Office of Grant and Contract Services

Upcoming events

October 13, 12 p.m. | PI Responsibilities

Invited guest speaker, Jeremy Forsberg, Associate Vice President for Research, will discuss the Principal Investigators (PI) responsibilities at the University of Texas at Arlington for conducting research. Also, he will cover faculty disclosure and reporting requirements of UT Arlington, concerns of foreign influence and disclosures necessary to federal agencies.

This workshop is open to any UTA faculty, staff or students interested in PI responsibilities for conducting research.

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November 10, 12 p.m. | Logic Model to Maximize Your Funding Potential

Consultants Rene Paulson and Mindy Chandler of Elite Research, LLC will 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. 

This workshop is open to any UTA faculty, staff or students interested in research funding.

RSVP to Preaward@uta.edu.

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February 9, 12 p.m. | Strategies for Planning, Developing, and Writing Large Center Proposals

Consultant Lucy Deckard of Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC will lead 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 will 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.

This workshop is open to any UTA faculty, staff or students interested in Large Center Proposals.

RSVP to Preaward@uta.edu.

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April 12, 12 p.m. | How to Write Successful Proposals for NSF CAREER, DoD Young Investigator and Other Grants for Early-Career Researchers

Consultant Lucy Deckard of Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC will 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.

This workshop is open to any UTA faculty, staff or students interested in early career research funding.

RSVP to Preaward@uta.edu.

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Online Workshops and Resources

Welcome to OGCS

The 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.

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Managing Compensation on Sponsored Projects

This 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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How to Pursue Funding from Mission Agencies (DOE, DoD, NOAA, NASA and other Agencies)

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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Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program

The 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.

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Pursuing Research Funding from Industry

Webinar 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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Pursuing Funding in the Humanities and Humanities-Related Social Sciences

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.

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NSF's Broader Impacts

Are 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.

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Current and Pending Support Seminar

Many 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.

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Goal Alignment, Concept Papers & Pitches

Whether 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.

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Developing Your Collaborative Research Team and Multidisciplinary/Center Grants

Whether 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.

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Policies and procedures for all UTA Research offices have been centralized in Faculty and Staff Resources.

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