Spring 2010 Proposal Writing Workgroup

GradFund, the Resource Center for Graduate Student External Support

Spring 2010 Proposal Writing Workgroup

• Are you planning to apply for external funding during fall 2010?
  
• Are you unsure how to write a funding proposal?

Gradfund’s Proposal Writing Workgroup will help you with the proposal writing process!

General Interest Meeting: Dec. 4, 2009 @ noon, 25 Bishop Place, CAC

What is it?

The Gradfund Proposal Writing Workgroup offers a supportive interdisciplinary environment for doctoral students with a defined dissertation topic to meet periodically to discuss the mechanics of applying for external funding, strategies for putting together a competitive application, and the opportunity to draft proposals and receive peer review in a collegial environment.

What will I get out of it?

The goal of the workgroup is the help graduate students prepare their funding proposals well in advance of the Fall 2010 deadline season. We also seek to create a proposal writing community in which the workgroup participants may continue to engage independently over the summer and into the fall semester.

What’s the time commitment?

Workgroup participants should be prepared to complete preparatory work and to attend the scheduled workgroup meetings. The workgroup will meet twice a month from January to May of 2010. Each group meeting will run approximately 3 hours, and will require approximately 1-2 hours of preparatory work. The meeting schedule will be determined after the initial general interest meeting to be held on Friday, December 4 at 12:00 noon at 25 Bishop Place, CAC

How many students will be in the workgroup?

The workgroup will be limited to 10 students in order to provide each individual with detailed and constructive feedback on proposal drafts in a supportive environment.

How do I sign up?

If you are interested in joining the GradFund Proposal Writing Workgroup, please email Assistant Dean Teresa Delcorso at gradfund at rci.rutgers.edu. Place “GradFund Proposal Writing Workgroup” in the subject line of your email. In the body of your email, please indicate your interest in joining the workgroup in addition to your graduate program, year in program, the funder to which you would like to apply, and if you will be able to attend the general interest meeting to be held on December 4, 2009. Attendance at the December 4 meeting is not required but strongly advised.

Workgroup discussion topics and activities will include:

• Getting ready to apply for funding
• Examining how to integrate funding into your graduate career
• Understanding the proposal writing genre
• Finding funding options and strategies for success
• Preparing an application, writing a proposal, personal statement, and budget
• Becoming familiar with the proposal review process
• Drafting and revising proposals
• Reviewing and critiquing proposals
• Analyzing and discussing examples of successful proposals

To register or for more information, email: gradfund at rci.rutgers.edu

Graduate Student Drop-In Hours Nov. 11 and Dec. 9

Graduate Student Drop-In Hours Nov. 11 and Dec. 9

• Do you have questions about external fellowships and grants?
• Do you want to learn more about how GradFund can help you with your funding applications?
• Do you want to know more about our services and resources?
• Do you want to know which grants and fellowship you can apply for to support your graduate work?

Plan to stop by during our Drop-In Hours to learn more and get answers to your questions.

We will hold Graduate Student Drop-In Hours on November 11 and December 9 from 1pm to 3pm in our offices at 25 Bishop Place, CAC.

Graduate students are welcome to stop by during the Drop-In Hours to briefly discuss external funding. Student meetings will take place on a first-come, first-served basis. Meeting will last 10-15 minutes

Students interested in scheduling a more in depth meeting should email gradfund at rci.rutgers.edu and place “meeting request” in the subject line.

Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

This Department of Energy Program provides fellowships paying $32,400 plus tuition and fees to students pursuing doctoral degrees in fields of study that utilize high performance computing to solve complex problems in science and engineering. The fellowship includes a 12-week research experience at one of 17 DOE laboratories.

The application deadline is January 14, 2010.

www.krellinst.org/csgf

New Energy Department fellowships

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC) has established the DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship ( DOE SCGF) program to support outstanding students to pursue graduate training in basic research in areas of physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, computational sciences, and environmental sciences relevant to the Office of Science and to encourage the development of the next generation scientific and technical talent in the U.S.

The Fellowship award provides partial tuition support, an annual stipend for living expenses, and a research stipend for full-time graduate study and thesis/dissertation research at a U.S. academic institution for three years.

Fellowships awarded in the first year of the DOE SCGF program will be funded in part by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

The application deadline is November 30th.

Postdoctoral Fellowships at Konstanz

Postdoctoral Fellowships at Konstanz

Research positions in the natural sciences, humanities and social sciences are available through the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz. For information go to http://www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskolleg

Application deadline is November 30

Mock Review Sessions

During the month of October, we will offer a series of Mock Review Sessions for student who would like to participate in a mock review panel and have their funding proposal reviewed and critiqued by their peers.

Mock Review Sessions--October 2009

October 23, 2009, 11am-2pm, 25 Bishop Place, room 301, CAC (We will work through the lunch hour, please plan to bring your lunch with you, soft drinks will be provided) (draft due 9am on October 16, 2009)
October 30, 2009, 9am-12pm, 18 Bishop Place, Basement Conference Room, CAC (draft due 9am on October 23, 2009)

Pre-registration is required to participate in a Mock Review session. To register, please send an email to gradfund@rci.rutgers.edu with the date of the session you would like to attend. To participate in the review session, your proposal draft and the url to the guidelines of your funder should be emailed to gradfund@rci.rutgers.edu by 9:00am on the date indicated in parentheses next to the review session listed above.

NJWRRI FY 2010 Grants Program Request for Proposals

The New Jersey Water Resources Research Institute invites proposals for research addressing water resource issues in the state. We expect to fund 2 larger research projects conducted by faculty and to fund 4-5 grants-in-aid to graduate students to support thesis research.

The mission of the NJWRRI is to fund research that addresses critical water resource problems in New Jersey, and by so doing, to produce the water resource professionals needed to protect and manage water in our increasingly crowded state. To this end, the Institute especially encourages proposals from junior faculty to develop research programs targeting priority water resource issues, and from graduate students to develop thesis research projects on these issues.

Two types of project are invited: a) research projects, which address unanswered questions in water resource sciences, and b) information transfer projects, which propose activities to make information available to user communities.

All information is also available at: http://njwrri.rutgers.edu/njwrri_funding.htm. The deadline to submit proposals is Friday, November 13, 2009.