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PHY Target Date for Proposal Submissions

CONTACTS

Name	Email	Phone	Room
Ramona  . Winkelbauer	rwinkelb@nsf.gov	(703) 292-7390

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Announcement  06-030

DUE DATES

Archived

SYNOPSIS

The target date for proposal submissions to most programs in the
Division of Physics is the last Wednesday in September each year.
Thus, for proposals competing for FY 2008 (which begins October 1,
2007) funds, the target date is September 24, 2008 (except as noted
below). For FY 2009 funding, the target date will be September 30,
2008. Consult a calendar for future years.

For FY 2008, the Division will entertain submissions in the
following areas:

   * Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
   * Education and Interdisciplinary Research
   * Elementary Particle Physics
   * Gravitational Physics and LIGO
   * Nuclear Physics
   * Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (Including R&D for
     Underground Laboratory)
   * Physics at the Information Frontier
   * Theoretical Physics

All proposals should be received at the Foundation by the close of
business on the target date.  No proposal should be submitted after
the target date without having previously received acknowledgement
for the late submission from the cognizant Program Director.
Delays in submissions may prohibit inclusion of the proposal within
the mail and panel reviews for the program as a whole, and review of
late proposals may have to be postponed until the following fiscal
year in order to assure an impartial review.  We also ask that you
not submit proposals any earlier than one month before the
appropriate target date, unless previously approved by the cognizant
Program Director.  Proposers are encouraged to browse the NSF Award
Search at http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/tab.do?dispatch=4 to
ascertain the type of research supported in these programs, or to
call the cognizant Program Director if they are uncertain about
which program is appropriate for their proposal.

Foundation-wide program solicitations, such as the Faculty Early
Career Development (CAREER) or Research Experiences for
Undergraduates (REU) programs, have specified target or deadline
dates contained in their program announcements or solicitations.
Proposals submitted to the Division of Physics as part of these
programs must be submitted by the target dates or deadlines given in
the program announcement or solicitation.  Demonstrably
multidisciplinary proposals sent to the Division of Physics, which
are likely to be jointly reviewed with other programs within the
Foundation, may be impacted by different target or deadline dates
for the different programs involved. If you are contemplating
submitting such a proposal, you should contact the cognizant Program
Director in the Division of Physics before submission.

Proposals submitted in response to this Dear Colleague letter are
required to be prepared and submitted in accordance with the general
guidelines contained in the NSF Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) or the
NSF Grants.gov Application Guide. The complete text of both
documents is available electronically on the NSF Website at
http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy. Proposers who anticipate
difficulty in meeting the 15-page limit on the length of the Project
Description must request and receive a deviation in advance of
proposal submission. (GPG, Chapter II, Section A, Conformance with
Instructions for Proposal Preparation, contains information about
deviations from instructions provided in the GPG.) It is advisable
to contact the cognizant Program Director in the Division of Physics
before requesting a deviation.

There are two general merit review criteria approved by the National
Science Board (NSB) and listed in the GPG: the intellectual merit of
the proposed activity, and the broader impacts resulting from the
proposed activity. All proposals must separately address both of the
merit review criteria in the Project Summary and should describe the
broader impacts as an integral part of the narrative in the Project
Description. Generally, even the most fundamental research has
educational and/or potential long-range impact on another field, on
technology, or on society in some way. Examples illustrating
activities likely to demonstrate broader impacts are available
electronically on the NSF Website at
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf022/bicexamples.pdf. The Division of
Physics emphasizes the importance of thinking about and
communicating these connections. Please note that this is not a
shift in the priorities or strategic vision of the Division. It is
rather a call for greater effort in expressing the broader context
of our work.


Joseph L. Dehmer
Director
Division of Physics