Student and new professional members in the National Council on Family Relations challenge the status quo, infuse new ideas and stimulate frank discussions about our relevance in society. To them NCFR owes its gratitude and our promise to provide opportunities to lead and develop careers that strengthen families through research, education, and public policy. Thank you for choosing NCFR. - Diane Cushman, Executive Director of NCFR
This fall, NCFR will be hosting its 72nd annual conference in Minneapolis, MN. At the conference, Thursday, November 4th will be a day focused on finding grants and getting them funded. The expectations to pursue and obtain resources from outside one’s college or university has never been greater. Receiving monies to carry out your research, whether at the dissertation level or beyond, can be a game-changer for a career. External grants can allow you to secure resources to pursue your research, to increase your research independence, to free up time to write up your findings and produce publications, and to advance your career. There will be two sessions for S/NP’s on grant making this fall.
The first session will be a two hour workshop with panelists Dr. Joseph Grzywacz of Wake Forest University Medical School (has been funded by NIH and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation), Dr. Wendy Manning of Bowling Green State University (has been funded by the National Institutes of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services, and NICHD) , and Dr. Julianne Serovich of The Ohio State University (has been funded by NIMH and NIDA). Drs. Grzywacz, Manning, and Serovich have each served on NIH study sections as reviewers. This session will focus on grant writing tips and will include a mock study section grant review.
The second session will be on funding opportunities for family researchers with Drs. Wendy Nilson and Valerie Maholmes, both program officers at the National Institutes of Health.
Announcing the NCFR S/NP Proposal Competition
Pre-proposal due date: June 11th, 2010
Final proposal due date: October 14th, 2010
A competition will be held to chose up to 4 grants to be reviewed at the November workshop. If you are chosen to develop a full proposal to be reviewed at the workshop, you will receive feedback on your full proposal from the 3 panelists as well as seminar participants this November. The pre-review of a grant can be invaluable in getting a grant funded, and researchers sometimes pay hundreds of dollars to senior scholars to pre-review applications. Thus, a pre-proposal competition will be held. Pre-proposals will be reviewed, and the top 4 pre-proposals will be invited to submit a full proposal in October for pre-review and to be discussed at the conference. Note that if 4 viable pre-proposals are not received, less than 4 may be chosen to submit the full proposal.
If you are interested in competing, your application and pre-proposal is due via email to Claire Kamp Dush (kamp-dush.1@osu.ed) by 5 pm on Friday, June 11th, 2010. NO LATE APPLICATIONS OR PRE-PROPOSALS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Deadlines at grant agencies are taken very seriously, and this deadline will be a hard deadline.
NCFR Grant Workshop Application (pdf)
NCFR Grand Workshop
Application (Word doc)
For the pre-proposal, please follow the following guidelines of the funding agency that you plan to submit to:
For an NIH Proposal: Your Pre-Proposal should consist of your Specific Aims page and the Significance paragraph as one document (no more than 2 pages), and your NIH biosketch. Your Aims page must be one page only, and the significance paragraph is to be on the second page. Be sure to follow NIH guidelines.
For an NSF Proposal: Your Pre-Proposal should consist of your Overview and Objectives section (similar to the Specific Aims page) and the Significance paragraph of the Expected Significance section, combined into one document (no more than 2 pages), and your biosketch. Be sure to follow NSF guidelines.
For Other Agency Proposals: Write a section on the specific aims of the proposal, and a paragraph about the expected significance of the proposal as one document (no more than 2 pages), and include an abbreviated CV or biosketch. Be sure to keep the mission and guidelines of the funding agency in mind when writing.
For more information on these sections, see the grant instructions for the agency you are applying to. Here are descriptions from NIH:
Specific aims:
State concisely the goals of the proposed research and summarize the expected outcome(s), including the impact that the results of the proposed research will exert on the research field(s) involved. List succinctly the specific objectives of the research proposed, e.g., to test a stated hypothesis, create a novel design, solve a specific problem, challenge an existing paradigm or clinical practice, address a critical barrier to progress in the field, or develop new technology. Specific Aims are limited to one page.
Significance:
Explain the importance of the problem or critical barrier to progress in the field that the proposed project addresses. Explain how the proposed project will improve scientific knowledge, technical capability, and/or clinical practice in one or more broad fields. Describe how the concepts, methods, technologies, treatments, services, or preventative interventions that drive this field will be changed if the proposed aims are achieved.
Suggested mechanisms:
Pre-doctoral student: NIH F31 or F32, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Post-doctoral scholar: NIH K99/R00, F32, NSF Post-doctoral Research Fellowship Program
New professional: NIH R21 or R03, NSF standard award, William T. Grant Scholars grant, NIH K01, NSF CAREER
If you have questions, please email Claire Kamp Dush kamp-dush.1@osu.edu.
Good luck!
Claire Kamp Dush
S/NP Representative to the Program Committee
The NCFR Board of Directors approved the new position of Student/New Professional Board Representative-Elect. The new Board Representative will serve a one-year term in the position of Board Representative-Elect. The person would then move to Student/New Professional Board Representative for two years and serve as a voting member on the Board of Directors. During the year as Student/New Professional Board Representative-Elect the person in this position would be involved in Board Meetings only as an observer and other S/NP duties would be assigned to this position to help to transition into the two-year position. The new position of Student/New Professional Board-Elect will begin in 2011.
Student/New Professional Board Representative-Elect Job Description
The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) has created an Honor Student Recognition Award in order to acknowledge the outstanding accomplishments and academic success of family science student. By recognizing exceptional scholarship, leadership, and service in graduating undergraduate and graduate students, NCFR wishes to honor worthy recipients for their excellence and encourage and empower them to continue to excel in and make contributions to the field of Family Science. NCFR Honor Student Recognition Application (pdf)
For more information, see the Student Honors Brochure (pdf)
Honor Recognition in Family Science – Academic Professional
NCFR is pleased to introduce Honor Recognition in Family Science for Academic Professionals. Professors attending graduation ceremonies can now have their own NCFR stole recognizing their contribution to the field of Family Science. Eligibility Criteria and the Nomination form for Academic Professionals (pdf)
S/NP stands for student/new professional. This designation within NCFR includes anyone who is a student (undergraduate or graduate) or a new professional (within 5 years of last degree). Each section within NCFR has at least one S/NP Representative included in its leadership. The job of an S/NP Representative is to provide a voice for S/NPs within the section and NCFR. There is also an S/NP Representative to the Program Planning Committee who makes sure S/NP interests and activities are represented in the conference program each year. Finally, there is an S/NP Representative to the Board who represents your voice in meetings and other business addressed by the Board.
NCFR maintains an e-mail listserv for S/NPs, providing an avenue for S/NP members to communicate. All S/NP members are automatically subscribed to the S/NP listserv.
Send a message to the Student/New Professional Listserv (S/NP Members Only)
snp_list@listmanager.ncfr.org
Student/New Professional Steering Committee
Soyoung Lee (2010) - S/NP Board Representative
leeso@mail.montclair.edu
Claire Kamp Dush (2010) - S/NP Program Representative
ckamp-dush@ehe.osu.edu
Amanda Williams (2010) - S/NP Affiliate Councils Board Representative
amanda.williams10@okstate.edu
Angela Rushton - Affiliate Councils Student Affiliates Representative (2011) - angelalrushton@gmail.com
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