Upcoming Events

GrantGPS sponsors grant-writing workshops, retreats, and presentations. These programs provide opportunities for you to learn the nuts and bolts of grant proposal writing, share tips for funding success with colleagues, and meet individually with grant-writing experts for feedback on a proposal. We will post information about these programs as they become available.

Grant Writing Workshop

For Dartmouth Faculty, Postdocs, and Researchers 

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Morning Session (Hybrid | online & Irving Institute Conference Room IR-375):   9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Afternoon Session (In person | IR-375): 1 - 4 p.m.

By GrantGPS & the Irving Institute

Presented by Angelika Hofmann and Allan Bieber, this workshop for Dartmouth faculty, postdocs, and researchers will help you organize and compose your thoughts and apply winning writing principles in your next proposal. 

The morning session of the workshop, which will discuss the sections of a research proposal, will take place in the Irving Institute Conference Room and online from 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.

The afternoon session, an intensive on composing the Abstract and Specific Aims page, will take place in person in the Irving Institute Conference Room only from 1 - 4 p.m. 

There are only 20 spots available for in-person attendance. More information about participating in the afternoon session can be found below.

You may attend the morning session only, or morning and afternoon, but all participants must have participated in the morning session to attend the afternoon session.

Register here.


Part I (Hybrid — in-person and online): 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. | Irving Institute Conference Room (IR-375) + Zoom

Participants will learn basic scientific and grant writing principles and how to actively apply them within their next proposal. The focus of this workshop is on hands-on, practical exercises to teach grant writers how to achieve maximum impact and success with the reader and reviewer in mind.

Content

  • Types of grant applications

  • General overview of grant writing

  • Discussion of key sections: Abstract, Objective, Specific Aims, and Significance

  • Overview of structure and scoring of NIH, NSF and private funder proposals


Part II (In-Person only): 1 - 4 p.m. | Irving Institute Conference Room (IR-375)

In this hands-on, in-person workshop, participants will learn how to apply essential principles to writing a clear abstract for a grant proposal, including the overall objective, specific aims and significance. Emphasis will be on hands-on composing and revising of these key proposal components and on reviewing and evaluating those of others.

Please note:

  • The in-person portion of the workshop is limited to 20 participants.

  • Prioritization will be given on a first-come, first-served basis.

  • To participate in Part II, you must have attended Part I in the morning and submitted a draft one-page Abstract and Specific Aims page of a proposal prior to the workshop.

  • Participants admitted to Part II should bring their laptop to the workshop.


About the Presenters

Angelika Hofmann is Senior Associate Director, Environmental and Physical Sciences at the Irving Institute and GrantGPS and author of two major textbooks on the topic: Scientific Writing and Communication – Papers, Proposals, and Presentations and Writing in the Biological Sciences published by Oxford University Press.

Allan Bieber is Senior Associate Director, GrantGPS, supporting NSF and NIH proposals for Engineering, Life Sciences, and Medicine. Allan brings over 30 years of experience in research, teaching and administration at institutions and has served on study sections at the NIH, Department of Defense, and the National MS Society.

NSF CAREER Award Orientation

For early-career faculty in disciplines funded by the NSF

Friday, March 29, 2024 | 3-4 p.m. | Online

Register here.

Please join GrantGPS on Friday, March 29 from 3-4 p.m. for a virtual orientation to the NSF CAREER Award.

This program, for early-career faculty in all disciplines that the NSF funds, helps scholars develop into academic leaders who integrate research and education.

Spring sessions are also planned to support applicants before the July 2024 submission deadline.

For more information contact Allan Bieber

Past Events

  • Fundamentals of Scientific Writing
  • NSF & NIH Grant Writing Seminars
  • Zoom Panel on Fellowships
  • NEH Regional Grant-Writing Workshop
  • Grant Writers Retreat, hosted by Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries for NIH R01 and R21 grants
  • NSF Career Workshop Series
  • Fellowship Panel Discussion
  • Humanities Grant-Writing Mini-Retreat
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