NSF Merit Review Criteria

Criterion 1: What is the intellectual merit of the proposed activity?

• advances knowledge
• well qualified proposer
• creative and original concepts
• well conceived and organized
• access to resources

Criterion 2: What are the broader impacts of the proposed activity?

• advance discovery...while promoting teaching, training, and learning
• broaden participation of underrepresented groups (gender, ethnicity, disability, geographic, etc.)
• enhance infrastructure for research and education
• broad dissemination
• societal benefits

Slide Background: An abstract graphic collage with a grid in the background. Images include on the right side an artistic perspective of the left side of a face with glowing eyes, nose and mouth. Other images include graphs, numbers and equations.

Credit: Design by S. Raimo, National Science Foundation