From lmason at osrhe.edu Thu Mar 1 09:21:41 2012 From: lmason at osrhe.edu (Mason, Linda) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:21:41 -0600 Subject: [Okgrantsmanship] March is Women's History Month! In-Reply-To: <1109414501590.1103690441328.757.12.44090046@scheduler> References: <1109414501590.1103690441328.757.12.44090046@scheduler> Message-ID: <8775EA78FE232744BC67431D563D6B4A2FBE2B@postman1.osrhe.edu> Please share with appropriate people who may be interested. Linda Mason, Ed.D. Coordinator of Grant Writing Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 405-225-9486 desk 405-706-8757 cell 405-225-9230 FAX lmason at osrhe.edu www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/ From: Women's Leadership Initiative [mailto:slovelady at ou.edu] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 8:03 AM To: Mason, Linda Subject: March is Women's History Month! Having trouble viewing this email? Click here You're receiving this email because of your relationship with Women's Leadership Initiative. Please confirm your continued interest in receiving email from us. You may unsubscribe if you no longer wish to receive our emails. March 1, 2012 WLI Logo Women's History Month Our Mission The Women's Leadership Initiative at the Carl Albert Center seeks to address the historic under-representation of women in politics, public service, and other leadership roles. Our mission is to educate, inspire and empower women to become political leaders. Quick Links Visit Our Website Contribute Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Contact Us Women's Leadership Initiative University of Oklahoma 630 Parrington Oval Room 101 Norman, OK 73019 Phone: 405-325-4934 Fax: 405-325-6419 Dear Linda, March is Women's History Month and what better way to celebrate than to learn about some inspirational Oklahoma women! Throughout the month we will be highlighting some of them and their stories. We begin with Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher in celebration of this year marking the 60th anniversary of her graduation from Oklahoma's College of Law. Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher Ada Fisher Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher applied for admission to the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1946. After being rejected for admittance on the basis of race, Fisher agreed to be the subject of a lawsuit that eventually was settled by the U.S. Supreme Court. Three years later, Fisher became the first black student admitted to the University of Oklahoma College of Law. This landmark case paved the way for Brown v Board of Education. Her courage has inspired women of all races and backgrounds to pursue their dreams. In 1952, she graduated from the College of Law, and in 1992, Gov. David Walters appointed her to serve on the Board of Regents for the University of Oklahoma, a true full circle moment. Coming Events March 1st at 7:30am Tulsa Women: Telling our Story WLI Director Sheryl Lovelady, Sharon King Davis, Mary Beth Babcock, and Suzanne Wallis speaking on Oklahoma women. Tulsa Garden Center Click here for more information. March 6th at 6:30pm Politics and Pizza Topic: Super Tuesday Watch Party Co-sponsored by the Carl Albert Center, Political Science Club, and Cate Center. March 8th at 7pm Fighting for Fairness A free public discussion with Lily Ledbetter, inspiration for the 2009 Fair Pay Act. Sponsored by the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences and the Women's and Gender Studies Program. Click here for more information. March 13th Screening of Miss Representation Reception at 5:30pm, screening at 6:00pm, followed by a short discussion. University of Oklahoma, Gaylord Hall April 3rd at 6:30pm Politics and Pizza Topic: TBA April 13th at 2:30pm Informational Panel on Landing Jobs in Politics Topic: "Pursuing Careers in Politics: Reflections from Up-and-Comers Involved in the Process." April 19th at 7pm National Issues Forum Topic: "Preparing Today's Kids for Tomorrow's Jobs: What Should Our Community Do?" May 18-22nd N.E.W. Leadership University of Oklahoma, Norman Campus Click here for more information. May 21st at 5:30pm Annual N.E.W Leadership Reception in Oklahoma City. Come meet Class XI, alumnae and elected officials. Location TBA, email Sheryl Lovelady for more information. Ways to honor the women in your life: 1. Help Oklahoma women by donating today - any level of contribution helps. 2. Make attending the 2012 N.E.W. Leadership Institute possible for an Oklahoma undergraduate by sponsoring the cost of a $2,500 scholarship. 3. 