Research Support Workshops for Faculty
Improve your skills. Increase your funding.
The workshops listed below are designed to help faculty of all levels navigate the world of sponsored research by focusing on topics such as proposal writing, how to find funding, funding agency requirements and more.
Sign up for events – once we have enough interested participants, we will reach out to schedule the event at a time that works for you.
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Recordings of Past Events »
Creating Service Center Rates and Indirect Cost Charges for Instruments
What: A comprehensive discussion on creating service center rates, including rate development and the indirect cost associated with them
Audience: Faculty responsible for laboratory equipment
Duration: 1 hour
Who’s Signed Up?:
| Parisa Bazazi - Petroleum Engineering - September 26, 2023 |
| Danica Roth - Geology and Geological Engineering - March 16, 2023 |
| Kelsey Livingston - GGE - October 24, 2022 |
| Julie Lambert - Geology & Geological Engineering - October 21, 2022 |
Cultivating a Diverse Funding Portfolio
What: Panel discussion about strategies to branch out to new funders
Audience: Mid-career faculty who have had success with one or two funders
Duration: 1 hour
Who’s Signed Up?:
Data Management Plans 101
What: Learn how to write a compliant and implementable data management plan for your next proposal
Audience: Early career faculty, or anyone who needs a refresher!
Duration: 1 hour
Who’s Signed Up?:
Developing Interdisciplinary Team Proposals
What: Learn tips to help team proposals come together (relatively) smoothly
Audience: Mid-career faculty
Duration: 1 hour
Who’s Signed Up?:
Pivot: What It Is and How to Use It
What: Overview of the Pivot funding opportunity database and how to set up effective custom searches for your research.
Audience: All faculty
Duration: 1 hour
*** Every first Tuesday of the month from 9:00 to 9:30 am. the Research Development team will hold a drop-in virtual office hour, to ask questions and learn how to use Pivot to claim a profile, set up curated searches, and find your next grant funding opportunity.
Learn How to Use Pivot to Identify Funding Prospects – Zoom link
Who’s Signed Up?:
| LIsa Kinzel - RTT - November 30, 2023 |
How to Find Funding Opportunities
What: Overview of different strategies to find a funding opportunity that fits
Audience: Early career faculty, or anyone who needs a refresher!
Duration: 1 hour
Who’s Signed Up?:
| Erin McMurchie - ISRU - November 8, 2023 |
| Katie Schneider - CEE - November 7, 2023 |
| Joice Hu - EB - September 12, 2023 |
Indirect Cost Return (IDC): How It Works
What: Overview of how IDC is calculated and disseminated
Audience: All researchers
Duration: 1 hour
Who’s Signed Up?:
| Anne Steputis - SIF - September 2, 2022 |
| Kelly Hummel - Nexus/RTT - July 26, 2022 |
Influencing Your Sponsor
What: Panel discussion about how to shape a future solicitation
Audience: Mid-career faculty
Duration: 1 hour
Who’s Signed Up?:
| Joy Gockel - Mechanical Engineering - October 11, 2023 |
Intro to Human Subjects Research
What: Overview of what constitutes human subjects research and Mines’ process to ensure study participants are protected
Audience: All faculty, especially those who conduct education-related research
Duration: 1 hour
Who’s Signed Up?:
| Katie Schneider - CEE - November 7, 2023 |
Intro to Tech Transfer
What: Discussion of how to move from idea to license
Audience: Early- and mid-career faculty
Duration: 1 hour
Who’s Signed Up?:
| Reza Hedayat - Civil and Environmental Engineering - August 11, 2023 |
Proposal Writing Best Practices
What: Tips to help you write a proposal that is easy for your reviewers to read
Audience: Early career faculty, or anyone who needs a refresher!
Duration: 1 hour
Who’s Signed Up?:
| Erin McMurchie - ISRU - November 8, 2023 |
| Katie Schneider - CEE - November 7, 2023 |
Service in Washington, D.C.
What: Panel discussion about spending time in D.C. as a program officer for a funding agency
Audience: Anyone interested in this type of service
Duration: 1 hour
Who’s Signed Up?:
Strengthening Your Broader Impacts
What: Panel discussion about how to write strong Broader Impacts in your next NSF proposal
Audience: All faculty
Duration: 1 hour
In the meantime, till we’re waiting for enough interest in this panel discussion, please visit our Past Events webpage to view recordings of the Community Impacts workshop that discusses how to strengthen your Broader Impacts of NSF preproposals.
Who’s Signed Up?:
Working with Industry
What: Panel discussion of how to secure industry funding and keep industry sponsors happy
Audience: Early- and mid-career faculty
Duration: 1 hour
Who’s Signed Up?:
| Joy Gockel - Mechanical Engineering - October 11, 2023 |
Working with National Labs
What: Learn practical tips to help you partner successfully with researchers at national labs.
Audience: All faculty
Duration: 1 hour
Who’s Signed Up?:
Working with Specific Sponsors
What: Panel discussion about how best to work with various sponsors (fill in the sponsor(s) you want to learn more about on your sign-up form)
Audience: All faculty
Duration: 1 hour
Who’s Signed Up?: