Competitions Open for 13 Research Funding Opportunities at NIST

NIST has opened the fiscal year 2001 competitions for funding under 13 different research grant programs: Precision Measurement Grants; the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (known as SURF) in six NIST laboratories (Building and Fire Research, Chemical Science and Technology, Information Technology, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Physics); the Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory Grants Program; the Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory Grants Program; the Fire Research Grants Program; the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory Grants Program; the Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory Grants Program; and the Physics Laboratory Grants Program.

Applications are due by Feb. 15, 2001, for the Precision Measurement Grants and all of the SURF programs, and by Sept. 30, 2001, for the laboratory grants programs.

For details on the 13 grant programs and complete application requirements, go to the online Federal Register at www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html and enter "01/11/2001" and "National Institute of Standards and Technology" as search keywords to reach the Jan. 11 notice. Specific information on the Precision Measurements Grants is at http://physics.nist.gov/ResOpp/grants/grants.html. For more about SURF, go to www.surf.nist.gov/surf2.htm. Descriptions of the other six grants may be found on the web sites of the individual NIST laboratories.