2011 Systems Science Grantsmanship Workshop

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USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture

in cooperation with

University of Tennessee AgResearch

Daniel Schmoldt

After an application package is submitted, the AR will receive a series of four e-mails. The titles of the four e-mails are:

And, there’s one more…

If accepted for peer review, the application will be assigned a NIFA application number (e.g., YEAR-XXXXX). This number should be cited on all future correspondence.

The first part of the process is the administrative review
- A main focus of the administrative review is to facilitate the peer review
The second part of the process is a peer review

The Peer-Review Process

Reviewers for a particular year are selected based on the types of applications that are submitted
- All panelists are considered experts in their fields
- Panelists can include: academia, federal labs, NGOs, industry, technology providers
- Around 30 % of the panelists are from the previous year
- A number of diversity criteria are applied before invitations are sent

Each application must be reviewed by at least 3 external reviewers
- Panelists are generally assigned 10 to 20 applications to review
- Reviewers are provided with the RFA and the evaluation criteria
- Applications that don’t adhere to the guidelines and criteria are not likely to be funded