Good morning Academic College Partners,

The Office of Research Support has contracted with an external organization to deliver a comprehensive series of proposal development workshops on April 13/14, 2015. They would like to request your assistance in promoting aggressively in your college. The workshops have many opened seats and are scheduled in short sessions to accommodate faculty schedules. If you have already receive notice, please disregard. Thank you.

If you or your staff are interested in pursuing funding opportunities to support or enhance your department initiatives, please promote attendance at the proposal development workshops described below. 

Proposal Development Workshop Series

Monday, April 13 – Tuesday, April 14

8:30 A.M. – 2:30 P.M. each day

UTSA Main Campus, John Peace Library, Assembly Room (JPL 4.04.22)

Description: Faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows, and students of all disciplines are invited to attend one or all of a series of short workshops focused on different funding opportunities and agencies. The guest facilitator will provide half-hour individual consultations for faculty. To register for a session and/or schedule an individual consultation, use the link(s) below for the session(s) of interest.

Facilitator: Ms. Deckard worked in research development at Texas A&M University for 8 years, most recently serving as Associate Director of the university’s Office of Proposal Development. She has helped to develop and write successful proposals to NSF, NIH, the Department of Education, the Department of Defense, and other agencies and foundations, including proposals for large institutional and center-level grants. In addition, she directed the university’s New Faculty Initiative, working with new faculty to jump start their research by helping them to identify funding opportunities, develop a strategy for pursuing funding, understand funding agencies, and learn how to write competitive proposals.

Contact: For more information or questions contact Ana Wandless, Ph.D., Assistant Director for Research Support (ana.wandless@utsa.edu).

Monday, April 13th:

8:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.: Writing a Proposal to the NSF CAREER Program

http://faculty.utsa.edu/events/writing-a-proposal-to-the-nsf-career-program

10:30 A.M. - Noon: Writing Proposals to the Department of Education and Institute for Education Sciences

http://faculty.utsa.edu/events/writing-proposals-to-the-department-of-education-and-institute-of-education

1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.: Writing Proposals to the Department of Defense

http://faculty.utsa.edu/events/writing-proposals-to-the-department-of-defense-1

Tuesday, April 14th

8:30 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.: Writing Proposals to the Department of Energy and National Labs

http://faculty.utsa.edu/events/writing-proposals-to-the-department-of-energy-and-the-national-labs 

10:30 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.: Pursuing Funding Opportunities through Corporate and Foundation Sources

http://faculty.utsa.edu/events/pursuing-funding-opportunities-through-corporate-and-foundation-sources

1:00 P.M. - 2:30 P.M.: Pursuing Funding in the Humanities and Humanities-Related Social Sciences

http://faculty.utsa.edu/events/pursuing-funding-in-the-humanities-and-humanities-related-social-sciences

Elisa Perkins M.Ed.
Assistant Director- Diversity and Recruitment
University of Texas at San Antonio
Office of the Associate Provost for Diversity & Recruitment
Phone: 210-458-4296

   
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