Questions tagged [nsf]
Inquiries regarding the National Science Foundation [NSF] awards, funding, and support opportunities and procedures in all areas of science and engineering
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How do massive research projects manage conflicts of interest?
I am a machine learning researcher, and my field is beginning to embrace the massive, multi-institution collaborations that have become common in other sciences. For example, I am a coauthor on this ...
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Can I accept two federal fellowships simultaneously and defer one?
I recently received both an NSF and an NDSEG fellowship. I see that I am not allowed to accept funding from both fellowships, but I wonder if it is possible to do something like: accept both, put the ...
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Will the January 2018 government shut down affect the NSF postdoc awards?
I very recently learned that I will be awarded an NSF postdoc!
And then the US government shut-down.
Should I expect the NSF postdoc to work out once the government starts running again?
Note: The ...
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What are some good practices for applying to the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program?
Is it possible if I could get 4 letters of recommendation?
How far in advance should I notify those who are writing my letters?
Does activity on sites like Quora, Stack Exchange, and Reddit's ...
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How will the 2013 US government shutdown affect NSF postdoc applications?
Does anyone know if there will still be NSF postdocs offered (the current deadline is the 16th), given that the NSF website is currently down due to the government shutdown in the US?
Also, in case ...
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How should I write a proposal in which one of the PI does nothing?
An NSF research proposal was prepared last year.
Even though all scientific work planned at the university will be done by two postdocs and 2 - 3 graduate students, the university requires a tenured/...
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Acknowledging a single funding source: do I say "partially supported"?
I wrote my first academic paper recently (it is in math). I need to put a footnote crediting the NSF for funding. I have noticed that papers almost always say "Partially supported by [grant]". I got ...
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FOIA request for full NSF awards proposal and report
Related to this question on mathoverflow…
Indeed, I just found out that to see full proposal or later reports. One needs to file a FOIA request, as described here.
So I am curious if anyone has done ...
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Will I be allowed to reapply for a mathematics NSF postdoc next year after declining one this year?
I am a mathematics PhD student in the US graduating this year. I recently received a very good 3 year postdoc offer in Europe, which I have to accept or decline in early December. Not being a big risk ...
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Why do funding agencies like the NSF not publish accepted grants?
When the NSF decides to fund a project, they post an abstract of the project, but they do not post any of the material that the project's PIs actually wrote. Why not?
Some good reasons for ...
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How does the US National Science Foundation (NSF) research funding system work?
Sometimes here on Academia I read messages referring to American National Science Foundation (NSF), "the USA agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of ...
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Are NSF RUI proposals evaluated separately or are they evaluated against the general pool for that program/division/directorate?
I am preparing to write and submit a grant proposal to the US National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) program. This will be my first submission to ...
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How has the application review process for NSF graduate fellowships changed?
I was looking for some information on the site that might help for applications to the GRFP. I found JeffE's answer to an old question extremely useful. However, I noticed that some of the advice he ...
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NSF graduate fellowship: how specific should the statement of purpose be?
Several of the students who have come to my group as summer students are planning to submit NSF graduate fellowship applications in the coming weeks. However, one question that I am not sure about is ...
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NSF grant proposal not reviewed despite being received
I submitted an NSF research grant proposal (Mathematics) last year. The status for my proposal shows "pending" on the website.
I was talking to a professor recently, who told me that she was ...
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