Funding-Limited
Submission – NSF – National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT)
Program (16-503); November 15, 2016
Purpose: The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program is
designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, and potentially
transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The NRT program
seeks proposals that ensure that graduate students in research-based master’s
and doctoral degree programs develop the skills, knowledge, and competencies
needed to pursue a range of STEM careers. The NRT program includes two tracks: the Traineeship Track
and the Innovations in Graduate
Education (IGE) Track.
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The Traineeship
Track is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high
priority interdisciplinary research areas, through the use of a comprehensive
traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing
workforce and research needs. The
priority research areas for the FY2017 competition will be (1)
Understanding the Brain (UtB), (2) Innovations at the
Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS), and (3) any other
interdisciplinary research theme of national priority.
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The IGE
Track focuses on test-bed projects aimed at piloting, testing, and
validating innovative and potentially transformative approaches to graduate
education. IGE projects are intended to generate the knowledge required for
their customization, implementation, and broader adoption. While the
Traineeship Track promotes building on the current knowledge base to develop
comprehensive programs to effectively train STEM graduate students, the IGE
Track supports testing of novel models or activities with high potential to
enrich and extend the knowledge base on effective graduate education
approaches.
The
NRT program addresses both workforce development, emphasizing broad
participation, and institutional capacity building needs in graduate education.
For both tracks, strategic collaborations with the private sector, non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), government agencies, national laboratories, field
stations, teaching and learning centers, informal science centers, and academic
partners are encouraged.
Project
Period / Funding Amount:
Institutional Limit: 4
-- 2
for the Traineeship Track, 2 for the Innovations in Graduate Education Track.
An
eligible organization may participate in two Traineeship Track proposals and
two Innovations in Graduate Education Track proposals per competition. Participation includes serving as a lead
organization on a non-collaborative proposal or as a lead organization,
non-lead organization, or subawardee on a
collaborative proposal. Organizations participating solely as evaluators on
projects are excluded from this limitation.
Internal Competition: To participate in the
University’s selection process, researchers are to submit the following material electronically, assembled into a single PDF document, to the Office of the Vice
President for Research at limitedsubmissions@uky.edu and a copy to their
Associate Dean for Research by Tuesday,
November 15, 2016:
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Names
and departments of UK’s PI and Senior Project Personnel and non-UK
collaborators, if any
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Title
of the program and specific track (Traineeship or IGE)
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Brief
project description (2 pages maximum).
Note: Anyone planning to participate on a NRT
proposal with another institution as the lead needs to enter UK’s competition because
of the NSF limitation. Participating as an evaluator, however, is excluded (see
Institutional Limit paragraph above).
A
committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation.
For questions, email the limited submission mailbox (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu) or call 257-2861.
NSF Deadlines: Letter of intent (required) – December 9, 2016; Full
Proposal – February 7, 2017.