CAREER Academy
NSF’s prestigious NSF CAREER awards position assistant professors to succeed as researchers and educators.
Past Events
Grant Proposal Budgeting Basics
Preparing the budget for a grant proposal can be a challenging task, but it doesn’t have to be! This workshop provides helpful advice for preparing budgets and budget justifications during proposal development.
Write Winning Grant Proposals
This widely acclaimed seminar comprehensively addresses both practical and conceptual aspects that are important to the proposal-writing process. It emphasizes idea development, identification of the most appropriate granting agency, writing for reviewers, and tips and strategies that are of proven value in presenting an applicant’s case to reviewers.
Finding Funding to Support Your Research
Given the multitude of funding agencies and variety of proposal solicitations available to fund research, finding the right fit for your research can be a challenge. This workshop will provide advice and insight on navigating the research funding landscape so that you might find the best opportunities for funding your research.
CAREER Academy Info Session
NSF’s prestigious NSF CAREER awards help set up assistant professors’ careers as researchers and educators. Jane Jacobi will provide an overview of the NSF CAREER program and of the ORD CAREER Academy, held every year from January through July. This workshop will be useful for assistant professors who are thinking about submitting CAREER proposals.
How to Thrive and Survive Once You Receive Grant Funding: Best Practices in Post-Award Management
You’ve successfully submitted a grant proposal and have been awarded funding . . . now what? The post-award management team will provide an overview of the post-award management process, including advice for anticipating post-award issues at the pre-award stage and managing funds once they’ve been awarded.
Funding Opportunities through the Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) Program at the NSF presented by an NSF program officer
The goal of this virtual presentation is to introduce the audience to the Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) Program at the National Science Foundation. Research projects funded by the ER2 Program use fundamental research to produce knowledge about what constitutes or promotes responsible or irresponsible conduct of research and why, as well as how to best instill responsible conduct of research into researchers, practitioners, and educators at all career stages. The presentation will include a brief history of the ER2 program, and a brief description of the types of proposals that are supported by the program and the merit review process. A portion of the time will be set aside to address questions from the audience.
R-Initiatives Overview and Tips for Successful Proposals
R-Initiative funding opportunities provide money to support faculty members’ collaborative scholarship and research. This workshop offers an overview of each opportunity and details the application process, guidelines, and goals, as well as tips and tricks for successful proposals.
Using Faculty Insight to Boost Your Research
Faculty Insight is a tool that faculty can use to find funding opportunities and collaborators as well as visualizing collaboration networks. This hands-on workshop with staff from Academic Analytics/Faculty Insight will guide you through the parts of Faculty Insight that faculty can use to enhance their research, find collaborators, identify funding opportunities, and make their research more visible. More information.
Boosting Broader Impacts
Several federal agencies require PIs to describe the potential of the research project to benefit society. Communicating these “broader impacts” of proposed activities is critical to the competitiveness of your proposal. This workshop presents strategies for presenting broader impacts and identifies resources to help implement activities with the potential to contribute to the greater social good.
Oil and Water - Working with Industry
Regardless of your status within a university research enterprise, it is probable that at some point you will collaborate with an industry partner. While both sides value research and the outcomes of research, there are key differences and approaches that should be understood prior to research engagement. This workshop provides an understanding of the different types of research collaborations between academia and industry, key issues to consider when engaging, points to consider from both the academic and industry perspectives, and areas of mutual understanding that are critical to success.
Selling Your Science
This workshop focuses on proven strategies for engaging readers and reviewers in your science. “Selling” your science to the reader involves telling a story. Utilizing the story behind your research is a powerful persuasive tool for capturing your audience’s attention. If you struggle with how to help readers see the critical importance of your science, introductions, spinning a “thread” that ties proposal components together, or giving your readers a sense of closure, this workshop is for you.
NSF CAREER Program and the ORD CAREER Academy
NSF’s prestigious NSF CAREER awards help set up assistant professors’ careers as researchers and educators. Jane Jacobi will provide an overview of the NSF CAREER program and of the ORD CAREER Academy, held every year from January through July. This workshop will be useful for assistant professors who are thinking about submitting CAREER proposals in 2023.
Applications of Team Science
Team Science is an approach to addressing the challenges of research teams. Dr. Marissa Shuffler Porter and Dr. Allison Traylor, a leading duo in the Team Science field at Clemson, will share hands-on approaches to managing and advancing research through collaborative, innovative work.
