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Federal Agencies and Stimulus F diFunding

Michael PazzaniVice President for Research and Graduate and

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Federal R&D and Stimulus

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• NSF- Good News $3B Stimulus $400M increase in 2009 Budget– Most to existing programs– Will undecline some declines– CAREER: Highest acceptance rate ever. Submit in Julyg p y– http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5262– Tips

• Dear Colleague Lettersg

• RAPID, EAGER http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf09_1/gpg_2.jsp#IID

• Be shovel ready: Annual Report, IRB, IACUC approval

• NIH- $10B Stimulus- $938M increase in 2009 Budget– Infrastructure

• Research Facilities (3)

• Core Facilities (3)

• High-End Instrumentation Grant (unlimited)

– Supplements

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– Challenge Grants

• NIST: Technology Innovation Program• DOE: Office of Science, National Labs, ARPA-E


• Things to do now– NSF:

• Apply to existing programsApply to existing programs• Read Dear Colleague Letters• Supplements: Equipment, REU, RET, International• http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf09 1/gpg 2.jsp#IID3bhttp://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf09_1/gpg_2.jsp#IID3b

• Ask to have recently declined proposal funded– Undecline– Convert to EAGER

• CAREER- July 20.

– NIH• Supplements: Great OpportunitySupplements: Great Opportunity• Infrastructure• Challenge Grants: Think carefully- 200 will be funded• R01- June 5

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R01 June 5


• NSF– The majority of proposals eligible for Recovery Act

funding include those that are already in house and will g ybe reviewed and/or awarded prior to September 30, 2009.

– NSF also will consider proposals declined on or after October 1, 2008. The reversal of the decision to decline must be based on both the high quality of the reviews g q yreceived on the initial submission and the lack of available funding at the time the original decision was made.

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• Dear Colleague Letter: Multi-scale Modeling (MSM) February, 2009

• Directorate for Geosciences and Directorate for • Directorate for Geosciences and Directorate for Biological Sciences

• NSF 09-032• The Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) and the

Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) are enhancing support for interdisciplinary research enhancing support for interdisciplinary research which bridges from the biological to the earth system sciences in the area of multi-scale modeling. We seek to support projects that focus on the development and/or integration of environmental models that link local, regional and

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environmental models that link local, regional and global scales.


• Dear Colleague Letter: Update: Emerging Topics in Biogeochemical Cycles (ETBC) NSF 09-030

• The Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) and the • The Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) and the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) are enhancing support for interdisciplinary research

h h b d h b l l hwhich bridges across the biological, atmospheric, geological, oceanographic and hydrological sciences, in the area of biogeochemical cycles and , g yprocesses. We seek to support research that will advance our quantitative and/or mechanistic understanding of biogeochemical cycles including understanding of biogeochemical cycles, including the water cycle. Competitive proposals should integrate physical, geological, chemical, and/or h d l i i h bi l i l

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hydrologic processes with biological processes over various temporal and/or spatial scales and/or various levels of biological organization.


• United States/Ireland R&D Partnership • The United States, Northern Ireland, and the

Republic of Ireland have come together to form a Republic of Ireland have come together to form a unique partnership as a way of increasing the level of collaborative R&D among researchers

h d h llacross the jurisdictions that will generate innovation and lead to improvements in society. The agencies involved in this effort are: the gNational Science Foundation (U.S.), Science Foundation Ireland (Republic)…O bj ti i t th d l t • Our objective is to encourage the development and submission of transnational and collaborative research projects that address the exciting

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research challenges in the areas of nanotechnology and sensors.


Engineering Research Centers

L tt f I t t D D t ( ) M 15 2009• Letter of Intent Due Date(s) May 15, 2009• Preliminary Proposal Due July 15, 2009

– Complex, Coupled Physical Civil Infrastructure Systems Complex, Coupled Physical Civil Infrastructure Systems under Stress;

– Energy Systems for a Sustainable Future; andTransformational Engineered Systems Open Category – Transformational Engineered Systems - Open Category with Topic Chosen by the Proposing ERC Team

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• Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID) to Study the Impact of the Economic Stimulus Package and to Advance Economic Stimulus Package and to Advance the Scientific Understanding of Science Policyhttp://www nsf gov/pubs/2009/nsf09034/nsf0903http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09034/nsf09034.jsp?org=NSF

• The SciSIP program will take advantage of NSF’s p g gRapid Response Research (RAPID) funding mechanism to accept short (two to five pages) RAPID proposals that attempt to answer many of RAPID proposals that attempt to answer many of the outcome questions that will be asked about the impact of the stimulus package as well as to d h i ifi d di f i

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advance the scientific understanding of science policy.