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URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okgrantsmanship/attachments/20120301/8b7d5691/attachment-0001.html From lmason at osrhe.edu Thu Mar 1 10:00:44 2012 From: lmason at osrhe.edu (Mason, Linda) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 10:00:44 -0600 Subject: [Okgrantsmanship] University of Central Arkansas Research Experience for Undergraduates in Health Information Technology Message-ID: <8775EA78FE232744BC67431D563D6B4A2FBE33@postman1.osrhe.edu> Forwarding on behalf of Vamsi Paruchuri (vparuchuri at uca.edu) and Yu Sun (yusun at uca.edu) of U Central Arkansas. Please reply directly to them. ================================================================== SUMMARY: REU: HIT @ UCA Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) in Applied Research in Health Information Technology University of Central Arkansas, Department of Computer Science Applications due Saturday March 24 2012 http://sun0.cs.uca.edu/reu/ DETAILS: This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) project is a nine week program where students work collaboratively on a wide variety of computational science projects. Ten undergraduate students will be selected to participate in this program, to conduct research with active and experienced research faculty. The students will have the opportunity to interact with computer scientists, medical physicists, and industry personnel. The students will be able to work alongside faculty and graduate students on cutting edge research in Computational Sciences related to HIT. Benefits and Highlights The technology and research skills learned will have general applicability to research and practice in their future studies. We provide a close collaboration with our industry partners. In addition to work on assigned research projects, special field trips to major local companies and universities will be arranged to help the students better understand real-life applications. * Nine-week high-quality applied research program * Intern with active and experienced research faculty * Graduate School and career orientation sessions throughout the program * Students will get trained to do both individual and collaborative research * Students learn to write quality research papers and present research work The project provides undergraduate students with competitive research experience to tackle a variety of significant HIT problems, in the following areas: * Image Processing * Data Mining * Health Informatics * Mobile Device Programming * Software Engineering * Security and Privacy Important Dates * Application Deadline: Saturday March 24, 2012 * Notification of Decision: Friday April 6,2012 * Intention for Participation Due: Wednesday April 11,2012 * Program Dates (9 weeks): May 20 - July 21 2012 Benefits * $4,500 stipend * About $2,000 food/travel allowances * Hands-on research experience * Graduate school preparation * Visits to state-of-the-art facilities labs * Excursions and weekend outings Qualifications * US citizen or permanent resident * Sophomore or above in CS or related field * GPA 2.7 or above * Programming knowledge in Java or C++ * Special welcome to applicants from underrepresented student groups Contact reu at uca.edu http://sun0.cs.uca.edu/reu/ For questions or concerns regarding tbese requirements, kindly contact: Vamsi Paruchuri (vparuchuri at uca.edu, 501-852-8537) Yu Sun (yusun at uca.edu, 501-450-3401) From lmason at osrhe.edu Thu Mar 1 15:10:10 2012 From: lmason at osrhe.edu (Mason, Linda) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 15:10:10 -0600 Subject: [Okgrantsmanship] Job Announcement - Rose State College Proposal Development Specialist Message-ID: <8775EA78FE232744BC67431D563D6B4A2FBE47@postman1.osrhe.edu> Rose State College has an opening for a Proposal Development Specialist. 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Has NSF determined for which grants it will request OMB waivers and what can I do to be considered for a waiver? If your grant currently expires after September 30, 2013, you must contact your cognizant NSF Program Officer in writing (and copy your organization's sponsored projects office) by March 2, 2012, with either a plan to accelerate completion of your project or to request that a waiver be sought for you to complete the project as originally planned (except for CAREER awards see FAQ #9). Cooperative Agreement PIs have until March 9, 2012 to provide the same information to their program officer. Your program officer will only recommend waivers in accordance with the four OMB-identified criteria above. NSF will then determine which ARRA awards to include in our agency waiver request package to be submitted to OMB in June 2012. At this time, there is no information available on when responses to agency waiver requests will be available. If a waiver request is not submitted to OMB for your award (or if OMB denies the request for a waiver), NSF will amend your award to modify the expiration so that your project cannot continue past September 30, 2013. NSF is maintaining close contact with all institutions and principal investigators with ARRA funding and will be keeping the research community apprised of the Foundation's response to implementation of OMB's directive to accelerate expenditures for its awards. Concerning CAREER Awards 9. I am a PI for a CAREER award and have heard that these might be treated differently. What should I do? NSF is encouraging