<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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?<div><br></div><div>--Nathaniel</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div><div>On 11 May 2009, at 21:13, Genevieve Walsh wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>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. </div> <div><br></div><div>This is a new influx of money from the stimulus. </div><div><br></div><div>Genevieve. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><ol style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> <li style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><strong>MRI-R<sup><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09561/nsf09561.htm#mri22" style="color: rgb(60, 117, 207); text-decoration: none; ">2</a></sup> Program Purpose and Goals</strong></li> </ol><blockquote style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">The primary purpose of the MRI-R<sup><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09561/nsf09561.htm#mri22" style="color: rgb(60, 117, 207); text-decoration: none; ">2</a></sup> program is to facilitate scientific and engineering research and research training through the acquisition or development of research instrumentation. Therefore, the MRI-R<sup><a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09561/nsf09561.htm#mri22" style="color: rgb(60, 117, 207); text-decoration: none; ">2</a></sup> 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.</p><p style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Proposals to the MRI-R<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09561/nsf09561.htm#mri22" style="color: rgb(60, 117, 207); text-decoration: none; "><sup>2</sup></a> program should conform to one or more of its goals:</p> <ul type="disc" style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><li style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "> 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;</p> </li><li style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">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;</p> </li><li style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Enabling academic departments, disciplinary and cross-disciplinary units, and multi-organization collaborations to create well-equipped research environments that integrate research with education;</p> </li><li style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><p style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">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 21<sup>st</sup> Century” (<a href="http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/index.jsp" style="color: rgb(60, 117, 207); text-decoration: none; ">http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/index.jsp</a>) provides an evolving vision that will help guide the Foundation's future investments in cyberinfrastructure;</p> </li><li style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">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.</li> </ul></blockquote></span></div> _______________________________________________<br>SnapPea-planning mailing list<br><a href="mailto:SnapPea-planning@lists.bostoncoop.net">SnapPea-planning@lists.bostoncoop.net</a><br>http://lists.bostoncoop.net/mailman/listinfo/snappea-planning<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></body></html>