Over the last three years, both the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have encouraged collaboration among researchers primarily through the status of co-investigators and/or research collaborators as a way to insure a team-oriented research environment between departments and colleges within a university, as well as between institutions and research [...]

You have met with the Sponsored Programs Specialist for your college, and agreed on the table of contents of your proposal based on the guidelines within the funding announcement. The proposal has been signed off by your department head and all necessary resources gathered – time to develop your budget! To plan all the needed [...]

The upcoming National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) 51st annual meeting in Washington D.C. from October 20 – 24th
provides a wide opportunity of training, discussions and meetings that affords research administrators like me a great opportunity to widen our knowledge base to ably support faculty and staff engaged in external research. This will be [...]

 Every aspiring researcher that seeks to develop and extend their
project/research ideas into a tangible project actively searches for external funding that will enable them to bridge the gap from an idea into a working product or research.
The process usually begins with putting an idea into a project format, to identifying potentail sponsors from federal, state and local [...]

If you’re asking yourself —“Why would I want to write a grant proposal?”—you’re missing the point. Grant funds are a practical way to extend limited budgets.

Everytime that you are developing your proposal for a funding opportunity, there is a need to write a brief summary of the university and its mission statement. Examples of information needed is the DUNS number (what is a DUNS Number?) of the university.
A D&B® D-U-N-S® Number is a unique nine-digit sequence recognized as the universal [...]