NSF CA-DDRIG 15-556 Checklist

NSF Deadline: Jan 15th

Internal NU deadlines:

·  January 8th – admin shell must be complete (everything except project description and references)

·  January 13th- proposal must be complete in Fastlane.

Max award: $20K in direct costs. Indirect costs (F&A) are in addition to that.

PI is advisor, co-PI is student

Earliest start date: July 1, 2016. Duration: 1 – 2 years

Project title must begin with “Doctoral Dissertation Research:”

Follow guidelines in NSF Grant Proposal Guide, except where explicitly stated otherwise in solicitation.

Documents you will need:

·  NSF Grant Proposal Guide

·  NSF 15-556

Format requirements:

·  Each section of proposal must be individually paginated

·  Allowable typefaces:

o  Arial10, Courier New, or Palatino Linotype at a font size of 10 points or larger;

o  Times New Roman at a font size of 11 points or larger; or

o  Computer Modern family of fonts at a font size of 11 points or larger

·  Margins, in all directions, must be at least an inch

Required items / Comments
For Jan 8th deadline
Cover Page / Research Admin will complete.
Project Summary / Intellectual merit and broader impact must be in separate subsections. This section gets pasted directly into the Fastlane form, so please save the page and check back to make sure the formatting is okay (i.e. smart quotes will not render properly, and become “?” instead.)
Biographical Sketches / Required for advisor (PI) and student (co-PI). Limited to 2 pages. Please follow Grant Proposal Guide Instructions precisely. NSF will reject proposals without review if biosketch deviates from guidelines.
Budget/Budget Narrative / Research Admin will help with these. Salaries/stipends not eligible. Must remove PI and co-PI from budget pages (autopopulated from cover sheet).
Current & Pending Support / Required for advisor (PI) and student (co-PI) and any senior personnel. Must include the current proposal as a pending grant (and other grants that might be going in on the same date). Research Admin will assist.
Facilities, Equipment and Other Resources / Must be narrative, and not include any quantifiable financial information. Include office space, computer systems, etc, anything the department/school provides that you will use for the work. If there are no applicable resources, you will still need to include a page stating that.
Data management Plan / 2 pages in length. Include as supplementary doc. See solicitation for details
Signed statement from PI / Must use exact template in solicitation. Include as supplementary doc
Supplemental doc / Up to 2 pages of technical illustrations, maps, or sample survey questions may be included as a Supplementary Document.
Letter of collaboration / If needed, to confirm access to particular research site. Goes in supplemental docs.
For Jan 13th deadline
Project Description / ·  Must contain separate section that discusses the broader impacts of work labeled “Broader Impacts of the Proposed Work”
·  Results from prior NSF funding does not need to be provided
·  10 pages in length
References / Full citations needed (no et al)