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December 2011 - Volume 7, Issue 4

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Notices

Important Reminder Regarding Holiday Proposals

SDSU Research Foundation will be closed beginning at noon on Friday December 23rd through Thursday December 29th. New Year’s Day will be observed on Monday January 2nd.

All proposals with deadlines from Friday, December 23rd through Monday January 2nd, should be submitted to SDSU Research Foundation in final form by noon on Monday, December 19th, 2011. If you have any questions, please contact your RF development specialist as soon as possible, or call 594-5731.

Happy Holidays! Next Issue: February 2012

The next issue of Focus on Funding will be published in February, 2012. If you are interested in identifying funding opportunities, have proposal ideas you would like to discuss, or grant-related questions, please contact Jenna McCart or Debbie Brighton.

Important Notice for ARRA Awardees

NIH and NSF have announced that all ARRA funds must be spent by September 30, 2013.

Requests for no-cost extensions beyond that date will require special approval.

If you currently have an ARRA award that is not already budgeted to end before September 30, 2013, please contact your research foundation administrator.

For more details, view the NSF policy change notice and NIH policy change notice.

NSF Outlines Priorities for Research in Social Sciences

After a year of study, the National Science Foundation has come up with an outline for what it sees as research priorities in the coming decade in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences. The NSF has posted its report, along the 252 papers from an open call for authors to offer suggestions. One key point: The NSF sees the future of research involving social sciences as becoming more heavily dominated by collaborations rather than by single-investigator projects. And it sees the greatest emphasis in four broad subject areas: population change; sources of disparities; communication, language, and linguistics; and technology, new media, and social networks.

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