New Faculty Seed Grant Information and Q&A

Good afternoon everybody. We’re going to start this meeting right on time. So that way we have extra time at the end for questions or you get a little free time back. So I want to introduce yourself… myself to you. My name is Emily Brashear. I work in the Office of Research Advancement and Partnerships and I have overseen the new Faculty Seed grant program for probably eight years now.

So it’s really near and dear to my heart. I love this program and I think it’s really exciting. So hopefully throughout this presentation you can, see if you qualify and apply. Really exciting.

So I’m, always not the best fan of stats because I feel like they can be twisted. But since I’ve been seeing these, I know these are really good, real statistics of this program.

It began in, 2000. So we’ve submitted a whole bunch of proposals. We we’ve given over, $4.9 million into the program. Then with that part of the program, you have to submit to an external agency. And we have received over $50 million in external funds. So it’s a more than a 10 to 1 ratio but, for numbers’ sake, about 10 to 1.

Which is pretty amazing. Each year we try to give out ten, 8 to 10, I should say, awards each year. One year we had a lot of money in the program. And so we are allowed to give some extras, but that’s not the case this year: we’re hoping to give ten. So the purpose of this program is to encourage faculty to develop research or scholarly or creative programs that provide potential for sustained professional development and extramural support.

So pretty much what’s that saying is we want you to use this program money to propel your career into the next phase. So this should be kind of a stepping stone for you. So there’s different categories that ideally we put each program into. And we’ve narrowed these down to emphasis area. But if you’re, research or scholarly activity is not listed here, that’s okay.

You still will fit in to one of our emphasis areas. We’ve actually taken these and merged them into eight categories. So, we have quite the span of applications that come through. And we try to link you and actually you get to tell us what group your proposal would be more fitting for. And then we make sure that your proposal fits the others.

We don’t want an art person, competing against somebody within the engineering or health fields just because, that’s not a good mix if their art project isn’t aimed towards that field. So the main questions I always get is, “Am I eligible?” So this date is actually incorrect. I believe it’s 2020. So if you’re still here I will double check this.

This might be my error. So you if you’re a new faculty member and you were hired and I’m going to say 2020 because I think all the other advertisements say 2020. So if 20, if you were hired, May 16th, 2020 till present, then you’re eligible and you can check that that one off. If you’re a tenured track assistant professor, clinical assistant professor, assistant research professor, or scholarly track.

Okay, but check that list if you’re career, career, clinical or scholarly track assistant professors and research assistant professors, you cannot be 100% self funded. So if you’re 100% self-funded, you can’t apply. But if you’re not and you have a research component in your college, you can apply. We just request a signed letter from you or email from your department chair that you’ll attach to your application.

So this is… Those are like anything outside of that, if you’re just a postdoc or, you know, a full professor. So if you’re not in this little range, then unfortunately you do not apply or you cannot apply. You’re not eligible. If you’re unsure, let me know. And I can look up. We use I can look through Workday or, contact your department and see where you stand on that.

So who’s not eligible? Instructors, postdocs, adjunct, visiting faculty, associate professors or above. Also, the next caveat is if you’ve been, a PI or Co-PI while working at WSU and you received external funding totaling $100,000 or more at the date of the proposal, so by February 2nd. So if you have a proposal in right now and you’re waiting for it to be awarded or not, then it doesn’t count.

It hasn’t hit your account yet, then it doesn’t count. However, if on February… or January 31st, you find out that you were awarded the money, then technically you would be ineligible. Because the idea is we’re using this funds to propel you to get these bigger grants. And that’s super exciting. And honestly, your $100,000 grant or whatnot is probably going to help you out a little bit more than the 25,000 we can give you.

So if you’re a co-PI, you have to determine, what it’s like if you are a co-PI on a project, say, the project was for $200,000, but you only received $15,000, then that’s you only have $15,000 under your name, not the full grant. I should say that with PIs. Well, I guess with PIs it’s the same.

But, and then if you were recently funded by the New Faculty Seed Grant Program as a PI or co-PI, you cannot apply. And we they changed it to the co-PI, maybe like three, five years ago. I can’t remember around there. Because what was happening is they would be the co-PI of this project and then they would apply.

And so essentially they would be getting $50,000 for the same project. And so, they wanted to spread the love and thought, well, you could probably, get external funding. So if you are going to apply and have a co-PI on your application, they need to be aware that they’re not eligible to apply next year. So they need to make that decision.

