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NIA: Information on Support for Administrative Supplements Providing Summer Research Experiences for Students and Science Educators (Notice: OD-09-060)

NIA has canceled FY 2010 receipt dates for Administrative Supplements to Provide Summer Research Experiences for Students and Science Educators.

This initiative is one of several initiatives in which NIA participated to help fulfill the goals of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to stimulate the economy through support of biomedical and behavioral research. Additional information about the Recovery Act and related NIH opportunities is available through the NIH Office of Extramural Research.

The National Institutes of Health announced (NOT-OD-09-060) the opportunity for investigators and institutions with active NIH Research Project Grants (and some other categories of award) to request administrative supplements for the purpose of promoting job creation, economic development, and accelerating the pace and achievement of scientific research. These supplements encourage students to seriously pursue research careers in the health related sciences, as well as provide elementary, middle school, and high school teachers, community college faculty, and faculty from non-research intensive institutions with short term research experiences in NIH-funded laboratories.

Support for these supplements came from funds provided to NIH through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“Recovery Act” or “ARRA”), Public Law 111-5.

Using a combination of NIA assigned ARRA dollars and NIH OD assigned ARRA dollars NIA was able to award such summer experience supplements for one or two summers to 48 different grants. At the same time the demand for these awards was so high in FY 2009 that NIA now has insufficient ARRA funds to continue the program in FY 2010. Therefore NIA has canceled the ARRA summer education supplement receipt dates for FY 2010.

NIH is considering a standing program for such summer supplements. If such a program is announced it will be advertized in the NIH Guide.