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A semester-long comprehensive Grant Writing Assistance Program (GWAP) for junior women scientists at CUNY can help you. As part of a newly awarded grant from NSF to Hunter College and CUNY, the Gender Equity Project GEP) has developed a program to provide 6 full-time junior women with the resources and information they need to write a successful proposal. Successful applicants to the program receive a course release during the semester they are writing the proposal, individualized grant writing assistance from the GEP, and "pre-reviews" from experts in the scientific area of the participant's grant proposal. Participants commit to writing and submitting a proposal to a federal funding agency and to giving one or two seminars at their home college about how to apply for grants.
Awardees attend an initial 4-hour grant-writing seminar. The seminar includes an overview of the application and review procedures for NIH and NSF, suggestions and specific tips for writing a successful proposal, individualized feedback on the leading ideas submitted as part of the application process, and discussion of how to create a timeline for preparing the proposal. The GEP also reviews names of suggested pre-reviewers submitted by the participants and works to develop other possible names. The GEP can contact potential pre-reviewers, who are paid $300 to review the proposal's leading ideas, proposed timeline, to provide specific written feedback on the proposal, and to meet with the investigator during the review process (if in the NYC area). The GEP facilitates the interactions between the program participants and the reviewers.
Participants of the first grant-writing seminar wrote, "really helpful"; "I received information that was very specific to my research; I have never gotten this before"; "very comprehensive"; "very valuable"; "lots of info I didn't know about the make-up of panels, how to contact the program officer, creating a timeline, etc".
Eligibility
To be eligible to participate in the program you must be:
- A tenure-track or tenured woman in the natural or social sciences , mathematics and statistics, or engineering at one of the following campuses: Brooklyn, City, College of Staten Island, Graduate Center, Hunter, John Jay, Lehman, Queens or Lehman; AND
- Applying for federal funding for the first time or applying for federal funding in a new area or applying for federal funding at a significantly higher level than before.
For full details on application procedures and applications please visit:
The CUNY GEP Grant Writing Assitance Program Webpage
For information on the Grant Writing Seminars click here.
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