• Domestic Nuclear Detection Office-National Science Foundation Academic Research Initiative (ARI) 09-532 April 27, 2009 532 April 27, 2009

• Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering 09-533 April 29, 2009

• EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION 2009 (EFRI) 08-599 April 30, 2009

• Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the • Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences (OEDG) 08-605 May 1, 2009

• Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric p g, g , y pRegions (CEDAR) 06-561 May 10

• CubeSat-based Science Missions for Space Weather and Atmospheric Research 09 523 May 11

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and Atmospheric Research 09-523 May 11


• Engineering Research Centers (ERC) 09-545 May 15 (LOI)• Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) 09-

529 May 21, 2009 • Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) 09-Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) 09

540 May 26, 2009 • Hydrologic Sciences 09-538 June 1, 2009 • Enhancing the Mathematical Sciences Workforce in the 21st • Enhancing the Mathematical Sciences Workforce in the 21st

Century (EMSW21) 05-595 June 2, 2009• Centers for Chemical Innovation Phase I (CCI-I) 09-503

h• Geophysics 09-539 June 5, 2009• Antarctic Research 09-536 June 8, 2009 • Instrumentation for Materials Research - Major j

Instrumentation Projects (IMR-MIP) 09-547 June 29, 2009

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• NIH administrative Supplements: DO THIS TODAY• Purpose accelerating the tempo of scientific

research on active grants research on active grants. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-056.html

• Equipment purchases (costing under $100,000)• Providing additional funded time under K99/R00

and other awardsand other awards.• Research employment opportunities for pre-

doctoral students, postdoctoral students, , p ,including extending support for senior postdocs. Recent college and master’s degree graduates.Technicians

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• Technicians• Comparative effectiveness research.


• http://grants nih gov/recovery/ic supp html for • http://grants.nih.gov/recovery/ic_supp.html for institute specific details

• NIAAA anticipates awarding up to $8 million for administrative supplements NOT-OD-09-056 not to exceed $100,000 direct costs per year per supplement. For administrative supplements, the parent grant must be

ti f th d ti f th l t A li ti ill active for the duration of the supplement. Applications will be evaluated within NIAAA on the basis of 1) adherence to the economic stimulus goals of the ARRA, 2) impact on the particular scientific project and 3) reasonableness of costs particular scientific project, and 3) reasonableness of costs with respect to available resources. NIAAA will be reviewing requests for administrative supplements on May 1, 2009 and again on June 1, 2009. To be considered, submissions and again on June 1, 2009. To be considered, submissions must be received before either of these dates, although additional requests may be considered later in the year depending on the availability of funds.

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depending on the availability of funds.


• NCI General Guidance for ARRA Funded • NCI General Guidance for ARRA Funded Administrative Supplements

• The direct costs of the supplement may not exceed 50% of the average annual direct costs for all years of the project period Preference will be annual direct costs for all years of the project period. Preference will be given to requests of $100,000 or less.

• NCI will also be accepting administrative supplement requests solely for small equipment (<$100K) purchases. These requests should be submitted separately and will not count against the limit of one application per grant mechanism per PI.

• New and competing renewal applications funded in FY 2009 will not be eligible for administrative supplements in FY 2009.eligible for administrative supplements in FY 2009.

• T32 grants are eligible only if the number of trainee positions after supplementation will not exceed the NCAB approved number of trainee positions. (See specific guidance section - Cancer Training Opportunities)

d ll b h l dd l• Funding priority will be given to those applications addressing ARRA goals of hiring and preserving jobs and accelerating the tempo of scientific research on active grants. All applications must clearly specify the purpose/projects for which funds are to be used.