One way to get around this is you don’t make them a co-PI, but you make them a, collaborator. So the Office of Research funds, $200,000 for this competition, and you can only ask for up to $25,000. You’re definitely encouraged to consider smaller amounts of money. And it has been in the past where when you apply, you’ll submit a budget and the review committee will look at your budget and see if there’s anywhere that you can cut.

And the reason we do this is two things. Maybe you weren’t aware that we already have this, free database and you were going to purchase something. Or maybe they don’t think that, you know, your travel is, necessary to make your program efficient or successful, and so they might cut that. Well, when they cut that, they actually assign that money to other people that have applied.

So maybe a second runner up, then we can say, hey, we can’t give you your full amount, but we can offer you $10,000. Is that enough? So that’s kind of why they, cut budgets a little bit. Not on purpose, because there’s a lot of times they’re like, yep. Whatever they ask for, they deserve it. So just be aware.

Notice of intent. So we want you guys to — it’s a web application — submit a notice of intent December 1st. Even if you’re not 100% sure, but you’re like, “You know what, I might.” Submit it. Because if you don’t, you can’t. And the reason why we ask for a notice of intent is because we’re going to take you and you’re going to say, “I’m in the engineering department.”

So we’re going to throw all the engineering people together and we’re going to find reviewers. So we have the span to find reviewers for your application. And we want to find people that are going to fight on your behalf so that takes a little bit of time, especially with holidays and everything coming up. So you need to submit a notice of intent.

Also, this is a really long email on how to submit a notice of intent, but I’ll show you at the end how to get there. So the and notice of intent is going to just include your information title and a one page description of your work. It doesn’t have to be super technical. The person that’s reading this is going to be me.

To make sure you fit in the emphasis areas. I guess if I keep going, we’re going to ask you what type of research it is, and then we’re going to ask you what emphasis area. And this is where we took that big list and narrowed it down to these 12 areas. So if you’re in agriculture, agriculture sciences, the people that are going to be reading your notice of intent is just going to be the the review committee lead person, and they’re going to just make sure that your notice of intent is fitting for all the others.

And they might say, “oh, no, I think this fits better in education.” And so then I’ll pass you off to the education group and they’ll say, “yeah,” or “no, this might be social science.” So we find you the best fit. And then once they’ve found the best fit, I’ll reach out to you and say, “Hey, your proposal didn’t fit with agriculture science, and it probably wouldn’t have scored as well.”

“But we’ve matched you with the social science group. You’re more… It fits better in that. Is that okay?” And you ultimately get the last say if you say, “No, I really want to be judged with agriculture.” Then we’ll put you back there. So it’s you don’t get dinged for your notice of intent. And and honestly, once you’re set in your emphasis area, then the notice of intent kind of is obsolete.

We don’t see that again. If you change if on your notice of intent, you’re like, hey, I’m engineering. And then all of a sudden you’re like, wait, wait, wait, this is more health. So I want to be put in the health field. Just send me a quick email and say, “hey, I’ve changed my, area.” And so I might ask for a little description just so that the health people can see what’s come in.

And also, if you fit into that description. So anyway, that’s the notice of intent. It’s it is mandatory. And we’re not asking a lot from you. For the types of support that you can ask for: supplies, equipment, computers, for field data, publications. So you can ask for travel and you can ask for… When you when you ask for travel, because travel usually gets cut and I don’t want to say cut, I don’t know, travel doesn’t always get cut, but,

Sometimes they’ll say, oh, can you do this over? You know, they’ll, they’ll ask for more of a justification and you have to justify all of your funding that your or your budget anyway. So really justify each one of these sections. If you’re looking for supplemental support for grad student, throw that in there. If yeah consultant fee costs, faculty buyout.

So you’ll just have to when you put in your faculty buyout, you’ll please indicate that your chair is aware and approves it ahead of time because. If it doesn’t get approved, then we come back to the committee and they say, no, we don’t want to fund you. And so just get that taken care of. You have a couple months before your application’s due. Your summer salary and your graduate assistantships.

So here’s the big kicker. The committee thinks that you are being paid year round. And so if you aren’t being paid year round, then you need to tell them I am on a nine month contract and I do not get paid for summer salary. If you do not say that, they’re assuming you’re trying to double dip and getting paid for summer salary when you’re already getting paid for summer salary, then if they see these types of support, sometimes they’ll say, well, we don’t need to pay for a computer for field data for them.

