All Your Database Are Belong to Me

We had a very informative class on how to search for and find funding. The final class of the final course of my Preparing Future Faculty career. :)

I decided to take my notes as a blog post instead of in a notebook.

Prospectus?

Consider Timing and Deadlines, just like applying for schools, there are a lot of deadlines so it is best to map them out.

Consider both Public and Private Funding

Review University Proceedures



School Resources

1. Office of Research (lots of good stuff here)
   
2. Office of Sponsored Programs
3. Center for Clinical and Translational Research
4. Corporate and Foundations Relations Office
   

Electronic Search Tools

SPIN (Frowned upon and difficult to find: VCU Mainpage>Research>VCUeRA>VCUeRA portal>SPIN Contact Jessica if it doesn't work)

COS (Used to mean Community of Science, now it's just COS. Bigger than SPIN. VCU Libraries>Database A-Z>C>COS)

Grants.Gov is a monster site that has everything, but it is most useful if you already know what you're looking for and where it is.

Science Grants and Funding

National Institutes of Heath (NIH)

National Science Foundation (NSF)

VCU Sources


Funding Resources

Texas A&M University Graduate Fellowships and Dissertation Grant resources

Duke University Funding Opportunities Database

Michigan State University

Cornell University Fellowship Database


More expensive Database:

Foundation Center Training Courses

It is good at picking up funders that other sources don't find.



When beginning your search

• Research the keywords (keywords can change over time, patterns)
• Think outside the box (e.g. Obesity research using PDAs; couldn't find anything under obesity keyword, but found many opportunities by searching for PDAs)
• Expand your area of study (Look outside of engineering)
• Look at previous research and find how they were funded
• Get HELP! Monroe Park: Ariana Bracalente, 828-1230 (abracalente@vcu.edu)
• MCV Campus Pam Dillon and Jessica Venable (jcvenable@vcu.edu)
  

Most of these options allow you to create alerts and that is what you should do. Link them to a reader or at a minimum get them emailed to you.

New Year, and we're trying to Publish!

Hello Everyone again,

I am in the midst of it here. I've been learning Fortran and writing some code to do Lagrangian Particle tracking. (Just means I am looking at individual particles instead of at all of 'em at the same time).

I am still constructing my experimental setup to validate the numerical analysis with physical deposition results. I am at the stage of getting a reticle (a piece of glass with lines etched on it that allows me to count particles within a grid)

I am also starting to write a paper with Dr. Longest. I am doing a literature review of the Alveolar region. That means... I have a lot to read!

Peace and more as it comes,

Landon