Graduate School Research Fellows
Program Description
- Open to faculty and academic staff.
- Transforms extramural proposal development for participants.
- Provides opportunities to all faculty and academic staff across all schools and colleges.
- Designed for participants who have had some exposure to writing grant applications, either through training, mentoring, or personal experience.
- Emphasizes idea development, identification of the most appropriate granting agency, how to write for reviewers, and tips and strategies that are of proven value in presenting an applicant's case to reviewers.
- Phase 1 includes a seminar and the opportunity to submit a pre-proposal for review.
- Phase 2: includes selection of the 15-22 Graduate School Research Fellows by the consultants with relevant Dean/Associate Dean/Director approval.
- Phase 2 participants continue to revise pre-proposals and write drafts of proposal applications, guided by a proposal writing handbook. Fellows create final technical proposals based on consultant feedback through the process for submission to agencies.
- Phase 2 participants' deliverable requirement: a major federal or non-federal grant proposal submission in their discipline.
- The Graduate School supports all costs of Phase 1; schools and colleges match costs of participants in Phase 2.
The goal is to provide key opportunities that transform the success of 15-22 faculty and researchers who participate in both Phase 1 and Phase 2 of an intensive proposal writing program. The Graduate School Research Fellows program is a nine-month commitment by the participants, consultants, and Graduate School staff. Phases 1 and 2 of the Workshop Program emphasize the application of fundamentals and principles, as well as practical tips and strategies that make the difference between success and failure in extramural proposal creation, submission, and funding.
Phase 1: Seminar/Workshop
Friday, February 12, 2010
- Participation in one of two concurrent workshops is required to be eligible for Phase 2. Each workshop is held 8:30 a.m.-noon and continuing 1:00-4:30 p.m. Registration (click on session above) is through UWM Employee Development.
- Each participant in the Phase 1 workshops receives an extensive workbook (participants select one of three workbooks):
- National Science Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
- Any Federal Agency
Phase 2: Graduate School Research Fellow selection
February 12-December 31, 2010
Only faculty and research staff who attend the Phase 1 seminar are eligible to apply to participate in Phase 2. The consultants will instruct participants in the workshop on how to construct and when and where to submit the pre-proposal master plan.
Timeline
- January 18, 2010: Participants deadline to register for seminars and select workbook.
- January 25, 2010: Participant deadline to select workbook for seminar.
- January 29, 2010: UWM deadline to notify consultants of the number of seminar participants, track, and workbook selection.
- February 12, 2010: Consultants present seminars.
- February 12, 2010: Self nomination forms available at the seminars or from Steve Atkinson after the seminars (sda@uwm.edu).
- February 19, 2010: Participants submit application for proposal writing workshop and bio-sketch to consultant and UWM. Submit to: Dr. Peg AtKisson (atkisson@grantcentral.com) and Steve Atkinson (sda@uwm.edu).
- February 19-March 12, 2010: Consultant sends instructions for 2-page pre-proposal master plan.
- March 12-April 23, 2010: Participants write pre-proposal master plan.
- April 23, 2010: Participants submit revised Pre-proposal Master Plan to consultant and UWM. Submit to: Dr. Peg AtKisson (atkisson@grantcentral.com) and Steve Atkinson (sda@uwm.edu).
- April 23-May 7, 2010: Consultant evaluates pre-proposal master plans for candidate selection.
- May 7, 2010: UWM works with consultant and Phase 2 participants are selected and notified .
- May 19, 2010: Consultant returns critiques to participants.
- May 19-24, 2010: Participants revise pre-proposals based on critique and submit to consultant and UWM.
- May 26-27, 2010: Consultant one-and-a-half-hour group meeting with all Phase 2 participants and one-on-one half-hour meetings withe each participant on-site over two and a half days (whole week reserved and days to be finalized).
- May 27-August 8, 2010: Participants prepare final and complete drafts of applications and submit to consultant and UWM.
- August 8-August 22, 2010: Consultant reviews final drafts for quality of grantsmanship & technical merit.
- August 23-27, 2010: Whole week scheduled, however, only 3 days will be needed. Consultant on-site for one-on-one, hourlong meetings with applicants for review of final drafts.
- August 27, 2010-September 24, 2010: Participants revise draft for quality of grantsmanship & technical merit and submit to peer and external reviewers.
- October 15, 2010: Peer and external reviewers recommend revisions for academic & scientific merit.
- October 29, 2010: Participants revise draft for academic & scientific merit.
- After November 1, 2010: Participants/UWM submit final applications to agencies or other funding sources.
- After November 1, 2010: Participants provide feedback on the program.
Selected List Consultant Clients
Arizona State University
Auburn University
Case Western Reserve University
Colorado State University
Columbia University
Duke University
Iowa State University
Kansas State University
Michigan State University
Mississippi State University
New Mexico State University
New York Academy of Sciences
New York Department of Health—Wadsworth Center
North Carolina A & T State University
North Carolina State University
Northeastern Ohio University
Ohio State University
Oklahoma State University
Oregon State University
Pennsylvania State University
Purdue University
Texas A&M University
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Arizona
University of California—Davis
University of California—Los Angeles
University of California—San Francisco
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Houston
University of Idaho
University of Illinois—Chicago
University of Illinois—Urbana/Champaign
University of Iowa
University of Kansas
University of Maryland
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota—Twin Cities
University of Mississippi
University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
University of North Dakota
University of Northern Iowa
University of Oklahoma
University of Pittsburgh
University of Puerto Rico
University of South Florida
University of Tennessee
University of Texas at Austin
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Vanderbilt University
Washington State University
Wayne State University
Yale University