There's an interesting article in the 5 August issue of Science, p.
528-529, about the experiment that NSF's Division of Environmental
Biology has conducted over the past four years, along with the Division
of Integrative and Organismal Systems, requiring pre-proposals before
you can submit a full proposal. A Government Accountability Office
report has singled the new approach out for praise. A table shows that
since 2009 the overall funding rate in IOS has declined from 20% to 8%,
although the success rate of full proposals submitted in the two-step
process in the past four years is 30-35%.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6299/528
NSF tries two-step review, drawing praise—and darts
1. Jeffrey Mervis
Science 05 Aug 2016:
Vol. 353, Issue 6299, pp. 528-529
DOI: 10.1126/science.353.6299.528
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Dr. David W. Inouye
Professor Emeritus
Department of Biology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4415
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Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
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