Postings from the Dartmouth College Office of Sponsored Projects. Topics include new funding opportunities as well as other announcements and news items regarding sponsored projects at Dartmouth College.
Dartmouth Logo
Monday, January 25, 2010
Important NSF Announcement re: Postdoc Monitoring
Jean Feldman, Head of the Policy Office in the Office of Budget, Finance & Award Management at the National Science Foundation stated today at the Federal Demonstration Project meeting that the new requirement for including a section on POSTDOC MENTORING in new applications is to be taken very seriously. Since it is part of the America Competes Act, NSF feels that it has no latitude to make exceptions. NSF has noted very poor compliance with the new requirement. Therefore, NSF is going to reject proposals that don't include the required section and there will be no opportunity to correct the proposal no matter what stage of review.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
The only exception that I find to the RCR requirement is the following:
ReplyDeleteDoes NSF require that individuals who receive NSF scholarships or stipends through,
for example, the NSF S-STEM or Noyce programs receive RCR training?
No, students who receive only scholarship or stipend support to enroll in an academic
program through such NSF programs as S-STEM and Noyce are not required to receive
RCR training. However, students must take RCR training if they receive NSF scholarship or
stipend support to engage in research, or if conducting research is included in their
academic program. See the FAQ at http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=rcrfaq