CUR PEER REVIEWERS REGISTRY

The Council on Undergraduate Research Peer Reviewers Registry provides federal and private agencies in the sciences with the names of individuals qualified to serve as reviewers of grant proposals, members of advisory panels dealing with issues of science and education, and sources for science and education reporters.

This project was initiated at the urging of several program officers at the National Science Foundation.  NSF and other agencies that use peer review are always looking for high quality reviewers from all types of academic institutions throughout the country.  We provide access to our database electronically to bona fide representatives of publicly recognized agencies.  CUR does not evaluate the individual listings, but solicits listings from our members whom we know to be interested in quality education and research at primarily undergraduate institutions.  At the present time, the Registry is limited to individuals with backgrounds in the scientific fields covered by NSF and NIH.  All submissions to the Registry must be done online, via our website at http://www.cur.org/peer/peerregistry.asp

This project is a great addition to CUR’s services, but only with your help and participation.  We encourage you to fill out a registration form so that you will be part of the Registry.  We also ask you to nominate other individuals whom you feel would be particularly strong reviewers, panel members, or sources for journalists.  Those who are nominated via our registry form on the CUR website will be contacted by CUR and asked to complete a registration form.  I’m sure you realize that participation in the registry is a way to increase your service to science and your school, and to achieve recognition both on and off campus.

Federal and private agency representatives and journalists are interested in individuals not only with research qualifications, but also with backgrounds in academic leadership and administration.  We encourage our At-Large members to participate in the Registry.

Those who participate in the Registry now will remain on file through June 2002.  At that time, we will email everyone in the database and ask each person to update his or her listing.  Those who do not respond will be deleted.  We are hopeful that most individuals will have a CV available electronically via a link to a personal or campus website.  There is a place on our Registry registration form to include a URL to link to the CV.  It is not possible for CUR to maintain your CV information on our computer because of the difficulty of keeping it up to date.  We suggest that you maintain your CV in the form of a PDF file that is updated at least annually, with a date shown on the document.

You may suggest to us the names of agencies that may wish to make use of our Registry by emailing us at cur@cur.org.  We hope that you will provide feedback to us on this project.

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