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New guidelines
for limited submission proposals
When a funding agency restricts the number of
applications or proposals an institution can submit, the institution must
make preliminary evaluations about which applications are allowed to go
forward. Estelle McGroarty, assistant vice president for research and
gradate studies, has refined MSU’s procedures for conducting those
preliminary reviews.
A cover sheet and guidelines for preparing
preproposals for limited
submission programs will be available on the Web at . The site also
lists announcements of those programs and their deadlines. Faculty and
administrators can subscribe to a listserv to receive direct notification
when limited submission opportunities arise.
Preproposals will be reviewed by an ad hoc committee
that will make recommendations to the VPRGS who will make the final
decisions about which proposals move forward for submission to the agency.
The internal applications must include the cover page,
a 3-5 page project summary, a two-page vita for each investigator, a budget
estimate, and an estimate of cost share if applicable. Investigators may
include additional supporting information.
“These limited submission opportunities are often
prestigious,” McGroarty says. “They can be a stepping stone to other funding
opportunities. We want to help our faculty to be successful in applying to
these programs.” |
Funding
opportunities blog inaugurates research support services
By Loraine Hudson, director, Office of Research
Facilitation and Dissemination
The OVPRGS Office of Research Facilitation and
Dissemination (ORFD) has developed a new blog with
information
about open funding competitions and RFPs, plus news and policy
information of interest to the research community.
The new ORFD is charged with facilitating research and
extramural research funding through advocacy activities and assistance to
major multi-institutional, all-university, or cross-disciplinary proposals.
In addition, the ORFD will assist in improving information dissemination
from OVPRGS to stakeholder communities on and off campus.
The blog is the first of several new services available
to researchers through the new office. Blog entries provide hot links to
funder sites, and also offer readers the opportunity to post comments about
the RFP announcements.
Please contact the ORFD at 432-4499 for information
about three other new services: free Wiki hosting for proposal development,
assistance with travel to funding agencies, and grant-writing workshop fee
support for faculty. |