Grant writing and Faculty development opportunities
External speakers and external workshops
Fall 2012 Webinar series
Spring 2013 Webinar/Seminar series
On-line workshops
Grant writing/reading groups
External Speakers and External Workshops
Dr. Luis Vega will be giving a workshop on
9/28/2012, 12-1:30 PM, WHTC 226
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Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) works in conjunction with National Science Foundation (NSF) to set up workshops for professors from Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI). Once your registration is accepted, QEM will set up and pay for all the workshop expenses except meals. For more information on upcoming workshops, go to the QEM calendar
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All seminars will be held from 12-1:30 PM in Cowart Hall 118 (unless noted otherwise below)
RSVP to grants@tamiu.edu
Open to all faculty, staff and students. Seating is limited, with preference given to faculty.
- TAMIU intramural grants programs (9/4 & 9/5) - ROOM CHANGE to WHTC 125
- NIH Institutional Support: Use Your Environmental Section to Convince Reviewers (9/18 & 9/19)
- Export Control or DON'T GET YOUR COMPUTER CONFISCATED!!! (10/9 & 10/10)
- How to Promote and Sustain Your Research Using the Elevator Speech (10/23 & 10/24)
- Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15) Grants (11/6 & 11/7)
Spring 2013 Webinar/Seminar Series
(dates and location to be announced in January)
- Writing Excellent Grant Proposals
- The Quest for Foundation and Private Funding
- Writing grant proposals to entrall reviewers, not repel them
- Grant Budget Development
- EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) at NSF
- Does your human subject research project require IRB approval or not?
ORSP Webinar/Seminar Library
If you can't wait and have a burning desire to attend one of these seminar series offerings from our library (see list below) or one of the offerings listed above before it's scheduled presentation date, please contact grants@tamiu.edu to make arrangements for a screening. Not seeing what you are looking for, let us know what you'd like to learn more about!!! Webinars in our library that are on CD may be "checked out"by faculty and listened to in your office. Students may make arrangements to listen to them at our office.
1. NSF/NIH RCR Training Requirements
2. Revising and Resubmitting Rejected NIH Proposals:What You Should Know Before You Try Again
3. Grant Budget Development
4. Demystifying U.S. Department of Education Funding
5. Can we talk? Contacting Grant Program Officers
6. NSF Criteria: Successfully Communicating Broader Impacts
7. Writing Excellent Grant Proposals
8. Data Management Plans for Successful NIH and NSF Grants
9. The Do's and Don'ts of Cost Sharing
10. Mining for Gold: Acquire and Retain Foundation Funding
11. Successfully Tapping Unusual Sources of Research Funding
12. How to Expand Your Research Funding Niche in a Tough Economy
On-line recorded grant writing workshops
NIH Funding Opportunities,
Peer Review and Grant Writing Workshop
Presented Anthony
Coelho, sponsored by Stanford University
Module 1: Scientific Peer Review - An overview of how scientific peer review is carried out at NIH that focuses on how understanding the peer review process can enhance an applicant’s chances of obtaining funding.
Module 2: Grant Writing for Success - Provides an overview of factors that contribute to applications that succeed in obtaining research funding. This presentation covers the fundamental principles of successful grant writing, including: the most common reasons that grant applications fail, how to make an application "reviewer friendly", how to meet the needs of the reviewers and the funding agency.
Module 3: Mock Study Section at NIH - A mock study section meeting that provides an inside look at how NIH grant applications are reviewed for scientific and technical merit. To view this video, please follow the setup and play instructions on the NIH site.