Faculty Research Development Workshops

3 pm — 4:30 pm | Tuesday, September 19, 2023 | Virtual

Pillar/Pathway: Generating Research - External Funding

Research Portfolio Assessment - Identifying New Funding Opportunities Portfolio Analysis

12 pm — 1:30 pm | Thursday, September 21, 2023 | Virtual

Pillar/Pathway: Generating Research - External Funding

Seeking and securing external funding is a process, not an event! Part of that process is receiving "declined" notices from funders. This workshop will take you on the journey of understanding what happened, assessing the weaknesses identified in your reviews, and knowing whether to try again. Be prepared by reviewing your reviews when you come to the workshop! This will be interactive and we welcome your participation.

12 pm — 2 pm | Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | Virtual

Pillar/Pathway: Generating Research - External Funding

Workshop for new faculty covering strategies for developing a research agenda, identifying and analyzing funding opportunities, understanding funding agencies, creating a funding plan, and recruiting mentors and collaborators.

1 pm — 2:30 pm | Monday, October 23, 2023 | Virtual

Pillar/Pathway: Generating Research - External Funding

Seeking and securing funding from international funders and U.S. sources for international projects.

2 pm — 4 pm | Tuesday, October 24, 2023 | Virtual

Pillar/Pathway: Generating Research - External Funding

For faculty researchers who are new to NIH, covering how NIH is organized, how to find and understand NIH funding opportunities, how to identify the IC, study section, and program that best fits your research, how NIH proposals are structured, the review process, and keys to writing a competitive proposal.

12 pm — 2 pm | Monday, November 6, 2023 | Virtual

Pillar/Pathway: Generating Research - External Funding

A webinar covering the key steps for planning a fundable research project and writing a competitive proposal, best practices, and common mistakes to avoid. The webinar will also cover how to interpret and respond to reviews.

10 am — 11:30 am | Thursday, October 12, 2023 | Virtual

Pillar/Pathway: Generating Research: Research Enablers

A Quad Chart presents a brief visual overview of your proposal across four quadrants of a single slide. Quad Charts are used by DOD for a variety of planning and communication purposes. Some DOD components, like DARPA, require a Quad Chart as part of their submissions.

3:30 pm — 5:00 pm | Wednesday, October 25, 2023 | Virtual

Pillar/Pathway: Generating Research: Research Accelerants

An overview of winning strategies over the life cycle of proposal development. An in-depth workshop on successful NIH proposal writing.

10 am — 11:30 am | Tuesday, November 7, 2023 | Virtual

Pillar/Pathway: Generating Research: Research Accelerants

Advance your craft through the power of transdisciplinary engagement and strategic partnerships. Learn how your institution can assist you in identifying collaborators and strategic partners. Learn how to establish new partnerships, cultivate and nurture existing partnerships, and gracefully disengage from non-productive partnerships. Learn how transdisciplinary teams can accelerate research to truly innovate.

Monday, November 10, 2023 | Virtual

Pillar/Pathway: Generating Research - Research Accelerants

Participants will learn to augment the pre-populated data in their Faculty Insight profiles. There will be a demonstration of how individual faculty members can identify

1. Internal and external subject matter experts
2. funding and honorific award opportunities, and
3. potential collaborators.

In addition, a demonstration of UTSA’s external discovery site will also be provided to reinforce how it is built upon the information curated in Faculty Insight.

2:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Monday, October 30, 2023 | Virtual

Pillar/Pathway: Enhancing Research - Methodological Advancements

UTSA faculty members Jianwei Niu, Ashwin Malshe, and Rebecca Schroeder as they demonstrate AI lesson plans. As part of a UTSA partnership with Mitre Inc., professors Niu, Malshe and Schroeder have developed AI lessons that span across marketing, geological sciences, psychology, biology, and computer science as part of UTSA’s Generation AI Nexus program. This workshop is designed for faculty from all disciplines to incorporate AI lessons into their courses that will help students develop interests in data science and artificial intelligence.“Generation AI Nexus” or “Gen AI,” aims to assist faculty with introducing AI to all students, regardless of their major, understand AI and how to use it as an effective tool.

2 pm - 3:30 pm | February 22, 2024

Pillar/Pathway: Enhancing Research - Administration & Execution

A workshop for junior faculty who are embarking on setting up their own research laboratory.

10 am - 11:30 am | Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Pillar/Pathway: Enhancing Research - Methodological Advancements

Representatives from the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (FSRDCs) will discuss the resources available to faculty and postdocs. UTSA is a member of the Texas Research Data Center (RDC) Consortium through which researchers may access the secure computing lab located at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Qualified researchers with approved projects perform statistical analyses using restricted access data sets. Projects are hosted on the national RDC network, which is maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau. For a description of FSRDCs, see https://www.census.gov/about/adrm/fsrdc.html.

