Welcome!

Office of Proposal Development

 Go to our – What's New – page for information about the latest additions to our web site.

Click on "What's New" for information on the following topics: 

• NSF's Science and Engineering Indicators 2010 released January 15
• NIH Announces Shortened and Restructured Application Forms and Instructions for all applications due on or after January 25, 2010
• NIH-NASA announce Biomedical Research on the International Space Station funding opportunity
• Big XII Webinar: Federal Research Priorities and Budget Update for FY10
• New Search Engine Lifts Veil on NIH Grants
• New Scoring Procedures and Review Criteria for Enhancing Peer Review at NIH

Leadership Update: Effective Oct. 14, 2009, Ms. Robyn Pearson will serve as the Interim Director of the Office of Proposal Development during the search for a permanent director. All programs and activities for the Office of Proposal Development will continue as planned. Ms. Pearson can be reached at rlpearson@tamu.edu or (979) 847-9363. 

The Office of Proposal Development (OPD), a unit of Texas A&M University's Division of Research and Graduate Studies, supports Texas A&M faculty in the development and writing of research and educational proposals to federal agencies and foundations. OPD helps meet the long-term institutional research and educational priorities of the university, e.g., promoting new and junior faculty research, undergraduate research, and promoting diversity objectives related to students and faculty.

The office supports:

• center-level initiatives
• new and junior faculty
• multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research teams
• research affinity groups
• diversity in the research enterprise
• long-term proposal planning

OPD helps develop research partnerships across A&M colleges, departments, centers, and interdisciplinary groups, as well as throughout the Texas A&M University System, including the Health Science Center and its four components.

OPD also offers a comprehensive suite of training programs and information resources to help new faculty, faculty expanding into new program areas, and graduate students acquire the skills and knowledge they need to write more competitive proposals.

NOTE: You may use Google to search our website using the following steps: 1) Go to Google; 2) Type your keywords into the search box; 3) After your keywords, input into the search box "site:opd.tamu.edu"  (without quotation marks). Google will then search for your keywords only within our website. (This works in Google for any website)