NSF-Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program
DATE: |
11 December 2008 |
TO: |
Deans, Directors, Department Chairs in NSF supported disciplines, College/School Research Administrators |
FROM: |
Petra Schroeder, UW-Madison, Graduate School |
SUBJECT: |
NSF-IGERT Program Solicitation |
Deadlines:
January 20, 2009 for email notice of intent to submit proposal;
January 26, 2009 for internal competition application.
The IGERT Program is intended to establish innovative new models for graduate education and training for scientists and engineers in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.
The number of preproposals UW–Madison may submit to NSF for this program is limited to four. For this reason we will convene an ad hoc committee to review the preproposals and to select the projects to be forwarded to NSF.
Please send an email message to gsgrants@bascom.wisc.edu by January 20th to inform us of your intention to submit a proposal. Include in your email message the names, departments, and contact information for the PI and Co-PIs, and a title or brief (one sentence) description of your proposal. We will inform candidates if no internal competition is needed. If you do not hear from us, send a 2-3 page pdf file of your project summary, including a brief explanation of your anticipated plan for addressing the shortfall in funding for tuition, fees, and health insurance to gsgrants@bascom.wisc.edu by January 26th.
For those projects selected, complete preproposals must be submitted to NSF by March 13, 2009. The NSF-IGERT program solicitation provides detailed proposal preparation and submission instructions. Full IGERT proposals are by invitation only, and we request that PIs contact us when they learn whether they are invited to submit a full proposal.
If you have questions, contact Petra Schroeder at 265-4868 or email gsgrants@bascom.wisc.edu.