Developing Strong Proposals to Fund Your Research
Approaching the proposal writing process can be an overwhelming experience. Expert consultant Lucy Deckard will preview the basics of proposal writing for those interested in pursuing external funding for their research, with discussions on the various components involved in developing strong grant proposals.
Limited Submissions & R-Initiatives
Limited Submissions and R-Initiative programs are specialized funding opportunities administered by the Office of Research Development to advance faculty in collaborative scholarship and research. This workshop offers an overview of each program and details its application process, guidelines, and goals.
Successful Grant Seeking: Writing to the reviewer
Successful Grant Seeking: Forming productive research teams
Successful Grant Seeking: Crafting an Overview page with Goals, Objectives, and Specific Aims
Successful Grant Seeking: Demystifying the NIH and NSF agency structure and review process
SciENcv
Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae, or SciENcv, is an electronic system that helps researchers assemble the professional information needed for participation in federally funded research. Researchers can use SciENcv to create and maintain NSF, NIH and IES biosketches and current and pending support documents that are submitted with grant applications and annual reports. ORD staff will discuss and demonstrate the functionality of SciENcv during this workshop.
Proposal Budget Basics
Building budgets for grant proposals can be confusing. With this workshop, you’ll learn about the main parts of a grant proposal budget. In addition, you can hear Dr. Lesly Temesvari, Diana Thrasher, and Dr. John Lopes discuss the perspectives of a PI, a Grants Administrator, and a Reviewer, respectively, on grant proposal budgets.
SCRA Webinar: OPEN21 New Funding Opportunities with ARPA-E
The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) of the U.S. Department of Energy recently issued an open topic funding opportunity announcement for 2021 (OPEN21) at $100M of new support. ARPA-E supports transformational research and development across areas impacting energy and the environment. ARPA-E issues an open topic funding opportunity once every three years in order to identify and support innovative concepts not otherwise supported in topically directed funding solicitations. As a result, OPEN21 is an opportunity for new research and development support of technology ideas and concepts with high potential for impact in energy and the environment.
This seminar will focus on best practices and successful approaches for proposing ideas to ARPA-E. This begins with understanding the role of ARPA-E in the context of the broader R&D portfolio of science and applied energy programs. It will provide an overview of successful approaches in prior open solicitations in 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018, as well as an examination of current impact priorities at DOE and ARPA-E. As a funding agency, ARPA-E supports work at universities, national laboratories, small-businesses, large businesses and not-for-profit research organizations. The impact of prior ARPA-E technology focused R&D projects have included the formation of entirely new products and markets for existing companies as well as the formation of new companies that have stimulated $10’s of billions of new funding from private sources and public markets. This seminar will be open to interested people from all sectors, with a special emphasis on attracting potential applicants who had not previously been supported by ARPA-E or the Department of Energy. The meeting will consist of an open presentation and public discussion, followed by the opportunity for individual follow-up discussion.
The seminar will be led by Prof. Mark Johnson of Clemson University. From 2009-2013, Prof. Johnson was one of the first six program directors that established ARPA-E as a new funding agency. From 2013-2017, he was the director of advanced manufacturing in the Department of Energy, where he spearheaded the establishment of the lab-embedded entrepreneurship program (ex. Cyclotron Road) as the premier entrepreneurial accelerator in energy and sustainability challenges. With a career in government, academics and the private-sector, he has a wealth of experience advising and working with innovators from laboratory teams, to start firms, to large companies.
Using Logic Models for Proposal Development
Many federal agencies, including USDA, NSF, and USAID, are now requiring that proposals include logic models, but logic models are useful tools for PIs planning to submit proposals to any funder. This workshop, co-sponsored by ORD and CAFLS, will help you construct a useful logic model to guide your proposal development and project design efforts.
Handling Rejection: Turning Reviewer Feedback into A Successful Resubmission
A multi-disciplinary faculty panel discusses how to turn reviewer feedback from a rejected proposal into a successful proposal resubmission. Moderated by Dr. Shelia Cotten.
Finding Funding: Resources and advice on seeking funding from external sponsors
Join us on October 15th at 2pm to learn about resources available to you to find external funding for your research and service activities. A panel of speakers will also discuss their insight into seeking funding from particular sponsors including NSF, NIH, and foundations.
