Research and Sponsored Programs

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Research and Sponsored Programs

• at
• Montclair State University

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Why Apply for a Grant?

• To fund research that will produce publications
• To fund travel to professional conferences
• To fund support services and professional
  activities for students

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Office of Research Sponsored Programs

• Laurie Treleven, Director
• Catherine Bruno, Post-Award Manager
• Lorraine Ramos, Pre-Award Officer
• Fitzgerald Edwards, IRB Administrator
• Melissa Ellington, Program Assistant
• College Hall Room 309
• Office Phone Number 4128

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Pre-Award Services

• Help in identifying funding opportunities
• Assistance with proposal development
• Help in preparing support documents to partner
  with other institutions

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Preparing Proposal Budgets

• Help preparing a budget
• interpreting the budget categories
• understanding allowable costs
• Assistance interpreting agency guidelines

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Review and Submission of Proposals

• Review final proposal for compliance
• mandatory review criteria, i.e., NSF
• management strategy
• evaluation plan
• Submit proposals electronically

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Post-Award Services

• Services to help you manage your grant
• sourcing and purchasing equipment
• understanding employment procedures
• processing travel requests
• assisting with submission of program reports
• revising grant budgets
• requesting extension from the funding agency

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Internal Awards

• Career Development (CD) awards support projects
  that develop career enhancing skills, new areas
  of expertise, and enhance professional
  reputation.
• Grant Proposal Development (GPD) awards enable
  faculty to develop and submit proposals for
  foundation or government agencies for programs,
  research, training, etc.

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Internal Awards

• Separately Budgeted Research (SBR) awards are for
  projects involving scholarly, creative, or
  research efforts.
• Student/Faculty Research (SFR) awards support
  research projects for students to work with
  faculty.

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Institutional Review Board (IRB)

• The IRB is a constituted review body that will
  help you
• - Determine if you are engaged in human
  research
• - Protect human participants in research
• Why Does MSU Have An IRB?
• By accepting federal funds, MSU agreed to
• Create an IRB to ensure compliance with federal,
  state, and local regulations, which protect
  humans in research
• Apply federal, state, and local regulatory
  protections to non-funded human research

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Am I Engaged in Human Research?

• Faculty, staff and students planning projects
  that involve humans should refer to this webpage
  
• montclair.edu gt MSU A-Z gt I gt
  Institutional Review Board (IRB)
• Complete Does My Project Require IRB Approval?

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If My Project Requires IRB Approval, What Should
I Do?

• Before starting research
• Complete a MSU IRB application and other relevant
  documents
• Send completed protocol by email to IRB
  Administrator
• Protocols will be screened, reviewed, and most
  often, approved by the IRB.
• You will receive initial IRB findings in about 21
  work days.

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IRB What Should I Do?

• If a full review is required, you should receive
  initial IRB findings in about 7 working days
  after a full IRB meeting.
• Please note the IRB does not retroactively
  approve research completed without IRB review and
  approval.
• Email edwardsf_at_mail.montclair.edu
• Phone [phone]

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Office of Research Sponsored Programs

• www.montclair.edu/ORSP
• On our website
• Information for Preparing Competitive Proposals
• Description of ORSP Procedures
• Budget Templates Guidelines
• Institutional Information

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• Graduate Student Funding Opportunities
• at the National Science Foundation
• Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• East Asia Pacific Summer Institute Program

Stefanie Brachfeld, Department of Earth and
Environmental Studies
www.nsf.gov
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Graduate Student Funding Opportunities at the
National Science Foundation
NSF is NOT limited to the CSAM disciplines!
The Division of Social, Behavioral and Economic
Sciences supports Anthropology Archeology
Cognitive Sciences Economics
Linguistics Endangered languages Law and
Social Sciences Political Science
Sociology Psychology Social psychology Risk,
Decision, and Management Sciences
Theres also Developmental and Learning
Sciences Research on Learning in Formal and
Informal Settings Antarctic Artists and Writers
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Student Eligibility Requirements

• U.S. citizen or permanent resident
• Enrolled in or applying to a research-oriented
• masters or doctoral degree program in the U.S.
• Completing a masters or doctoral thesis in an
• NSF-supported field
• The student is near the beginning of their
• degree program (please see program solicitation)

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF)
www.nsfgrfp.org
Supports the next generation of research
scientists

• The Award
• 40,500 per year for 3 years
• --gt 30,000 stipend and 10,500 tuition
  allowance
• 1000 one-time allowance for international travel

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NSF - GRF

• The Application (Early November due date)
• FastLane Module (education history, work
  history, personal info.)
• 2-page essay describing proposed research
• 2-page essay describing previous research
  experience
• 2-page personal statement
• Transcripts
• 3 letters of reference
• GRE scores (optional)

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East Asia Pacific Summer Institute Program
www.nsfsi.org
Supports U.S. graduate student research in
Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand,
Singapore, or Taiwan during an 8-week
summer program.

• The Award
• 5,000 stipend and living expenses at host
  location
• Round-trip airfare to host location
• Orientations in the Washington, D.C. and at host
  location

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The Application

• FastLane Module (education history, work history,
  personal information)
• 5-page (max) essay describing proposed research
• 2-page biographical sketch
• 2 letters of reference
• Letter of invitation from host or record of
  correspondence
• Transcripts

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The Review Process

• Panel review only. No mail reviewers.
• Group of 20-25 scientists with a range of
  expertise within a discipline
• Explain your work so that a non-expert can
  understand it
• Must address the Intellectual Merit and Broader
  Impact Criteria

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
(GRF) www.nsfgrfp.org Resource faculty Stefanie
Brachfeld, brachfelds_at_mail.montclair.edu
East Asia Pacific Summer Institutes www.nsfsi.org
Resource faculty Mika Munakata,
munakatam_at_mail.montclair.edu
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Research Academy for University Learning

• Dr. James Zimmerman

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