National Science Foundation
Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)
Internal Selection: Fall 2012
Send pre-proposal reviews to sarah.bridges@uni.edu by 9:00 am Wednesday, November 14, 2012.
**Fields will expand indefinitely to accommodate your comments**
1) Applicant’s Last Name:
2) What is the intellectual merit of the proposed activity?
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
3) What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity?
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
4) Please comment on the following program specific criteria
• Describe how instrument will be utilized (e.g. how, when, who)
• Include a variety of internal users and/or external users
• Describe the research and research training that will be made possible by acquisition of the
instrumentation
 Student involvement in research, use of instrumentation in classroom, and use for student
research are encouraged
• Demonstrate that associated research is possible, either with current funding or future planned
submissions, since MRI does not fund the actual research projects
• Project personnel have a record of publishing their research
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
5) Rating:
(please enter from the following choices: poor, fair, good, very good, excellent)
6) Summary rationale for the rating:
7) State whether you recommend or do not recommend for submission to NSF: