Internal Opportunities
The Office of Research has developed a set of
opportunities designed to help your faculty become more
research productive, to enable us as an institution to
move to new levels of research competitiveness and
prominence, and to enable us to take steps that help each
of you implement your strategic objectives. Several
of these opportunities are also designed to increase the
number of graduate students. In those cases, the
opportunities represent a partnership between the Office
of Research and the Graduate School, designed to jointly
increase the number and quality of the students in all
graduate degree programs, and especially of US citizens
in terminal degree programs and to increase research
expenditures and the prestige of our programs.
These opportunities include:
1.
"New Faculty" Seed Grant Program
The annual internal competition has been opened to
receive applications from artists, scholars and
researchers. Tenure-track new faculty appointed as
assistant professors or equivalents, no earlier than May
16, 2005, and who have not received prior competitive
internal or extramural funding support (excludes start-up
funds) in excess of $100,000 are eligible. Applicants
will receive up to $20,000 awards for a 15-month period
beginning May 16, 2008. Deadline for applications is
February 15, 2008.
2.
WSU Faculty Seed Grant Program for Research in
Spokane
In each of the above RFPs, PIs are asked to discuss how
the project would help achieve the university, college
and school/department strategic plans. This
discussion should not be oriented to address only the
high level aspects of the plan such as –Offer the
Best Undergraduate Experience at a Research
University.” Rather, specific steps that are
articulated in strategic plans should be addressed and
implemented should the project be funded. In this
way, these opportunities will help each unit implement
portions of the strategic plan.
3. Technology Gap Fund (Cougar
Gap Fund) (PDF)
Transferring new technologies from the University to
society is essential to fulfilling both WSU’s
traditional land-grant mission and WSU’s Academic
Plan. The Office of Research, through the Office of
Intellectual Property Administration, is soliciting
proposals to further the development of WSU innovations
with commercial potential, but which require additional
work to make them suitable for licensing or ready for
starting a new company. The Technology Gap Fund program
is designed to enhance the impact of WSU-developed
technologies on the economic well being of the region,
state, and donation.
4. Grant
Writers’ Workshop (PDF)
The Office of Research is offering an opportunity for
continued growth and professional development for faculty
members who are preparing NIH and/or NSF grant proposals.
Faculty members should be strongly committed to
developing a competitive grant application. WSU is
contracting with Grant Writers’ Seminars and
Workshops, LLC, to provide their Proposal-Writing
Workshop for a select number of WSU faculty members.
5. Proposal
Consultants
The Office of Research will provide as much as $500
toward the cost of a contract with an outside proposal
consultant. The amount must be matched on a 2:1 basis
(i.e. the Office of Research will provide 1/3 of the
total expenditure) by funds from other sources. In
addition, the proposal must provide full F&A and the
requested amount must exceed $500,000 per year for at
least two years. The Vice Provost for Research will
consider proposals which have the potential to
significantly advance WSU’s strategic and academic
goals, but which do not meet these criteria, on a
case-by-case basis. A list of consultants is available at
http://www.ogrd.wsu.edu/proposal_consultants.asp
.
6. Responsible Conduct of Research
Education
Federal agencies increasingly expect universities to
train faculty members in the responsible conduct of
research. The Office of Research, through the Research
Compliance Office, offers training based on programs used
successfully in other research universities. This
training is required for all faculty members who receive
new awards, with refresher training required once every
five years. Training workshops are web based and are
available online at the
MyResearch webpage.