CAREER Award proposal resources

• Program Solicitation. Contains specific instructions for submitting a CAREER award proposal
• Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG). Contains instructions for ancillary instructions such as the biographical sketch and budget justification
• SciENcv tool to create the NSF Biosketch
• List of Cognizant Program Officers by NSF Division
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) in Years 2022 – 2026

• Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
  • Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) Virtual Office Hours
  • May Virtual Office Hours with the Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS)
  • Nothing found for DEB or MCB
• Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)
  • 2023 Workshop led by Virginia Tech Includes webinar and sample proposals for IIS, CNS (CPS, NeTS, SatC), CCF (AF, CIF, SHF) and ACI areas
  • 2017 Workshop led by Georgetown. Includes webinar and presentation
  • Other past workshops
• Directorate for Education & Human Resources (EHR)
  • Nothing found for DGE, DRL, DUE, or HRD
• Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
  • 2023 NSF ENG CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop
  • CBET
    • Overview, guidelines and eligibility
    • Common mistakes and practices
    • Integration of research, education, and outreach
    • Mock Panel Review video
    • Richard Dickinson: Division Director (Video)
    • Richard Dickinson: Division Director (Slides)
  • CMMI CAREER Writing Workshop [2018] [2019]
  • EEC
    • Demystifying the NSF CAREER Program: Tips from a Program Officer
    • Kon-Well Wang: Division Director (Video)
    • Kon-Well Wang: Division Director (Slides)
  • ECCS
    • Filbert Bartoli: Division Director (Video)
    • Filbert Bartoli: Divison Director ​(Slides)
• Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
  • Nothing found for AGS, EAR, OCE, or OPP
• Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences (MPS)
  • Nothing found for AST, CHE, DMR, CHE, DMR, DMS, or PHY
• Directorate for Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences (SBE)
  • Nothing found for BCS or SES

• UF NSF CAREER Workshop Series held 2024
• UF NSF CAREER Workshop held 20 May 2021
• NSF CAREER Proposal Writing Tips by ZJ Pei (book, free download)
• Twelve steps to a winning research proposal by George A. Hazelrigg
• Research 101 by George A. Hazelrigg
• How to Prepare an NSF Proposal: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly presented by NSF at the NCURA National Meeting in August 2016

• Guidance
  • UF Broader Impacts Presentations 16 April 2024
    • Materials
  •  NSF Perspectives on Broader Impacts
  • NSF Broader Impacts Website (OIA)
  • IES Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development
    • Companion Guidelines on Replication & Reproducibility in Education Research
  • NABI Broader Impacts Guiding Principles and Questions for National Science Foundation Proposals
  • CSOM Advice on Writing the Educational Component of an NSF Grant Proposal:
  • Duke University Broader Impacts Resource Center
  • STEM Central
  • TAMU Developing Education Components for NSF Proposals
  • ARIS Broader Impacts
    • Evolution of Broader Impacts Report
    • The Current State of Broader Impacts
    • Perspectives on Broader Impacts 
    • Broader Impacts Guidesheet 
• Analytics
  • NSF National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics
  • American Society for Engineering Education publications
  • Computing Research Association (CRA) Taulbee Survey College Profiles. Main report that assesses computer science programs
  • Council on Competitiveness Reports. Contains information about the role of higher education driving regional and national economic development
  • Council of Graduate Schools Benchmarking
  • Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Contains graduation data about underrepresented groups in STEM
  • NRC Assessment of Research Doctorate Programs
• UF programs
  • Center for Precollegiate Education and Training (CPET)
  • PK Yonge Roaring Riptide (FIRST Robotics program)
  • STAR Office (Student Transition And Retention) houses STEPUP/EFTP/TSTP
  • Gator Outreach K-12 programs
  • Women in Science and Engineering
  • Student organizations including National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Phi Sigma Rho (engineering sorority), Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE)

• 10 Helpful Hints and 10 Fatal Flaws by Elizabeth Teles
• Colorado Nonprofit Association’s Evaluation: A Tool Kit to Support Principles and Practices for Nonprofit Excellence in Colorado
• Rainbow Framework–Better Evaluation
• Measuring Program Outcomes: A Practical Approach
• American Evaluation Association

• Digital Curation Centre Checklist for a Data Management Plan. V.4.0
• NSF ENG Data Management Plan Requirements
• Re3data: Registry of Research Data Repositories
• Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).  Browse Data Sharing Requirements by Federal Agency
• UF Libraries
  • Research Data Management at UF: Data Management Planning
  • Examples: [1] Chagaris, D. and Smith, Plato. (2017), [2] Lorenzen, K., Camp, E., & Dutka-Gianelli, J. (2016), [3] NCSU Libraries Data Management Plan Examples
• Contact Plato Smith (294-1077), Data Management Librarian, with questions

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The topics listed under “Fields Supported” were obtained from past UF awards + working knowledge of other fields. Does not include all specialties.