So we’re going to take and maybe you asked for $500 for that. They’re going to come back and say, we want to grant this opportunity, but we want to give it to him for 500 less because they don’t need the computer. I will come to you and say, the committee has to say asked and said, can you do your project for $500 less?

They don’t feel that you need the computer. You can say yes or no. Now when you get your funding, you can still go buy your computer. You just have to rearrange your budget. So that way you’re $500 less somewhere else. So maybe your trip, if you’re going to go to, I don’t know, do research in Chile, then you can find a better or cheaper airfare or something or stay in a hostel.

I don’t know. So anyway, that’s how the the another level of the budgets go. So what isn’t supported. So we can’t you can’t hire somebody to do data for you. No journal subscriptions. No supplemental awards for existing projects. You can’t pay for undergraduate student projects or student theses. This is for your research not theirs. No commercial licenses or membership dues.

A lot of things that the subscription and dues are reoccurring. And so we don’t want that. You can’t renovate anything, unfortunately, and purchasing of vehicles or other modes of transportation is not supported. So. And that seems like a silly thing. But when COVID hit and everybody at first was traveling, you know, I got awarded or somebody got awarded money to airfare to go to, Wyoming or somewhere like that.

And they said, well, if I could just pay for a camper that cuts my costs in half and I still can do this. And unfortunately, those vehicles and those things create maintenance and insurance and all those things, so they’re not supported. It sounds funny at first, but then when you think about it, you’re like, well, it would be cheaper and it probably would, but it’s not.

All right. So the application do is February 1st, 2025. And also there might be one maybe in the WSU Insider, I can’t find it now, but I might have put February 2nd somewhere. So I’m going to say it’s due February 1st. But if somebody says, hey, I found it on February 2nd, then plan for February 1st, that’s all I’m going to say.

We really want you to work with your department research administrator. So if you don’t know who that is, please let me know. The application is at this website. I, I hope I didn’t check it, but I think that’s it. But again, I’ll show you how to get there when you get online. The review process.

So the Faculty Senate Research and Arts Committee, also known as the RAC, they are overseeing this program. And my office, the Office of Research Advancement Partnership, is helping them facilitate that. That’s that’s why I put these on. I collect all the information and then I pass it off to them for the review. They give me the answers, we send out the notes.

So it’s kind of like this partnership. So I review them to make sure that they fit, all of the qualifications so that you’re eligible and then that your proposal is complete. If you submit a proposal that’s not complete. As they come in, I try to review them so that if I find something I can say, hey, fix this before you submit it.

If it hits the reviewers, they have the discretion to not review if it’s not complete. So, if you’ve submitted and you are like, oh, shoot, I have a mistake, let me know. We’ll change it out. This isn’t like, you know, end all, by when you click submit, that’s it. The best if you do it first time and it runs smoothly and you’re satisfied with your application, then that’s perfect.

But errors do happen. And it’s okay to say, “Hey, I messed up.” We’ll just either have you resubmit or I’ll try to fix it on my end. Okay? So the proposals are assigned a review panel based on these emphasis areas. And that’s the stuff that you you select. And then we’re going to get three — these are all internal — three WSU researchers.

So they’re going to be general though you don’t have general science knowledge if you’re a science person or general art knowledge, but they’re not going to be experts in your field specifically. They might, but not not I’ll always and this is important because you need to write your proposal in layman’s terms. So anybody can pick it up.

You should be able to you can come to our office and say, “Can you understand this?” And we’ll help you out. But so, three people, usually it’s a past New Faculty Grant Recipient, a chair, somebody on the Research and Arts Committee, possibly. And then we have a pool of people to review. But they’re all within WSU and they’re all going to be, I think, associates and above. Like, we’re not going to have a grad student or a postdoc review your proposal.

The reviewers names won’t be released, unfortunately. So you can’t get mad at them. They meet after they… Well, they’re going to score your proposal, and then they’re going to all put them in a ranking order, and then they’re going to meet the the review committee and say, “Yep, that’s the one we want to put through.” And then I take that back to the Research and Arts Committee and we say, “Hey, this is who we want to select.”

And this is seems like such a long process. And it, it, it is. And then because they meet in April, they review and the recommended proposals and then they approve them, and then we take those to the Vice President for Research and they determine the final awards. So you will be awarded in May 1st. So reviewers are going to be looking for proposals that represent the beginning of a sound, significant, and long term project and have solid potential for significant external funding or portfolio development.

