Please join the OSP in celebrating all the Principal Investigators ("PI"s) who submitted grant proposals, received new awards, and carried out their sponsored projects over the 2022-23 academic year! Lunch will be served!
Tues, February 7th 12:30-1:30pm
Co-sponsored with the Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons
Join us for our Winter Quarter Lightning Talk where faculty from across SU will present their sabbatical research. Learn more about your colleagues’ scholarship and make inter-disciplinary connections! OSP will also provide a brief overview of sabbatical funding resources.
Presenters include:
Please RSVP here by Thurs, February 2nd and/or direct any questions to osp@seattleu.edu.
Wed, February 15th 10:00-10:45am via Zoom (link provided in advance)
The OSP invites all staff budget and grant managers to reconnect with colleagues from across campus, hear updates form OSP, and engage in a fun, interactive activity to acquaint you with new resources available to support you in your work with sponsored projects.
Please RSVP here and/or direct any specific questions on this topic to osp@seattleu.edu.
Tues, February 28th 12:30-1:30pm via Zoom (link provided in advance)
The OSP is proud to now support faculty interested in applying to the suite of Fulbright Programs! In partnership with Fulbright faculty alumni, the OSP is hosting an info session and faculty panel in preparation of the 2024-25 Fulbright application window. Attend this session to learn more about the breadth of Fulbright programs, and hear from past Fulbright Scholars about the application process and their experiences abroad.
Please RSVP here by Monday, February 27th and/or direct any questions to osp@seattleu.edu.
Thurs, March 9th 12:00-2:00pm | Stuart T. Rolfe Community Room (ADAL)
Whether you are a PI on a grant, have submitted or are interested in submitting grant proposals, support grant management, or are simply interested in learning about and celebrating the sponsored projects at SU, you are invited to join the OSP for this quarter’s Community Luncheon! There is no formal program planned, simply a shared meal with colleagues across campus - stop by whenever you can, for as long as you are able!
Please RSVP here by 12:00pm Fri, March 3rd and/or direct any questions to osp@seattleu.edu.
Any time! | Sign-up here
GrantForward is a funding opportunity database and recommendation service available to all SU community members – faculty, staff and students. GrantForward has many helpful features, including a dynamic search engine with customizable filters and mechanisms for developing regular funding alerts emailed to you on a regular basis of your choosing. An overview of GrantForward, with instructions for getting started, is available here, with additional step-by-step guides available here. You can also visit our GrantForward page here.
Sign-up for a virtual 15-minute GrantForward Orientation with an OSP staff member to get started today!
Whether you are a PI on a grant, have submitted or are interested in submitting grant proposals, support grant management, or are simply interested in learning about and celebrating the sponsored projects at SU, you are invited to join the OSP for our new quarterly lunch series!
This fall, we'll be highlighting and celebrating the growth and success of sponsored projects over the 2021-22 academic year. This is a fun, informal event - stop by whenever you can, for as long as you are able!
Please RSVP by October 7th using the button above to ensure we have enough (but not too much) food. Thank you!
Please join us for Fall Quarter’s Lightning Talks to learn more about your colleagues’ Summer Faculty Fellowship-funded projects and make inter-disciplinary connections! Please RSVP using the button above to ensure you receive the Zoom link. Thank you!
Stop by this quarter's OSP Pop-up event to get started with GrantForward, a funding search database subscription service available to the SU community. After a brief tour of GrantForward’s many features, OSP staff will be available in this hands-on session to assist you with setting up and optimizing your researcher profile, creating saved searches, and/or setting alerts. Whether you are just getting started or would like to reserve dedicated time to spend with GrantForward, all are welcome to join for any portion of this event that suits your schedule.
Thursday, May 26th | 12:30 - 1:30pm
Zoom link provided in advance
Please RSVP by Tues, May 24th
Thinking of pursuing external funding in the coming months? Get yourself in grant-writing shape with this session focused on the core principles of effective proposal development and writing. Participants will gain insight into all aspects of the proposal process including critically reviewing funding announcements, developing project aims that respond to sponsor objectives, and crafting compelling proposal narratives. This will be a virtual session.
In partnership with the Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons
RSVPs are not required but registrants will receive an Outlook calendar invite/reminder.
Stop by this quarter's OSP Office Hours to get started with GrantForward, a funding search database subscription service available to the SU community. After a brief tour of GrantForward’s many features, OSP staff will be available in this hands-on session to assist you with setting up and optimizing your researcher profile, creating saved searches, and/or setting alerts. Whether you are just getting started or would like to reserve dedicated time to spend with GrantForward, all are welcome to join for any portion of this hour that suits your schedule.
