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UFIRST SF424 Is Now Live

Beginning Sept. 30, 2015, the next phase of UFIRST (UFIRST SF424) became the primary submission mechanism for Grants.gov applications. As of this date, Cayuse is no longer available for use.

Official training sessions for RSH281: UFIRST SF424 commenced in August and will continue regularly until October. You can sign up for the session at http://mytraining.hr.ufl.edu/.

Additional resources, including a new UFIRST SF424 section of the UFIRST Manual and Instructional Guides, have been developed and can be found at: http://hr.ufl.edu/learn-grow/just-in-time-training/myufl-toolkits/grants/.

If there are any UFIRST-specific questions, please contact UFIRST specialists at ufirst@research.ufl.edu. All other inquiries can be directed to ufproposals@ufl.edu.

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Research + Practice Collaboratory Offers Webinar Series

The Research + Practice Collaboratory will offer a webinar series on the third Thursday of each month beginning October 2015 through March 2016, 5 pm – 6 pm ET. Educators and researchers will have the opportunity to collaborate in research-practice partnerships (RPPs) to transform how educational challenges are defined and approached.

The webinars will feature a panel of leaders from RPPs around the country, who will share tools and insights to support new and ongoing RPPs. Webinar dates and topics are as follows:

10-15-15    Getting a Partnership Started
11-19-15    Defining the Focus of Partnership Work
12-17-15    Negotiating Roles in Partnerships
01-21-16    Addressing Challenges in Partnerships
02-18-16    Measuring Impacts of Partnerships
03-17-16    Sustaining Partnerships

The Research + Practice Collaboratory, funded by the National Science Foundation, brings together educators and researchers to develop more equitable innovations for STEM teaching and learning.

See the Research – Practice Partnerships Forum flyer for more information and links.

For more information about the Research + Practice Collaboratory, see http://researchandpractice.org/.

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What Are the Chances of Getting NIH Funding?

Many PIs monitor success rates as an indicator of NIH funding trends, but award and funding rates should also be considered. Funding rates, which are higher than either success or award rates, depict a more promising scenario for the prospects of receiving NIH funding. But what exactly do all these rates mean?

Success rate describes the likelihood of a project or an idea getting funded, rather than of the success of the individual application submission.

Success Rate = Number of awards in a fiscal year
Applications reviewed (excluding resubmissions in that fiscal year)

Award rate describes the chance of an individual application being funded and is the number that more closely reflects institute and center paylines (which can vary significantly from one institute or center to another).

Award Rate = Number of awards in a fiscal year
Applications reviewed (including resubmissions in that fiscal year)

Funding rate reflects the number of investigators who seek and obtain funding. Each PI is counted once, whether he or she submits one or more applications or receives one or more awards in a fiscal year.

Funding Rate = Number of unique PIs receiving funding in a fiscal year
Number of unique PIs with applications reviewed in that fiscal year

In fiscal year 2014, NIH received 51,073 research project grant applications, out of which 9,241 were funded, resulting in an 18.1% success rate.  Considering the award rate, which accounts for resubmissions during the same fiscal year, the application count increases to 54,519 resulting in a 17.0% award rate. For numbers of PIs, NIH funded 9,986 PIs out of 39,809 total investigator applicants resulting in a 25.1% funding rate.

Success, award, and funding rates correspond closely to the NIH budget. In these challenging times, the NIH budget is not keeping pace with demand. As a result, success, award, and funding rates are at historically low levels. However, more applications are being submitted and more PIs are being supported now compared to 15 years ago.

Excerpted from “What are the Chances of Getting Funded?” Rock Talk, June 29, 2015

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Awarded Projects for September 2015