The FSRDCs offer access to restricted data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other partnering agencies, such as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, and National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. For more information about the datasets, go to:https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/txrdc/datasets/. For TXRDC funding opportunities, see https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/txrdc/funding-opportunities/. In addition to the webinar, one-on-one meetings also can be arranged with Drs. Mary Campbell and Karin Johnson."

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Thursday, November 30, 2023

Pillar/Pathway:Enhancing Research - Methodological Advancements

Representatives from the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (FSRDCs) will discuss the resources available to faculty and postdocs. UTSA is a member of the Texas Research Data Center (RDC) Consortium through which researchers may access the secure computing lab located at Texas A&M University, College Station.

Qualified researchers with approved projects perform statistical analyses using restricted access data sets. Projects are hosted on the national RDC network, which is maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau. For a description of FSRDCs, see https://www.census.gov/about/adrm/fsrdc.html.

The FSRDCs offer access to restricted data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other partnering agencies, such as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics, and National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. For more information about the datasets, go to:https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/txrdc/datasets/. For TXRDC funding opportunities, see https://liberalarts.tamu.edu/txrdc/funding-opportunities/. In addition to the webinar, one-on-one meetings also can be arranged with Drs. Mary Campbell and Karin Johnson."

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Pillar/Pathway: Enhancing Research - Administration & Execution

Description: We discuss how to articulate your project goals, research questions, objectives or aims, outcomes, and impact in a way that will be compelling to your targeted funder. We will step through the process of planning the outline of your project, using that plan to write a one-pager or concept paper, and discussing it with your Program Officer.

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Pillar/Pathway: Enhancing Research: Administration & Execution

This workshop provides a fundamental understanding of the purposes, processes, and expectations for health, education, and social services project grant evaluations. Participants will understand how to structure the assessment part of a proposal to include the determination of measurable objectives and the development of tools (e.g., logic models, Gantt charts) to guide proposal development so that needs/problems align with objectives and result in excellent, well-designed evaluations. Participants will also learn about various funding agencies' expectations (internal v. external) assessment, and budgeting for evaluation.

12 pm - 2 pm | December 6, 2023

Pillar/Pathway: Enhancing Research - Administration & Execution

In this workshop, we focus on how to develop and write up an evaluation plan for your NSF proposal. We cover how to understand NSF’s expectations, when to bring in an external evaluator, how to how to use logic models to develop a project that is structured for rigorous evaluation. (In this workshop, we focus on developing and describing a strong plan in your grant proposal, not on the details of conducting program evaluation of a funded project.

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | February 8, 2024

Pillar/Pathway: Enhancing Research - Administration & Execution

In this workshop, we focus on how to develop and write up an evaluation plan for your NSF proposal. We cover how to understand NSF’s expectations, when to bring in an external evaluator, how to how to use logic models to develop a project that is structured for rigorous evaluation. (In this workshop, we focus on developing and describing a strong plan in your grant proposal, not on the details of conducting program evaluation of a funded project.

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Thursday, February 22, 2024

Pillar/Pathway: Enhancing research - Administration & Execution

A workshop for junior faculty who are embarking on setting up their research laboratory.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Monday, March 4, 2024

Pillar/Pathway: Developing Researchers - Visioning & Leadership

A group session designed to assist those spearheading cluster hire proposals. We will help them broaden their views to be more transdisciplinary and competitive. We will help them identify funding opportunities and strategize about resource needs.

12:00 pm- 1:30 pm | Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Pillar/Pathway: Developing Researchers - Career Advancement

Strategic Research Development will host an information session on the NSF CAREER program on Wednesday, January 31 at 12:00 pm. This information session will be held virtually and a recording will be made available to all who register to attend.

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Pillar/Pathway: Developing Researchers - Career Advancement

We will discuss best practices for identifying and planning strong outreach and education components to meet NSF CAREER's broader impact requirements, including what reviewers are looking for, what makes a plan strong, and common mistakes to avoid. We will also discuss differences in expectations for education and outreach scope, depending on the type of grant (e.g., core, CAREER, Center, etc.), and provide examples.

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Thursday, February 15, 2024

Pillar/Pathway: Developing Researchers - Career Advancement

"CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.

This workshop is designed to familiarize faculty considering applying for CAREER with what NSF expects of awardees, key features of CAREER, and how to assess your competitive fit with the NSF CAREER award.