GRANT ADMINISTRATION

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GRANT ADMINISTRATION FUNDING OPPORTUNITIESSeed
Grant Programsat Utah State University Jeff
BroadbentAssociate Vice President for Research
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VPR Seed Funding Programs

• Grant-Writing Experience Through Mentorship (GEM)
  
• Research Catalyst (RC)
• Seed Program To Advance Research Collaboration
  (SPARC)
• Each has defined goal all include clear
  expectation for external grant submission
• http//research.usu.edu/htm/grants_funding

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Grant-Writing Experience Through Mentorship (GEM)

• Goal Enhance the professional development of
  junior faculty through one-on-one research and
  grant-writing interaction with a successful and
  more senior faculty mentor.
• Eligibility Tenure-eligible asst. profs,
  research asst. profs., or research professionals
  with lt4 yrs in rank
• Eligibility for candidates in their fourth year
  will be predicated upon a favorable 3rd year
  review
• Faculty may be awarded only one GEM grant
• Funding 1-yr, 5,000 max (semiannual Jan. 1 or
  July 1 start date)

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GEM Mentorship Requirement

• GEM requires active collaboration between the
  junior faculty member and a senior mentor
• Mentors must be successful tenured faculty or
  established research faculty from USU or an
  outside institution whose position is at least
  one professional rank higher than the junior
  faculty member
• Former major professors or postdoctoral advisors
  are NOT eligible
• Up to 1000 of the award can be allocated to the
  mentor to support time and effort or
  research-related contributions to the project

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GEM Project Components

• Research Plan Identify the target RFP describe
  the research or creative activity, specific
  objectives, procedures and methods to be used.
• Management Plan Describe strategies to provide
  professional development to the junior faculty
  member and develop a competitive grant proposal.
• Budget Can support students, travel required to
  do research, or supplies and equipment needed to
  complete the project. Cannot be used for
  applicants salary.
• Appendices CVs, mentorship plan, description of
  target RFP, COI and special requirements forms,
  list of current pending support.

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GEM Projects

• Evaluation Criteria
• Scholarly merit and relevance to the targeted
  external program announcement or RFP .
• Strength of mentornew investigator
  collaboration their expertise, resources, and
  research records as they relate to providing a
  productive mentorship experience.
• Effectiveness of the research plan in developing
  a competitive EFG proposal.
• Post-Award Requirements
• Develop and submit an external grant proposal
  within 3 mo. of GEM award end date.
• If funding is not awarded, the applicant must
  provide the VPR Office with reviewer comments as
  well as a written plan for resubmission.
• Awardees must serve on the GEM review panel for 2
  yrs.

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Research Catalyst (RC)

• Goal Develop new initiatives or directions that
  will lead to new externally funded grants.
• Eligibility All tenured or tenure-eligible
  faculty, research faculty, or other USU research
  professionals.
• Proposals already submitted to an extramural
  agency, or those already reviewed and found
  non-competitive by an extramural agency, are not
  eligible for RC funding.
• Funding 1-yr, 20,000 max (semiannual Jan. 1 or
  July 1 start date).

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Seed Program To Advance Research Collaboration
(SPARC)

• Goal Catalyze development of large
  interdisciplinary research projects
• Projects must target a single external RFP that
  solicits at least 1 million in new research
  funding for USU.
• Recruits and supports additional research
  faculty, postdoctoral researchers, or PhD
  students to the USU campus.
• Eligibility Same as RC, but must engage faculty
  from more than one department, research center,
  college, or institution
• Funding 1-yr, 35,000 max (semiannual Jan. 1 or
  July 1 start date)

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Seed Grant Submission
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Facilities Administrative (FA) Costs of
Research

• Indirect or FA costs of research are real costs
  that cant be easily billed to one project.
  Examples include the costs of administrative
  efforts to support research, environmental health
  and safety, facilities operations, and equipment
  that is shared among many researchers.
• USUs FA rate is negotiated annually with the
  federal government, based on actual research
  costs. Because indirect costs are real expenses,
  research budgets should always include FA costs.
• FA is proportionally recovered as expenses are
  made on a project it does not represent new
  money.
• The State allows USU to invest recovered FA to
  build research infrastructure and capacity.

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