Author: Fran Cook

Fran Cook from the Wichita State Office of Research will host two virtual workshops for faculty and staff about improving writing grant proposals. The workshops are scheduled as follows:

• Writing Proposals — Learn the basics of proposal writing for grants at 1 p.m. Thursday, June 2. For more information or to attend, contact proposals@wichita.edu or sign up via myTraining.
• Using Pivot to Search for Funding —Learn the tips and tricks for using Pivot (ProQuest database) to search for funding opportunities at 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 7. Participants must sign up for a Pivot account to practice searching Pivot during the workshop. For more information or to attend, contact proposals@wichita.edu.

Fran Cook, from the Wichita State Office of Research, will host a workshop demonstrating tips and tricks for using Pivot to search for funding opportunities at 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 5 via Zoom.

Participants should sign up for a Pivot account before the workshop to practice searching Pivot during the workshop. For more information or to receive a link to the workshop, contact proposals@wichita.edu.

Fran Cook, from the Wichita State Office of Research, will host a workshop about writing proposals at 1 p.m., Thursday, March 31 via Zoom. The workshop will discuss the basics of proposal writing for grants.

For more information or to receive the Zoom link contact. proposals@wichita.edu. Participants can also sign up via myTraining.

Dr. Coleen Pugh, vice provost for Research at Wichita State, invites all Fairmont College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Humanities and Social Sciences (LAS) faculty to attend a meeting at 10 a.m. Thursday, March 10 via Zoom.

During the event, faculty will learn how to apply for external funding and discuss past funding successes by those in the LAS college. the following topics will also be discussed:

• Previous awards received and research performance of LAS
• Information about the Office of Research and how they can assist applicants
• LAS training needs and interests
• Personalized funding searches

To receive the Zoom link, contact proposals@wichita.edu.

Due to the snow day, the Office of Research has rescheduled its NASA  Funding Workshop to 1 p.m. Feb. 17 via Zoom.

Dr. Nick Solomey, WSU professor of physics, and Dr. Stephanie Vivod, chemical engineer at NASA Glenn Research Center, will discuss how to successfully apply for funding and funding opportunities at NASA.

For more information or to receive the Zoom link, contact proposals@wichita.edu.

The Office of Research Workshop: Using Pivot to Search for Funding will take place at 4 p.m. Feb. 3 via Zoom. During the class, Fran Cook, WSU Office of Research senior grants/contracts administrator and training manager, will demonstrate tips and tricks for using Pivot to search for funding opportunities.

To receive a link to the Pivot workshop or to request instructions for creating a Pivot account at WSU, contact proposals@wichita.edu.

Dr. Nick Solomey, WSU professor of physics, and Dr. Stephanie Vivod, chemical engineer at NASA Glenn Research Center, will discuss how to successfully apply for funding and funding opportunities at 10 a.m. Feb. 2 via Zoom. The event is hosted by the Office of Research.

For more information or to receive the Zoom link, contact proposals@wichita.edu.

Dr. Scott Miller, chair and professor of aerospace engineering, and director of the Kansas NASA EPSCoR Program (KNEP), will offer a virtual presentation about the KNEP program at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 10.

The goal of NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is to provide seed funding that will enable jurisdictions to develop an academic research enterprise directed toward long-term, self-sustaining, nationally competitive capabilities in aerospace and aerospace-related research.

Please email proposals@wichita.edu to receive a link to attend, or sign up via myTraining on myWSU.

Wichita State’s Office of Research will host a virtual W.M. Keck Foundation workshop at 10 a.m. Oct. 29. During the workshop, Dr. Coleen Pugh, vice provost for Research and dean of the Graduate School, will present on the topic of applying to the W.M. Keck Foundation.

The W.M. Keck Foundation research program seeks to benefit humanity by supporting projects in two specific areas: Medical research and science and engineering. The medical research and science and engineering projects must be distinctive and novel in their approach. They must also question the prevailing paradigm, or have the potential to break open new territory in their field. 

Faculty interested in attending can sign up via myTraining or email proposals@wichita.edu.

If you are new at applying for external funding or new to applying for external funding at WSU, please plan to attend a one-hour Introduction to the WSU Office of Research Workshop which will take place at the dates below via Zoom.

• 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9
• noon, Wednesday, Sept. 15
• 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21
• 9 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 30

The one-hour workshop will include resources and contact information, Wichita State policies and procedures, ideas on searching for funding opportunities, basic project budgeting and grant writing tips.

To attend, sign up via MyTraining in MyWSU, or email proposals@wichita.edu.