responsible acceleration of funds for all ARRA awards, including CAREER awards. Recognizing that the entire portfolio of ARRA-funded CAREER awards were issued as five-year awards, which do not expire until 2014, NSF is working to develop a strategy for a programmatic waiver request to cover all CAREER PIs. Therefore, if you are the PI for a CAREER award, you do not need to contact your NSF Program Officer regarding submission of a waiver at this time. However, you are reminded that there is no guarantee that OMB will approve a waiver request. Carol J. Blum Director, Research Compliance and Administration Council on Governmental Relations 1200 New York Ave., NW, Suite 750 Washington DC 20005 202.289.6655, ext. 117/202.289.6698/fax cblum at cogr.edu website: www.cogr.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Working with XSEDE researchers and staff, students will make meaningful contributions to research, development and systems projects that benefit the national scientific and computational community. In exchange, students will be provided with travel support for project orientation and to attend the XSEDE'12 conference in Chicago, IL in July, and a small stipend. Projects for 2012 address a wide variety of computational needs. Most of the projects allow students to work remotely (from their home or home institution), although some require the student to be onsite at their supervisor's institution. All projects will have well-defined work plans, established collaboratively at the orientation meeting. Students are also expected to participate in surveys and other evaluation activities, to help XSEDE track the effectiveness and impact of the program. Available projects are listed at https://www.xsede.org/student-engagement-projects To apply, complete the form online at https://www.xsede.org/student-intern-form and email your current resume and current academic transcripts to: outreach-stueng at xsede.org Your application will not be considered until all material has been received. IMPORTANT DATES: Application Deadline: April 2, 2012 Interviews: April 9-16 (via conference calls) Student Notification: April 23 Orientation: May 29-June 1 -- location(s) to be determined XSEDE'12: July 16-20 (Chicago, IL) Questions can be send to: outreach-stueng at xsede.org Thanks! LM -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Laura F. McGinnis, Manager Education, Outreach and Training email: lfm at psc.edu Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center voice: 412-268-5642 300 South Craig St, #313 fax: 412-268-5832 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 "I'm going to open doors for you; doors you never even DREAMED existed." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From lmason at osrhe.edu Mon Mar 26 09:05:49 2012 From: lmason at osrhe.edu (Mason, Linda) Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:05:49 -0500 Subject: [Okgrantsmanship] COS - COMMUNITY OF SCIENCE GRANT OPPORTUNITY SEARCHING DATA BASE Message-ID: <8775EA78FE232744BC67431D563D6B4A2FC018@postman1.osrhe.edu> I am in discussion with COS for a bid for the whole state to have access to the grant search data base and Scholars Universe, an expert list of all the faculty/researchers who subscribe to COS. Please tell me what you pay for COS (or paid before you recently dropped it) and what the value might be to you-what amount you are willing to pay for the search engine. The company has given me a bid of $10,000 each for the regional universities if ALL subscribe. This is contingent upon OSU and OU participating, and they are not very interested at the bid that was quoted for them, $35,000 each. But, your information will be helpful in this discussion. Linda Mason, Ed.D. Coordinator of Grant Writing Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 405-225-9486 desk 405-706-8757 cell 405-225-9230 FAX lmason at osrhe.edu www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Registration: $50 faculty and students, $75 administrators (checks and POs, no credit cards) To register, send your contact information and method of payment to lmason at osrhe.edu. PROMOTING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE April 13, 2012, 8:30 am to 3:00 pm Professional Training Center Rose State College Midwest City Theme-Retention Solutions with Budget Constraints Program 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:00 Welcome - Dr. Linda Mason 9:15-9:45 Keynote: Retention in Undergraduate Research OSU Dr. Bob Spurrier, Director of the Honors College and Professor of Political Science 9:45-10:00 Break - visit posters and network Posters: Dr. Marty Ludlum, Study-Research Tour of London & Dublin, UCO Dr. Mark Paulissen, Dr. Joan Williams, Dr. Vanessa Anton, and Dr. Amy Aldridge Sanford - Northeastern State University's Undergraduate Research Day Student Posters 10:00-10:50 Student Researchers Panel - Results of Participating in Research Cortney Cowley, OSU PhD Candidate; Scott Logan OSU Sophomore; Amanda Mathias, OSU Sophomore; Jesi Lay, OSU Graduate Student; Katlynn