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A Submission Window for Unsolicited
Proposals to DMR
The Division of Materials Research (DMR), in the Directorate for
Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), will accept unsolicited
proposals only during a submission window beginning the
third Monday in September and ending the first Friday in November, annually.
The last date of the submission window is an absolute deadline
date. DMR Programs can be found on the DMR website at http://www.nsf.gov/materials.
Unsolicited proposals received outside this submission window,
or that are not in compliance with the NSF Grant Proposal Guide
(GPG), will be returned without review. Full details are given
below. The submission window applies to unsolicited proposals submitted
to DMR programs, with the exceptions described in Paragraphs 3
and 4 below. Unsolicited proposals that do not arrive within this
submission window, as well as proposals that do not explicitly
address NSF's primary review criteria (intellectual merit and broader
impacts), will be returned without review.
NSF's Grant Proposal Guide defines submission windows as designated
periods of time during which proposals will be accepted for review
by NSF. For purposes of NSF, the end date of a submission window
converts to, and follows the same policies as, a deadline date.
(See http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/gpg/nsf04_23/1.jsp#IF.)
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Proposals must be submitted within the submission window
that begins on the third Monday in September, and ends the
first Friday in November each year at 5:00 p.m. submitter's
local time.
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Proposals that are not in compliance with the NSF
GPG may be re-submitted. Such proposals must arrive at NSF
within the submission window. Revised proposals submitted
either before or after the submission window will be returned
without review.
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The following types of requests are NOT subject
to the submission window restrictions described above. PI’s
are strongly encouraged to discuss these submissions with
Program Directors prior to submission.
- Small Grants for Exploratory
Research (SGER) or proposals for workshops or conferences
may be submitted at any time during the year.
- Supplements
to existing grants to fund Research Experiences for Undergraduates
(REU), Research Experiences for Teachers (RET), Creativity
Extensions, or supplement requests for any other purpose,
may be submitted at any time during the year.
- Proposals
to the DMR National Facilities Program.
- Proposals submitted
under an NSF program solicitation are solicited proposals,
and are not restricted to the submission window for unsolicited
proposals described above. The following DMR programs
have proposal solicitations with a deadline that may fall outside
the submission window. Please check the appropriate solicitation
for the current deadline date.
W. Lance Haworth
Acting Director
Division of Materials Research
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