NSF: Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences Grant, due April 26th

National Science Foundation
Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences Grant
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf10531

Eligibiity: Higher Ed Institutions
Due: Full Proposal Deadline(s): April 26, 2010 (check this, there were some inconsistencies in the listing on grants.gov)
Amount: requests may be submitted for funding amounts up to a total of $1,000,000 for up to 5 years

The Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences (URM) program will fund projects that provide year-round support for undergraduate students to engage in exciting and contemporary research activities that are potentially publishable.Research can be in any area of biology supported by the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences or in interdisciplinary areassupported by BIO. Research conducted by URM students should not have medical or veterinary goals and should involve modern biological tools and methods. Students participating in URM projects should experience the excitement of creating new knowledge inthe course of conducting research.

Projects must include a strong mentoring component and emphasize strategies that encourage and enable members of underrepresented groups to enter, and remain in, graduate programs in biology. URM projects must address building the skillsneeded for full participation in graduate research.