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University of Connecticut College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Office of Research and Graduate Education

CANR Grants Development Office

The CANR Grants Development Office (GDO) is the central administrative resource and preaward processing area for all sponsored grant and contract proposals within the college. The GDO provides advice and support services to principal investigators (PIs) and is an information resource for CANR faculty on all topics related to grant and contract proposal preparation and submission.

Serving as a liaison between CANR research faculty and the Office for Sponsored Programs (OSP), the Grants Development Officer, Nancy Abbott (nancy.abbott@uconn.edu) helps to facilitate and streamline the grant application process for CANR principal investigators.

Proposal development support services offered by the GDO include:

  • Advice and consultation throughout proposal process
  • Budget preparation
  • Interpretation of RFA instructions and guidelines
  • Submitting proposals to OSP for review; collecting and distributing approval pages to PIs
  • Serving as the intermediary between the OSP Grants Manager and the Principal Investigator to answer questions and resolve issues
  • Pre-completion of standard information in application packages
  • Maintaining library of forms, templates, and instructions for UConn and many federal agencies
  • Identification of potential funding opportunities

Additional services are available when proposals are submitted early, including:

  • Completion of budget forms within grants.gov application package
  • Conversion of files to Adobe PDFs
  • Uploading of attachments into application packages
  • Research into potential funding opportunities

For more information on grant proposal development please Nancy Abbott, Grants Development Officer (nancy.abbott@uconn.edu)

The GDO has a centralized email box for receipt of all grant and contract forms and files: canrgrants@uconn.edu

News and Events

 

CANR 2011 Highlights of Research and the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station

2011 Highlights of Research

Grant Reviewer Opportunities

15 AGENCIES SEEKING GRANT REVIEWERS

One great way to increase the likelihood of getting funding is to become a grant reviewer. Current research suggests that you can improve your odds by as much as 30% by serving first as a reviewer and then submitting a proposal to the agency for which you reviewer at a later competition cycle.  Many benefits exist for becoming a grant reviewer. You quickly learn what turns reviewers on – and off. Equally important, you become and “insider” and establish contacts and networks that will prove valuable later in your continued grantseeking efforts. Federal agencies are especially looking for grant reviewers because they receive so many proposals that must be critiqued. In our latest blog, we have identified 15 federal grantmaking agencies that are looking for grant reviewers – now. Which one is right for you?

15 Agencies Seeking Grant Reviewes

 

Recent Grant Awards

 

Congratulations to the Research Foundation’s spring Faculty Large Grant award recipients:

Maria-Luz Fernandez, Nutritional Sciences 

Reversal of Hepatic Steatosis by Manipulation of Dietary Carbohydrates and Fat in Guinea Pigs, $17,500

Huan-Zhong Wang, Plant Science & Landscape Architecture

Deciphering the Molecular Mechanisms of Secondary Wall Formation, $21,000

 

Archived grant list

 

 

Current Multistate Proposals Inviting Participation

  • NE_TEMP2001, Project proposal entitled, "Ovarian Influences on Reproductive Success in Ruminants." Please submit Please submit the Appendix E no later than 05/21/2012
  • NE_TEMP1921, Project proposal entitled "Mycobacterial Diseases of Animals."  Please submit the Appendix E no later than 05/21/2012

Instructions to join a Multistate Project

 

 

USDA Integrated Grants and Logic Model

A logic model is a conceptual tool for planning and evaluation which displays the sequence of actions that describes what the science-based program is and will do.

 

 

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