Notification of intent to apply: To apply to a limited submission program, contact Research and Graduate Studies directly by email to carol_ashcraft@ncsu.edu, with a copy to your associate dean for research. Also notify your department head or associate dean for research of your intent to participate, or, for award programs, of your interest in being considered for nomination.

Coordination within your college: Check to confirm any college deadlines. Some colleges set their own review deadlines for review of internal preproposals prior to submisssion for institutional internal review.

Preparing the internal preproposal: Check the internal specifications for a specific limited submission program by going to Limited Submission Programs and clicking on the title of the program that interests you.

Note about PINS: Processing of internal preproposals through PINS is not required.

Submitting the internal preproposal for review: Preproposals must be received by or before the internal preproposal deadline. Late preproposals will be refused, as will incomplete or noncompliant preproposals.

The standard review process: In most cases, copies of the internal preproposals are submitted electronically to the internal reviewers, who then rank the preproposals according to the review criteria for a specific program. The reviewers email or fax their evaluations, generally within five working days, but reviews with large numbers of preproposals may require more than a week before the results are announced.

Notification of results: Once the review panel's recommendations are reported, the results are provided to the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies for consideration. When the response is received, the selected team(s) or individual(s) is identified and the results announced to all those who submitted preproposals. After everyone has been informed of the review results, the selected teams are identified on the same webpage where the internal review requirements were posted.

Feedback: After the review results have been announced, reviewers' anonymous evaluations and remarks will be provided to all the PIs who participated in the internal competitive review.