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LET'S TALK RESEARCH DISCUSSIONS

"Let's Talk Research," are hour-long, research related sessions sponsored by Costas Tsatsoulis, vice chancellor for research and dean of the graduate school. Interested participants can register online or by email. For more information, email Iraklis Anagnostopoulos, Faculty Fellow for the OVCR, at iraklis.anagno@siu.edu.

To view the previous workshop presentations visit past presentations and click on the link.

 

Hanover Research Membership

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at SIUC has partnered with Hanover Research to provide proposal review and revision services to faculty members seeking external funding.

Hanover Research has extensive experience supporting both complex multi-PI and individual grants submitted to federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense (DoD), as well as private and non-profit foundations. This partnership aims to improve the quality of grant proposals and increase the success rate of funding awards.

Available services

Proposal Review (includes the following):

  • Teleconference to discuss your draft before Hanover’s review.
  • Review of the proposal narrative to ensure alignment with the funding opportunity announcement.
  • Make specific recommendations using margin comments.
  • A memo outlining high-level suggestions.
  • A follow-up debriefing teleconference.
  • Timeframe: 2-3 weeks.

Proposal Review and Revision

  • Includes everything in the Proposal Review service, plus:
  • Suggested revisions to the proposal narrative with tracked changes.
  • Enhancements focused on clarity, effective language use, punctuation, and grammar.
  • Timeframe: 3-4 weeks.

HOW TO APPLY FOR HANOVER RESEARCH SUPPORT

FAQs

SIU Foundation Research and Creative Activities Funding Opportunity

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the SIU Foundation invite SIU faculty to seek funds to support scholarly, creative, and research activities. The requested funding should potentially lead to substantial benefits to the scholarly, creative, and research activities of the proposer(s).

Projects should promote innovation, leadership, or student success, although student participation is not required.

Applications are in D2L due January 31, 2025. Details of this funding opportunity are here.

There are many advantages of attending a comprehensive research university. This includes the opportunity to participate in a research setting where faculty and students work together with a wide support net of professionals. "Research" may be conducted in any discipline; we broadly define research as inquiry, discovery and creation of new knowledge and new perspectives about the world. SIU offers research opportunities at all levels.