MSU Internal Grant Program

1. MSU Internal Grant Program CHHS Faculty Development Series September 3, 2010

2. CHHS Representative Rob DeLong, Biomedical Sciences

3. Opportunities • Faculty Research Grants • Due September 27, 2010 • Summer Faculty Fellowship • When you’ve already used CHHS funding • Can’t be used in connection with FRG • Due November 1, 2010

4. Faculty Research Grants • You won’t hear this very often… • The past chair and committee members indicate that this is one of those rare competitions that involve more money than requests, so… • APPLY • … with a STRONG PROPOSAL

5. Consider the Reviewers • From each college, so most are not in your discipline • Writing style must be very clear • Avoid esoteric terms, professional jargon • Itemize, detail, and justify budget items • Get a vendor quote for items over $1000 • Follow the directions!! • Use the categories in the guidelines as headers • Use the words in the guidelines, evaluation criteria as much as possible when presenting each section • Careful attention to page limits, font sizes, other requirements

6. Elements of the Proposal

7. Project Summary • Short description in non-technical terms • Consider your audience • May want to have someone outside your field read it (spouse, friend, etc.)

8. “????” Children’s spellings are affected by phonological awareness, depth of semantic knowledge, orthographic appreciation, morphological awareness, and the ability to store mental graphemic representations. In the current study, we will employ analysis procedures that allow differential linguistic categorization of spelling errors. These categorizations will result in tailoring and implementation of individualized intervention protocols.

9. Better A child’s spelling skills are influenced by his or her (a) awareness of the sounds/syllables in words, (b) vocabulary, (c) understanding how individual parts can be combined to make a new word (e.g., electric, electricity), and (d) the ability to remember what words look like. The proposed study focuses on a method to identify which factors are responsible for spelling errors in individual students and develop instruction that can specifically improve those factors.

10. Purpose of the Project • Statement of the Problem • Significance to academic discipline • Sufficiently clear that the reviewer outside your area is convinced that the proposed project is worthwhile • Not specifically in FRG guidelines, but it can’t hurt to tie your project to one of the Futures Initiatives, if possible • Objectives (what will happen if funded) • Clear • Reasonable/attainable within project period • Brief review of literature; how your proposal is related and will extend • Clear (would “Aunt Betty” get it?) • Logical link to existing work as well as your own • Why are you uniquely suited to address the question… “in our previous work we…”

11. Research Design & Methods • Procedures (sufficient detail to illustrate design) • What will you do? • What will participants do? • Data collection and analysis • Independent variables • Dependent variables • Statistical treatment • Scenarios regarding outcomes, if possible • Previous experience of applicant that is related to proposed project • Publications • Presentations • Work in progress • Bottom line is that you want to convince the committee members that you are capable of doing this work by providing a sound design, method, and history of doing similar work

12. Research Design & Methods • Plan for dissemination of results • Presentation at specific meetings • Publication submitted to specific journals • Plan for extending investigation • Proposal for external funding to specific agency • Additional studies • Beginning and ending dates for project • A complete timeline/table if you have room

13. Other Sources of Funding • Internal (or External) Cost Sharing • Department support • College support (consider summer salary support)

14. Previous MSU Funding • Support and specific outcomes • Show how you’ve been a “good investment” in the past • Suggest using a table

15. Budget • $7500 Maximum • Salaries and Benefits • Really have to build a strong case!! It needs to be clear that the project cannot be done without the extra personnel • Can’t fund supplemental pay or course buy-out for PI • Can fund GAs, student workers (hourly), other workers to participate in project (not to relieve your work so you can do the research) • Some reviewers favor proposals involving students. • If a GA is requested, it is also important to show the educational benefits of participating in your project for the grad student. • This factor can be used as an extra boost if you ultimately plan to apply for AREA funds

16. Budget • Equipment • Separate Categories for Purchase and Repair • Demonstrate clear, direct relationship to proposed project (this is not an addition to your start-up money to equip your lab- it is a project proposal) • Document that equipment isn’t available via another source (Dept., ETC, etc.) • Describe future use, after project completion • Provide current pricing (if over $1000, include vendor quote)

17. Budget • Operations • Supplies • Must show how postage, paper, skull caps, test protocols, etc. are directly related and critical for project • Services • Ditto re computer programming, library services, graphics/illustration services, etc. are directly & critically related • Travel • Necessary to conduct the study, such as travel to data collection sites, travel stipends for participants, etc. • Give precise amount by specifying locations and using university travel guidelines to calculate amount • Travel to conferences to present results is not eligible (nor are publication costs)

18. Self Review

19. Summer Faculty Fellowship • Same committee judges SFF and FRG • $5K for the summer • No teaching, etc. • http://graduate.missouristate.edu/facultysupport.htm

20. Ready to Write?