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• Application Receipt Date: Applications for general administrative supplements for FY 2009 funding must be submitted no later than June 1, 2009


• To be eligible, the parent grant must be active and the research/scientific activities proposed in the supplement must be accomplished within the current competitive

t Th d l t MUST b ithi th segment. The proposed supplement MUST be within the general scope of the peer-reviewed activities and aims approved within the parent grant, including projects on a no cost extension; while supplemental funds may be no-cost extension; while supplemental funds may be awarded to grants during a no-cost extension, the period of support cannot extend beyond the award period for the additional time that was granted Note that while NIH additional time that was granted. Note that while NIH recommends that a no-cost extension already be in place before an administrative supplement request is submitted, this is not a requirement for all administrative , qsupplement requests.

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• Competitive Revision Applications April 21, 2009• http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-

files/NOT OD 09 058 html to support a files/NOT-OD-09-058.html to support a significant expansion of the scope or research protocol of approved and funded projects.

• Note: For this revision opportunity, prior approval from the IC staff is not needed to submit an application with a budget greater than $500 000 application with a budget greater than $500,000 direct costs in any year. – NIAAA anticipates awarding up to $8 million for revision

applications consistent with the goals of NOT OD 09applications consistent with the goals of NOT-OD-09-058 and the economic stimulus goals of the ARRA. Award decisions will be made based upon 1) priority score ranking 2) adherence to the economic stimulus goals of

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ranking, 2) adherence to the economic stimulus goals of the ARRA, and 3) availability of resources.

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• Administrative Supplements Providing Summer Research Experiences for Students and Science Educators http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-Educators http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/noticefiles/NOT-OD-09-060.html

• This administrative supplement solicitation encourages b ll f dsubmissions in all scientific and programmatic areas

funded by NIH. In particular, NIH is interested in the funding priorities listed below:g p

• Summer Research Opportunities for High School and Undergraduate Students

• Summer Research Opportunities for Science Educators (e.g., Elementary, Middle School and High School Teachers, Community College Faculty, and Faculty

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Teachers, Community College Faculty, and Faculty from Non-research Intensive Institutions)


• Revision applications (Formerly known as • Revision applications (Formerly known as Competitive Supplements) Administrative Supplements : NIMH has identified specific areas of interest in accordance with the Institute’s Strategic Plan. Only applications that focus on these topics will be considered for funding. be considered for funding.

• Supplements to Provide Summer Research Experiences for Students and Science Ed t A li ti b b itt d t Educators: Applications may be submitted to provide summer research opportunities to High School and College Students, or Science Educators g ,(e.g., Elementary, Middle, and High School Teachers and Community College Faculty).

• Application Receipt Dates for All Supplements is

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• Application Receipt Dates for All Supplements is April 21, 2009.


• NIMH: Strategic Objective 1: Promote Discovery in the Brain and Behavioral Sciences to Fuel Research on the Causes of Mental DisordersResearch on the Causes of Mental Disorders

• Strategic Objective 2: Chart Mental Illness Trajectories to Determine When, Where, and How to Intervene

• Strategic Objective 3: Develop New and Better Interventions that Incorporate the Diverse Needs Interventions that Incorporate the Diverse Needs and Circumstances of People with Mental Illnesses

• Strategic Objective 4: Strengthen the Public Health Impact of NIMH-Supported ResearchThrough research, evaluation, and collaboration, we will further develop the capacity of the Institute to help close

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the gap between the development of new, research-tested interventions and their widespread use by those most in need.


• Challenge Grants(RC1): $1M over 2 years: April 27• http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-09-003.html

• (01) Behavior, Behavioral Change, and Prevention(01) Behavior, Behavioral Change, and Prevention(02) Bioethics(03) Biomarker Discovery and Validation(04) Clinical Research(05) C ti Eff ti R h (CER)(05) Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)(06) Enabling Technologies(07) Enhancing Clinical Trials(08) Genomics( )(09) Health Disparities(10) Information Technology for Processing Health Care Data(11) Regenerative Medicine(12) Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics Education (12) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education (STEM)(13) Smart Biomaterials – Theranostics(14) Stem Cells

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(15) Translational Science


• Research and Research Infrastructure “Grand Opportunities” (RC2) 05/27/2009 >$500K a year– Groundbreaking, innovative, high impact and cross-cutting research Groundbreaking, innovative, high impact and cross cutting research

projects that can be readily deployed and that will improve and accelerate biomedical research.

– Basic, clinical and translational projects that could fundamentally enhance the research enterprise and that require …multiple research laboratories.

