EARDA Phase II - Research & Grants Education at CSC

描述（由申请人提供）：圣凯瑟琳学院（CSC）将使用EARDA-FRESP第二阶段的资金，使教师能够向私人和政府资助机构提交成功的资助申请，以支持教师和学生的研究，从而继续扩大我们在赞助研究方面的努力。我们最初的EARDA拨款让我们建立了一个研究和赞助项目办公室（ORSP），聘请了一名赞助项目管理员（SPA）和兼职高级会计师，计划并举办了一个非常成功的资助写作研讨会，设计了一个用户友好的网站，用于资助信息和交流，并建立了内部委员会，以促进教师的资助申请的写作和提交。在此期间，CSC教师撰写和提交的拨款申请数量翻了两番，因为教师们意识到，在确定适当的资金来源和撰写申请方面，他们可以获得帮助，就像内部审查过程一样。学院还与许多外部合作者合作，如明尼苏达大学、美景大学医院、社区卫生中心和明尼苏达护士协会，以开展调查研究。学生和教员研究和教员奖学金的经费也增加了，这是由于科学院与发展办公室合作开展的工作。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拨款程序，为生物医学和行为科学方面有科学价值的试点研究提供资金，从而为研究计划获得联邦资金，并继续发挥ORSP（包括SPA和PI）在规划和执行拨款撰写研讨会方面的作用。更大的秋季研讨会之后，将有专门的小型会议，讨论教师认为重要的主题，并将持续一整年。此外，委员会的工作，特别是ORSP咨询委员会的工作将嵌入到学院的正式结构中，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.