PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Director must run a pilot that gives one-year grants to help people improve research proposals the Foundation did not fund. To qualify, a person must not have been a Foundation principal investigator before and must have had a proposal rated excellent (this can include Research in Undergraduate Institutions). Awards are made with program officers’ advice through the Small Grants for Exploratory Research program. Grants must be used to update and resubmit proposals, for example by collecting new data or doing more analysis. The Board must review the pilot—count new investigators funded, show how awards were distributed by type of institution, and report resubmission success—and, no later than 3 years after August 9, 2007, send findings and recommendations to the House Committee on Science and Technology and to the Senate Committees on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Title 42, §1862o–8

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(a)The Director shall carry out a pilot program to award 1-year grants to individuals to assist them in improving research proposals that were previously submitted to the Foundation but not selected for funding.

(b)To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an individual—

(1)may not have previously received funding as the principal investigator of a research grant from the Foundation; and

(2)shall have submitted a proposal to the Foundation, which may include a proposal submitted to the Research in Undergraduate Institutions program, that was rated excellent under the Foundation’s competitive merit review process.

(c)The Director shall make awards under this section based on the advice of the program officers of the Foundation.

(d)Grants awarded under this section shall be used to enable an individual to resubmit an updated research proposal for review by the Foundation through the agency’s competitive merit review process. Uses of funds made available under this section may include the generation of new data and the performance of additional analysis.

(e)The Director shall carry out this section through the Small Grants for Exploratory Research program.

(f)The Board shall conduct a review and assessment of the pilot program under this section, including the number of new investigators funded, the distribution of awards by type of institution of higher education, and the success rate upon resubmittal of proposals by new investigators funded through such pilot program. Not later than 3 years after August 9, 2007, the Board shall summarize its findings and any recommendations regarding changes to, the termination of, or the continuation of the pilot program in a report to the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the America COMPETES Act, also known as the America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act, and not as part of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Committee on Science and Technology of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, Jan. 5, 2011. Definitions For definitions of terms used in this section, see section 7001 of Pub. L. 110–69, set out as a note under section 1862o of this title.

§1862o–8 Pilot Program of Grants for New Investigators