National Science Foundation

History

• The National Science Foundation: A Brief History

Programs

• NSF CAREER
• NSF BIGDATA
• NRT | IGERT

Finding grant opportunities

• Active funding opportunities sorted by due date

Broader impacts

• Dear Colleague Letter: A Broader Impacts Framework for Proposals Submitted to NSF’s SBE
• IU OVPR: Broader impacts

For graduate students

• http://www.nsfgrfp.org/ - Graduate research fellowship
• https://github.com/ybrandvain/GRFP - examples

Examples of grants

• Characterizing the Dynamics of Complex Networks by Albert László Barabási
• Mathematical Frameworks for Biological Modular Networks by Hernán Makse
• Dynamics of Social Networks by Hernán Makse
• Quasispecies Network Theories for the Cross Scale Evolutionary Dynamics of Pathogens by Jayanth Banavar and Réka Albert et al.
• Longitudinal Analysis and Modeling of Large-Scale Social Networks Based on Cell Phone Records by Zoltán Toroczkai, David Hachen, Mark Alber, Nitesh Chawla, and Omar Lizardo
• Social Integration of Semantic Annotation Networks for Web Applications by Filippo Menczer
• Large-scale structure in complex networks by Mark Newman
• Adaptation and Percolation in Complex Networks by Juan Restrepo
• CAREER: Explorations of Complex Social and Psychological Phenomena through Multiscale Online Sociological Experiments, Empirical Studies, and Theoretical Models by Peter Dodds

Funded grant proposal examples

• TWC: Frontier: Collaborative: Beyond Technical Security: Developing an Empirical Basis for Socio-Economic Perspectives
• Center for Internet Epidemiology and Defenses

Possible programs for network science

• CISE
  • http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=IIS - Information & Intelligent Systems
  • http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=CCF - Computing and Communication Foundations
  • Social-computational systems
• http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=dms - mathematical science
• http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=ef - Emerging Frontiers
• http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=bcs - Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
• http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=ses - Social and Economic Sciences
• http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=dmr - Materials Research
• SBE 2020: Future Research in the Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences
  • The Grand Challenge of Understanding Group Effectiveness by Joseph A
  • The Science of Team Science (SciTS): A Beacon for 21st Century Scientific Collaboration by Katy Börner
  • Understanding Human Behavior at Large Scales through Mobile Devices
  • Network Theory and Application: Creating a Long Term Human Research (NSF LTHR) System
  • Using New Data Analysis Techniques to Understand Information Flows
  • Providing the Web of Social Science Knowledge for the Future: A Network of Social Science Data Collaboratories
• Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP)
  • How Network Structures Explain Creativity
  • Discovering Collaboration Network Structures and Dynamics in Big Data
  • Tracing Influence & Predicting Impact in Science
  • SciSIP: Knowledge Networks and the Dynamics of Innovation
  • Identifying cross-disciplinary pathways to translational science

Tools

• http://matt.might.net/articles/greasemonkey-scripts-for-nsf-fastlane
• NSF COA: http://bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa - generate a spreadsheet of collaborators.

Articles

• Advice on Writing Proposals to the National Science Foundation
• data management plans
• NSF Proposal Preparation: The View of an Ex-Program Officer

Tips

• Dear Colleague Letter: Career-Life Balance (CLB) Initiative
• Don’t Underestimate NSF’s New Grant-Submission Rules