Please note that this is a limited submission program, and that CHASS faculty will likely want to partner with an already-emerging team. If you or your colleagues have any interest, I can connect you with the teams.
Also please note that there will be a webinar on PIRE on July 28, but the details have not been released. If you pursue the PIRE, you and your team will want to monitor the website for details. A short summary of the solicitation follows the jump.
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
Pre proposal due 10/19/11 Full proposal due 5/15/12
Solicitation #11-564
This PIRE competition will focus exclusively on the NSF-wide investment area of Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES). The SEES effort focuses on interdisciplinary topics that will advance sustainability science, engineering and education as an integrative approach to the challenges of adapting to environmental, social and cultural changes associated with growth and development of human populations, and attaining a sustainable energy future.
