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Opportunities
The Office
of Research has developed a set of opportunities designed to
help your faculty become more research productive, to enable
us as an institution to move to new levels of research competitiveness
and prominence, and to enable us to take steps that help each
of you implement your strategic objectives. Several of
these opportunities are also designed to increase the number
of graduate students. In those cases, the opportunities
represent a partnership between the Office of Research and
the Graduate School , designed to jointly increase the number
and quality of the students in all graduate degree programs,
and especially of US citizens in terminal degree programs and
to increase research expenditures and the prestige of our programs.
These
opportunities include:
- "New Faculty" Seed Grant Program
The annual internal competition has been opened to receive applications from artists, scholars and researchers. Tenure-track new faculty appointed as assistant professors or equivalents, no earlier than May 16, 2004, and who have not received prior competitive internal or extramural funding support (excludes start-up funds) in excess of $500,000 are eligible. Applicants will receive up to $20,000 awards for a 15-month period beginning May 16, 2007. Deadline for applications is February 17, 2007.
- Initiation
of Collaboration Program
This new program is designed to provide funding for interdisciplinary
seminar series, retreats, and/or symposia. Such activities should foster
the initiation of new faculty research collaborations that transcend
traditional disciplinary boundaries while advancing the strategic goals
of the colleges and departments.
- Mission
to DC
Each
year, the Vice Provost coordinates several trips to DC for
faculty nominated by academic deans. These trips
are designed to help faculty get to know program directors
at federal agencies and private foundations in Washington
DC, and should result in new proposal opportunities. Each person participating agrees to report results broadly.
- Mission
to NY
The Vice Provost coordinates a trip to NY for faculty nominated by academic deans. These trips are designed to help faculty get to know program directors at private foundations in New York, and should result in new proposal opportunities. Each person participating agrees to report results broadly.
- WSU
Faculty Seed Grant Program for Research in Spokane
In each of the above RFPs, PIs are asked to discuss
how the project would help achieve the university, college
and school/department strategic plans. This discussion
should not be oriented to address only the high level aspects
of the plan such as –Offer the Best Undergraduate Experience
at a Research University.” Rather, specific steps that
are articulated in strategic plans should be addressed and
implemented should the project be funded. In this way,
these opportunities will help each unit implement portions
of the strategic plan.
- Technology Gap Fund (Cougar Gap Fund)
Transferring new technologies from the University to society is essential to fulfilling both WSU’s traditional land-grant mission and WSU’s Academic Plan. The Office of Research, through the Office of Intellectual Property Administration, is soliciting proposals to further the development of WSU innovations with commercial potential, but which require additional work to make them suitable for licensing or ready for starting a new company. The Technology Gap Fund program is designed to enhance the impact of WSU-developed technologies on the economic well being of the region, state, and donation.
- Faculty Development Series
The Faculty Development Series (FDS) is a broad curriculum designed to educate WSU faculty members in many aspects of successful proposal development and sponsored project management. The Office of Grant and Research Development (OGRD) offers a variety of workshops to help faculty members achieve the full potential for funding research, scholarly, and creative activities at WSU. The FDS Series will keep faculty members competitive, not only in writing, but in broader aspects of proposal development, from idea generation and on to program implementation. Research compliance workshops are also provided.
- Grant Writers’ Workshop
The Office of Research is offering an opportunity for continued growth and professional development for faculty members who are preparing NIH and/or NSF grant proposals. Faculty members should be strongly committed to developing a competitive grant application. WSU is contracting with Grant Writers’ Seminars and Workshops, LLC, to provide their Proposal-Writing Workshop for a select number of WSU faculty members.
- Proposal Consultants
The Office of Research will provide as much as $500 toward the cost of a contract with an outside proposal consultant. The amount must be matched on a 2:1 basis (i.e. the Office of Research will provide 1/3 of the total expenditure) by funds from other sources. In addition, the proposal must provide full F&A and the requested amount must exceed $500,000 per year for at least two years. The Vice Provost for Research will consider proposals which have the potential to significantly advance WSU’s strategic and academic goals, but which do not meet these criteria, on a case-by-case basis. A list of consultants is available at http://www.ogrd.wsu.edu/proposal_consultants.asp.
- Responsible Conduct of Research Education
Federal agencies increasingly expect universities to train faculty members in the responsible conduct of research. The Office of Research, through the Research Compliance Office, offers training based on programs used successfully in other research universities. This training is required for all faculty members who receive new awards, with refresher training required once every five years. Training workshops are web based and are available online at the MyResearch webpage.
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