Office of Research and Sponsored Programs: Helpful Links

National Institutes of Health: Tips for Applicants

NIH Tips for Applicants presents reviewers and staff offering some great tips and insights to grant applicants looking to improve their chances of getting a grant from the National Institutes of Health. 

National Institutes of Health:  Peer Review Revealed

NIH Peer Review Revealed offers a NIH peer review meeting showing how real scientists from the scientific community review fictional but realistic grant applications for scientific merit. 

 

National Institutes of Health:  What Happens to Your NIH Grant Application

Applicants for NIH grants are guided on how the NIH Center for Scientific Review handles submitted applications.

National Institutes of Health:  Strategic Plan for Obesity

Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, talks about the importance of obesity research and the Strategic Plan for NIH Obesity Research. 

 

Office of Extramural Research: "Why Are Budgets Cut?"

The Office of Extramural Research (OER) presents recorded conversations with NIH staff members with new topics released every two weeks. This week topic, "Why are Budgets Cut?" is a discussion of NIH funding decisions, specifically what happens should your budget get cutis. Dr. Della Hann, Deputy Director of NIH’s Office of Extramural Research and Rebecca Claycamp, Chief Grants Managements Officer at the National Institute on Mental Health offer valuable information on this topic.

 National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation Program

The MRI program is coordinated by the Office of Integrative Activities (OIA) in collaboration with Directorates and Offices across National Science Foundation.  Check out an overview of the program in addition to what makes a proposal fail or be considered competitive.

 

National Science Foundation Proposal and Awards Procedure Guide

The Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide is comprised of documents relating to the Foundation's proposal and award process.  Part I consists of NSF’s proposal preparation and submission guidelines while  Part II includes documents used to guide, manage, and monitor the award and administration of grants and cooperative agreements made by the Foundation.

 

RefWorks/COS Presents:  Pivot tutorials

The Pivot Channel offers over 20 video tutorials for the Pivot system, an innovative online reserach tool provided by Marywood University for faculty, staff, and students.

Social Science Research Council

On The Art of Writing Proposals offers Some Candid Suggestions for Applicants to Social Science Research Council Competitions by Adam Przeworski and Frank Salomon