Join us for the winter quarter session of the OSP Lightning Talks! Colleagues in the Pilot Initiative on Anti-Racist Education: Curriculum Development Cohort will present their work in this packed session. Presented in partnership with the Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Office of the Provost. Speakers include:
Faculty Research Lightning Talks
Faculty Research Lightning Talks
October 28th 12:30pm-1:30pm
Via Zoom (RSVP here)
Please join us for the Fall Quarter’s Lightning Talks! This round of Lightning Talks will focus on the work of our 2021 Summer Faculty Fellows as they present their scholarship in this fun, fast-paced format. This session will be presented via Zoom so come learn about your colleagues' research and make interdisciplinary connections. More details on presenters and login information will be posted soon but mark your calendars!
Fall Faculty Learning: Research @ SU 101: Understanding the resources available to support faculty scholarship at SU
Thursday, October 7th 12:30pm-1:30pm
Via Zoom (RSVP here)
Interested in learning about the many resources available to support your scholarship at SU?
Please mark your calendars for this session, in which we provide an overview of the ‘landscape’ of supports available to faculty in pursuing their scholarship in general, and in seeking external funding should they desire to do so. We will highlight resources provided within the Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP) and across multiple offices at SU, and at all points on the research lifecycle, including:
- Developing and refining your research agenda
- Finding funding, with a particular focus on leveraging SU’s subscription to GrantForward
Crafting competitive proposals
- Managing external awards
Faculty members at all levels of experience are encouraged to participate, including those new to SU and those in need of a better understanding of how resources provided through the OSP and other offices can support your work
Thursday, June 10th, 10:00 – 11:00am via Zoom (link provided in advance)
Please RSVP and/or direct any questions to osp@seattleu.edu.
In collaboration with the Associate Controller, this quarter’s session will discuss sponsored project budget tracking best practices and provide an overview of the tools available to you in post-award budget management. Bring your experiences, tips, and questions to share and discuss with your peers of budget and grant managers.
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Thurs, May 20th 12:30-1:30pm
Please join the Office of the Provost, OSP and Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons for a celebration of Seattle University faculty’s excellence in research, creative, and other scholarly activities! After opening words from Provost Martin, you will hear from six of your colleagues as they share their recent work in a lighting talk format, as well as learn about SU faculty’s wide-ranging intellectual and scholarly contributions – including sponsored projects, published books and manuscripts, conference presentations, and all other products.
Tuesday, April 27th 12:30-1:30pm
Preparation of the budget is, for many researchers, saved for last as it is often the proposal component that feels most daunting, and its role overlooked in the complete proposal package. This interactive workshop will describe the important role of the budget, breakdown common costs and how to budget for them, and walk through a sample budget development process. Whether you are currently preparing for a grant submission or plan to do so in the future, this workshop will equip you with the tools to confidently develop the budget needed to carry out your project.
If you have a chance, please review these sample funded proposals and criteria review sheet prior to the event:
NEH Fellowships Criteria Worksheet
NEH African Americans who Returned to the US from Canada After the Civil War
NEH American Literature, Poetry and Community in Auden and Others
Please join the OSP and your faculty colleagues for a discussion with NEH Senior Program Officer Mary Macklem. In this session, she will review NEH programs, answer your questions and share applications tricks and tips.
While many people have likely used Excel to graph their data, Excel has limited functionality for creating many standard data visualizations. SPSS is a statistical software package that has a spreadsheet interface very similar to Excel, but with far more options for data visualization and data analysis. It is available to all SU faculty, staff, and students, through SU's virtual desktop (desktop.seattleu.edu).
In this workshop, we will discuss some underlying principles of what makes for good & useful data visualization. We will look at several standard types of graphs, and discuss how to decide which graphs are appropriate for a given set of data. And we will learn how to use SPSS to create these graphs.
This workshop will include demonstrations of creating these graphs as well as time for participants to try out SPSS for themselves. Example data sets will be provided, but if you have data from a project you're interested in working with, please bring that along and we can help you get started visualizing your data!
This will be an entry-level workshop. No prior experience in statistics or data visualization will be needed in order to participate.
Please direct any questions to sloughtj@seattleu.edu
Being able to create appropriate graphs is a key tool in data-informed research. Using the right graphs can allow you to quickly communicate interesting findings, and can help you understand your data and formulate new research questions.
