NSF-Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program
NSF-Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program
| DATE: | February 5, 2008 |
| TO: | Deans, Directors, Department Chairs in NSF supported disciplines, College/School Research Administrators |
| FROM: | Petra Schroeder, The Graduate School |
| SUBJECT: | NSF-IGERT Program Solicitation |
Deadlines:
Wednesday, February 13, 2008, noon for email notice of intent to submit proposal;
Friday, February 22, 2008, noon for internal competition application
The IGERT Program is intended to establish innovative new models for graduate education and training for scientists and engineers in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.
The number of preproposals UW–Madison may submit is limited to four traineeship proposals and one Resource Center proposal. For this reason we will convene an ad hoc committee to review the preproposals and to select the projects to be forwarded to NSF.
Please send an email message to gsgrants@bascom.wisc.edu by noon on February 13th to inform us of your intention to submit a proposal. Include in your email message the names, departments, and contact information for the PI and Co-PIs, and a title or brief (one sentence) description of your proposal (also indicating whether it is a trainee proposal or resource center proposal.
We will inform candidates if no internal competition is needed. If you do not hear from us, send a 2-3 page pdf file of your project summary, including a brief explanation of your anticipated plan for addressing the shortfall in funding for tuition, fees, and health insurance to gsgrants@bascom.wisc.edu by noon on February 22nd.
For those projects selected, complete preproposals must be submitted to NSF using FastLane by April 24, 2008. The NSF-IGERT program solicitation (click here) provides detailed proposal preparation and submission instructions. Full traineeship proposals are by invitation only, and the University may submit no more than three proposals. Therefore, PIs should contact us when they learn whether they are invited to submit a full proposal. If we need to coordinate a selection of the final proposals, we will inform those PIs of the procedures we will follow at that time.
Information about campus procedures for FastLane is posted on the RSP Web site. If you have questions, contact Petra Schroeder at 265-4868 or email gsgrants@bascom.wisc.edu.