A Note from the NSF Chemistry Division
Director to Prospective Reviewers
I would like to welcome you to this site and thank you for your interest
in reviewing proposals for the Division of Chemistry. The success of the
peer review process depends on the willingness of qualified reviewers
to share their time and expertise generously. Peer review enables us to
make wise investments in basic research and education in the chemical
sciences with broad input from the chemistry community. To implement peer
review, our division depends upon our reviewer community for approximately
10,000 reviews per year. We solicit these reviews from respected scientists
from around the world. Their research experience and up-to-date knowledge
enable them to provide helpful advice to our program officers on the merits
of proposals and constructive comments to proposers that strengthen their
projects. In addition to being asked to submit electronic mail reviews,
we occasionally ask reviewers to serve on panels and to participate in
workshops on emerging research and education themes. The National Science
Foundation provides support for travel and lodging associated with such
activities.
If you have received proposals to review in the past, you need not fill
out this form. It is important for you to know that the National Science
Foundation reserves the right to choose reviewers. While we are unable
to assure you that you will be asked to review proposals, we do attempt
to call upon as many qualified reviewers as possible, and we try to limit
the number of requests that we make to any single individual, recognizing
the many demands our reviewers have on their time.
Please invite your colleagues to consider reviewing. We welcome qualified
reviewers from academic, industrial, and government employment and from
other countries.
On behalf of my colleagues in the Division of Chemistry at the National
Science Foundation, I thank you for your help.
Arthur B. Ellis
Director, Division of Chemistry, National Science Foundation
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