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Dear Colleague Letter from the National Science Foundation

  • 1.  Dear Colleague Letter from the National Science Foundation

    Posted 12-24-2008 09:19

     

    From: Meszaros, Jacqueline R [mailto:jmeszaro@nsf.gov]
    Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 4:02 PM
    To: Mahoney, Joseph
    Subject: Dear Colleague Letter from the National Science Foundation

     

    Might you ask someone to post the information below on your BPS listserv? I think it might interest some of your members.

     

    Thank you.

     

    And best wishes for the holidays and new year.

     

    Jack M.

     

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    Dear members of the Innovation and Organizational Sciences (IOS) research community.

     

    Our NSF Directorate -- Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) -- recently issued Dear Colleague Letter describing three funding opportunities with somewhat short windows of opportunity.  Here is a link to the letter.
    http://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf09019

     

    The three opportunities mentioned in the letter are not new funding competitions. They are areas of emphasis that the directorate is currently interested in promoting. In each case, you would submit your proposal to one of the standing SBE programs (e.g., DRMS, IOS, Social Psychology, Economics, etc.) . If selected for funding, the proposal's funding would come partly from the program and partly from the directorate.

     

    Activity 1: Complexity

    IOS would be pleased to receive strong proposals that advance understanding of complexity and interacting systems phenomena in  IOS -related areas. The due date is  2 February . We define complexity broadly: study of phenomena involving (large numbers) of (diverse) interacting parts that produce behaviors that cannot be obviously derived from analytic knowledge of their constituents.

     

    Activity 2: Large-scale Interdisciplinary Research Projects

    IOS will have the chance to recommend one large ($750,000-$1.2 million) interdisciplinary (at least 2 PIs from 2 distinctly different disciplines) project for potential funding this Spring.  If you have an exciting, important idea for such a project,  send me (via e-mail) a 2-page description. We will be able to invite a small number of inquirers to develop a full proposal for our Spring panel, which will decide if one should be recommended for consideration at the next level. (The due date for the full proposal will be  later than the usual 2 Feb IOS due date.)

    Your 2-page description should include brief statements about :
    - the research question(s) and relevant theory,
    - methods,
    - the disciplines involved and the important contributions the work would make to (both) those disciplines, and
    - anything else particularly compelling or important that you think we need to know.

     

    Activity 3: Infrastructure

    Although the Dear Colleague Letter indicates that there are infrastructure opportunities,  IOS  is not participating in those this year. However there is a good chance that  IOS  infrastructure opportunities may  exist next year. So do consider whether you should begin developing some of your reearch infrastructure ideas. Beyond  IOS , there ARE are some infrastructure opportunities in the programs in our BCS division. Some of you may be appropriate to that division. (Click here for a list of the programs in BCS: http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=BCS)

     

    Feel free to distribute this note.

    Best regards.

    Jack M.

     

    Jacqueline R. Meszaros, Ph.D.
    Program Director
    Innovation and Organizational Sciences
    Decision, Risk and Management Sciences
    National Science Foundation
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