Workshop/Collaborative Research: 2010 NSF Proposal Writing Workshop; September 1-2, 2010; University of Nebraska-Lincoln

这项合作奖将支持于2010年9月1-2日在内布拉斯加州林肯市内布拉斯加大学林肯分校举办的NSF提案写作研讨会。为150名与会者提供经费，这些与会者将从EPSCoR州（特别是阿肯色州、堪萨斯州、内布拉斯加州、俄克拉荷马州、南达科他州和怀俄明州）的申请人中选出，优先考虑早期职业教师，他们的研究可能会得到土木、机械和制造创新部门的支持，以及代表性不足的群体的成员。研讨会将包括一个关于提案写作基础的讲座，最近NSF获奖者的经验，以及最近实际的NSF提案和与会者自己的提案摘要的模拟小组审查。以往类似的研讨会吸引的申请者通常是研讨会可容纳人数的两倍。以前的与会者的提案成功率明显更高。因此，预计本次研讨会将提供信息，使与会者能够撰写更具竞争力的提案，并随后提高他们的研究质量。

This collaborative award provides support for the conduct of a NSF proposal writing workshop to be held September 1-2, 2010, at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska. Provision is made for 150 attendees who will be selected from among the applicants giving priority to early career faculty in EPSCoR states, especially Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming, whose research will likely receive support from the Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation, and to members of underrepresented groups. The workshop will include a lecture on the basics of proposal writing, experiences of recent NSF awardees, and mock panel reviews of actual recent NSF proposals and of the attendees' own proposal summaries. Previous similar workshops have attracted typically twice as many applicants as can be accommodated at the workshop. Previous attendees have enjoyed significantly higher proposal success rates with their proposals. Thus, it is expected that this workshop will provide information that will enable the attendees to write more competitive proposals and subsequently improve the quality of their research.