December 2011 news
Dec. 17, 2011
- Joe Polacco was
approved by the state EPSCoR planning committee as PI on a planning grant to go
the the NSF Office of Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
(EPSCoR).
The mission of EPSCoR is "to strengthen research and education in science and engineering throughout the United States and to avoid undue concentration of such research and education."
Missouri is eligible this year, for the first time in its history, for EPSCoR support: the state’s cumulative three-year average NSF support dipped below 0.75% of total NSF funding.
The EPSCoR grant could provide 20 M over 5 years for STATE infrastructure. Advantage for MU, including Biochemistry, could be new positions, improved core facilities, bioinformatics infrastructure and individual investigators having a “cost-sharing” leverage on NSF, DOE and USDA individual grant proposals that fall just below the funding line.