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Federal Grant Seekers and Early Career Fellowships

Federal Grant Seekers Fellowship

The School of Engineering Federal Grant Seekers Program (FGSP) runs every other year and alternates with our Early Career Fellowship. 

The School of Engineering, in partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences, presents the program, which is a semester-long cohort that prepares you to meet with program officers, improves your grant writing skills, increases your chance at winning federal grants and promotes interdisciplinary research.

FGSP provides you with the opportunity to identify and work on federal grant proposals while teaming with a cohort of like-minded faculty.

Your fellowship will culminate with a Program Officer Engagement Week in May, where participants will meet virtually with program officers from federal agencies such as NSF, NIH, EPA, etc.

Requirements and Eligibility

  • Participants are required to attend all sessions, meet with program officers and submit a proposal to a desired federal funding agency.  
  • All faculty in the School of Engineering and the College are eligible.

Special thanks to the following Spring 2024 Federal Grant Seekers Program contributors:  Nicky Adams, Gretchen Kelly, Carissa Krane, Kristen Krupa, Alex Morgan, and John Nichols.

Federal Grant Seekers Program Schedule

(subject to change; all sessions are at 1:30pm in KL 505)

January 17, 2024 | Federal Grant Seekers Kickoff Session

  • Establishing and Communicating Your Research Identity (Kristen Krupa-SoE)
  • Finding Funding Opportunities (Kristen Krupa-SoE & Gretchen Kelly-SoE)

January 31, 2024 | Dissecting Request for Proposals (John Nichols-CAS)

  • Peer Review/Feedback on Quad Charts
  • Bring an RFP to dissect

February 14, 2024 | Understanding and Writing White Papers (Alex Morgan-UDRI)

February 28, 2024 | Contacting Program Officers (Kristen Krupa-SoE)

March 13, 2024 | Targeting and Aligning Your Proposal to the Right Agency (Carissa Krane-CAS & Kristen Krupa-SoE)

April 10, 2024 | Developing Your Pitch to Program Officers and Delivering Your Pitch via Zoom (Nicky Adams- CAS)

April 24, 2024 | Feedback and Discussion on Mock Program Officer Meetings (Kenya Crosson-SoE, Carissa Krane-CAS, Kristen Krupa-SoE, John Nichols-CAS)

May 6-10, 2024 | Program Officer Engagement Week (Federal Grant Seeker Participants)

May 22, 2024 @ 12-1:30 pm | Celebration Luncheon & Debrief. Working with Your Unit and University Contracts and Grants Teams

Questions? 

Contact Kenya Crosson (kcrosson1@udayton.edu) for the School of Engineering or Carissa Krane (ckrane1@udayton.edu) for the College of Arts and Sciences.


Early Career Fellowship

The Early Career Fellowship will be offered in 2025. An Information Session will be held in Fall 2024. Additional details coming at a later date.

 

The Early Career Fellowship (ECF) runs every other year and alternates with our Federal Grant Seekers Fellowship.  The School of Engineering, in partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences, presents the ECF program.

Designed as a year-long cohort, ECF focuses on writing and submitting early career grant proposals, with an emphasis on the NSF Career Award.

Writing and submitting research proposals to external funding agencies is a critical part of a tenure-track career. Special opportunities for funding exist through numerous agencies, e.g., NSF, Office of Naval Research, NIH, etc. Although these grants are competitive, the process of writing and submitting an early career grant proposal can help propel faculty research and scholarship.

Questions?

Contact Kenya Crosson (kcrosson1@udayton.edu) for the School of Engineering or Carissa Krane (ckrane1@udayton.edu) for the College of Arts and Sciences.

CONTACT

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