Section outline

  • Lecture:  Advice from Recent Training Grant Applicants

    Location (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL

    • Session Slides:

    • Slides for Week 2 File

    • Discussion: Discuss Assignment 1 (Specific Aim outline and potential mentors) in breakout rooms (4 students and 1 instructor per room).


    • Assignment 2, due 1p 1/20:

      1.     Outline your Training (F) / Career (K) Goals. In a sentence or two each, what are your overall training goals (for F writers) or long-term and short-term career development goals (for K writers)? Under each goal statement, write out a few bullet points for: a) what you have done in the past that supports your ability to achieve that goal and b) what you need to do/learn to achieve your goal (e.g., coursework, seminars, workshops, research experience, etc.).

      2.     Make an appointment with your most likely lead mentor (“sponsor”) to review your aims within the next 3 weeks. The meeting or review should be completed before 2/3/2021. Submit the name of the person and the scheduled meeting date.

    • Assignment 2

    • Reading to be completed prior to next class on 1/20: 

      Read 2 examples of successful training grant applications. You will be assigned one grant’s Specific Aims to present to the group next week. In ~5 minutes (orally, no slides), what is the grant about? What research question do they propose to answer and how do they plan to do so? What strengths and limitations do you see?