Grant Writing Mentoring Program: Earning Awards in Bulk
Hosted by the NSU Grant Writing Lab and Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, the Grant Writing Mentoring Program pairs early stage researchers with established researchers with the aim of writing and submitting an internal or external grant application by the end of the program period.
The overarching goal is to increase the capacity (i.e., knowledge and skills) of NSU researchers early in their careers to find, apply for, and be competitive to receive grant support for their research. This goal is accomplished through a year-long program that features one-on-one meetings between mentees and their mentors, check-ins with the program’s Advisory Committee, customized grantsmanship trainings, a grant writing handbook, and utilization of NSU’s broader research infrastructure and resources.
During the 2023-2024 program, 11 Mentees participated in this program from 6 colleges—Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, College of Psychology, College of Optometry, Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy, Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice, and College of Computing & Engineering.
Many more successes are sure to come, but we are excited to announce some early notices of success below:
Janell Mensinger, PhD, FAED, an Associate Professor in the College of Psychology, earned an NIH SuRE Award, titled “Optimizing the Validity of the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness for Predicting Disordered Eating”. See the College of Psychology’s April 2024 Research Highlights for more information about this project.
Allie Holschbach, PhD, an Associate Professor in the College of Psychology, earned a Florida Department of Health Award, titled “Elucidating the effects of motherhood and infant contact on neural and behavioral signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in a transgenic AD mouse model“.
Tim Scala, PsyD, an Associate Professor and Licensed Clinical Supervisor in the College of Education & School of Criminal Justice, earned a NSU Dooley Trust Award, titled “A Training Program to Support Faculty & Staff Working with Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in Higher Education”. For more information, Dr. Scala’s project along with the other Dooley Trust Award winners were summarized in our October 2023 Newsletter at the following link, https://sites.nova.edu/nsuresearch/featured/dooley-trust-award-recipients
*If you have any questions or have interest in joining the Grant Writing Mentoring Program as a mentee or mentor, please email GrantLab@nova.edu