Weathers, OSU Graduate Student; Tyler Peck, OSU Graduate Student 11:00-11:50 Concurrent Sessions Dr. Amanda Evert, VP for Undergraduate Research and Resource Development, Redlands Community College "No Budget, No Time, No Motivation....NO PROBLEM!" Moderator: Nancy Thomason Dr. Ali Boolani, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Exercise Studies, Oklahoma City University "Increasing Student Research Through Involvements in In-Class Projects" Moderator: Kathi Schoonover Dr. Rich Hamerla, Honors College, University of Oklahoma "First Year Research Experience (FYRE)" Moderator: Susan Foster Dr. Rahmona Thompson, Biology, East Central University Dr. E. Andrei Ghenciu, Math and Computer Sciences, ECU "Integrating Math and Science Using Mathematica(tm)" Moderator: Dr. Tony Wohlers Dr. Tracy Morris, Dr. Cynthia Murray, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Central Oklahoma "Project SCHOLAR: An Undergraduate Research Model Involving Service Learning" Moderator: Beth Shumate 12:00-1:00 Lunch Provided 12:15 Spotlight Program Recognition - Chancellor Glen D. Johnson, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 12:45 RCR Training - Dr. Linda Mason, OSRHE; Nancy Thomason, ECU; Dr. Lori Gwyn, SWOSU 1:00-1:50 Concurrent Sessions Tim O'Neil, Freshman Research Scholars, Director, Oklahoma State University "The Oklahoma State University Undergraduate Research Network: A Case Study in Developing Web Resources to Facilitate Undergraduate Research" Moderator: Dr. Amanda Evert Dr. Daphne LaDue, Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, University of Oklahoma "NSF-Funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates: Several Goals" Moderator: Dr. Gregory Wilson Michael Heppler, Assistant Director of Student Academic Services, Graduate College, Oklahoma State University "NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Application Process" Moderator: Dr. Tony Wohlers Dr. Marc Klippenstine, Dr. Joanna Harris-Young, Psychology, East Central University "Creating an Environment of Psychological Research: Mentoring Student Research from Concept to Presentation on a Budget" Moderator: Kathi Schoonover Dr. Rick Matzen, Professor, Dr. Rad Alrifai, Computer Science, Northeastern State University "Defining Undergraduate Research: A Computer Science Perspective" Moderator: Susan Foster 1:50-2:00 Break - visit posters and network 2:00-2:30 Administrator Panel - Transcripting Undergraduate Research Dr. Dex Marble, Vice President for Academic Affairs, USAO; Dr. Amanda Evert, Vice President for Undergraduate Research and Resource Development; Dr. Melanie Page, OSU Professor of Psychology and Director of Institute for Creativity and Innovation; Pamela Armstrong, ECU Director of Admission and Records and Registrar Moderator: Dr. Linda Mason 2:15-3:15 Faculty Panel - Benefits and Challenges Dr. Ann Nalley, Cameron University; Dr. Darlinda Cassel, UCO; Dr. Virginia Whitekiller, NSU Moderator: Dr. Tony Wohlers, Cameron University 3:15-3:30 Evaluation, Comments and Adjourn Linda Mason, Ed.D. Coordinator of Grant Writing Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 405-225-9486 desk 405-706-8757 cell 405-225-9230 FAX lmason at osrhe.edu www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okgrantsmanship/attachments/20120326/cf828fe0/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PROGRAM - PROMOTING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE.doc Type: application/msword Size: 42496 bytes Desc: PROGRAM - PROMOTING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE.doc Url : http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okgrantsmanship/attachments/20120326/cf828fe0/attachment-0001.doc From lmason at osrhe.edu Fri Mar 30 10:08:38 2012 From: lmason at osrhe.edu (Mason, Linda) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:08:38 -0500 Subject: [Okgrantsmanship] What do you think? Please respond Message-ID: <8775EA78FE232744BC67431D563D6B4A2FC09F@postman1.osrhe.edu> Grant Proposal Library I have wanted to host a library of successful proposals for writers to access. Here is a stream of conversations from Offices of Sponsored Programs and Research Development across the country about accomplishing a library collection of proposals. What do you think? Can we do such a thing? It would not be accessible to the public, just to the faculty who want models for their own writing. Linda Mason, Ed.D. Coordinator of Grant Writing Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 405-225-9486 desk 405-706-8757 cell 405-225-9230 FAX lmason at osrhe.edu www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/ Case Western Reserve University I'm looking for a little information on proposal sharing within an institution. I've been trying to encourage faculty that sharing funded proposals would float all boats, as it would improve skills across the board/help the university as a whole. I've run into some challenges and some encouragement -- while proposal sharing wasn't even heard of years ago, some faculty here see it happening more and more, albeit still as one-offs. We've actually thought about creating a central proposal archive. Here, any faculty member could check in and find funded examples from the past. My question to you: does anyone know of examples of this, which I could share as encouragement? Or perhaps literature of this as a best practice/rough numbers on how many research institutions do the same? Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Here at MSKCC we have a Successful Grant Library on our internal Grants & Contracts website. It actually came as a request from our senior leadership. The library is still expanding, but we have at least one example of almost every NIH mechanism and ASCO CDAs and YIAs. We also offer renewal and resubmission applications. We are selective in which investigators we ask to share their proposals so our track record of getting a positive response is pretty high. Like others we redact all names, and budget information. It has been very well received but definitely took some work to get the project off the ground. Northwestern University - Chicago Let's face it, investigators are working in one of the most competitive research environments ever and their IP, which most certainly includes funded and unfunded proposals, is their currency-and the very thing that gets them essential research funding, salary increases, recognized, and promoted/tenured. That said, in my experience, investigators are incredibly collegial and willing to share. But the reasons are not all altruistic, investigators often look for new opportunities when they agree to share their IP, thus my approach has been one of active broker toward relationship building. When Investigator A wants a proposal from Investigator B, I will make a blind request. That is, I ask Investigator B if s/he will share with Investigator A. This way, B doesn't need to worrying about asking for something from someone s/he has never met before and/or personal rejection, and A can consider saying "no" without worry about losing face. I'm very specific about which part(s) of the proposal and reviews I'd like to share, and I always promise not to share individual salary info from the budgets (offering to modify budget sections if necessary so that sharing can be possible). 100% of the time (many requests over many years), B has said "yes" to sharing with A-and 100% of the time A thanks B directly (I know because I harangue A until s/he sends a thank you note or tells me s/he has made a call). It's the latter personal communication that makes it all work great. Investigator A feels a sense of appreciation for a colleague's willingness to share, and Investigator B knows s/he is being recognized for both her/his IP and collegiality. I also ask A to commit to sharing her/his proposals in the future, and have often seen the commitment fulfilled. Not only that, but a few times an additional aspect of the relationship forms between investigators-occasionally A & B have started a collaboration, sometimes B has written a letter of support for A, sometimes B offers to review the proposal for A, and sometimes B agrees to serve in a formal/informal adviser for the project/research/grant mechanism. My favorite brokered request to date: one between two investigators who happen to be married! Research development and marriage counseling all rolled up into one!! Tufts University Since we have three campuses and a history of not a tremendous amount of cross-campus collaboration, a lot of times faculty don't know one another particularly well. My office is part of central administration, and we're the one office that is strictly a service for faculty (we don't deal with compliance-related issues at all, except by default as we help faculty follow university and funding agency guidelines as they develop their proposals). Faculty tend to see us as honest brokers because of that, and if we ask investigator B on behalf of investigator A for a sample proposal, then almost always we get a "yes" answer. The other thing we do to make some of the infrastructure/education/diversity/training grants a little less cumbersome is to maintain a searchable wiki of "standard" text that we mine from previous grants we've worked on. It's a clunky solution, but the only people who have access to the text are those of us who work in my office, and so we're able to curate the text and help the faculty member tailor it to their particular proposal. We considered at one point making the text available to all Tufts faculty and staff, but we were worried about the potential for plagiarism (people copying and pasting the same text into multiple proposals) and poor grantsmanship (not altering the text to make sure that it actually supports the goals of the RFA). Purdue We keep a library of sample proposals at Purdue with funded proposals from both Purdue PIs and outside Purdue. Usually it's not as helpful as you might since solicitations change from year to year even in the same program, and unfortunately sometimes proposals are funded in spite