Search results for: “Foundation Grants”
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Research Expenditures
Research expenditures, funds spent to conduct research, are the nationally accepted method to measure annual funds used on research activities. A research activity is represented by the amount spent by the sponsoring agency (expenditure) on a research project. The following information includes the various reports of research expenditures. UT Dallas provides comprehensive information based on…
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Research 411: The Heart and Mind Connection Talk Show
Research 411 is a talk show focused on sharing best practices and trending research topics delivered by professional staff and prominent UT Dallas researchers from various disciplines. Dr. Chandramallika Basak will talk about the heart and mind connection. Dr. Chandramallika Basak, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department of the School of Behavioral…
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Comet Corner: Using Clinical Observation to Study the Effects of Stress on the Human Brain
Corticosteroids are commonly prescribed medications that decrease inflammation and suppress the immune system. This presentation will discuss how the side effects of these medications can help us understand the effects of stress and the stress hormone cortisol on the human brain. The presenter will also discuss the impact of recently obtaining an MBA at UT…
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Award Closeout
Close-out Process The closeout process for sponsored projects is a post-award activity and is handled jointly by Sponsored Projects, Post-Award Management, Receivables and Sponsored Accounting. Information regarding the process can be accessed here. No Cost Extension One of the most frequently asked questions from Principal Investigators is what to do in order to extend a project…
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Data Management Plans and Tools
Sponsors are looking for a thoughtful data management plan in which data will be properly obtained, analyzed, reported, and published. Most funding agencies now require a Data Management Plan (DMP), but almost any research project would benefit from having one in place prior to collecting a single data point. A complete DMP outlines the processes,…
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Know Your Sponsor
My son and a team of fellow elementary students did an experiment for school to see how much the splash pattern grew when you increased the height you dropped a water balloon. They still don’t know the answer to that question because the kids didn’t get the balloons high enough to pop the balloons, let…
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How to Contact Program Officers
The role of a Program Officer (or Program Manager or Technical Point of Contact, depending on the sponsor) varies a lot between sponsors. For example, while it is extremely difficult to get Department of Defense funding without talking to the Program Officer, it is quite common to get funding from the National Institutes of Health…
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What’s in Your Coffee? Foreign Policy and Brexit Stir into Public Opinion in Historic Election
It’s October and on the downtown square of a small, Texas town near where I live, a quaint community is embracing Fall. At a corner pub one Sunday afternoon, patrons linger over brew and with the doors to storefronts open, the air smells of coffee and cigars, food and confections from a bakery. It’s a…
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Graduate Research Fellowships
The following is a list of nationally competitive graduate fellowships organized by deadline. Please note, this is not a list of all the graduate fellowships available. In order to develop a personalized search based on your research interests, please use the searchable database Pivot. If you have any questions about applying for any graduate research…