[SnapPea-planning] funding?

[Nathaniel Thurston]

This may well be us, and I would agree that SnapPea should be better- 
funded.  I don't know anything about writing grant proposals (the  
process with the Simons Center was informal) -- is there anyone more  
knowledgeable who would like to assist in preparing a grant application?

--Nathaniel

On 11 May 2009, at 21:13, Genevieve Walsh wrote:

> I'm not sure what is going on with the funding (I'm a little out of  
> the loop on this) but doesn't this sounds like us?  I keep thinking  
> that the snappea project should be funded in a major way, and by the  
> NSF (isn't this the kind of thing they should be doing?) Note  
> bullets 1 and 2 (and 3) below.
>
> This is a new influx of money from the stimulus.
>
> Genevieve.
>
> MRI-R2 Program Purpose and Goals
> The primary purpose of the MRI-R2 program is to facilitate  
> scientific and engineering research and research training through  
> the acquisition or development of research instrumentation.   
> Therefore, the MRI-R2 program will not support the acquisition or  
> development of instrumentation used primarily for standard science  
> and engineering education courses, or for general purpose  
> instrumentation that does not have a common or specific research  
> focus.  Other uses of the instrumentation may serve to facilitate  
> the broader impacts of the project.
>
> Proposals to the MRI-R2 program should conform to one or more of its  
> goals:
>
> 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 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 advancements in supercomputing technology, and/or  
> takes advantage of existing investments in cyberinfrastructure while  
> avoiding duplication of services already provisioned by NSF  
> investments.  The NSF document, “Cyberinfrastructure Vision for the  
> 21st Century” (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/index.jsp)  
> provides an evolving vision that will help guide the Foundation's  
> future investments in cyberinfrastructure;
>
> Promoting substantive and meaningful partnerships for instrument  
> development between the academic and private sectors (i.e., small  
> businesses).  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.  Partnerships  
> with applicability to the Industry/University Cooperative Research  
> Centers (I/UCRCs) program are encouraged.
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