of how they are written/organized and not because of it. Inexperienced readers could make wrong assumptions if they are not careful. University of Toledo At the University of Toledo, we are building a public "war chest" of sample proposals. The process was quite simple-I just asked various faculty if they would be willing to allow us to post the abstract and project narrative for successful proposals. Most have agreed. The only ones who have not are concerned about IP and patent information. Our goal is to let more inexperienced faculty see what a successful proposal looks like from the perspective of formatting, language, grammar, etc. Additionally, all NSF awards are public, although it is definitely recommended to approach the PI and get his or her agreement to use them in such a manner. We are also collecting data sharing plans, mentoring plans and other "standard" supplementary documents. Resources "Why Academics Have a Hard Time Writing Good Grant Proposals" published in The Journal of Research Administration Volume XXXVIII, Number 2,2007. Copies of top-ranked, funded proposals are available www.tgcigrantproposals.com: * in multiple-proposal CD sets for $99 * on a custom-made CD : the first proposal of your choice is $29 and each additional proposal is $20 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okgrantsmanship/attachments/20120330/8fc4d583/attachment.html From awohlers at cameron.edu Fri Mar 30 10:44:26 2012 From: awohlers at cameron.edu (Anton Wohlers) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:44:26 +0000 Subject: [Okgrantsmanship] What do you think? Please respond In-Reply-To: <8775EA78FE232744BC67431D563D6B4A2FC09F@postman1.osrhe.edu> References: <8775EA78FE232744BC67431D563D6B4A2FC09F@postman1.osrhe.edu> Message-ID: <04F0701B630EE742A80DC330122AE3E4099EA274@EXDB2.cameron.edu> I think that this is an excellent idea and perhaps the CGR can play a role in facilitating the implementation of it. Tony E. Wohlers Associate Professor, Ph.D. Academic Research Director Associate-Editor, Oklahoma Politics Vice President, Oklahoma Political Science Association Cameron University 2800 W. Gore Blvd. Lawton, Ok 73505 580-581-2496 From: okgrantsmanship-bounces at lists.onenet.net [mailto:okgrantsmanship-bounces at lists.onenet.net] On Behalf Of Mason, Linda Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 10:09 AM To: Oklahoma regional university administrators and faculty aboutgrantsmanship Subject: [Okgrantsmanship] What do you think? Please respond Grant Proposal Library I have wanted to host a library of successful proposals for writers to access. Here is a stream of conversations from Offices of Sponsored Programs and Research Development across the country about accomplishing a library collection of proposals. What do you think? Can we do such a thing? It would not be accessible to the public, just to the faculty who want models for their own writing. Linda Mason, Ed.D. Coordinator of Grant Writing Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 655 Research Parkway, Suite 200 Oklahoma City, OK 73104 405-225-9486 desk 405-706-8757 cell 405-225-9230 FAX lmason at osrhe.edu www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/ Case Western Reserve University I'm looking for a little information on proposal sharing within an institution. I've been trying to encourage faculty that sharing funded proposals would float all boats, as it would improve skills across the board/help the university as a whole. I've run into some challenges and some encouragement -- while proposal sharing wasn't even heard of years ago, some faculty here see it happening more and more, albeit still as one-offs. We've actually thought about creating a central proposal archive. Here, any faculty member could check in and find funded examples from the past. My question to you: does anyone know of examples of this, which I could share as encouragement? Or perhaps literature of this as a best practice/rough numbers on how many research institutions do the same? Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Here at MSKCC we have a Successful Grant Library on our internal Grants & Contracts website. It actually came as a request from our senior leadership. The library is still expanding, but we have at least one example of almost every NIH mechanism and ASCO CDAs and YIAs. We also offer renewal and resubmission applications. We are selective in which investigators we ask to share their proposals so our track record of getting a positive response is pretty high. Like others we redact all names, and budget information. It has been very well received but definitely took some work to get the project off the ground. Northwestern University - Chicago Let's face it, investigators are working in one of the most competitive research environments ever and their IP, which most certainly includes funded and unfunded proposals, is their currency-and the very thing that gets them essential research funding, salary increases, recognized, and promoted/tenured. That said, in my