Advancing & Increasing Methods of HBCU NSF Proposal Competitiveness (QEM-AIMS)

该项目将在传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）之间建立一个实践社区，以促进向NSF提交提案。它还将使hbcu的教师在提案审查过程中更加积极。如果取得成功，这项活动将成为一种模式，可以推广到其他类型的新兴研究机构。该项目旨在增加来自hbcu的成功研究提案的提交。它开发并实施了一个可复制的模式，为HBCU的研究人员和赞助项目人员提供技术援助支持，以加强研究开发和审查技能。该项目将在每所涉及的hbcu招募两组人员：一组专注于提案的开发和提交，另一组接受提案审查方面的沉浸式培训。除其他培训活动外，计划的参加者将会在建议书的发展和提交过程中获得指导，并参加模拟评审小组。外部评估部分将审查培训的影响。该奖项全部或部分由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will develop a community of practice among Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to facilitate proposal submissions to NSF. It will also prepare faculty at HBCUs to be more active in the proposal review process. If successful, this activity will serve as a model that can be expanded to other types of emerging research institutions. The project seeks to increase the submission of successful research proposals originating at HBCUs. It develops and implements a replicable model for technical assistance support for HBCU researchers and sponsored programs personnel at HBCUs that will strengthen research development and reviewing skills. The project will recruit two groups of people at each one of the HBCUs involved: one group focused on the development and submission of proposals and a second group that receives immersive training in proposal review. Amongst other training activities, participants in the project will be mentored in the process of proposal development and proposal submission and participate in mock review panels. An external assessment component will examine the impacts of the training. This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.