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Upcoming Events

Maximizing Pivot to Find Funding and Collaborators

Do you want to maximize your time spent searching for funding opportunities or potential project collaborators? Join us on the dates below to learn how Pivot can save you time and effort in identifying the right funding opportunities for your research lines as well as identifying collaborators with the relevant expertise.

Tuesday, April 27 @ 1pm-2pm. Register here

Wednesday, May 26 @ 11am-12pm. Register here

Integrating Team Science into Grant Proposals Series

Are you interested in learning about evidence-based principles that can be adopted into team effectiveness? The overall objective of the series is to provide investigators with knowledge and skills for improving the integration of team science principles into the process of obtaining and carrying out research grants. See the series webpage for details

Developing Team Leadership: Tuesday, May 4 @ 3pm-4pm. Register here

Support Mechanisms for Undergraduate Research and New Opportunities

Join the Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates (ICRU) for a brief overview of their services followed by a Q&A session.  Topics covered will be their funding program for UI undergraduate researchers, presentation opportunities for your students to share their work, travel awards so they may attend regional and national conferences, and support we provide for training undergraduate researchers including NSF REU awards and mentor training.  We will also cover new university initiatives such as the CLAS Environmental Justice and P3 funding for team-based policy research created to support you and your undergraduate researchers.

Thursday, May 27 2pm-3pm. Register here

RDO Resources

Networking Surveys

Networking surveys create a directory to help identify potential collaborators for your ideas and projects. There are currently eight topics represented: 1) human-technology interface, 2) artificial intelligence/machine learning, 3) e-cigarettes/vaping, 4) global health, 5) mental health, 6) opioids, 7) COVID-19, and 8) microfabrication/nanofabrication.

Complete the surveys and see the results here.

Learn from Successful Examples: Resource Library

Are you curious about how to structure your proposal to a certain funding agency? Check out the Resource Library to see example successful proposals to various funding agencies and for inspiration while drafting your proposal.

View the Resource Library. Note: HawkID authentication required

Increase Grant Competitiveness through an External Review

Would you like to receive critical feedback on your grant proposal by an expert in your field? The External Grant Review program facilitates one external review that provides a funding agency specific review of your proposal concluding with both written and oral comments.

View the guidelines for receiving an external review.

Recordings

Did you miss these sessions? Want to view them? Click on the links below to view the recordings.

Support for Teaching and Learning at UI

Identifying and Capturing Research Funding

Analyzing the Research Funding Landscape

NIH Study Section