– Creation of large scale unique resources, accelerated application of high throughput and other novel technologieshigh throughput, and other novel technologies.

– Deployment of critical infrastructure, resources, tools, and methodologies …Implementation of large scale research projects that are – Implementation of large scale research projects that are carried out using new and creative collaborative agreements and partnerships with industry and small businesses to accelerate the pre-clinical and clinical testing of new

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therapeutics.– Creative approaches to overcome barriers to basic, translational, or

clinical research using novel tools, technologies, and services.


• http://grants nih gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-09-http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa files/PAR 09118.html (equip: $600k-8M)

• High-End Instrumentation Grant (HEI) program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase a single major item of equipment. Instruments in this category item of equipment. Instruments in this category include, but are not limited to, structural and functional imaging systems, macromolecular NMR spectrometers high resolution mass spectrometers spectrometers, high-resolution mass spectrometers, cryoelectron microscopes and supercomputers. Application Due Date(s): May 6, LOI April 6 <<<<

• No limit on the number of applications provided the applications are for different types of

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the applications are for different types of equipment.

• Small animal MRI, Blue Gene Supercomputer


• Extramural Research Facilities Improvement Program (C06) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RR-09-008.html (research facilities: $2M-files/RFA RR 09 008.html (research facilities: $2M15M)

• applications from institutions that propose to d d l l b d lexpand, remodel, renovate, or alter biomedical or

behavioral research facilities. Application Due Date(s): May 6, 2009 (projects between $2M and ( ) y , (p j $$5M); June 17, 2009 (projects between $10M and $15M), July 17, 2009 (projects between $5M and $10M) Each institution is expected to submit no $10M) Each institution is expected to submit no more than three applications under this FOA. An internal deadline of April 6, 2009 has b f i l l

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been set for internal preproposal


• (C06) create facilities that are compliant with Good Laboratory Practices or Good Manufacturing Practices.

• simulation facilities for training health care providers and hresearchers.

• maintain animal colonies for biomedical and behavioral research such as barrier-type housing facilities.

la ge metabolic chambe s that o ld allo sim lations of eal • larger metabolic chambers that would allow simulations of real world physical activities.

• infrastructure for bio specimen repositories or for establishing DNA clinical repositories with genome-wide genotyping capacityclinical repositories with genome wide genotyping capacity.

• exposure chambers for humans and animals that provide venues for challenge studies with commonly occurring pollutants.

• facilities to co-locate equipment for imaging phenotyping or facilities to co locate equipment for imaging, phenotyping, or environmental challenges.

• Altering/modernizing/constructing biomedical and/or animal facilities to improve the conduct of PHS funded research.

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• Altering/modernizing/constructing biomedical and/or animal facilities to enhance the cyberinfrastructure within the facility such as wiring.


• Core Facility Renovation, Repair, and Improvement (G20) http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa files/RFARR-09-007.html (core facilities: $1M-10M)

• Solicits applications from institutions that propose f lto renovate, repair, or improve core facilities. For

the purpose of this FOA, a core facility is defined as a centralized shared resource that provides paccess to instruments or technologies or services, as well as expert consultation to investigators supported by the coresupported by the core.

• Application Due Date(s): September 17, 2009• An internal deadline of June 17, 2009 has

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An internal deadline of June 17, 2009 has been set for internal preproposal


• Recovery Act Limited Competition: Supporting New Faculty Recruitment to Enhance Research Resources through Biomedical Research Core Resources through Biomedical Research Core Centers (P30)

• Letter of Intent Receipt Date: April 29, 2009lApplication Receipt Date: May 29, 2009

• $1,000,000 direct costs over the two-year periodperiod.

• support the hiring of newly-recruited faculty to develop research projects within the context of Biomedical Core Centers For this announcement a Biomedical Core Center Centers. For this announcement, a Biomedical Core Center is defined as a community of multidisciplinary researchers focusing on areas of biomedical research relevant to NIH, such as centers, departments, programs, and/or trans-

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such as centers, departments, programs, and/or transdepartmental collaborations or consortia.


