UNDER REVISION!!!
Applying for a grant? Use our Start a Proposal form to start the process.
Check out this AWESOME NEW FLIER on support for proposal development available to you through the campus-wide Office of Research. Baskin Engineering faculty, research scientists, and postdoctoral fellows have two Research Development Specialists who will worth with you one-on-one: Eva Hrabeta-Robinson (evarobin@ucsc.edu) for biomedical research, and Karen Ruheder (kruhlede@ucsc.edu) for all other topic areas.
Current Baskin Engineering Research Analyst Assignments
0. Find Funding:
grants.gov (federal opportunities)
Pivot grants database (see also
Early Career Awards
INFOGRAPHIC timeline with clickable links
Chart of key Foundation, Corporate, and Federal early career awards for Baskin Engineering faculty with award amounts and eligibility requirements.
Chart of Funding Opportunities
Minimalist overview of emails sent out to faculty in Baskin Engineering, including federal, corporate, and foundation opportunities.
Foundation Relations Calls for Funding
Website maintained by Foundation Relations with a list of RFPs they have distributed and competitions they are managing.
STEM Education Grants Overview (Infographic w/links to funder websites)
University of California - Office of the President
1. Helpful resources from the Office of Sponsored Projects:
Institutional Information
Includes a link to the Dept. of Ed. letter certifying us as an HSI
OSP proposal preparation website
2. General resources:
Overview: Working with the Department of Defense
"Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty, Second Edition" based on workshops co-sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Comparison of Federal Agency Review Criteria: [full article] or [table only]
"Can We Talk? Contacting Grant Program Officers," by Robert Porter, University of Tennessee (pdf)
"What should be included in a letter of inquiry" from Grantspace website [accessed 10/22/18]
(NB: In the Foundation world, "letter of inquiry" is synonymous with "letter of intent.")
3. NSF resources:
"Why You Should Volunteer to Serve as an NSF Reviewer"
4. NIH resources
See below for Outreach, Broader Impact, and Diversity resources
NIH Biosketch Format Pages, Instructions and Samples (NIH website)
What Happens To Your NIH Proposal (NIH-created video)
NIH Peer Review Revealed (NIH-created video -- mock panel discussion)
Ten Top Q&As for NIH Applications (NIH-created video)
"All About Grants" Podcasts (NIH-created series)
Apply to become a reviewer for NIH
5. Shared research facilities
Baskin Engineering Master Facilities, Equipment, and Resources Document
A list of shared research labs and facilities in SOE and at UCSC
6. Outreach, Broader Impact, and Diversity
Broader Impacts for Engineering
National Alliance for Broader Impacts: Guiding Principles for NSF Proposals
NIH links:
- Diversity-relating funding opportunity announcements: https://extramural-diversity.nih.gov/guidedata/data
- How NIH promotes a diverse workforce: https://extramural-diversity.nih.gov/index
- Main diversity website: https://diversity.nih.gov/
- Diversity installment, "All About Grants" podcast series: https://nexus.od.nih.gov/all/2020/02/19/new-all-about-grants-podcast-on-nihs-interest-in-diversity-and-supplement-programs/
UCSC Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Policy Studies: UCSC Student Statistics
National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics report, "Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2019"
7. Links to tools
Cost estimator for graduate students
Tool for creating data management plan
8. Team Science Resources
Team Science Toolkit (National Cancer Institute/NIH)
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science (National Academies Press 2015)
A New Vision for Center-Based Research (National Academies Press 2017)
9. Other bits and pieces
10. For graduate students
Fellowships open to US and international students (updated 5/14/21)
Fellowships open to US citizens/nationals/permanent residents (updated 5/14/21)
Fellowship proposal writing resources by Karen Ruhleder:
· Posts on UIUC “GradLife” blog:
o The Art of Proposal Writing: Proposal as Roadmap
o The Art of Proposal Writing: Proposal as Genre
o Letters of Reference for Fellowship Applications
o Applying for Fellowships: Telling the “Story of You”
· Longer, more in-depth article on proposal writing for graduate students:
o A Guide to Preparing Fellowship Applications in STEM