Grant-Writing Workshop
Offices of the Vice President of Research and Provost

The Offices of the Vice President of Research and Provost, in response to requests from faculty, are organizing a Faculty Development Workshop devoted to grant-writing skills. Drs. Craig R. Rush (Associate Vice President of Research) and G.T. Lineberry (Associate Provost for Faculty Advancement) will lead the development, organization, and presentation of the workshop, along with administrative assistance from the Proposal Development Office (Director: Margot McCullers, PhD). The workshop will be organized such that an initial two-hour period will be devoted to general grant-writing issues (e.g., developing an idea; preparing a strategy for proposal generation; identifying appropriate funding sources; contacting individuals at the funding source). A 30-minute question-and-answer session will follow the general session.  Following the general session, separate two-hour breakout sessions will be devoted to applications to specific federal funding agencies.  

Initially, the breakout sessions will cover issues specific to applications the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Associate Dean of Research in each of the colleges will be contacted for information regarding names of successfully funded researchers to lead the NIH and NSF breakout sessions.  Additional breakout sessions, either in this initial or in subsequent workshop sessions, may be included that address funding from private foundations (e.g., Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), the private sector (e.g., pharmaceutical industry), or other federal sources (e.g., United States Department of Agriculture [USDA], Food and Drug Administration [FDA], Department of Defense [DoD]). If there is sufficient interest, breakout sessions may be added that address issues specific to agencies within a federal funding source (e.g., National Institute on Drug Abuse [NIDA], National Cancer Institute [NCI] within the NIH). Each breakout session will be followed by a 30-minute question-and-answer period.

The proposed workshop will be offered quarterly. The initial workshop and breakout sessions (NIH and NSF) will be offered in late-Summer, 2013. 

For questions, comments and suggestions please contact G.T. Lineberry ( gt.lineberry@uky.edu ) or Craig R. Rush ( crush2@email.uky.edu ).