Tag: external funding
A workshop on grant management is scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon Friday, Jan. 22, in Altgeld Hall 315. The goal of this session is to provide administrative and academic perspectives for managing grants. The first part of the session will introduce the support available through Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) for managing sponsored awards and...
A workshop on “Planning your Grant Proposal: Working with Sponsored Programs Administration” is scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon Friday, Dec. 11, in Altgeld Hall 315. This session will cover support for and requirements of grant and contract proposal development and submission at NIU. Sponsored Programs Administration staff will discuss how they work with investigators...
Research and Artistry is an annual internal grant program intended to support faculty research, scholarship and creative activities. Applications are due in the fall and awards are made in the spring. The process is competitive and all applications are externally reviewed. Proposals are invited from NIU faculty to support research and artistry activities in all academic...
NIU’s Office of Sponsored Projects will offer two workshops in October to help researchers with collaborative proposals and managing change while working on federally funded scholarship. Both sessions are part of the Fall OSP Faculty and Staff Chat Session. Presentation slides and other related hand-outs for each of these sessions will be available on the...
As the competition for research funding has intensified, institutions such as the University of Michigan, the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) have developed specialized service units that help faculty improve the quality of the design, analysis and statistical sections of their grant proposals. Now, thanks to funding...
The national press daily carries articles about how few women in the United States choose careers in science, engineering or math. Educators worry about how to keep girls and young women from dropping out of these fields. But what is it like to be a female professor in one of these disciplines, and in particular, what factors...
