2023-2024 Programming
I would like to invite you to join others in the grants community this year as we make progress together toward our individual grant and fellowship goals. I invite you to take advantage of the following opportunities offered throughout the year. Sign up here!
~ Tess Powers, Director of Faculty Research Support
I would like to learn more about any goals you may have related to grant or fellowship activity. Whether you just want to dip your toe in the process, or you have larger goals, please let me know so that I can best support you.
What: Virtual informational sessions during the first week of Blocks 2 & 4*
Where: We will meet in this Zoom room
Prospecting ~ We'll discuss the Top Priority Questionnaire and how I use it to search for possible funders. We will discuss the variety of ways that we can identify funders for faculty, including the College's Pivot grants database. We will then go into the grants database for a quick overview and I will show you how you can get the most out of this valuable resource. Attendees welcome to stay until 4:30 for individual Q&A.
Strategic Activities ~ We'll discuss a range of possible strategic activities in which faculty can engage, depending on where they are at in the grant-seeking process, including serving as a grants reviewer, preparing a concept paper, and applying to the SEGway program. Attendees welcome to stay until 4:30 for individual Q&A.
Proposal Development ~ We'll discuss the similarities and differences between fellowship proposals and grant proposals, what the countdown to a proposal submission looks like, the variety of resources that exist to support grant and fellowship submissions. Faculty will be invited to share a bit about their research and will have 20-30 minutes to write a brief "statement of significance" to share with others in attendance.
*If these dates and times don't work for you, I am always happy to meet one on one!
What: Virtual discussion sessions during the third week of Blocks 5 and 6*:
Where: We will meet in this Zoom room at 1:30 MT briefly to discuss how to access the resources and then at 3 p.m. MT for the discussion portion
Advice for Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences ~ There are four SLAC-focused Webinars on Highly Competitive Fellowships (ACLS, Ford, NEH, Guggenheim) – The first portion of our time will be set aside for viewing one of these webinars found on this page (or they can be viewed on your own time) then at 3 p.m., let’s discuss commonalities, take-aways and next steps:
Advice for Social Science Proposals (with advice applicable to many disciplines) ~ Funders have provided articles on how to prepare competitive proposals, including "Advice on How to Write a Grant Proposal," by Wenner-Gren Foundation President and "The Art of Writing Proposals," by Social Science Research Council’s Adam Przeworski and Frank Salomon. The first portion of our time will be set aside for reading these materials (or they can be read on your own time - link to materials forthcoming) then at 3 p.m., let’s discuss commonalities, take-aways and next steps:
Advice for Natural Sciences and Quantitative Social Sciences ~ There are a number of resources that exist to support the development of proposals in the natural and quantitative social sciences. The first portion of our time will be set aside for reviewing these materials (link to materials forthcoming) then at 3 p.m., let’s discuss commonalities, take-aways and next steps:
*If these dates and times don't work for you, I am always happy to meet one on one!
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