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nope. that budget is for FY10. we're waiting on the results of the FY09 competition. what's holding it up is approval for how they will spend ARRA funds (see post above).

Another place to keep looking for updates on NSF's progress with its ARRA plan: http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/week ... kly-report

word. i applied for a TA job last week. i suppose i'll just operate under the assumption i'll be doing that. be well folks.

and so it is settled. i guess we just, you know, wait... so unsettling. also, thanks for the info from your inside source.

another old pdf: http://www.ams.org/ams/SummaryReportCSP ... ch2009.pdf money quote: "Joel Parriott Program Examiner, Science and Space Programs Branch, White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Joel Parriott

don't think this is correct. pretty sure grfp is in the research category (which just got a $2b boost, out of a total $3b for NSF, between the omnibus and the ARRA).

ncseonline.org/conference/CEDD%20-%20ARRA%20&%20Omnibus%20Funding.pdf Quote: National Science Foundation (NSF) Stimulus money will only fund a few new solicitations and no continuing awards; most new and continuing awards will be funded through FY 09 regular appropriations. Exceptions are: ? early/new investigator awards ? CAREER awards - funded for full five years ? Graduate Research Fellowships and other similar scholarship programs

he's a man of broad impacts.

If i recall correctly, there hasn't been anything on the task list since the application was submitted.

I'm pretty sure the $125 came from omnibus bill, which was an addendum to the FY09 budget. The Obama budget proposal currently being debated is for 2010. which means that additional money is already going to the grfp, so that is a baseline for any increases. stimulus money would be on top of that.

i didn't read it as particularly discouraging. They emphasize the word "may" because they don't want to make any promises. but i think it's clear (from the links posted above) that some more awards will be made. If they requested funds for 3000 awards (and there are about 1000 already awarded, and 2000 of us), they clearly want to fund all of us. the house cut the budget significantly, so we won't all get funded, but there is a significant increase in the grfp budget. we'll see what that turns into.

thanks for the links... also, i suggest folks call the 866 number, just to ease your minds. the recording has changed (i guess i called too late to talk to a person), but they have cleared up the language, and the make clear that all rejections have been sent out, and that the people left are HMs or awards.

i imagine only some of the 2000 are being considered for more awards. some of us will get HMs, but are probably not being considered. there are too many unkowns, i guess-- we don't know where we are in the ranking, we don't know how many additional awards will go out, we don't know if the additional awards will go to our field or others.

"end fellow stats" just refers to the column of information about you on the right-hand side of the page. everyone will have it, because it refers to the "end" of that column of stats about you. it means nothing.

i think the major lesson to draw from that is that they are focusing most of the new money on funding existing applications (including grfp) that are already in their system, including grants they otherwise would not have funded, as opposed to new grants. no, this is not all going to grfp, but it seems a sizable chunk may very well be.