So they’re going to look for originality, creativity. They don’t want to see a project that you’ve already done, and that it’s that you can do it. It’s feasible. They’re going to make sure that you’re not promising, like, I’m going to go do work for NASA. And it’s like, well, I don’t know if we have those facilities.

Fit of the proposal, project to the…. Oh, so if the purpose of this is really to boost your career. So if you’re looking for something outside of… which is very… I’m going to say this, this this program is very broad. So if you don’t fit in this very broad, proposal or program, then that’s odd.

And they want to make sure that your budget is appropriate, and they want to make sure that you have a good funding strategy. And I’m going to nail this one good. Because don’t go in and say, “I’m going to apply for NSF.” Like go find a project with NSF and say, “I’m going to apply to this NSF Fire and Wildlife Prevention, because my research fits what they’re looking for.”

And having a solid funding strategy has actually won people awards. So make sure and say don’t be too like obnoxious and have like five funding things. But you can say, you know, two, 2 or 3 maybe and say, “Hey, I’m going to apply for these three are my options based on my research outcomes.” And tell them why. And then clarity of the proposal.

So you just need to be very clear non discipline specific layman’s terms. We want to hear I want to be able to understand it. If I lose you in the first page you’ve lost them like they don’t know what you’re talking about. If you’re using big words. And I know sometimes it’s hard because in in engineering, especially physical science and math, like you guys are very smart and it’s hard to like dumb it down and sometimes you can’t.

And we get that. But if you can, do. Okay, additional considerations. Resubmitted proposals are equally competitive as the first. So if you applied and this is like your fifth time applying, then keep applying or I don’t know if you can do it five years. But anyway, just address the comments and, and you don’t get a benefit.

You don’t get an extra bonus for being, repeat submitter. It’s you’re starting off at scratch. For PIs employed at WSU for more than one year. They might look at your like, what you’ve been doing, but I can’t remember if you have to submit a CV or not. And that’s really never come up in a review.

But keep that in mind. They might look to see what you’ve been doing if you’ve been lazy. But that’s that. I don’t know if I like that, but anyway, we’ll keep moving on. I don’t know if that point is actually part of the review criteria, so I should probably update the slides because I’ve never heard that come up.

Okay. Proposal preparation. So there’s going to be an information sheet. And then what we want is a 12 line publication of your abstract. So you’re going to explain what you do and how you’re going to achieve this. And this is what we’re going to use for it’s like a camera ready. This is what we’re going to use.

If you’re awarded and tell the world what your project is about. So keep that in mind. Then you’re going to need a narrative, your references, current and pending. I guess this is where they could look to see if you’ve been doing anything, but I don’t think it should hold you against him. CV or biosketch, letters of support from collaborators and co-PIs, and then your budget and budget justification.

And I’ve talked a lot about the budget as we’ve been going, but your budget needs to be approved by the certified grant budget manager in your area. So if you don’t know who that is, let me know. We’ll find it out. No F&A is required. So this is the this is money we already have entered this year. The F&A has already been paid on it if it was… I mean it’s state funding.

So I guess you don’t pay. So F&A is no, don’t put that in your budget. Benefits. Okay, so I’m not sure, urban campuses you have to talk to your budget person because I think you guys have like a weird little asterisks after your, or when you apply for grants. But everybody else, they’re… the benefits are covered by central finance.

And so you do not include those in your budget. The only time you’re going to include them is if you’re going to have a time slip employee, then include them. So keep that in mind. If you’re going to do time slip, then you need to include your budget and the benefits in the budget. So your justification, all requested budget items have to have a strong justification of how they’re going to contribute to your project.

The RAC is going to consider your budget and they’re going to look through it and be like, “They didn’t really justify why you needed travel. So cut it.” Any, items that appear non-critical will be at risk for reducing funds. And I’m not going to say every time they do it, because there’s a lot of times they don’t.

But I’m just saying it could be a possibility. Still ask for it. That’s another thing. I don’t want you to be discouraged and not ask for these things, but if it gets cut, you’ll just have to rearrange. So we’re going to ask for a revised budget if that is requested. If you’re going to be doing anything with human subjects or animal subjects or biosafety, you don’t need to have this approved before the submission date, but it has to be approved before we can release the money.

