Do you need a little guidance on evaluation and assessment for your next proposal?  Jim Hurny, Associate Professor in the ECTET department, prepared a tool covering the basics of evaluation and assessment for RIT PIs.  The document contains summary information and lists available resources.  

Cisco has a set of open RFPs for collaboration with universities at http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac50/ac207/crc_new/university/rfp.html .

NSF will be asking PIs to submit a Project Outcomes Report to the General Public at the end of each award.  This is a summary of the nature and outcomes of the project prepared specifically for the general public.  It will be displayed on NSF’s website as submitted and should not contain confidential or proprietary information.  This will be required starting May 2010 and will be collected through the research.gov site.

Over the past few years, most federal agencies have migrated their proposal submission functions to grants.gov, which is intended to be a universal portal for all federal grant making. For a number of reasons, the grants.gov system has experienced problems that threaten the timely submission of proposals.

Sponsoring agencies are aware of this problem. Over the past few months, I have observed the following:

The federal government expects that researchers on sponsored project will have some effort, charged to the agency or as a cost share. Here is how the Office of Management and Budget describes it:

The National Science Foundation released a "Dear Colleague Letter" detailing the areas of a proposal which must address Broader Impacts: the Project Summary, the Project Description, and the Results of Prior Support.  The full announcement can be found on the NSF website.