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NSF CAREER Grants

Description

Best practices, lessons learned and closely guarded secrets! Hear from your peers who have won NSF standard grants. This workshop will also speak to NSF CAREER applications. Partnering support from grant administrators to walk you through each piece of the proposal – this is the most efficient and effective way to prepare your application!

Workshop Leaders

Jon Antilla Casey Miller

Schedule

Day 1
10:00 AM – 12 Noon
Working Lunch
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Day 2
10:00 AM – 12 Noon
Working Lunch
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM






Blueprint

Day 1

Ten steps for Proposal Development
Assembling the right team –
Getting people excited
Keeping your team’s momentum
Letters of support, collaboration, commitments
Impact of interdisciplinary teams

WORKING LUNCH

Timing the grant assembly -- Planning of writing
Technical writing > persuasive, compelling narrative
Integrative broader impacts

Day 2

Budget and budget justifications
Salary and fringe rates
When and how to request a tuition waiver
Money for publications and travel to conferences
Equipment and supplies

WORKING LUNCH

Negotiating USF’s grant system
Who is your SRA?
USF Internal Form
FASTLANE and Grants.gov
USF Fact Sheet and Blurb