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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Dear department chairs and graduate program directors:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Soon, the U.S. Department of Education is expected to release its next GAANN solicitation (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need). Last year it was Dec.
15, with a proposal deadline in January. Every UCR PhD-granting program in an “area of national need” is eligible.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">To prepare campus to respond, VC Pazzani has scheduled a workshop for
<b>3 p.m. December 11 in Science Library 240</b> for <b>PIs and administrators </b>
in departments and programs that envision submitting GAANN proposals this time around. If your program is in Engineering you will have received a similar invitation.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Background: Who is eligible? Every GAANN solicitation includes designated “areas of national need” that change slightly for each competition.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">In 2011 the GAANN solicitation included these areas:
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</span><span style="color:black">Area Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Biological Sciences/Life Sciences <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Chemistry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Computer and Information Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Foreign Languages and Literatures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Mathematics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Nursing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Physics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black">Educational Evaluation, Research, and Statistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Every GAANN to date has included Life Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, Computer Science, Math, and Physics. Other areas, including Earth sciences, sometimes are
included, sometimes not.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">If the rules don’t change, each department or degree program will be eligible to submit one proposal. A department that already has an active GAANN award can submit
a proposal to support graduate students in a different area. For example, EE already has a GAANN award in systems engineering for communications, computing, and controls; so this year it could propose something more on the materials side.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">GAANN proposals include a great deal of pro forma material, including the Evaluation section, letters of support and cost sharing, and budgets, which staff are
preparing to supply each applicant. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The challenge of the GAANN is to maximize points in every section and receive a score as close as possible to 100. Typically, one needs a score of 96 or higher
to be funded. Last year, proposals with higher scores (>97) received more fellowships than those that just made the pay line.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The purpose of the workshop will be to identify what we can do to make our proposals as successful as possible.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">We hope to see you at the GAANN workshop at
<b>3 p.m. December 11 in Science Library 240.</b></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Randy Black, Office of RED Mitch Boretz, Bourns School Mike Mueller, CNAS</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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