Major required sections for NSF Proposals:

b. Project Summary - 1 page. MUST INCLUDE explicit subsections on "Intellectual Merit" and "Broader Impacts"

• Objectives
• Plan of Work (procedures, methods, etc.)
• Intellectual Merit
• Broader Impacts
• Educational Outreach
• Minority Outreach
• Results from Prior NSF Support (not to exceed 5 pages out of the total 15)

Results from prior work format (a,b..):

• the NSF award number, amount and period of support;
• the title of the project;
• a summary of the results of the completed work, including, for a research project, any contribution to the development of human resources in science and engineering;
• publications resulting from the NSF award;
• a brief description of available data, samples, physical collections and other related research products not described elsewhere; and

e. References are uploaded separately. Give URLs for articles available electronically. Not counted in the 15 page limit.

f. Bio Sketches in NSF format (2 page)

other stuff... see http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/gpg/nsf04_23/

-- MarkCutkosky - 08 Nov 2006