And so you can start those today if you know what your project is going to need. I don’t know, you’re going to work with elderly, so start the process. So it’s already there. We’re just going to do a we just will send you some links to make sure that you attend or watch some videos on… And it’s our information sessions mostly, grant administration, roles and responsibilities, and post award programs.

So those will come. And then I think you have to have your CITI training up to date, and then you’ll be required to present to the faculty showcase following the termination date, which is a really long time away. It seems like. So these are for a 15 month period, you’re going to be awarded your money on May 15th, 2025, and you have until August 15th, 2026.

If you needed, no cost time extension, you can request that you just have to tell us why, like, “hey, why couldn’t you get your project done in 15 months? Like, that’s a long time. What what happened?” And so not very many of them get denied, but, don’t don’t risk it. Work on your project. If you leave WSU before the grant ends, all the funds that you did not use return to us so we can fund more.

That’s the the the the bonus of it. We’re excited you get to try a new adventure, but we want our money back. We won’t take the money already spent, but whatever is remaining, we’ll take back. And then after you’re done with your project and it maybe you didn’t use the full grant, which is very often you overestimated, which is totally fine.

You… We’ll collect the unspent funds. So that way, again, we can fund more projects in the future. And it sounds silly, but I have asked for like $0.05 and $0.10 on a grant just because that money adds up. And we want to close out accounts.

I will let you know when your grant funds are going to expire or like, “Hey, you need to use your funds.” If if for some reason you decide to change, like, hey, I wasn’t able to find, you know, daycare for is my survey, can I, you know, hire this person. Is that it? Just let us know what you’re doing.

And then a lot of times it’s okay. So after the, you get the award, we just want acknowledgment that if you do any presentations or publish work that year, then say it’s from the New Faculty Seed Grant, and then you’re going to have to apply for an external proposal. So you work with our office and we’re going to help you develop your proposal.

Or at least review it like there’s a different areas that we can assist you with. We would and I guess we really do want you to succeed. So we would love it if you started at the beginning and say, hey, I’m looking for funding. I need assistance here. We want the funding source to be directly related to your seed grant program, and it must be submitted no more than six months after the award period ends. So award period ends in August.

So you have till February of 27, which seems like forever to apply externally. It’s doable. If you can’t for some reason submit it, let us know and we’ll work on you with that. The reason why, with these awards is if we go back to those stats I ran, those awards are what is driving this program and and creating it or keeping it so successful.

You also have to turn in a final report. It won’t be due until February of 2027. I’ll remind you. We’ll give you a template to use. So, it’s it’s not a very stressful final report. It just gives us the data that we need. And we can also call on you to do certain presentations if needed. Notifications.

So we’re hoping to notify everybody by May 1st. And then whether you’re awarded or denied, we’ll give you the reviewer’s comments. And we’re going to stress to the reviewers that you’re going to use these to better your application process in the future. However, sometimes reviewers don’t give us worthy stuff. And so I’m going to apologize in advance. You might get not get anything that’s very beneficial, but we will provide it to you.

So here are the important dates that will keep you on your radar. Again, I put May 2021 here for the cutoff date. I swear it was 2020. I think I even put that in a news announcement, so I have to honor the latest one. November 1st is when we announced it was open December 1st year. Notice of intent is due February 1st.

Your proposal on the board, you May 1st, then you get money by May 15th. Your final report. So now if I’m going to open this up to any questions. And then again here’s the long email or, I mean, website address. But let me show you real fast how to get there. If you’re not sure. But you can also reach out to me, emily.brashear@wsu.edu.

So let me stop sharing here. Oh, no. Let me get out of my this and okay, so and hide this so it’s not in the hide floating okay. So hopefully you can still see my website if you go to the orap.wsu.edu website. And then I go to the home page so I can direct you through this.

On the left hand side there’s Funding Opportunities. If you click on that. There’s also Limited Submissions. You want to go to Internal Funding Opportunities and then click on you can on the left hand side you can click on New Faculty Seed Grant. There New Faculty Seed Grant in this text area. And down here in this table: New Faculty Seed Grant.

So three ways to get there. This will give you all you need to know. And then you just follow the links here. If you’re interested to see what past projects there are, it lists the person and what they’re doing and what discipline or emphasis area that they were in. So you can contact themselves and say, hey, I’m going to apply for the agriculture environment emphasis, can you share your application or do you have any tips for then you just follow the tabs to the, the grant, or if you want to submit a notice of, of funding.

