[LTER-sbc_investigators] Fwd: Educational Supplements

[Dan Reed]

Hi all.,
Below are some opportunities for educational supplements.  Please let me 
know if you are interested in pursuing any of these.  The deadline is 1 
December.  We have submitted successful  RET and ROA proposals in the 
past that I am happy to pass along as a guide to anyone who might be 
interested in taking a lead on a proposal (past proposals have only been 
a couple of pages).

Dan

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Subject: 	Educational Supplements
Date: 	Tue, 27 Oct 2015 21:28:41 +0000
From: 	Twombly, Saran <stwombly at nsf.gov>
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Dear All,

You recently received -- or may have received -- a message from NSF 
announcing diverse educational supplements that can be requested by PIs 
of active awards. These supplements include Research Experiences for 
Undergraduates (REUs), Research Experiences for Teachers (RETs), 
Research Opportunity Awards (ROAs), and Research ? (something that 
begins with A) for High School Students (RAHSS).

Several of you have written to ask if LTER awards are eligible for these 
supplements, and the answer is yes with one exception. Most of you 
already receive funds for 2 REU students as part of your parent awards. 
LTER will not provide additional REU funds in addition to these two. The 
remaining categories are open. The deadline is 1 December. The LTER 
budget cannot cover a large number of these requests, so it will be 
important for you to think about what makes a competitive request. For 
the RET supplements, I attach a score sheet that someone in DEB 
developed a while ago. What we most want to know is how a research 
experience for a teacher will be translated into a meaningful 
educational activity for him or her and his school or class.

ROA supplements are provided to individuals who have not been able to 
maintain an active research career because they have worked at primarily 
undergraduate institutions or community colleges. Funds are provided for 
this individual to work with a researcher, usually during the summer, to 
begin to get a research program off the ground again, to establish new 
connections, and to be re-introduced to the research community. Funds 
are not intended for recent PhDs who have strong publication records but 
have landed a job at an undergraduate institution, or for others at 
undergraduate institutions who have been able to maintain a reasonable 
research program. They are not intended to provide a bit of start-up 
money for someone previously associated with one or more LTER projects. 
We want to see that you mentor promising individuals who are striving to 
enter or re-enter the mainstream research community.

Let me know if you have any additional questions,

Saran

Saran Twombly

Program Director, Division of Environmental Biology

National Science Foundation

4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 635

Arlington, VA  22230

703.292.8133

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