Dr. Marjorie Piechowski, Director of Sponsored Programs and Research at DePaul University, will be on hand to lead the workshop. She is an active member of the National Council of University Research Administrators, as well as the Society of Research Administrators, and has visited the ISU campus to present in past years. She is an experienced educator and author, operating her own technical writing consultant business separate from her duties at DePaul. If a seat still remains for you at the time you e-mail her, she will provide you with a lunch card. A complimentary lunch is provided at the close of the workshop.
Indirect funds are important.
When faculty prepare and submit external grant proposals for research and other projects, there is often the opportunity to build in indirect funds into the budget for the project. Many external funding agencies recognize that there are costs to completing project work that will be borne by the investigators institution such as those for utilities, technology support, remodeling of space, and so on. Some funding sources are willing to provide funding above and beyond the basic budget to support such institutional costs, while other funding sources are not willing to do so. Here at ISU, guidelines for calculating and assessing indirect funds to those funding sources that routinely pay for such overhead expenses are in the process of being revised. CAST faculty who are or will be writing grant proposals can contact Nancy Latham or Linda Learned, University Research Office, for more information about likely changes.