So that’s how you get there if you’re lost, orap.wsu.edu, Funding on the left hand side. Okay? So are there restrictions for co-PIs on a single proposal in terms of number? No. No restriction. You know, let me double check. I’m going to say no because I think they have the, the co-PI has to meet the same qualification as the PI.

So I guess they can’t have more than $100,000 and they’d have to be new. I’m going to double check that and get back to you guys. I’ll put that on because I’m going to send all this in an email. So, let me mark those down, so I address it in the email. I think that is. And the way to get around that would be to make them a collaborator.

So a collaborator has no restrictions, co-PIs there are some restrictions. Okay? Co-PI restriction. I’ll double check it though. Next one was can you be rejected with a letter of intent? Nope, not at all. I mean, I guess. Yeah, I yes, if you don’t meet the eligibility because I’m going to use your letter of intent to make sure that you’re hire date.

I look up the grants in our database to make sure that, your grants and I can pull that information for you. If you’re not sure, if you can’t remember. So those might be things that will reject you, but, eligibility is the only thing. Can we change the title and abstract that was written on the PI?

Yes, you can. Even if the emphasis area changes, you can change anything. Preferably the sooner the better. Well, the if you’re staying in the same emphasis area, we don’t care. If you’re going to change emphasis areas, the sooner the better so that I can get approval… not approval. But like, I can just run it by the person in charge of that emphasis area to see if you make the, not the qualifications, but the, little standards of everybody else.

So we are not competing against people.

And yeah. “Can you speak more about proposals that may get some funding later on after the May 1?? Okay. So it doesn’t happen quite often. We only have $200,000 worth of money and there’s eight groups. So that leaves, in $25,000 each, $25,000 to engineering and $25,000 to health is not a lot. And sometimes they’re like, it’s not worth my time.

$25,000 to arts is like, game changer. So sometimes the arts people will only have they’ll only request $10,000. And so we’ll fund two within the arts. And it seems unfair, but they’re not. That’s that’s enough for them to, to go on. So if we get proposals and they’re a little bit more than $200,000 and nobody wants to adjust the budgets because essentially you’re entitled to to what you get.

And if the review committee says, nope, they’re good for 25,000. But they want to fund an extra anyway, we will contact the provost office and ask for the little bridge of gap in money and see if we can fund them fully. At that time so it doesn’t happen later on. The funding won’t happen like after the first initial are awarded.

Everyone will be awarded at the same time of who’s getting money. Once the money is awarded and you get your acceptance or denial letter, the program’s over. Start again next year. “Can we submit a proposal on a topic different from the one we submitted previously?” Yeah, it’s a brand new. So if you submitted last year and you’ve changed course, it’s a brand new game, like start fresh.

Submit what you want when you want, not when you want, but, where you want. And so, Wheaton, you had a question.

Yeah. Are we allowed to be on multiple proposals? So my thought was, so I was in the ten year and.

You’re ranking in and out, but it might be me.

Interesting. Yeah. Let me tell you my my question you can get I think.

It’s my internet that says it’s unstable. Try it one more time. Well, you’re muted now. Are you.

Okay? Yeah. Yeah, I was testing my mic. Anyway, so my thought was,

I think it’s my internet that is not allowing you to speak.

Okay, I’ll.

Just take that. And can you throw it in the chat and then I can. Sorry about that. I’m not sure why my internet isn’t up to date. I mean, working so. Well.

I was going to tell you, as he’s typing this in, you can only submit one proposal. So you can’t submit multiple proposals under different categories. You have to select one.

Yes. One proposal from each category will get funded. Let’s put an asterisks next to that. If the committee doesn’t feel like any of the proposals are worthy, like because there has been times in the past where you can tell somebody has cut and paste their project from another grant, and so don’t do that, rewrite it. It doesn’t take very much time to go in and adjust.

And that happened with a group. And they said none of these are worthy. So they don’t have to put forth. And then that money goes to another group like we’ll divide it up and say, okay, who has a second place? But so ideally, yes, one per group. Okay. So can we be on multiple applications as different roles.

Yes. You can. If it’s just to I don’t want to say don’t be co-PI. “Can we be on multiple applications of different roles? That is, I’m hoping to resubmit the seed grant I competed earlier this year to be…” Yes. So they can have. I guess that’s where you can double try to double dip.

