Seminar 5/4/18

Friday Seminar Meeting: May (the) 4^th (be with you), 2018

Notes

·         Sponsored Project Administration

o   Uvm.edu/spa/

o   2017

§  715 awards

§  123 mm

§  COM -> > 50% of awards

o   Federal funders

§  NSF

§  NIH

o   Mission agencies

§  DOD

§  EPA

o   Solicited

§  Specific aims

o   Unsolicited (investigator initiated)

§  Braod

·         Hilda Alajajian

o   Help find funding opportunities (how to look for money)

·         PIVOT

o   UVM search platform for funding opportunities

o   Create username/ID

§  Save searches

§  Share searches

§  Alerts

§  Notifications

o   Method for narrowing down search opportunities

§  Keywords -> browse  -> (ex. Health & medicine -> outcomes research)

§  Uncheck ‘explode’ before hitting search

§  Search -> refine keywords

·         Add location, citizenship, new keywords

o   Tips

§  Look up dream grant -> use keywords associated with it.

·         They show you within pivot

§  Stay broad then narrow