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Panel discussion presented by Rob Rafael at the 2011 NSF ADVANCE Workshop: Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position, A Workshop for Underrepresented PhDs and Postdocs in Science, Engineering and Psychology September 18-20, 2010
Funding is critical
- Must be prepared to work hard to garner funding
- Need more than a great idea, though that is a crucial element
- Need to understand the logistics and the process
- Need to submit more than one grant, so need multiple ideas
- Be creative
- Read deeply and broadly
- Talk to lots of people about research
- Think about doing more than one project
- When one is difficult, the other may succeed
- Increases funding opportunities
- Promotes synergy in thinking
- Enhances visibility
- What are the sources available to you?
- Federal (NSF, NIH, DARPA, DOE, NIST, ONR, among many others)
- State
- Private foundations / not-for-profit organizations
- Industry
- Use the web to retrieve information for each source
- Some more detailed, others more obscure
Find out about resources
- Talk to your advisor, faculty in your department about resources in your area of research and in your institution
- Use the internet
- Search for information on organization, what it supports to determine whether to target for funding
- Search for deadline dates and invitations to apply in a given area
- Search services such as IRIS
(External Link)
- Government agencies have detailed pages
- Easy to get lost
- Ask for help
- GrantsNet (
(External Link) ) from AAAS has good links
- Grant Writing (many now available)
-
Proposal Writer’s Guide (Thackery)
-
Research Proposals: A Guide to Success (Ogden and Goldberg)
Get to know funders
- How are proposals reviewed?
- What is the timing?
- What do they support?
- How can you target your research appropriately?
- Is there someone you know associated with the funding agency?
- Talk to them!
- Go to DC and talk to them!
Reasons to talk to program folks
- If you have great, but risky ideas, talk with the program officer to see how best to present them
- Ask what a reasonable budget range would be
- Ask about the role of collaborators in your area of research
How to approach an agency
- Options for contact
- Go in person or make a phone call
- Find an agency person at a national meeting (they often attend to get to know their grantees)
- Be prepared and take as little of their time as possible while getting your message across
- Introduce yourself as a new independent researcher with some general information about yourself
- Have a specific question (or two) and ask if they have any specific advice
Understand the submission process
Find the resources from your institution that support grant submission
- Federal agencies may differ from foundations
- Get to know what they can do to help you identify the appropriate agency
- Get to know what they can do to help you with the process
- Understand the timeline and plan accordingly
Get organized
- Find and read resources that help with grant preparation
- Ask senior colleagues if they will read your proposal and provide feedback
- Ask successful colleagues if you can read their grant
- Try to get onto a review panel (it will change your views!!!)
- Think deeply about your project — be innovative and creative in tackling a significant problem
- Identify the potential sources
- Find the due dates (both agency and internal!)
- Determine which applications to pursue
- Develop your timeline for thinking, writing, rewriting, writing/rewriting, writing/rewriting, etc., final proofreading (critical!) — find out about institutional deadlines you
must meet!!
- Be sure that you get feedback from colleagues before submission
- Include plenty of time for this step in your timeline
- Provides key perspective/input
Questions & Answers
differentiate between demand and supply
giving examples
differentiated between demand and supply using examples
Lambiv
how is the graph works?I don't fully understand
hi guys good evening to all
Lambiv
In economics, a perfect market refers to a theoretical construct where all participants have perfect information, goods are homogenous, there are no barriers to entry or exit, and prices are determined solely by supply and demand. It's an idealized model used for analysis,
Ezea
other things being equal
AI-Robot
When MP₁ becomes negative, TP start to decline.
Extuples Suppose that the short-run production function of certain cut-flower firm is given by: Q=4KL-0.6K2 - 0.112 •
Where is quantity of cut flower produced, I is labour input and K is fixed capital input (K-5). Determine the average product of lab
Kelo
Extuples Suppose that the short-run production function of certain cut-flower firm is given by: Q=4KL-0.6K2 - 0.112 •
Where is quantity of cut flower produced, I is labour input and K is fixed capital input (K-5). Determine the average product of labour (APL) and marginal product of labour (MPL)
Kelo
Can I ask you other question?
Shukri
What is different between quantity demand and demand?
Quantity demanded refers to the specific amount of a good or service that consumers are willing and able to purchase at a give price and within a specific time period. Demand, on the other hand, is a broader concept that encompasses the entire relationship between price and quantity demanded
Ezea
how do you save a country economic situation when it's falling apart
what is the difference between economic growth and development
Economic growth as an increase in the production and consumption of goods and services within an economy.but
Economic development as a broader concept that encompasses not only economic growth but also social & human well being.
Shukri
production function means
Jabir
What do you think is more important to focus on when considering inequality ?
any question about economics?
sir...I just want to ask one question... Define the term contract curve? if you are free please help me to find this answer 🙏
Asui
it is a curve that we get after connecting the pareto optimal combinations of two consumers after their mutually beneficial trade offs
Awais
thank you so much 👍 sir
Asui
In economics, the contract curve refers to the set of points in an Edgeworth box diagram where both parties involved in a trade cannot be made better off without making one of them worse off. It represents the Pareto efficient allocations of goods between two individuals or entities, where neither p
Cornelius
In economics, the contract curve refers to the set of points in an Edgeworth box diagram where both parties involved in a trade cannot be made better off without making one of them worse off. It represents the Pareto efficient allocations of goods between two individuals or entities,
Cornelius
Suppose a consumer consuming two commodities X and Y has
The following utility function u=X0.4 Y0.6. If the price of the X and Y are 2 and 3 respectively and income Constraint is birr 50.
A,Calculate quantities of x and y which maximize utility.
B,Calculate value of Lagrange multiplier.
C,Calculate quantities of X and Y consumed with a given price.
D,alculate optimum level of output .
the market for lemon has 10 potential consumers, each having an individual demand curve p=101-10Qi, where p is price in dollar's per cup and Qi is the number of cups demanded per week by the i th consumer.Find the market demand curve using algebra. Draw an individual demand curve and the market dema
suppose the production function is given by ( L, K)=L¼K¾.assuming capital is fixed find APL and MPL. consider the following short run production function:Q=6L²-0.4L³ a) find the value of L that maximizes output b)find the value of L that maximizes marginal product
Abdureman
What is the difference between perfect competition and monopolistic competition?
Mohammed
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