• These awards are designed to enhance innovative programs of excellence by providing scientific and programmatic support for promising research programmatic support for promising research faculty and their areas of research. Specifically for the purposes of this announcement, Core Center Grants are institutional awards that provide Grants are institutional awards that provide funding to hire, provide appropriate start-up packages, and develop pilot research projects for newly independent investigators, with the goal of augmenting and expanding the institution’s community of multidisciplinary researchers community of multidisciplinary researchers focusing on areas of biomedical research relevant to NIH.

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• NIST Technology Innovation Program-Deadline June 23

• http://www07 grants gov/search/search do?oppId• http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=46348&flag2006=false&mode=VIEW

• joint ventures that consist of at least one small-jsized or medium-sized eligible for-profit company and one institution of higher education or other organizationorganization

• Area of Critical National Need 1: Civil Infrastructure

• Area of Critical National Need 2: Manufacturing

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• Soon: Energy, Personalized Medicine, green chemistry


• Things to Watch for• NSF

Academic Research Infrastructure– Academic Research Infrastructure– Science Masters – Major Research Instrumentation Program- Spring– Procedures to undecline. (Ask now)

• NIHProcedures to convert 5 year R01 near payline to 2 year – Procedures to convert 5 year R01 near payline to 2 year R01. (Ask now)

• NIST: New Topics- Energy, Water, • DOE

– Much to existing proposals, DOE LABS– ARPA-E

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ARPA E

• NASA- mid April


DOE FUNDING• DOE FUNDING

• $150 million to accelerate ongoing construction on the National Synchrotron Light Source-II at Brookhaven National Laboratory, in Upton, New York.

• $123 million for major construction, modernization, and needed decommissioning of laboratory facilities at Oak Ridge NationalLaboratory (ORNL), in Oak Ridge Tennessee; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), in Berkeley, California; and BrookhavenNational Laboratory.

• $65 million to accelerate construction of the 12-Billion Electron Volt Upgrade of the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility ( ) h ff l l l ( )(CEBAF) at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) in Newport News, Virginia.

• $277 million for Energy Frontier Research Centers, to be awarded on a competitive basis to universities and DOE National Laboratories across the country. These centers will accelerate the transformational basic science needed to develop plentiful and cost-effective alternative energy sources and will pursue advanced fundamental research in fields ranging from solar energy to nuclear energy systems, fundamental research in fields ranging from solar energy to nuclear energy systems, biofuels, geological sequestration of carbon dioxide, clean and efficient combustion, solid state lighting, superconductivity, hydrogen research, electrical energy storage, catalysis for energy, and materials under extreme conditions.

• $90 million for other core research, providing support for graduate students, postdocs, and Ph.D. scientists across the nation. This will create jobs and p , jstimulate the economy both directly – in creating and saving research jobs –as well as through scientific advancements that ultimately can be applied in the marketplace.

• $69 million to create a national scale, prototype 100-gigabit per second data network linking research centers across the nation. This effort will enhance the Office of Science’s networking capabilities and benefit the commercial telecommunications sector.

• $330 million for operations and equipment at Office of Science major scientific user facilities, used annually by over 20,000$330 million for operations and equipment at Office of Science major scientific user facilities, used annually by over 20,000researchers. Facilities supported by Recovery Act funding include, among others, the Spallation Neutron Source at ORNL, the world's most intense pulsed accelerator-based neutron source, used in advanced materials science, chemistry, and biology research; the Nanoscale Science Research Centers, located at five National Laboratories nationwide, which provide world-leading nanotechnologyinstrumentation; the ARM Climate Research Facility, a collection of climate measurement facilities located around the globe thatgather atmospheric data needed to reduce uncertainty about climate change; the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), which provides unique instrumentation and computational capabilities for environmental science; and the Linac Coherent Light Source, currently under construction at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) in Menlo Park, CA, which will enable scientists for the first time to observe chemical reactions at the molecular level in real time.

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level in real time.

• In addition, the Recovery Act funding provides $125 million for needed infrastructure improvements across nine DOE national laboratories: Ames Laboratory in Ames, Iowa; Argonne National Laboratory, in Argonne, Illinois; Brookhaven National Laboratory; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois; LBNL; ORNL; PNNL in Richland, WA; SLAC; and TJNAF.


• Proposal Tips• Proposal Summary is p y

extremely important• Reviewers forms an

initial impression that is seldom changedR d h li i i • Read the solicitation and respond to all review criteriareview criteria

• Meet program directors in person if

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directors in person if possible


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