This email is being sent on behalf of Sue Grimes
Dear Deans, Department Heads, and Center Directors: The National Science Foundation has issued its new RFP for the Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program. The MRI program assists with the acquisition or development of shared research instrumentation that is, in general, too costly and/or not appropriate for support through other NSF programs. For the purposes of the MRI program, proposals must be for either acquisition or development of a single instrument or for equipment that, when combined, serves as an integrated research instrument (physical or virtual). Instrument acquisition or development proposals that request funds from NSF in the range $100,000-$4 million will be accepted from all eligible organizations. The full program announcement may be found at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11503/nsf11503.htm.
Limited Submission numbers and deadlines: As in previous solicitations, an institution may submit no more than a total of three proposals, at least one of which must be for instrument development. Faculty from an institution may not participate in proposals led by other institutions beyond the three allowed. Therefore, Purdue West Lafayette faculty may not participate in any (funded) way in instrument acquisition or development proposals led by other institutions, including Purdue regional campuses, outside of the three proposals selected through Purdue’s limited submission process. Internal deadlines are as follows: Monday, November 15: Letters of Intent due to the OVPR (Please indicate acquisition or development in the title). Monday, December 6: Preproposals due to the OVPR. Thursday, December 9: Rankings due to the OVPR.
Wednesday, January 27, 2011: NSF deadline.
Please note: Letters of intent, preproposals, and rankings to the OVPR should be e-mailed to OVPRlimited@purdue.edu. Purdue's limited submission policy and template for letters of intent may be found at http://dagon.admin.purdue.edu/cgi-bin/lsid.cgi. For any case in which the number of internal letters of intent received is no more than the number of proposals allowed by the sponsor, the OVPR will notify the PI that an internal preproposal will be unnecessary.
We appreciate your sharing this information with your faculty. Please contact Cris King (hcking@purdue.edu) if you have questions about the limited submission process or this competition.
Best wishes, Sue
________________________________ Sue Grimes Assistant Director of Research Development Services Office of the Vice President for Research Hovde Hall, Room 321 610 Purdue Mall West Lafayette, IN 47907-2040 (765) 494-5858