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OPD Seminars and Workshops for 2007 – 2008

Below is OPD's tentative year-long schedule for workshops and seminars.  Please check the seminar website a few weeks before the event is scheduled to get more information, confirm the date and register for the event.

  • August  14, 2007                                                      

One-day Grant Writing Seminar: The Craft of Proposal Writing

  • September 3– December 3, 2007

Semester-long Craft of Grant-Writing Workshop (applications due Sept. 3rd) 

  • September 21, 2007

Seminar for Faculty: Writing Proposals for Grants to Fund Instrumentation

  • September 26, 2007  

Seminar for Students: How to Find and Apply for Graduate Fellowships

  • October 3, 2007

Seminar for Faculty: Strategies for Finding and Pursuing Funding (with breakout sessions focusing on different agencies)

  • October  4, 2007 

Seminar for Faculty: How to Compete for Research Funding (Dean of Faculties Seminar  Series)

  • November 7,  2007

Seminar for Senior Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows: How to Pursue Research Funding in Your First Independent Research Position

  • November 2007 (date TBD)

Seminar for Students: How to Apply for Ford Fellowships and Other Graduate Fellowships for Underrepresented Students

  •  December 2007 (date TBD)

Seminar for Tenure-track, Untenured Faculty: How to Write Competitive Proposals for NSF CAREER and other Early-Career Programs

  • January 2008 (date TBD)

Posdoctoral and E Early Career funding in the Life Sciences  (for College of Medicine Grad Student Organization)

  • February 2008 (date TBD)

Panel Discussion:  Finding and Winning Funding at NIH

  • February 2008 (date TBD)

Panel Discussion: How to Compete for Funding at NSF

  • March 2008 (date TBD)

Panel Discussion: How to Pursue Research Funding from the Dept. of Defense, National Labs and the Department of Energy

  • April 2008 (date TBD)

Panel Discussion: NIH K-Awards and NRSA Awards

  • April 2008 (date TBD)

Panel Discussion: Research Funding in the Agricultural Sciences

  • June 2008 (date TBD)

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences

  • June 2008 (TBD)

Seminar for Faculty: How to Write a Competitive Proposal for the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites and Supplements