FUNDING AWARDS

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FUNDING / AWARDS
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Why academics search for funding/awards

• Getting support for themselves
• Advance research
• Summer money
• Equipment/support for research
• Teaching buyout
• Prestige
• That tenure thing
• Getting support for students
• Summer support
• Stipends
• Support for the university
• 46 overhead!

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Why students search for funding

• To support themselves
• Fellowship money
• Lengthen support time while working towards
  degree
• Research support money (travel, equipment)
• Professional development

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Types of grants

• Seed money
• Equipment
• Fellowship
• Research Grant
• Contract
• Small Business
• Civic Outreach

• Research agenda-targeted
• General research
• Development of young scholar or student
• Targeted at minority or disadvantaged group

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Types of agencies

• Government funding
• National Science Foundation, Environmental
  Protection Agency, Fulbright Scholar program,
  etc.
• NGO
• Red Cross, Earthwatch
• Non-profit philanthropy
• Cleveland Foundation
• Corporate funding
• Proctor and Gamble

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NSF, 2006 - 5,400,000,000

• To
• Federal agencies 146M
• Industry 181M
• Small business 175M
• University 4,105M
• Other 822M
• Leaders
• Raytheon 1 (161M)
• UW Madison 2 (120M)
• Kent State 165 (5.3M)

• For
• Research support 4,310M
• Education/human resources 880M
• Equipment 233M
• From
• Geosciences program 822M
• Success rate 25
• Turnaround 5.5 mo

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What things can I get support for?

• Salary / Fringe benefits
• Travel
• Conference
• Research site
• Equipment
• Consultant
• Conferences
• Supplies
• Support for participants
• Indirect costs

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How costs grow

• 1 mo lowly professor
• Salary 6,000
• Benefits 1,000
• Overhead 3,500
• Total 10,500
• 1 acad. Yr. student
• Stipend 10,000
• Tuition/bfits 12,000
• Overhead 5,000
• Total 27,000

• Conference travel
• Airfare 500
• Hotel/meals 1,000
• Registration 300
• Overhead 750
• Total 2,350

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Steps

• RFP is issued
• Letter of intent
• Pre-proposal
• Wait
• Proposal
• Wait
• Progress Report
• Final Report
• Budgeting

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Things you may need to submit

• Statement of significance
• Research design
• Equipment needed
• Ethics
• Evaluation
• Letters of support
• Timeline / Work plan

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Things that go wrong

• Wrong font, font size, spacing, margins
• Too long or too short
• Late submission
• Components are missing
• Wrong number of copies
• Applicant not qualified

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Things that go wrong

• Lack of clarity
• Workload not commensurate with budget
• Case not made that work can be done
• Poor study design
• Incorrect study design
• Inadequate sample size
• Ethical issues
• Incompatibility with agency interests
• Not convinced that you can do the work

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Integration

• Large increase in integration of work
• Research AND Education
• Interdisciplinary work
• Integrative Graduate Education and Research
  Traineeship Program (IGERT)