EARDA Phase II - Research & Grants Education at CSC

凯瑟琳（CSC）将使用EARDA-FRESP第二阶段的资金，通过使教师能够向私人和政府资助机构提交成功的赠款申请，以支持教师和学生的研究，继续增加我们在赞助研究方面的努力。我们最初的EARDA赠款使我们能够建立一个研究和赞助计划办公室（ORSP），聘请赞助计划管理员（SPA）和兼职高级会计师，计划和开展一个非常成功的赠款写作研讨会，设计一个用户友好的网站，用于授予信息和通信，并建立内部委员会，以方便教师编写和提交赠款申请。在此期间，CSC教师编写和提交的赠款申请数量翻了两番，因为教师意识到，在确定适当的资金来源和编写申请的帮助是提供给他们，因为是一个内部审查过程。学院还与一些外部合作者，如明尼苏达大学，费尔维尤大学医院，社区卫生中心和MN护士协会合作，以开展调查研究。在SPA与发展办公室合作开展的工作的刺激下，对学生-教师研究和教师奖学金的资助也有所增加。 未来的计划包括扩大我们的地方和区域合作，建立一个有竞争力的内部授予过程，以资助生物医学和行为科学的科学价值的试点研究，这将导致确保联邦资助研究计划，并继续ORSP（包括SPA和PI）在规划和开展赠款写作研讨会的作用。较大的秋季研讨会之后，将举行关于教师确定为重要主题的具体小型会议，并将持续全年。此外，各委员会的工作，特别是ORSP咨询委员会的工作将纳入学院的正式结构，确保其永久性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The College of St. Catherine (CSC) will use EARDA-FRESP Phase II funds to continue growing our efforts in Sponsored Research by enabling faculty to submit successful grant applications to both private and governmental funding agencies for the support of faculty and student research. Our initial EARDA grant allowed us to set up an Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP), hire a Sponsored Programs Administrator (SPA) and part-time senior accountant, plan and carry out a very successful grant writing workshop, design a user-friendly website for granting information and communication, and establish internal committees to facilitate the writing and submission of grant applications by faculty. During this time, the numbers of grant applications written and submitted by CSC faculty quadrupled, as faculty realized that help in identifying proper funding sources and writing applications was available to them, as was an internal review process. The College also partnered with a number of outside collaborators, such as the University of Minnesota, Fairview-University Hospitals, community health centers, and the MN Nurses Association in order to carry out investigative research. Funding for student-faculty research and for faculty scholarship has also increased, stimulated by work undertaken by the SPA in collaboration with the Office of Development. Future plans include expanding our local and regional collaborations, setting up a competitive internal granting process to fund scientifically meritorious pilot research studies in biomedical and behavioral sciences that will lead to securing federal funding for research initiatives, and continuing the role of the ORSP (including the SPA and the PI) in planning and carrying out grant writing workshops. Larger fall workshops will be followed by specific mini-sessions concerning topics identified as important by faculty and will continue throughout the year. In addition, the work of the committees, especially the ORSP Advisory Committee will be embedded into the formal structure of the college, ensuring its permanancy.