College of Education
Awarded Projects
September 2015
Principal Investigator: Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Project Title: EAGER: Collaborative Research: Cyber-Eye: Empowering Learning through Remote Visualizations Using Unmanned Aerial Systems
Project Period: 9/1/2015 – 8/31/2017
Award Amount: $58,145
Principal Investigator: Pavlo “Pasha” Antonenko (STL)
Co-PI: Andreas Keil (Psychology)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Project Title: SL-CN: Project LENS: Leveraging Expertise in Neurotechnologies to Study Individual Differences in Multimedia Learning
Project Period: 9/15/2015 – 8/31/2018
Award Amount: $765,000
Principal Investigator: Michael Bowie (RRMA)
Co-PI: Nancy Waldron (Administration, Dean’s Area)
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Project Title: College Reach-Out Program (CROP)
Project Period: 8/1/2015 – 7/31/2016
Award Amount: $71,290
Principal Investigator: Alice Kay Emery (SSESPECS)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Project Title: Working with the Experts 2015-2016
Project Period: 8/1/2015 – 7/31/2016
Award Amount: $240,000
Principal Investigator: Ashley Pennypacker Hill (P.K. Yonge)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Project Title: IDEA, Part B
Project Period: 7/1/2015 – 6/30/2016
Award Amount: $241,268
Principal Investigator: Philip Poekert (Lastinger Center for Learning)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: The Children’s Trust of Miami
Project Title: University of Florida Early Childhood Technical Assistance Certification: Coaching Program
Project Period: 9/1/2015 – 6/30/2016
Award Amount: $30,000
Principal Investigator: Philip Poekert (Lastinger Center for Learning)
Co-PI: Susan Butler (STL), Walter Leite (SHDOSE)
Funding Agency: Florida Department of Education
Project Title: Mathematics and Science Partnership – Palm Beach
Project Period: 7/1/2015 – 6/30/2016
Award Amount: $500,000
Principal Investigator: Donald Pemberton (Lastinger Center for Learning)
Co-PI: Alyson Adams (STL)
Funding Agency: University of Florida Foundation
Project Title: Coalition Building across Stakeholders to Connect Disparate Elements of Initiatives to Support Effective Teaching into One Coherent System
Project Period: 10/2/2014 – 10/1/2016
Award Amount: $351,102
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Submitted Projects for September 2015

College of Education
Submitted Projects
September 2015
Principal Investigator: Andrew Thomas (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Minnesota Sports and Entertainment
Proposal Title: Modern Statistical Methods for Professional Ice Hockey
Requested Amount: $5,000
Principal Investigator: David Therriault (SHDOSE)
Co-PI: Chang-Yu Wu (Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment)
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Ambiguity as Choice: Role of Ambiguity During Ill-Structured Problem-Solving in Engineering
Requested Amount: $796,847
Principal Investigator: Philip Poekert (Lastinger Center for Learning)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: The Children’s Trust of Miami
Proposal Title: University of Florida Early Childhood Technical Assistance Certification: Coaching Program
Requested Amount: $30,000
Principal Investigator: Philip Poekert (Lastinger Center for Learning)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: Promethean
Proposal Title: Promethean/UF Turnaround School Leaders Program
Requested Amount: $46,729
Principal Investigator: Carole Beal (STL)
Co-PI: N/A
Funding Agency: University of Arizona (Subcontract – NIH Flow Through)
Proposal Title: Improving Language, Improving Math: Strategies for Children with Language Challenges
Requested Amount: $351,415
Principal Investigator: Donald Pemberton (Lastinger Center for Learning)
Co-PI: Alyson Adams (STL)
Funding Agency: University of Florida Foundation
Proposal Title: Coalition Building across Stakeholders to Connect Disparate Elements of Initiatives to Support Effective Teaching into One Coherent System
Requested Amount: $318,168
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Research Event in October: Brown Bag Lunch with Dr. Pedro Noguera

Brown Bag Lunch

with Dr. Pedro Noguera, Distinguished Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences at UCLA

Friday, October 16, 2015
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Terrace Room

Dr. Noguera’s research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions, as well as by demographic trends in local, regional, and global contexts.

For more information, see http://gseis.ucla.edu/directory/pedro-noguera/

Cookies and refreshments will be provided. RSVP to Rosie Connolly, rconnolly@coe.ufl.edu, by 4:30 p.m., October 13.

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Research Event in October: Grant Writing Workshop

Grant Writing Workshop: Writing Grant Proposals

with Kenneth T. Henson professor of education at The Citadel—The Military College of South Carolina

The Writing Grant Proposals workshop will be offered on the following dates:

Tuesday, October 20, 2015
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Terrace Room

Wednesday, October 21, 2015
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Terrace Room

The Writing Grant Proposals workshop offers practical suggestions from an experienced grant writer who has written numerous grants ranging from a few hundred dollars to over a million dollars each. The workshop is designed for beginning writers and experienced writers who wish to increase their acceptance rate on future proposals. Unlike the many workshops that simply discuss grant writing, this workshop is all nuts and bolts: Do this and get these results. Workshop participants will discover how to give proposals the spark that makes them irresistible. Workshop topics include learning how to apply the same test that evaluators use for ranking proposals, developing an effective writing style, learning how to design a budget, and examining successful proposals and the specific qualities that made them more attractive than all the competition. Participants will also learn to avoid the one mistake that causes the most rejections, to turn limitations into strengths, and to identify their own unique circumstances and use these to strengthen their proposals.

Coffee and Danish pastry will be provided. RSVP to Rosie Connolly, rconnolly@coe.ufl.edu, by 4:30 p.m., October 19.

For more information, see the Writing Workshops brochure.

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