1. Who gives you the grant? Public Government Funding agency Program manager Panel manager Review Panel Peers YOU!!

2. Who gets the grant? Your institution You as a caretaker person (10-20% Success rate) You build reputation for your institute Success follows success and failure.. Only established people? No, young investigators have a better shot!

3. Where is the money?

4. http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/guihist. htm Federal Research Would Continue to Fall in 2008 Budget Although high-priority investments in weapons development, human space exploration, and physical sciences research help to keep the federal R&D outlook brighter than the bleak outlook for domestic programs overall, the FY 2008 budget continues the recent trends of declining federal support for research amid increasing support for weapons systems development.

5. AAAS The federal investment in basic and applied research would fall for the fourth year in a row in real terms if the FY 2008 budget is enacted. Federal research did very well between 1998 and 2003 because of the campaign to double the budget of NIH, the largest federal supporter of research. Other agencies also increased their research investments in that time period because a string of budget surpluses freed up resources for domestic appropriations. But with the return of budget deficits in 2002 followed by restraints on domestic spending thereafter, growth in research funding for NIH and other domestic agencies slowed in 2004 and then reversed. At the same time, DOD research support lagged as the Pentagon went to war in 2003 and shifted resources away from research toward near-term projects, and NASA research fell even within a stable R&D budget as it shifted resources from research first to returning the Space Shuttle to flight and then toward developing the Shuttle's replacement. As a result, federal support for research in nearly all disciplines is now in decline, a decline that would accelerate in the 2008 budget, even in the physical sciences where ACI gains would be more than offset by NASA and DOD cuts. The 2008 budget would leave the federal research portfolio 7.4 percent below the 2004 level in inflation-adjusted dollars.

6. A Warning!! Federal research investments are shrinking as a share of the U.S. economy, just as other nations are increasing their investments. As shown below, the federal R&D investment exceeded 1 percent of U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) until recently, buoyed by big increases in weapons development, but is now declining sharply. Federal investments in development, mostly in DOD, have held steady as a share of the economy, but the federal research/GDP ratio is in free fall down to a projected 0.38 percent in 2008, below the long-term historical average of 0.4 percent after gains in the late 1990s. Despite an increasingly technology-based economy and a growing recognition among policymakers that federal research investments are the seed corn for future technology-based innovations, the U.S. government research investment has failed to match the new realities and has also failed to match the competition. Asian nations are dramatically increasing their government research investments: both China and South Korea, for example, are boosting government research by 10 percent or more annually.

7. http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/guihist.htm

9. * Federally funded research and development centers

10. http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/guihist.htm

16. MPS Math Phys Sci EHR Edu, human Resources GEO Geological Sci CSIE Comp Info Sci and Eng Bio Biological Sci ENG Engineering SBE Social, behavior, Eco Sci http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/guihist.htm

17. Where to go to see information on funding agencies Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Department of Energy, Office of Energy Research (DOE)Department of Energy, Office of Energy Research Department of Transportation (DOT)Department of Transportation Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)Department of Health and Human Services Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Environmental Protection Agency Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR)Michigan Department of Natural Resources National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Science Foundation (NSF)National Science Foundation National Institutes of Health (NIH)National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST)National Institutes of Standards and Technology USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (USDA CSREES)USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service http://www.admin.mtu.edu/research/sprot/funding/federal.html (this link is active)

18. NSF major divisions Biological Sciences Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Integrative Organismal Biology Environmental Biology Biological Infrastructure Emerging Frontiers Plant Genome Research Computer and Information Science and EngineeringComputer and Information Science and Engineering Computing and Communication Foundations Computer and Network Systems Information and Intelligent Systems Information Technology Research Engineering Engineering Chemical, Biological, Environmental and Transport Systems Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Industrial Innovation and Partnerships Engineering Education and Centers Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation Geosciences Geosciences Atmospheric Sciences Earth Sciences Innovative and Collaborative Education and Research Ocean Sciences Mathematical and Physical SciencesMathematical and Physical Sciences Astronomical Sciences Chemistry Materials Research Mathematical Sciences Physics Multidisciplinary Activities Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesSocial, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Social and Economic Sciences Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences Science Resources Statistics Office of CyberinfrastructureOffice of Cyberinfrastructure http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2007/toc.jsp

19. GPG You will find the most recent Grant proposal guide of NSF at our class web site. 67 page document Chapter 1: Pre-submission information Chapter 2: Proposal preparation instructions Chapter 3: NSF proposal processing Chapter 4: Non-award decisions Chapter 5: Renewal

20. DGA = Division of grants and Administration DD = Division Director GPG = Grant proposal guide

21. (Switch to Internet for learning more from their demonstration site)