Please join us as we learn from the experiences of five SU faculty members who have recently served on grant review panels for internal and external sponsors, including the SU Summer Faculty Fellowship, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Fulbright Foundation. The session will begin with a brief ‘mini-seminar’ introducing typical elements of the review process, discussing how serving as a review can improve your own grant writing, and providing tips for being an effective reviewer. Panelists will then share insights from their experiences, including observations about the characteristics that set successful proposals apart in the review process and how serving as a reviewer has informed their own scholarship. Faculty who will be graciously sharing their insights are:
In collaboration with the Associate Controller, we are excited to announce the transition from traditional effort reporting to a review of compensation charges. This new process is being enacted to reduce burden and confusion in the certification of publicly-funded compensation and will be reviewed in detail in this session. Additionally, we’ll share our regular OSP quarterly updates and provide time for questions and community. All budget managers and staff supporting grants are welcome to attend!
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Please join us for Winter Quarter’s Lightning Talks to learn more about your colleagues’ scholarship and make inter-disciplinary connections! Seven faculty from across campus will present their work, with this round’s theme of anti-racist scholarship. Our presenters include:
This session, for all staff budget and grant managers, will review internal sponsored project processes. Please join the OSP and your colleagues from across campus for a fun, interactive virtual scavenger hunt to locate the resources available to support you in your sponsored project work.
Back by popular demand! This round of Lightning Talks will focus on the work of our 2020 Summer Faculty Fellows as they present their scholarship in this fun, informal and fast-paced format. Join us via Zoom to learn about your colleagues' research and make interdisciplinary connections! Zoom login information provided to participants in advance.
We are grateful to the following faculty who will share their scholarship with us:
Visit the Racial & Social Justice Funding Guide
Are you engaged in research, service, and/or creative works related to racial justice? Do you contribute to the scholarship of systemic racism, civil rights, social inequality, criminal justice reform, equitable education, or another related field, or are interested in contributing to this body of work? Could you benefit from a community of colleagues to share practices, collaborate with, and/or advance your scholarly efforts? Join the Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP), the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR), and like-minded community members in an open discussion on racial justice scholarship. Please come prepared ready to share your work with colleagues from across campus. The OSP and CFR will discuss the funding landscape and share funding opportunities working to advance racial justice. We hope to see you there!
Zoom login information provided to participants in advance.
All College of Education faculty are invited to sign up this fun event! Each “date” with your external funding support team will only last 10 minutes via a Zoom call. Representatives from the Office of Sponsored Projects, Corporate and Foundation Relations and University Advancement will be in each session to learn about your scholarship and funding needs and answer any questions you may have. We’ll then brainstorm on next steps and send you any potential funding opportunities that may be a good fit.
Sign up today by emailing osp@seattleu.edu.
Thank you to our panelists and attendees!
View the recording of this session and access all materials from the workshop here.
Please join us as SU faculty from a range of disciplines and career stages share the ‘roadmaps’ they have followed in developing their funded research programs, and the ways in which external support has shaped their trajectories. In addition to learning from colleagues, participants will gain practical insight into approaches to developing a research funding plan that maps pathways for achieving long-term research and funding goals. We are grateful to the following faculty who will be joining us to share their perspectives:
Zoom login information provided to participants in advance.
All School of Law faculty and staff are invited to sign up this fun event! Each “date” with your external funding support team will only last 10 minutes via a Zoom call. Representatives from the Office of Sponsored Projects, Corporate and Foundation Relations and University Advancement will be in each session to learn about your scholarship and funding needs and answer any questions you may have. We’ll then brainstorm on next steps and send you any potential funding opportunities that may be a good fit. Sign up today with Brooke Coleman at colemanb@seattleu.edu.
The Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP) team invites all staff who are responsible for the management of grant programs and/or grant budgets to gather with peers over (virtual) coffee and tea to discuss relevant issues, policy updates and learn about the sponsored project activity on our campus.
Summer quarter's peer learning group's topic will be TBD.
You can register here.
Thu, May 14 | 4:00–5:00 | Zoom link will be sent upon registration
What happens to our scholarly and creative efforts when our lives have been significantly disrupted?
Clearly there is no single “right” answer to this question: individual contexts require individualized strategies and orientations to help us find our own balance in an unbalanced world.
Perhaps for you, scholarship pales into insignificance compared to supporting your students, caring for relatives and for yourself, and/or home-schooling your children; it’s a luxury you need to let go of. Or maybe time spent on scholarship provides you a welcome reprieve from email, social media, and the news – a chance to get comfortably lost in ideas and projects. Alternatively, you may be someone for whom scholarship is a form of healing, enabling you to think and write your way through the present trauma to new realizations and a deeper appreciation of what matters to you most.
Whatever your stance – and whatever your discipline, career stage, rank, or research funding – we invite you to join us for this happy-hour conversation to share and explore the myriad approaches to scholarship that are enabling you to stay grounded in the age of COVID-19.
