Thursday, October 22, 2009

Parts of a Research Grant Proposal

  • From F&A, everyone gets some type of cut.
  • Graduate either seeks a faculty member to assist or faculty member seeks graduate student to assist.
  • Seed moneys motivate students and faculty to work together.
Submitted Proposal- Fastlane-beta.nsf.gov - Parts of a Proposal
  • Cover Sheet
  • Table of Contents
  • References Cited
  • Budget
  • Facilities (Here are they kinds of facilities available to us...)
  • Principal Investigator (PI) / CoPI Info (To be listed, they have to be put into the system)
  • Suggested Reviewers (Optional-- sometimes self-serving; Can help to eliminate potential reviewers--Send it to the person you don't want to review it, and they're off the reviewers list!)
  • Print Entire Proposal
  • Project Summary
  • Project Description
  • Bio Sketch
  • Current and Pending
  • Supplementary Docs (Partnerships, sub-contractors, letter from them)
  • Deviation Authorization
  • Additional Single Copy Documents
It's discouraged to send the proposal to other places at the same time.

In general, BYU does a lot for the school and makes research a prominent goal.

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