Request for Applications and Funding Opportunities

SBE Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Follow-up Research Starter Grants (MPRF)

Full Proposal Deadline Date: October 17, 2011

Program Guidelines: NSF 09-595

The Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) offers Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Research Starter Grants in an effort to increase the diversity of researchers who participate in NSF programs in the social, behavioral and economic sciences and thereby increase the participation of scientists from underrepresented groups in selected areas of science in the United States. These activities (postdoctoral fellowships and follow-up research starter grants) support training and research in the areas of social, behavioral and economic sciences within the purview of NSF.

EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY

This program provides educational opportunities for Postdoctoral Fellows. This program provides indirect funding for students at this level or focuses on educational developments for this group such as curricula development, training or retention. To inquire about possible funding opportunities not directly from NSF, please look at the active awards for this program.

Visit the NSF website, www.nsf.gov, to read:
--Helpful Guidance for MPRF Applicants
--MPRF Information Booklet
--Forms for Fellowship Awardees
--SBE Cross-Directorate Activities-Minority Postdoctoral Fellowships Program

Presentation
--Examples illustrating activities likely to demonstrate broader impacts
--What Has Been Funded (Recent Awards Made Through This Program, with Abstracts)
--Map of Recent Awards Made Through This Program ...