new NSF postdoc program

[ahearn at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU]

Dear All,

The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate at NSF has
reconfigured its postdoctoral fellowship program.  It is now called the
SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF), and there are now two tracks
to this postdoc program: (1) Broadening Participation; and (2)
Interdisciplinary Research in Behavioral and Social Sciences.  The
deadline for the upcoming year’s competition is October 29th.  More
details are copied in below my signature, and the full solicitation can be
found at the following link:

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12591/nsf12591.htmWT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click

It would be great to have some linguistic anthropologists apply!  Please
feel free to circulate this announcement widely (even, of course, to
non-linganth folks).

Laura

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Laura M. Ahearn, PhD, Program Director
Cultural Anthropology Program
Division of Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences
Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences Directorate
The National Science Foundation, Room 959
4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230
(703) 292-7783 (voice), (703) 292-9068 (fax), lahearn at nsf.gov

Associate Professor (on leave)
Department of Anthropology
Rutgers University
http://anthro.rutgers.edu/fac/department-undergrad-a-grad-faculty/laura-ahearn

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SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF)
Program Solicitation
NSF 12-591

IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND REVISION NOTES

The significant changes in the new SBE MPRF solicitation are listed below:
• Name of the program is changed to "SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
(SPRF)". Previously, the program name was "SBE Minority Postdoctoral
Research Fellowships (MPRF)".

• The revised program has two tracks: (i) Broadening Participation,
SPRF-BP, and (ii) Interdisciplinary Research in Behavioral and Social
Sciences, SPRF-IBSS. The BP track subsumes the previous MPRF program, and
the IBSS track is a new addition.

• Proposals will be submitted from institutions; roles (PI, co-PI, Senior
Personnel) of the sponsoring scientist(s) and the postdoctoral fellowship
candidate will be determined according to institutional regulations
(previously proposals were submitted by, and awards were made to,
individuals).

• Ph.D. degree of the fellowship candidate must have been obtained within
24 months before application deadline (previously was within 30 months) or
within 10 months after the application deadline (previously was 12
months).

• The Sponsoring Scientist's statement must be incorporated into the
project description as a separate section (previously was submitted as a
separate letter).

• Individuals already in full-time tenure-track faculty positions are not
eligible to apply (previously they could apply with a letter from the
Department Chair stating that if the fellowship were to be awarded, the
awardee would be allowed a two-year leave of absence).

• Follow-up Research Starter Grants are no longer offered.

• All awards are for a maximum of two years; three-year awards and third
year extensions are not allowed (previously were allowed in special
cases).

Full solicitation available at:

http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12591/nsf12591.htmWT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click