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Grants CFP: Potential Support for History of Science & Technology Collections (National Science Foundation)

• Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:38:02 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
• To: sthc-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject: Grants CFP: Potential Support for History of Science & Technology Collections (National Science Foundation)
• Message-ID: SIMEON.10004071804.C@bio-s-his004.library

Forwarded to STHC-L from Michael Sokal at NSF.

Russell Johnson


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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:03:09 -0400
From: "Sokal, Michael" <msokal@nsf.gov>

Potential Support for History of Science & Technology Collections

Archivists having oversight of large collections of primary documents 
in the history of science and technology may be interested in the 
recently-announced National Science Foundation initiative, "Enhancing 
Infrastructure for the Social and Behavioral Sciences."  This 
competition -- the second to be held under this title -- invites grant 
proposals for support for (among other activities) collecting and 
processing "case or historical records ... that will support 
broad-based investigations" -- including research in the history, 
philosophy, and social studies of science and technology -- "into the 
most important scientific questions facing social and behavioral 
science in the next decade."  The full text of the formal announcement 
of this competition (with all sorts of important administrative 
details) is most readily available on the World Wide Web, at 
<http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/ses/infra/start.htm>.  

The NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) 
is sponsoring this competition and expects to receive (as a result of 
this announcement) a significant number of very high-quality proposals 
in all areas of the social and behavioral sciences, including Science & 
Technology Studies.  SBE thus expects to make several large grants in 
response to proposals submitted by the deadline of August 4, 2000.  
(The last competition attracted over 100 proposals and led to six 
exceptionally large grants.)

For further information and to discuss eligibility and ideas about 
potential proposals, please contact the NSF Science & Technology  
Studies Program at the address below.

I look forward to hearing from many of you!   Mike Sokal

Michael M. Sokal
Program Director, Science & Technology Studies
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd.;  Room 995.41
Arlington, VA  22230
(703) 306-1742
Fax:  (703) 306-0485
msokal@nsf.gov
www.nsf.gov/sbe/ses/sts
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