The Research Development Office, CLAS Grant Support Office, and College of Engineering are hosting a 3-part virtual NSF CAREER Award grant writing seminar, Planning and Writing Successful NSF CAREER Proposals that will be held on Friday, Dec. 2 and Friday, Jan. 6 at 9 a.m.–11 a.m. and Friday, Jan. 13 at 9 a.m.-1 p.m. (8 total hours). The seminar is presented by Dr. Peg AtKisson (AtKisson Training Group).
An NSF CAREER award application is more than an NSF Standard Grant with an education plan added in. Highly competitive awards integrate the research and education plan. In this seminar, we talk about why and how to create a plan that results in a competitive proposal.
Seminar Topics
- Understanding the Basics of CAREERs
- Planning Your Proposal
- Crafting a Compelling Overview
- Designing Your Education and Research Plans
- Discussing the Literature, Preliminary Work, and Significance
- Letters and the Rest
Eligibility
Assistant professors (or equivalent) who are eligible to submit NSF CAREER awards are welcome to register for this seminar.
Registration
No cost to register. Register here by Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. A Zoom link will be sent to all registrants prior to the first session. Registration includes one electronic copy of the Handbook for Planning and Writing Successful Grant Proposals (link to excerpt).
Handbook for Planning and Writing Successful Grant Proposals
The Handbook helps you through the grant writing process, starting with the early stages of planning your project. It contains clear and flexible solutions to communicating your idea clearly to the reviewer. The Handbook provides a heavily footnoted and occasionally humorous guide to turning your idea into a clear grant proposal.
Facilitator
M.S. (Peg) AtKisson, PhD, trained in neuroscience, but has focused on grant proposals since 2001. She started the research development group at Tufts University, working on large proposals and supporting individual investigators for 8 years and over $140,000,000 of successes across many federal and foundation funders. She joined Grant Writers' Seminars and Workshops in 2008, as an associate member, presenting training across the country. In 2017 she left to found ATG to create new approaches to grantsmanship training in addition to support for faculty research and leadership development. She still considers herself a neuroscientist first, and she still writes grant proposals.
Sponsored by:
Research Development Office, CLAS Grant Support Office, and College of Engineering