NSF- Division of Materials Research has posted new guidelines effective for proposals submitted during the October 1 – November 1 window.

Some key changes:

1. An individual may only serve as PI or Co-PI on one proposal across DMR to any of the Topical Materials Research Programs. If more than one proposal is submitted, the earliest one will be reviewed. Subsequent ones will be returned without review.
2. Additional information is required on the current and pending form. For each current award or pending proposal listed, include one or more sentences addressing the relationship of the present proposal to your currently funded projects or pending proposals and explaining how the work proposed under this solicitation is distinct.
3. Investigators are requested to upload under Single-Copy Documents a list (with full names, affiliations, expertise, and email addresses) of at least four suggested reviewers who are experts in the particular field, are especially well-qualified to review the topic, and are at arm’s length (i.e. they are not close friends, collaborators over the past 48 months, co-editors over the past 24 months, or have any other conflicts of interest listed in Exhibit II-2 of the NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide.
4. For those proposals that are resubmissions of previously declined proposals by any NSF Program, Investigators are required to upload under Single-Copy Documents a statement (maximum length one page) that discusses specifically how the present proposal has been modified in response to the comments of the reviewers, panel, and Program Officer (as the case may be). Proposals that in the judgment of the Program Officer have not been substantially revised will be returned without review.

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