Post on 30-Dec-2015
Agenda• Current status of UIUC Math funding• Resources• External funding:• Deadlines• Budget• Content• Submission• Management
• Internal funding:• As above
UIUC Mathematics Funding
• Currently: • 80 external grants (58 NSF; 10 Simons Foundation, 4
NSA, 3 via other universities, 1 US Dept Ed, 1 ONR, 1 Air Force, 1 Noyce Foundation, 1 Sloan Foundation)• $13,807,223 direct total (Math)• $19,539,743 direct plus indirect total (Math)• $244,247 average (direct plus indirect)
• 6 internal grants (Research Board)• $77,110 total• $12,852 average
• 54 faculty, postdocs, emeritus, other academics
Getting started• Find funding opportunities and deadlines• Department website:
http://www.math.illinois.edu/Businessoffice/• Grant Forward: http://www.grantforward.com/index• Federal Government: http://www.grants.gov• Campus Research Board (faculty):
http://crb.research.illinois.edu/• Scholars’ Travel Fund (faculty, lecturers):
http://research.illinois.edu/stf/• Fellowships/grants (grad students):
http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/funding-jobs
Getting started• Sample Deadlines (due to Wendy)• September 19: Simons Fellow• September 24: MSRI Research Professor• September 25: NSF Analysis, Foundations, Combinatorics• October 8: NSA, Algebra/Number Theory, NSF PostDoc
Fellow• October 31: NSF Topology, Geometric Analysis,
Probability• November 7: NSF Grad Research Fellow• November 8: NSF Applied Math• November 26: MSRI Research Member, PostDoc• December 9 (estimated): DARPA Young Faculty
Getting started: External funding• Review the guidelines• Margins, font, font size, page limits• Budget restrictions• Special attachments to include • Watch for eligibility:
• NSA: Algebra, No. Theory, Discrete Math, Probability; citizen or permanent resident; PIs, PDs, and RAs must be citizens or permanent residents • Young Investigators: up to 10 years after PhD
• NSF: REU, REGs, Grad Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Research fellow: funding for citizens or permanent residents• NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow: PhD less than 2 years ago
• MSRI Research Professor: tenured associate professor with PhD before 2003
• Ask for assistance• Budget/budget justification: Wendy Harris• Content: your mentor, other faculty, and your program officer• Examples to be uploaded to Business Office site soon
The budget• PI salary (up to 2 mos summer)• Research assistants (2, 4.5, 9, or 11 months at 25%+)• Research Experience for Undergraduates (REUs)• Benefits (5.99% to 44.67%)• Tuition remission (62%)• Supplies• Services/collaborator travel• Foreign and domestic (including Canada) travel• Participant costs for conferences• Equipment• Facilities and administration costs (58.6%) on all except
tuition and participant costs
Keep in mind…
• Hard to justify:• Supplies• Printers• Computers
• Cannot fund:• Books• Meals with visitors
Example budget (1 year)• 2 mos salary @ $5,555.55/mo: $11,111• 50% RA 9 mos @ $2,061.70/mo: $18,555• benefits: $6,075• tuition remission (62% RA): $11,504• supplies/computer: $1,500• collaborator travel: $1,000• domestic travel: $1,000• foreign travel: $2,000• Indirect costs (58.6%): $24,167• TOTAL: $76,912
Typical content: external funding
• Stick to the guidelines (margins, pages, font size, font, etc.)• Summary • Description• Biographical sketch• Current and pending grants• Facilities and Resources• Budget• Budget justification• Data management plan (NSF GPG IIC2j)
Data Management Plan
• Supplementary document-under 2 pages• Types of data to be produced• Standards for data/metadata format• Policies for access/sharing of data• Policies for re-use, re-distribution and production of
derivatives• Plans for archiving• **Can state that no plan is needed, but justify why
More to keep in mind…• Summary • Broader impact/intellectual merit• http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/gpg/broaderimpacts.pdf
• Description• Use images (examples, breaks up text)• Can use URLs, but the reviewers are not obligated to follow
them• Biographical sketch• Very specific format
• Budget justification• What will student do? • Who might you invite here? • Where might you travel?
Submitting• Most submitted online• https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/fastlane.jsp• www.grants.gov• http://pjm.math.berkeley.edu/nsa-ams/
• Complete a week before agency deadline due to routing:• PI and department signatures• Sent to UIUC Grants and Contracts• Revisions/corrections• Submission to funding agency
Got it!• Forward letter to Wendy• Adjusting the budget• Revise budget• Impact statement• Abstract (to NSF)
• Review the agreement: reporting, citation in publications, foreign travel limitations
• Fund set up
Grant management• Funded incrementally or all at once• Know policies for spending money:• See guidelines at
http://www.math.illinois.edu/Businessoffice/• Questionable: books, computers, supplies• Plan ahead: foreign travel (NSA; US Carriers)• Unallowable: your own meal when eating with a
visitor• Ask for help in advance: • We pay for flights, conference registration, visitor
flights, visitor hotels• Reimbursing foreign visitors
Grant management, cont’d• Read your statements• Expenditure confirmations• Reporting• Rebudgeting• Extension requests
Getting started: Internal Grants• Campus Research Board• Eligible: full-time tenured and tenure track
faculty; full-time academic professionals• Purpose:• Helps new faculty initiate research• Seeds work in a new direction• Supports preliminary studies• Supplements other resources
• Guidelines:• $30,000 limit (or $10,000 for pilot projects)• 5 page narrative• Budget and budget justification• Due October 4, January 24, February 28
Campus Research Board cont’d• Submission process:
• Submit online• Do not need to know current RA rate• No department review needed
• Review process:• 2 Campus Research Board members plus 3 peers
review application• Look at quality and importance of research;
probable impact on field; value to applicant’s development; quality and productivity of applicant; budget appropriateness
• Once awarded: • Business office notified• Account set up
Scholars’ Travel• Eligible: full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty, full-
time lecturers• Purpose:• Support for conferences where you will present
• Guidelines:• 1 trip per fiscal year: full/associate professors• 2 trips per fiscal year: assistant professors, lecturers• Foreign travel supported every other year (per person)• CAN have an external grant• Must plan in advance• Amounts are predetermined: $100-$775 domestic;
$530-$2000 international; supplements also possible
Scholars’ Travel cont’d• Due dates: • Oct 3, Nov 7, Dec 5, Jan 2, Feb 6, Mar 6, Apr 3, May 1,
Jun 5• Submission process:• Application is online• No department copy needed
• Once awarded: • Bring notice along with receipts for reimbursement