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CRA-W Mid-Career Academic Track

CRA-W Mid-Career Academic Track. Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines Kathryn McKinley, Microsoft Research/UT Austin Lori Pollock, University of Delaware. Funding. Tracy Camp , Colorado School of Mines CRA-Women Co-Chair. Introduce Yourself!.

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CRA-W Mid-Career Academic Track

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  1. CRA-W Mid-Career Academic Track Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines Kathryn McKinley, Microsoft Research/UT Austin Lori Pollock, University of Delaware

  2. Funding Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines CRA-Women Co-Chair

  3. Introduce Yourself! Your Name, Your Institution Career Stage Research and/or Education Interests

  4. Tracy CampProfessor, Colorado School of Mines Monitoring for Resources, Hazards, and Fun with Wireless Sensor Networks Professor@ Colorado School of Mines 25 graduate students NZ Fulbright Scholar ACM Fellow Elements of my Funding Success 1. over 30 external grants awarded 2. over $20 million in external funding 3. led or co-led three large successful initiatives ($3-5 million each)

  5. Mary Jean Harrold 1947-2003 Very Accomplished Researcher CRA-Women Co-Chair (2003-2006)

  6. Weave a Convincing StoryMary Jean Harrold(STARS 2009) What is the problem? Why is it interesting? What are possible solutions? Why should yousolve it? KEY: motivate the problem well (else reviewers won’t care about your solutions)

  7. What Makes a Good Proposal?Mary Jean Harrold(STARS 2009) Seven Criteria (see handout) CARE: Is it an important problem? NOW: Why now? IDEAS: What are your initial ideas? RESULTS: What are your prelim. results? PLAN: Is your plan sensible? CAN-DO: Why you? LEGAL: Have you followed the rules?

  8. Funding Pre-Tenure vs. Funding Post-Tenure … take advantage of the freedom Find your passion! (if you haven’t already) • Solving societal problems?make the world a better place! • Curriculum innovation? improve student lives! • Science policy outreach?tell the public how important we are! External visibility and leadership are critical

  9. Collaboration: Then & Now Collaboration as you advance in your career • Your Role • Before: more likely was participant and member of team • Now: may take on stronger, leading role in initiating collaboration and project • Motivation/Benefits • Before: cool problems, networking opportunities, funding • Now: bigger and more visible cool problems, leadership opportunities (set the agenda), mentoring junior colleagues

  10. Collaboration: Why & How • Successful collaboration is a multiplier • Enables you to achieve more than you can on your own, is fun and brings new friends and colleagues • Unsuccessful collaboration can be a negative multiplier • Wastes time, is stressful, creates hard feelings

  11. Collaboration: Do’s & Don’ts • Do • collaborate with successful people (check them out) • be a good collaborator yourself (timely, quality, etc.) • recruit good students (review applications, try a student out, teach grad reading class, summer REUs) • Don’t • collaborate with freeloaders (learn to say no)

  12. Collaboration: Let’s Discuss! • How might you respond to a collaboration request from freeloaders? • What can you do to recover when you’re a collaborator and are finding yourself falling behind on responsibilities? Share responses

  13. Other Funding Do’s • Visit funding agency sites regularly • Talk to appropriate program manager(s) • Volunteer to serve on review panels especially for types of proposals you plan to submit • Expand your funding sources • Seek advice/examples from colleagues • Ask successful colleagues to review your proposal and Listento their feedback • Borrow sample proposals from successful colleagues • Understand the program you are submitting to • Read the program announcement carefully • Read funded summaries/proposals of projects from that program

  14. Other Funding Do’s • Fund your research through a variety of sources • If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again • Read reviews carefully • Don’t take it personally • Talk to program manager • Be persistent • Write a few GOOD proposals • Immature ideas/plans rarely get funded • Borrow sample proposals from successful colleagues

  15. Funding: Discussion Questions • How do I create a dream team for a large grant proposal? • What do I do when a Co-PI is not taking on their responsibilities as part of a large grant? • When a large proposal is not funded, how should I proceed (given the significant burden of putting it together)?

  16. CRA-W Wants Your Feedback • Please give us your feedback about this session and any other CRA-W mentoring sessions you attend! • http://alturl.com/z4gp9

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