Early-Career Grant Development Service
In partnership with the Office of Sponsored Projects, the Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation (SSC) offers free grant development assistance each semester to a limited number of early-career tenure-track faculty at The University of Texas at Austin who have not received federal funding to date. The Division’s staff will assist you in developing the methods section of your grant, and will provide feedback on related areas of the proposal (particularly the specific aims, method, and study design). Staff can also provide a letter of support for your grant application to document the statistical and mathematical consulting resources available to you at The University of Texas at Austin.
Our statisticians can assist faculty in the areas of psychology, sociology, education, communications, and many related social science fields. We can assist with both observational and experimental designs. Statistical analyses include: power analyses; ANOVA and MANOVA; linear, logistic, ordinal, or multinomial regression; survival analysis; factor analysis; cluster analysis; multilevel modeling; structural equation modeling; and longitudinal data analysis. Software expertise includes: SPSS, SAS, Stata, HLM, AMOS, Mplus, and SUDAAN.
Our mathematician can assist faculty in the areas of biomechanics and movement science; metabolite compartmentation, convection, diffusion, and concentration oscillations; absorption and transmission spectral properties, NMR, and Mössbauer spectroscopy; biogerontology; media exposure modeling; economics; and other areas of scientific computation. Mathematical analyses include: intrinsic scaling, dimensionless variables, and dimensional analysis; modeling and simulating a system; optimization; data animation; and time-series analysis. Software expertise includes: IMSL, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, CPLEX, and GAMS.
Each semester, 8 faculty members will be selected for the program through a competitive application process.
DEADLINE: For the Spring 2008 semester, applications for the Early-Career Grant Development Support program are due December 7, 2007, for grant proposals to be submitted no earlier than June 2008.
ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS: Early-career (within three years of joining The University of Texas at Austin), tenure-track faculty who have not received federal funding.
Application: Only one application per individual will be accepted. Submit the following:
• An application form
• a one-page description of the proposed research project that discusses the project’s significance, approach and innovation
• a current c.v. or a current NIH-style biographical sketch
• NOTE: DO NOT submit a Proposal Review Form with your application.
The schedule of events for participants is as follows:
January 14, 2008 11:00 am – 1:00 pm: Introductory Meeting
February 6, 2008 12:00 pm– 1:00 pm: Session One - Specific Aims
March 5, 2008 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Session Two - Research Design and Methods
April 2, 2008 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Session Three - Background and Significance
May 7, 2008 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Session Four - Preliminary Studies
June, 2008 Submission of Final Product to Sponsor
TO APPLY: To apply for free grant development assistance from the SSC, you may DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION or you may request an application from Elena V. Mota via email at evmota@austin.utexas.edu (232-1419). Send your complete application (with your CV and one-page project description) by 6:00 PM on December 7, 2007 to Elena V. Mota, Office of Sponsored Projects, A9000 or you may send it via email to evmota@austin.utexas.edu.
ADDRESS QUESTIONS REGARDING THE EARLY-CAREER GRANT DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT PROGRAM TO : Shanna E. Smith, Ph.D., sesmith@mail.utexas.edu.