RED 794
Federal Agency Founations (NIH, NSF)
INSTRUCTORS
Erin Meyer, Ph.D.
Senior Grant Writer
Large Infrastructure Funding Team (LIFT)
erin.meyer@utah.edu
Jesse Morris, Ph.D.
Director
The Office of Research Education
jesse.morris@utah.edu
Format:
Synchronous
Duration:
About 1.5 hours
Audience:
This is a REd synchronous (live/Zoom) class.
NSF Portion:
This class provides an overview of NSF grant preparation for the Research Development professional.
At the conclusion of this class, you should be able to:
- Describe the mission and structure of NSF, and the types of research they fund
- Understand the two NSF merit criteria
- Search NSF proposal solicitations and awards
- Use the PAPPG
- Outline and develop an effective NSF proposal draft including Supplementary Documents
- Support a PI in building a competitive proposal
NIH Portion:
At the conclusion of this portion of class, you should be able to:
- Describe the mission and structure of NIH, and the types of research they fund
- Understand NIH investigator designations and the most common NIH mechanisms
- Search for NIH proposal solicitations and awards
- Use the SF424
- Outline and develop an effective NIH proposal draft including Supplementary Documents
- Support a PI in building a competitive proposal
REd Synchronous classes are taught by subject matter experts, and provide both fundamental and advanced skills training in flipped classroom format. These classes are offered live (currently, via Zoom), wherein participants will attend and participate in the 1-hour live lecture/presentation. Participants will be required to work pre-class and post-class activities outside the classroom. These activities can include: readings, videos, etc.
Class Duration: Total duration for synchronous classes are approximately 2 hours. Those two (2) hours will be broken down into:
- A live session which will take approximately 1 hour (45-minute presentation and 15-minute Q&A) and;
- Pre and Post-work activities which will take approximately 1 hour, in total.
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