NDSU department chairs, deans recruiting department chair positions and director of the North Dakota Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (ND EPSCoR)-designated State Research Initiative are invited to submit proposals requesting start-up funds for tenure-track research faculty to be hired during fiscal year 2011.

The major goal of this program is to staff research-intensive universities with new faculty who will be nationally competitive for grants from federal agency research programs in science, engineering and mathematics.

Proposals are due Tuesday, Dec. 1, at noon in the ND EPSCoR office. Interviews with a review committee are planned for Jan. 7. Complete submission information is available at www.ndepscor.nodak.edu/rfps/index.htm.

For more information, contact David Givers at 1-7516 or david.givers@ndsu.edu.