- Funding proposals will be accepted from principal
investigators or co investigators who are employed at U.S. institutions.
Investigators employed by NRAO are ineligible to receive funding;
their participation in an observing program does not affect the eligibility
of other investigators in that program. The program is intended to
assist students who are enrolled at U.S. institutions; the status
as a student of an intended recipient will be confirmed by the investigator(s).
- Preliminary Funding Proposals must accompany Observing
Proposals. An Observing Proposal is a proposal to use the Green Bank
Telescope (GBT) for some scientific investigation. Each Observing
Proposal is limited to one Preliminary Funding Proposal, from the
investigator designated by the observing team. The deadlines for submitting
a GBT proposal are February 1, June 1, and October 1 each year.
- Funding will be awarded by the GBT Student Support Committee, based
on rankings from the referees, comments from the telescope allocation
committee, and information about other awards to the investigator
that are related to the Observing Proposal. The referees are
predominantly external scientists who evaluate the scientific merit
of the Observing Proposals. Awards will be subject to the availability
of funds from the NSF. A funding cap of $45,000 in active GBT
awards will be imposed per investigator.
- Investigators who have requested funding will receive notification
from the GBT Student Support Administrator concerning the status of
their funding requests. Notifications regarding funding requests
will be issued the week following notifications regarding time requests.
- If funding is awarded, a Final Funding Proposal, with a detailed
budget and budget narrative, must be received by the GBT Student Support
Administrator within 30 days of when the allocated observations begin.
The detailed budget should be an elaboration of the Preliminary Funding
Proposal. The data archived during observations are subject
to the standard NRAO proprietary policy, namely: data are reserved
for the exclusive use of the observing team for a period of 18 months,
after which the data are available to any astronomer.
- Funding will normally be awarded for a period of one year.
The GBT Student Support Administrator will coordinate award activation,
disbursement, and deactivation with the awardee institution.
An award may be activated any time after the observations have been
scheduled, provided a Final Funding Proposal has been received.
One request for an advance of a portion of the funding may be made
to assist with the preparation of the observations in the period
between award notification and observation start. One
request for a six month, no cost extension may also be made.
Although this initial program is oriented toward a one year
program, a request for support of a two year program of observations
for a dissertation may be considered. Such a request should
be accompanied by a more detailed description of the observing program,
and should include the dissertation plan. A report summarizing the
progress achieved during the first year must be submitted for evaluation
by the GBT Student Support Administrator before the funding for the
second year will be released.
- The funding cap for student stipends (undergraduate and/or graduate)
is $32,000 with an additional amount of up to $3,000 for miscellaneous
expenses (computer hardware and/or student travel to domestic meetings
to present acquired data). Up to $3,000 of the award may be
used to offset the costs of administering the award by the investigator's
institution. Tuition costs are not allowed. Fringe benefits
are allowed. Domestic meeting locations include those within the U.S.
and its territories, within Canada, or within Mexico. Tickets
for air travel must be purchased from U.S. flag carriers, defined
as those holding certificates under section 401 of the Federal Aviation
Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. 1371).
- Those receiving funding through the GBT Student Support Program
remain eligible for the standard NRAO user support programs, including
travel to the NRAO for observing and data reduction, and page charges.
The standard publication acknowledgment must be augmented by the sentence
"Support for this work was provided by the NSF through award
GSSP id from the NRAO." The GBT Student Support Administrator
will assign an identification code to replace "id."
- Close Out Reports to the GBT Student Support Administrator must
be submitted within six months of expiration of the award. The investigator
will provide a letter of appointment for the student(s) supported
by the award, a statement of expenditure of time by the student(s),
and documentation of all expenditures for travel and equipment, including
original receipts. The GBT Student Support Administrator, normally
a scientist on the NRAO staff, will be given assistance by the NRAO
Administration Division on business issues. A refund check for any
balance of advanced unexpended funds must accompany the close out
report.
- The director of the NRAO, the director of the NSF, and the Comptroller
General of the U.S. (or any of their duly authorized representatives)
shall have access to any books, documents, papers, and records pertinent
to the award to make audits, examinations, excerpts, and transcripts.
Financial records pertinent to the award must be retained by the awardee
institution for a period of three years after deactivation of the
award.
- By accepting an award, the awardee institution certifies that it
is in compliance with and will continue to act in accordance with
the national policies against discrimination:
- on the basis of race, color, or national origin, as set forth
in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Public Law
88 352; 42 U.S.C. 2000 d) and the regulations issued pursuant
thereto by the NSF; and
- on the basis of sex, as set forth in Title IX of the Education
Amendments Act of 1972 as amended (Public Law 318; 20 U.S.C. 1680
1681) and the regulations issued pursuant thereto by the NSF;
and
- on the basis of handicap, as set forth in Section 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended (29 U.S.C. 794) and the
regulations issued pursuant thereto by the NSF; and
- on the basis of age, as set forth in the Age Discrimination
Act of 1975 as amended at 45 CFR 90 and the regulations issued
pursuant thereto by the NSF.
- By accepting an award, the awardee institution certifies that it
will comply with all applicable standards and requirements as set
forth in the OMB Circulars and the Federal Acquisition Regulation:
- OMB Circular A 21, Cost Principles for Educational Institutions
- OMB Circular A 122, Cost Principles for Non Profit Organizations
- FAR Subpart 31.2 (48 CFR 31.2), Awards with Commercial Organizations
and those Non Profit Organizations specifically exempted in OMB
Circular A 122, Attachment C;
- MB Circular A 110, Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants
and Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals,
and other Non Profit Organizations; and
- OMB Circular A 133, Audits of States, Local Governments and
Non Profit Organizations.
- The determination of the rights of ownership and disposition of
inventions resulting from the work funded under an award shall be
in accordance with 37 CFR part 401 and the regulations issued pursuant
thereto by the NSF.
- he investigator, author, or awardee institution may copyright any
book, publication, or other copyrightable material developed as a
result of the work funded under an award, although the NRAO and the
NSF reserve a royalty free, nonexclusive, and irrevocable right to
reproduce, publish, prepare derivative works, or otherwise use and
authorize others to use the work for their purposes.
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