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Sept.
30, 2002 |
Office of Research Offers Grant-Related Workshops
for Faculty
To assist faculty in obtaining more funding for
their research, Rensselaer's Office of Research has organized
a series of free grant-related workshops through December.
The workshop series is the latest in the
Office of Research's efforts to bolster Rensselaer's research
program. Last year, the office provided $750,000 worth of
grants through the Exploratory Research Seed Program, which
was created to stimulate ideas and preliminary results in
pursuit of external funding.
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The workshops are being conducted by officials
from the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE), the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and
Bioengineering (NIBIB), and the Grants Resource Center (GRC).
All workshops will be held in room 3117 in the J. Erik Jonsson
Engineering Center.
Next month's program, titled "Workshop on
Proposal Development: Process and Strategy," will be held
Friday, Oct. 11. It will be conducted by the GRC, a Washington
not-for-profit that provides grant-related assistance and timely
grant information.
Topics in the first half of the workshop (9 a.m.-noon)
will focus on how faculty can contact and interact with federal
research agencies, agency funding opportunities, proposal grant
writing, and federal agency trends and profiles. The second half
(1 to 4 p.m.) consists of one-on-one sessions with grant specialists
about specific proposals and funding ideas.
The workshop series is the latest in the Office
of Research's efforts to bolster Rensselaer's research program.
Last year, the office provided $750,000 worth of grants through
the Exploratory Research Seed Program, which was created to stimulate
ideas and preliminary results in pursuit of external funding.
That program has already yielded results: Mohammed
Zaki, assistant professor of computer science, recently earned
an Early Career Principal Investigator Award from the U.S. Department
of Energy. The three-year, $333,928 grant to decode the protein
language was the result of work conducted under the
seed program.
Upcoming workshops will be conducted by the DOE
on Nov. 1, and by the NIBIB on Dec. 11. Details on these workshops
will be announced a few weeks in advance. Registration is required
for all the workshops; contact Mindy Sorbo at ext. 4863 or sorbom@rpi.edu.
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