Grant Chats

                                                 Monthly discussions of grant preparation strategies and resource sharing.

grant chats - Fall 2008/Spring 2009

Community of Science Training (COS) will be offered by MURC on Monday, March 30, from 2:00-3:00 p.m.  Learn at the privacy of your office, or come join us at 349 Drinko Library, where MURC staff will be on hand to answer questions. With more than 25,000 funding opportunities for travel, equipment, and training, etc. the COS is an important tool for research-oriented faculty.  More...

The February Grant Chat: WV Space Grant Consortium and EPSCoR Proposal Preparation will be held on Feb. 20 at 3:00 p.m. in Drinko Library 138. This hands-on workshop will be held in a computer lab to offer assistance for faculty writing WV Space Grant Consortium (WVSGC), NASA-EPSCoR, or WV-EPSCoR grant proposals due in March 2009 (featured in the January Grant Chat). Faculty should bring a draft of their proposal and proposal budget. 

The January Grant Chat: Small Grant Opportunities, held on Friday, January 23, at 2:00 in BBSC 102, focused on support provided by the West Virginia Space Grant Consortium and the WV-EPSCoR Office.  Both offer support for student scholarships, travel, outreach, seed money, research, and collaborative projects.  More... 

The October Grant Chat:  Student Funding Opportunities: Finding Ways To Retain Graduate Students was held on Oct 24, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. in Drinko Library 349.  This event was a brainstorming session to discuss funding opportunities and resources for students. Co-sponsored by the Graduate College and MURC, this chat featured a brief tutorial on how to use the Community of Science (CoS) Workbench to identify sources of student funding.  More...

Community of Science (CoS) Workbench Tutorial: Faculty, post-docs, and students interested in a hands-on workshop to help configure a workbench to enhance their ability to identify funding opportunities using the CoS Workbench, should contact the MU-ADVANCE office (mu-advance@marshall.edu).

The first grant chat of the academic year, Grant Chat 7, was held on September 26.  Meeting summary: As listed on the MU-ADVANCE grants website, Fall deadlines for funding opportunities at Marshall, within the state, and nationally were presented.  Future topics of interest were discussed and included: 1) Identifying grant opportunities, 2) Outlining and organizing your grant proposal, and 3) Drafting the budget.  For the next Grant Chat, the Graduate College and MURC will lead a brainstorming session to identify grant opportunities for students.  In addition, MURC will alert faculty of a grant-writing workshop they are developing to help students prepare proposals.

Grant Chat Archives contain meeting summaries and handouts for the following:

 

For more information contact:

Marcia Harrison

696-4867

harrison@marshall.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sponsors:

MU-ADVANCE

Marshall University Research Corp.

Cell Differentiation and Development Center

 

351