Faculty and Staff Resources
The Office of Grants and Contracts Services is the central resource and expert partner on research administration providing support and oversight of sponsored projects. OGCS represents the University of Texas at Arlington as the institutional official for proposal submission and award acceptance ensuring compliance with federal regulations, sponsor requirements and University policies.
Jasmine Parker, senior director of employee and cultural engagement at Dallas College, will delve into the significance of Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) by exploring their historical context, purposes, societal impact, and reasons why they are crucial in the contemporary educational landscape. By examining the evolution of MSIs, their unique contributions, challenges, and the current socio-political climate, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the necessity and relevance of MSIs today.
This workshop is open to any UTA faculty, staff or students interested in minority serving institutions. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. Please complete the RSVP form by Wednesday, May 8, for additional meeting information and to be included in the lunch order. Please join us in person at Trinity 104E/W or online. Contact elissa.williams@uta.edu, if you have any issues.
For the first 30 minutes, we will discuss the NSF changes that will be effective May 20, 2024 with the release of the PAPPG 24-1. These changes will be effective for proposals due on or after May 20, 2024. The second half of this session will be a refresher on the use of the SciENcv for biosketches and the Current and Pending Support.
This workshop is open to any UTA faculty, staff or students interested in the NSF. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees. Please complete the RSVP form by Wednesday, June 12, for additional meeting information and to be included in the lunch order. Contact elissa.williams@uta.edu, if you have any issues.
Consultant Lucy Deckard of Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC lead a webinar on NSF CAREER and other grants specifically for junior faculty. How to identify the right grants and how to write those proposals. Emphasis will be on the NSF CAREER, but other early career grants will also be discussed.
Watch the WebinarDan Vicenzo discusses how to contract with industry, and the various agreement options we have developed to successfully expedite and comfort prospective sponsors who have questions. We discuss the steps you should take internally before meeting with your industry partners, and during the process to fast track industry connections that can lead to funding for your projects.
Watch the WebinarConsultant Lucy Deckard of Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC leads a webinar for faculty who have been successful in winning single-PI and small team grants and are looking to transition to larger team and center-level grants. We discuss how these larger grants are different, what the expectations of the funding agencies are for large team and center grants, successful strategies and common mistakes to avoid.
WATCH THE WEBINARDr. Dolores Raivzee-Bell, newly appointed director of UTA’s Center for Proposal Development, presents an overview of the department’s roles and responsibilities in serving faculty, staff, and students. The Center for Proposal Development provides assistance in grant writing, review and editing of large-scale funding proposals. Additional information shared on target goals for the 2024 academic year.
WATCH THE WEBINAROGCS staff discuss Supplements - opportunities available for your funded NIH and NSF awards. Supplements offer additional funding to support administrative needs, equipment, additional personnel (including students) or to expand the scope of an awarded project. In this session, we summarize supplement opportunities and outline the application process and assistance offered by our Pre-Award staff. Post-award staff present on unique aspects of supplement management.
WATCH THE WEBINARConsultants Rene Paulson & Mindy Chandler of Elite Research, LLC discuss funding agencies desire to invest their money in solid programs that are a direct result of solid design. A solid design comes from a logic model. This workshop is designed to help you maximize your funding potential by ensuring your program or project design has a solid foundation.
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WATCH THE WEBINARInvited guest speaker, Jeremy Forsberg, Associate Vice President for Research, discusses the Principal Investigators (PI) responsibilities at the University of Texas at Arlington for conducting research. Also, he covers faculty disclosure and reporting requirements of UT Arlington, concerns of foreign influence and disclosures necessary to federal agencies.
WATCH THE WEBINARThe Office of Grant and Contract Services (OGCS) serves the UTA community by providing Preaward and Postaward services for externally funded grants and contracts. Together, we serve the needs of our faculty, staff and students by providing services to assist in obtaining and the subsequent management of external funding.
WATCH THE WEBINARThis training session is designed to assist Principal Investigators (PI’s) and the grants community in monitoring and managing compensation on their active grants and sponsored projects.
Major topics covered include: initiating payroll on your new project, sponsor restrictions (eg, additional pay, salary cap, NSF, DHHS), payroll confirmation at UTA, buyout & faculty research supplemental award.
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For faculty researchers on how to approach mission agencies, develop and write white papers, concept papers and quad charts for unsolicited proposals to the agencies that require them.
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WATCH THE WEBINARThe Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a National Science Foundation-wide activity that offers NSF's most prestigious awards to junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, educational excellence, and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. If you are a pre-tenure faculty member, hold a doctoral degree in a discipline supported by NSF, and are engaged in STEM and/or STEM education research, the CAREER Program could be a great fit for you. This session will provide an overview of the CAREER Program, tips and strategies to help develop a competitive proposal, and showcase recent CAREER awardees at UTA.
WATCH THE WEBINARWebinar for Faculty, Staff or Students to learn about how to develop collaborations with industry and how to pursue industry funding for research. Presented by Lucy Deckard, who has helped to develop successful proposals to NSF, NIH, the Department of Education, the Department of Defense, and other agencies and foundations, including proposals for large institutional and center-level grants. Download the speaker's notes.
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This webinar explores the types of funding available to support research in the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. Researchers will learn how to compete for grants that support travel to collections and libraries from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and private foundations.
WATCH THE WEBINARAre you writing a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant and would like a deeper understanding of NSF's Broader Impacts (BI) criterion? This session will help you make sense of the BI criterion and empower current and future PIs to conceptualize, develop, implement and evaluate BI activities.
Download the handoutMany sponsoring agencies request information on an investigator's existing or pending research support as part of a proposal or during the pre-award process. Sometimes called Current and Pending Support or Other Support, this section of a proposal or just-in-time submission requests information on current funding and pending proposals. In this workshop, you will learn how to accurately represent other funding sources in your proposals and award reports.
DOWNLOAD THE HANDOUTWhether you plan to write a proposal for a federal agency, foundation, or an internal grant competition, this workshop will help you build your foundation for a solid proposal by aligning your design elements, creating the concept paper, and refining and practicing your pitch.
Watch the webinarWhether you plan to write a proposal for a federal agency, foundation, or an internal grant competition, this workshop will help you build your interdisciplinary research team and funding trajectory for multidisciplinary/center grants.
Watch the WebinarPolicies and procedures for all UTA Research offices have been centralized in Faculty and Staff Resources.