experience, investigators are incredibly collegial and willing to share. But the reasons are not all altruistic, investigators often look for new opportunities when they agree to share their IP, thus my approach has been one of active broker toward relationship building. When Investigator A wants a proposal from Investigator B, I will make a blind request. That is, I ask Investigator B if s/he will share with Investigator A. This way, B doesn't need to worrying about asking for something from someone s/he has never met before and/or personal rejection, and A can consider saying "no" without worry about losing face. I'm very specific about which part(s) of the proposal and reviews I'd like to share, and I always promise not to share individual salary info from the budgets (offering to modify budget sections if necessary so that sharing can be possible). 100% of the time (many requests over many years), B has said "yes" to sharing with A-and 100% of the time A thanks B directly (I know because I harangue A until s/he sends a thank you note or tells me s/he has made a call). It's the latter personal communication that makes it all work great. Investigator A feels a sense of appreciation for a colleague's willingness to share, and Investigator B knows s/he is being recognized for both her/his IP and collegiality. I also ask A to commit to sharing her/his proposals in the future, and have often seen the commitment fulfilled. Not only that, but a few times an additional aspect of the relationship forms between investigators-occasionally A & B have started a collaboration, sometimes B has written a letter of support for A, sometimes B offers to review the proposal for A, and sometimes B agrees to serve in a formal/informal adviser for the project/research/grant mechanism. My favorite brokered request to date: one between two investigators who happen to be married! Research development and marriage counseling all rolled up into one!! Tufts University Since we have three campuses and a history of not a tremendous amount of cross-campus collaboration, a lot of times faculty don't know one another particularly well. My office is part of central administration, and we're the one office that is strictly a service for faculty (we don't deal with compliance-related issues at all, except by default as we help faculty follow university and funding agency guidelines as they develop their proposals). Faculty tend to see us as honest brokers because of that, and if we ask investigator B on behalf of investigator A for a sample proposal, then almost always we get a "yes" answer. The other thing we do to make some of the infrastructure/education/diversity/training grants a little less cumbersome is to maintain a searchable wiki of "standard" text that we mine from previous grants we've worked on. It's a clunky solution, but the only people who have access to the text are those of us who work in my office, and so we're able to curate the text and help the faculty member tailor it to their particular proposal. We considered at one point making the text available to all Tufts faculty and staff, but we were worried about the potential for plagiarism (people copying and pasting the same text into multiple proposals) and poor grantsmanship (not altering the text to make sure that it actually supports the goals of the RFA). Purdue We keep a library of sample proposals at Purdue with funded proposals from both Purdue PIs and outside Purdue. Usually it's not as helpful as you might since solicitations change from year to year even in the same program, and unfortunately sometimes proposals are funded in spite of how they are written/organized and not because of it. Inexperienced readers could make wrong assumptions if they are not careful. University of Toledo At the University of Toledo, we are building a public "war chest" of sample proposals. The process was quite simple-I just asked various faculty if they would be willing to allow us to post the abstract and project narrative for successful proposals. Most have agreed. The only ones who have not are concerned about IP and patent information. Our goal is to let more inexperienced faculty see what a successful proposal looks like from the perspective of formatting, language, grammar, etc. Additionally, all NSF awards are public, although it is definitely recommended to approach the PI and get his or her agreement to use them in such a manner. We are also collecting data sharing plans, mentoring plans and other "standard" supplementary documents. Resources "Why Academics Have a Hard Time Writing Good Grant Proposals" published in The Journal of Research Administration Volume XXXVIII, Number 2,2007. Copies of top-ranked, funded proposals are available www.tgcigrantproposals.com: * in multiple-proposal CD sets for $99 * on a custom-made CD: the first proposal of your choice is $29 and each additional proposal is $20 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.onenet.net/pipermail/okgrantsmanship/attachments/20120330/7f5ade9f/attachment-0001.html