In addition to creating a space for you to share with colleagues, staff from the Office of Sponsored Projects and Center for Faculty Development will be on hand to reflect on “nuts-and-bolts” approaches to addressing the challenges associated with timelines and/or research funding when so many factors are beyond our collective control.
Outside the session, we’ll share a few resources that provide contrasting perspectives on scholarly productivity in a time of crisis as well as resources for managing a sponsored project through this new environment.
Remember to bring your own beverages and snacks!
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In anticipation of many changes and questions surrounding research at SU amidst the current crisis, OSP will host our Spring Peer Learning Group via Zoom on Tuesday, April 28th. We will review the steps OSP has been taking to proactively determine the effect of current sponsor policies, issues that may arise due to the crisis and procedures when making changes to grant budgets and/or deliverables. The policies and new procedures can also be found on our website. It will also be an opportunity to see some friendly faces and ask any questions! We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, April 28th at 10am. Stay healthy!
You can RSVP at osp@seattleu.edu
In WQ, the OSP will host a faculty-focused workshop titled Essentials of Grant Development where we will explore how you can position yourself for success when writing grant proposals. This workshop will be offered twice (same content at both) to accommodate schedules.
For the workshops, materials, you can access them here.
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The Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP) will be hosting an inaugural event: Faculty Research Connections Lightning Round. At this event, faculty from all SU colleges will present their work in a fun, informal and fast-paced format. Join us to learn about your colleagues' research and make interdisciplinary connections!
This quarter's agenda will have a focus on allowability when making purchases on grants, where we'll hear from our Grant Accountant. The Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP) team invites all staff who are responsible for the management of grant programs and/or grant budgets to gather with peers over coffee and tea to discuss relevant issues, policy updates and learn about the sponsored project activity on our campus.
For allowability materials, click here.
Feeling flustered by quarterly reports & effort reports? No fear, OSP is here! Faculty and staff can drop off their quarterly reports and effort reports, ask questions and grab a cookie and hot chocolate. We'd love answer any reporting questions you may have and share in some holiday cheer.
Slides from the Fall Grant Managers Peer Learning Group focused on understanding the distinction between sub-awards and sub-contractors and determining the post-award processes that apply to both are available here. This event is part of the quarterly series OSP hosts for staff responsible for managing grant programs and/or budgets.
Co-hosted by OSP, the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR), and Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons, Identifying Funding Opportunities provided faculty with a variety of resources available to you to help find funding opportunities for your unique project.
View or download the slides and handouts from this workshop here.
Grant-curious faculty and staff who were unable to participate in the workshop are encouraged to reach out to osp@seattle.edu to learn about how OSP and other campus partners can support your funding search and research!
We are excited to announce that the Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP) and the Library will be co-hosting an inaugural Fall Scholarship Showcase in the Popko Lounge (LEML 672).
Join us in early June for our annual end-of-year open house to celebrate the sponsored project successes over academic year 2019-20!
The Office of Sponsored Projects Lightning Talks are a fun and informative way to learn about the scholarship taking place by faculty across campus. Each faculty presenter has 5 minutes to share their project.
Join us for our Spring Quarter Lightning Talk where faculty will talk about incorporating undergraduates into their research. Learn best practices from seasoned faculty. OSP will also give a brief overview of resources on campus to support undergraduate research. Yen Tran, Scholarly Services Librarian, will also give an overview of resources on campus to support undergraduate research. The panel will also be available for a Q&A session!
Presenters include:
Thursday | October 5th | 12:30 - 1:30pm | Zoom
Register to receive RSVP link in advance
Join this session for an overview of the 2024 Summer Faculty Fellowship (SFF) program and application and review process and hear three of the 2023 fellows present their summer project. There will be an opportunity for Q&A.
Wednesday | October 18th | 11:00am - 1:00pm | Oberto Commons
Please RSVP to ensure we have enough - but not too much - food.
Please join the OSP and campus partners, including the Center for Faculty Development and the Lemieux Library and McGoldricks Learning Commons, to meet the offices and resources available to support your scholarly work. Lunch and refreshments will be served.
Join the Office of Sponsored Projects - and your colleagues, students, and staff members involved in summer scholarship - for a coffee break over the summer on the Sinegal Patio!
Coffee and pastries will be served. We hope to see you there!
RESCHEDULED - Tuesday | November 7th | 12:30 - 1:30pm | Zoom
Join the Zoom here
Please join us as we provide an overview of the ‘landscape’ of support available to SU faculty and staff in pursuing their scholarship in general, and in seeking external funding should they desire to do so! Participants will learn about resources provided within the Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP) and within multiple offices at SU, across all points on the research lifecycle.
For upcoming workshops and events, please click here.
