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Faculty Fellowship Publication Program Professional Development Seminar

Discover the services offered by the CUNY Research Foundation Award Pre-Proposal Support Office, including workshops, consultations, and funding databases. Learn about successful faculty efforts and gain insights on preparing competitive research proposals.

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Faculty Fellowship Publication Program Professional Development Seminar

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  1. Faculty Fellowship Publication Program Professional Development Seminar John Tsapogas Director Office of Award Pre-Proposal Support (APPS) Research Foundation CUNY 212.417.8508 john_tsapogas@rfcuny.org April 12, 2019

  2. TODAY’S PRESENTATION • Services for Faculty Offered by the CUNY Research Foundation Award Pre-Proposal Support Office • Examples of Workshops on Targeted Themes • Successful Efforts in Helping CUNY Faculty Win Awards • Overview of the Federal Science Funding Landscape • National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health • Tip for Preparing Competitive Research Proposals

  3. Overview of the Research Foundation Award Pre-Proposal Support (APPS) Office • Office opened in December 2015 • Mandated to further a “culture of research” at CUNY and expand capacity of grant-seekers • A CUNY support activity dedicated exclusively to faculty proposal development • Shares strategic grant opportunities – cultivates faculty collaborations – convenes CUNY staff and faculty around funding best practices and multidisciplinary initiatives Services include • Individual consultations with faculty, researchers, and grad students of all disciplines and seniority – discovering funding prospects, and workshopping specific proposals • General seminars on grant design and tactics • Targeted forums on specific themes or trends in funding • Peer review of grant proposals – implemented March 2016 • Funding opportunity databases providing CUNY-wide access, paid for by RFCUNY • “Faculty Travel for Grant Development” Internal Funding

  4. Examples of APPS’ Targeted Workshops on Strategic Themes • NSF CAREER Award Program – April 8, 2016; March 17, 2017; January 26, 2018 • NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) – June 10, 2016 • Arts and Humanities Philanthropy Forum – December 8, 2016 • “Broader Impacts” in Grantwriting – April, 27, 2017 • NSF Education and Human Resources Grants Forum – May 17, 2017 • International Research and Education Forum – November 8, 2017 • Defense and Intelligence Grants Forum – May 17, 2017 • Convergence Research – September 15, 2018 • Research Fellowships in Japan – October 12, 2018 • Strategies for Arts and Humanities Grantseeking – November 15, 2018 • SCORE Grant Program Strategies and Insights Workshop – January 25, 2019

  5. Examples of Recent Proposal Successes with APPS Assistance • Yoel Rodriguez, Hostos, NSF • “The Hostos Engineering Academic Talent (HEAT) Scholarship Program”, $1,000,000 • Olorunseun Ogunwobi, Hunter, NIH • “TUFCCC/HC Regional Comprehensive Cancer Health Disparity Partnership”, $1,050,067 • Claire Wladis, BMCC, NSF • "Develop a test that measures how well college students understand fundamental algebra concepts”, $1,500,000 • Karen Florez, CUNY SPH, NIH • “Social networks, acculturation, and food behaviors and values among Mexican-American families”, $500,000 • Vicki Flaris & Pam Mills, BCC/Lehman, NSF • “Growth Mindset: Improving Minority Students' Outcomes in STEM”, $5,000,000 • José Luis Cruz, Lehman/CUNY Alliance, NSF • “New York City Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NYC-LSAMP)”, $4,500,000 • Masahiro Kawaji, CCNY, NSF • “Multi-scale, Multi-phase Phenomena in Complex Fluids for the Energy Industries”, $5,200,000

  6. Higher education R&D expenditures, by source of funds: FYs 1972–2017 SOURCE: National Science Foundation, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Higher Education Research and Development Survey.

  7. Types of NSFProposals • Directorate ProgramSolicitations/Announcements • Cross-Directorate Programs(CAREER, PIRE, STC, ERC) • Unsolicitedproposals • EAGER (small Concept Grants for Exploratory Research; <$300,000 for 2yrs) and RAPID (severe urgency); <$200,000 for 1 yr) • Supplements (including REU,RET) • NSF prefers to support hypothesis-driven research

  8. NSF OrganizationalStructure • Discipline-based Directorates(7) • ➢BiologicalSciences • ➢Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering • ➢Education & HumanResources • ➢Engineering • ➢Geosciences • ➢Mathematical & PhysicalSciences • ➢Social, Behavioral & EconomicSciences • ➢Divisions within eachDirectorate • ➢➢Program Directors • Permanent • IPAs (Rotators)

  9. NSF ReviewCriteria • What is the intellectual merit of the proposedactivity? • What are the broader impacts of the proposedactivity? • Additional criteria may be listed in the solicitation/announcement ofopportunity

  10. NSF CAREER Program-Support for New Investigators • The Faculty Early-Career Development (CAREER) program is an NSF funding opportunity for new investigators. • All NSF programs support new investigators as part of regular (“core”) research competitions. • More than 33% of research proposals submitted to NSF are from new (not previously NSF-funded) investigators. • Approximately 20% of the research proposals from new investigators are submitted to the CAREER Program -- a Foundation-wide activity that offers NSF's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the missions of their organizations.

