBride dmcbride@nsf.gov (703) 292-4630 • Pratibha Varma-Nelson pvarmane@nsf.gov (703) 292-4653 • Lesia L. Crumpton-Young crumpto@nsf.gov (703) 292-4629

15. Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) • Seeks to broaden the participation and achievement of people with disabilities in all fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and associated professional careers. • Particular emphasis is placed on increasing the number of students with disabilities successfully completing quality associate, undergraduate and graduate degrees in STEM and increasing the number of students with disabilities entering the professional STEM workforce.

16. Research in Disabilities Education (RDE) • New Program Solicitation currently under development • Program Website: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5482&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund • Contact Information: • Mark Leddy mleddy@nsf.gov (703) 292-4655

17. Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) • Supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by NSF. • Projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the REU program. • Two mechanisms for support of student research: • REU Sites are based on independent proposals to initiate and conduct projects that engage a number of students in research. • REU Supplements may be requested for ongoing NSF-funded research projects or may be included as a component of proposals for new or renewal NSF grants or cooperative agreements.

18. Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) • New Program Solicitation currently under development • Program Website: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517&from=fund • Contact Information: • REU Contacts Page: http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/reu_contacts.jsp

19. Research Initiation Grants (RIG) • Increase the diversity of researchers who apply for and receive BIO funding to initiate research programs early in their careers. • Expand the population of role models who will interact with an increasingly diverse student population, the workforce of the future . • Increase the number of scientists at minority serving institutions actively and competitively engaged in research as independent investigators, thereby creating new research opportunities for students from under-represented groups. • Fund biological research projects that use innovative ways to attract and retain members of under-represented groups to careers in biology.

20. Research Initiation Grants (RIG) • Full Proposals due January 12, 2009 • Program Website: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=10676&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund • Contact Information: • Carter Kimsey rig-bp@nsf.gov (703) 292-8470 • Richard Inouye rig-bp@nsf.gov (703) 292-4974 • Steven L. Klein rig-bp@nsf.gov (703) 292-7122 • David A. Rockcliffe rig-bp@nsf.gov 703 292-7123

21. Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) • Supports research by faculty members of predominantly undergraduate institutions through the funding of • Individual and collaborative research projects; • The purchase of shared-use research instrumentation; and • Research Opportunity Awards for work with NSF-supported investigators at other institutions. • All NSF directorates participate in the RUI activity.

22. Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) • Full Proposals may be submitted at any time. • Program Website: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5518&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund • Contact Information: • View Program Website for specific Directorate contacts.

23. Research Opportunity Award (ROA) Supplements • Part of the NSF-wide Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) program. • Enable faculty at predominantly undergraduate institutions, including community colleges, to pursue research as visiting scientists with NSF-supported investigators at other institutions. • Enhance the research productivity and professional development of science faculty at undergraduate institutions through research activities that enable them to explore the emerging frontiers of science.

24. Tribal College & Universities Program (TCUP) • Provides awards to enhance the quality of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructional and outreach programs at Tribal Colleges and Universities, Alaskan Native-serving Institutions and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions. • Support is available for the implementation of comprehensive institutional approaches to strengthen STEM teaching and learning in ways that improve access to, retention within, and graduation from STEM programs.

25. Tribal College & Universities Program (TCUP) • New Program Solicitation currently under development • Program Website:http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5483&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund • Contact Information: • Lura Chase lchase@nsf.gov (703) 292-8682 • Michael Fredenberg mfredenb@nsf.gov (703) 292-8682

26. Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences (URM) • Increase the number and diversity of individuals pursuing graduate studies in all areas of biological research supported by the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences. • Support will be provided to academic institutions to establish innovative programs to engage undergraduates in a year-round research and mentoring activity. • Particular emphasis placed on broadening participation of members of groups historically underrepresented in science and engineering: African Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Pacific Islanders, and persons with disabilities.

27. Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences (URM) • Preliminary Proposals are required and due on the third Tuesday in September. • Full Proposals due on the First Tuesday in March • Program Website: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=500036&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund • Contact Information: • Alan Savitzky asavitzk@nsf.gov 703-292-8470