Guidelines for an Effective NSF Highlight

• Not a plan, written in past or active tense only
• Pictures that tell the story
• Illustration - photo credit, permission to use
• Relationship to people and the research
• Story can be told in less than 1/2 page
• Understandable by the general public with a high school education
• Presence of intellectual merit
• Represents possible transformative research
• Presence of broader impacts, especially:
  • broadening participation
  • Potential societal impacts, e.g. U.S. economy
• Ties into the I/UCRC program
• Lists center, institution, and PI

Think broadly. Research highlights can touch on many areas besides projects.

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