  11. National Institutes of Health Office of the Director National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases National Cancer Institute Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Institute on Aging National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases National Institute on Drug Abuse National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences National Eye Institute National Institute of General Medical Sciences National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute National Human Genome Research Institute National Institute of Mental Health National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke National Institute of Nursing Research National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health National Library of Medicine National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities John E. Fogarty International Center National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Clinical Center Center for Information Technology Center for Scientific Review

  12. NIH ReviewCriteria • Significance-Does the project address an important problem or a critical barrier to progress in the field? • Investigator(s)-Are the PD/PIs, collaborators, and other researchers well suited to the project? • Innovation-Does the application challenge and seek to shift current research or clinical practice paradigms by utilizing novel theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions?  • Approach-Are the overall strategy, methodology, and analyses well-reasoned and appropriate to accomplish the specific aims of the project? • Environment-Are the institutional support, equipment and other physical resources available to the investigators adequate for the project proposed? 

  13. NIH R15-Research Enhancement Award • Supports small-scale research projects at undergraduate institutions, health professional schools and graduate schools. • At the time of application submission, all the non-health professional components of the institution together have not received support from the NIH totaling more than $6 million per year (in both direct and F&A/indirect costs) in 4 of the last 7 fiscal years. • The PI may not be the PI of an active NIH research grant at the time of a R15 award, though he or she may be one of the Key Personnel for an active NIH grant held by another PD/PI. The PI may not be awarded more than one R15 grant at a time. • Project period is limited to 3 years. Direct costs are limited to $300,000 over the entire project period. R15 grants are multi-year funded awards. The entire budget, for all years of the award, must be requested in the first budget year. • Standard R15 receipt dates are February 25, June 25, and October 25.

  14. NIH R01-Research Enhancement Award • The Research Project (R01) grant is an award made to support a discrete, specified, circumscribed project to be performed by the named investigator(s) in an area representing the investigator's specific interest and competencies. • As a general rule, R01 application budgets are not limited but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project • Applications are generally awarded for 1 - 5 budget periods, each normally 12 months in duration. Applications can be renewed by competing for an additional project period. • Standard receipt dates for new grant applications are February 5, June 5, and October 5; and for renewal, resubmission, and revision grant applications are March 5, July 5, and November 5.

  15. SCORE is a research capacity building program that seeks to increase the research competitiveness of faculty at under-resourced institutions with limited NIH R01 funding that have explicitly stated historical missions or historical track records focused on training and graduating students from underrepresented groups in biomedical research. • The overarching goal of the SCORE program is to foster research career enhancement opportunities for faculty at institutions that have an explicitly stated historical mission focused on training students from nationally underrepresented backgrounds and/or a documented historical track record of recruiting, retaining, training, and graduating underrepresented students. • The SCORE program offers three distinct support mechanisms: • Research Advancement Award (SC1) is for investigators with a track record of research activity who are seeking to enhance their research productivity in order to transition to non-SCORE support in a limited period of time. Pilot Project Award (SC2) is for those who are at the beginning stages of a research career, applying for their first independent award, and who are interested in testing a new idea, or generating preliminary data. Research Continuance Award (SC3) is for those investigators who have been engaged in scholarly research and published, and who seek to continue to conduct competitive research of limited scope to increase their publications and eventually transition to non-SCORE support. • Application due dates are May 7 2019 and September 7, 2019 NIH SCORE PROGRAM (SC)

  16. Sponsors want to know the size and scope of intellectualpayoff • Proposal should use plain, simpleEnglish-avoid technical language as much as possible • This is not a journal article presenting research results it is a proposal to conduct research • Identify what you will study (research questions, theories, hypotheses, methods), your research plan, your team, and your budget, your project evaluation • Do not include more information than requested in the announcement • Use tables, figures, and flow charts to savewords if you need more space • Adhere to all formatting rules (page limitations, font sizes, style of biosketches of key personnel, bibliography) and make it visuallyappealing and easy on reviewers • Include sufficient budgetjustification, current and pending support, institutional facilities and equipment to be used in the research, a data management plan, and postdoctoral mentoring plan, IRB, and letters of commitment if needed • Get your proposals peer reviewed by RF APPS prior to submission. If heavily data oriented use the CUNY Graduate Center Quantitative Research Consulting Center Tips for Writing CompetitiveProposals

  17. Developing Hypotheses and Aims (Goals) for Your Research • Example: Assessment of the impact of aircraft emissions on air quality and hospital admissions in the JFK Airshed • Hypothesis: We hypothesize that low-cost sensing technology can provide reliable estimates of ambient air pollutants from jet fuel emissions with accuracy comparable to traditional regulatory monitoring equipment, to improve long-term exposure assessment of the impact of the key air toxics have on emergency room hospitalizations. • Aim 1. Aim 1. Characterize concentrations of PM2.5, NO2, O3 and VOCs at varying distances from flight paths. • Aim 2. Aim 2. Compare air pollutant concentrations with meteorological parameters: wind direction, wind speed and temperature for temporal (diurnal, weekday, weekend) and seasonal variations and the cumulative health effects. • Aim 3. Determine the contribution of ground-based emission sources in specific microenvironments (vegetated vs non-vegetated areas) to air pollutant concentrations and the resultant emergency room admissions for respiratory and heart-related symptoms and/or illnesses.

  18. Suggested Proposal Preparation and Submission Guidelines • 12 - 6 MONTHS AHEAD: identify opportunities from prior years, read award abstracts and outcome reports • 6 MONTHS AHEAD: begin discussing with any partners • 3 MONTHS AHEAD: read final solicitation carefully; alert sponsored programs office • 1.5 MONTHS AHEAD: share draft proposal for feedback with colleagues, APPS Office; prepare first draft of budgets • 2 WEEKS AHEAD: upload everything except narrative, if possible; ensure subcontract paperwork is done • 1 WEEK AHEAD: final edits by PI, partners, and sponsored programs office; mop up any last supporting docs • DAY BEFORE DUE DATE: submit if possible

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