Section I – PROJECT NARRATIVE

On the following (up to) five pages, using the above header and page numbering, provide a narrative description of the project you intend to carry out. It is critical that this portion of the application be written in a manner so that someone outside your field will be able to understand the importance, approach, and follow-on funding plan of the project. TYPE THE NARRATIVE IN A 12-POINT FONT WITH ONE-INCH MARGINS.

Please utilize the following format.

1. Rationale for the Project: Describe Significance and Innovation for an NIH format; Intellectual Merit and Broader Impact for an NSF format.
2. Expertise: Give a brief description of your own work in this area of investigation.
3. Research question/hypothesis: Statement of the problem to be investigated.
4. Approach: Methods of study to be used.
5. Follow-on plan: Describe the expected deliverables of the proposed work, and describe how the proposed work will position the PI effectively for future external support, indicating as specifically as possible the funding opportunity and agency to be pursued and the estimated direct costs.
6. Follow-on funding track record: For each previous intramural grant you have been awarded, indicated the external support that it seeded or why external support was not obtained.
7. Bibliography/literature citations – do not count as part of the page limitation.

Section II – ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION

1. Biographical Sketches: Provide for the PI and co-PIs (limit: five pages for NIH format; two pages for NSF format). Note that the NIH format includes Ongoing and Completed Support as section D.
2. Recent, Current, and Pending Support: Provide for PI and co-PIs, if using the NSF format; provide listing of pending support if using the NIH format.
3. Budget Justifications: Provide a justification for the project costs requested in this application. For each participant, provide start/end dates, total salary amount for key personnel, hourly rates for student wages, and explain the participant’s role in the project and how they are qualified to fulfill their role. Include a brief description for any materials, supplies, or travel requests. Applications requesting summer salary for Principal Investigators must describe what will be worked on during the summer and what it is necessary to meet the goals of the projects.