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Major Research Instrumentation Program 
The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) catalyzes new knowledge and discoveries by empowering the Nation’s scientists and engineers with state-of-the-art research instrumentation. The MRI Program enables research-intensive learning environments that promote the development of a diverse workforce and next generation instrumentation, as well as facilitates academic/private sector partnerships. Among the goals of the MRI Program are:
- Supporting the acquisition of major state-of-the-art instrumentation, thereby improving access to, and increased use of, modern research and research training instrumentation by a diverse workforce of scientists, engineers, and graduate and undergraduate students;
- Fostering the development of the next generation of instrumentation, resulting in new instruments that are more widely used, and/or open up new areas of research and research training;
- Enabling academic departments, disciplinary and cross-disciplinary units, and multi-organization collaborations to create well-equipped research environments that integrate research with education;
- Supporting the acquisition and development of instrumentation that contributes to, or takes advantage of, existing investments in cyberinfrastructure, while avoiding duplication of services already provisioned by NSF investments;
- Promoting substantive and meaningful partnerships for instrument development between the academic and private sectors. Such partnerships have the potential to build capacity for instrument development in academic settings and to create new products with wide scientific and commercial impact.
FY 2009 COMPETITION INFORMATION
As a result of the enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the MRI program is announcing a call for proposals that is separate from the annual January submission deadline. The link to the "Major Research Instrumentation – Recovery and Reinvestment" (MRI-R²) solicitation can be found below.
Note: Proposals that wholly or substantially duplicate MRI proposals that were submitted under NSF 09-502, and were accepted for review, will not be accepted for this MRI-R² competition.
The FY09 deadline for the annual MRI competition has passed. The link to the solicitation can be found below.
UPCOMING
Pending the availability of funds, the next annual MRI competition deadline is expected to be January 28, 2010.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Major Research Instrumentation Questions: |
Email:
mri@nsf.gov |
Phone:
703-292-8040 |
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| Specific Program Contacts: |
| Dr. Randy Phelps |
Office of Integrative Activities
Room 1270 |
Phone:
703-292-8040 |
COMMITTEE OF VISITORS
PROGRAM INFORMATION
DOCUMENTS
Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) Brochure
"The Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program"
Spring 2009 presentation by Dr. Randy L. Phelps (MRI Program Officer)
2009 Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Dialogues
"Overview of the National Science Foundation and the MRI Program"
Fall 2008 presentation by Dr. Randy L. Phelps
(MRI Program Officer)
includes FY 2008 competition summary
"What Makes an MRI Proposal Fail, What Makes an MRI Proposal Competitive?"
Fall 2008 presentation by Dr. Randy L. Phelps (MRI Program Officer)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 The ARI-R² & MRI-R² programs held a video webcast on May 28, 2009, summarizing the programs and answering questions submitted by email before and during the webcast. A video of the webcast and slides can be viewed through August 2009 at: http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/nsf/090528/
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