If you’re the PI on one project and Doctor John is a co-PI. Doctor John submits a proposal and you’re the co-PI that’s allowable. So… But you’re also competing against your each other. If you’re under the same category and your reviewers are going to be like, this is the same project. So, if it’s two separate projects, then go for it.

I missed one up here, “If we get external funding over 100 K, but for equipment, not research.”

I would have to double check that with the Research and Arts Committee. I think you’re still eligible. I think that’s happened in the past. Also, if you’re taking on, like, somebody left WSU and you were just assigned this reoccurring grant, that kind of doesn’t count because you didn’t really apply for anything. But, I’ll double check the equipment, but I’m going to say, “apply equipment grants?”

I think it’s all only research grants. I don’t think it’s equipment grants, but I’ll double check that. “Can we ask for graduate student summer salary? Half time for data collection?” Yes. That would be. Yes. You can. I’m thinking of.

I’ll have to look to see on the budget where you put that in, but you definitely can ask for summer salary for grad students. “I’m a research professor and I currently have…” Okay. Awesome. “Does the department cover the remaining salary?”

Okay, I can look this up for you. Because you, since you’re not soft funded, you… or 100% soft-funded. Or… Which means you’re not 100% on on salary. This university is, I’m hoping, paying the other 11% of your salary. Does the department cover the remainder of my salary? I mean, I’m only. Yes, I think they are.

How you can tell if you’re eligible or not is if you’re not 100% soft-funded, which you’re not funded means all on grant dollars. And you have a research component in your contract or your department says, hey, you need to be doing research. Then you can apply. Just have you reach out to your department chair and, and get a letter from them and say, hey, I’m interested in applying for the New Faculty Seed Grant.

I need a letter saying that you approved that I do this research during the other 11% of my time.

And then in your department chairs should know. They all should know about this program. It’s… They applied for it at one point. Are there any other questions? “Is the year of appointment considered in the review criteria?” No. They don’t even know. Well, I guess maybe if it’s on your application. But they’re not. That’s not part of the review criteria at all.

So the only thing that’s going to maybe show, this sounds sad,. but if you’re a third year faculty, you might write grants better than a first year faculty. And that’s the only difference is you might have had prior experience of submitting a grant and that might show a little bit, but the review committee, I don’t even know if they look at your hire date on your application.

I don’t think they take that. It’s not part of the criteria of what you’re being. I’m going to pull up the review criteria. Let me see. I think it is in it’s on review criteria. So.

I’ll send out… I’ll find out what what the review is not on the website, but I’ll find out what the, reviewers go off of, like, how they score you. And I’ll let you know what that is, because then you can make sure you’re not, I don’t know, You’re not off the boat.

I better write that down or I’ll forget: review criteria.

Are there any other questions?

If you don’t think of any right now. But as you’re doing this process. Reach out. I really love this program and I’ve seen a lot of faculty, their careers just go crazy. Can we ask them for money for buying equipment? Yes. You can justify why you need that piece of equipment. And then I believe if you leave WSU, the equipment stays.

That might be a the other kicker for you. Don’t buy a piece. I mean, it’s $25,000. I don’t know how much equipment get, but if it’s a hearty piece of equipment, it’s staying here at WSU. Unfortunately or fortunately, I don’t know that maybe it’ll be outdated by the time you leave. Justify it, though. Tell us why you need it and why you can’t do your project without going to UofI or Oregon or why it’s important that you need it.

Justify the everything to the max. “I need this because…” “Life cannot go on because…”

Anyway, okay, so software license would not be allowable. Any licensing is not allowable, even if it’s a one time thing. For some reason. And and I’ll attach the PowerPoint slides, it says in the. Go to slide what is not supported commercial licenses, membership dues, facility renovations. Oh, journal subscriptions. Commercial, I don’t know if it’s commercial license.

So.

Let me let me ask about that. Software licenses.

I’ll find out for you guys too on that one I would say no just because it seems like a subscription reoccurring thing, but I could be wrong.

All right. So I’m going to throw up in the chat real quick. Our website: orap.wsu.edu, I will email all these responses with a copy of this recording and the slides. I don’t think the co-PIs have to be hired by the 2020 date. I’ll add that in the: restrictions hire date. I believe they just can’t have over $100,000.

I think somewhere in the RFP. I should know this a lot better than I do. But, it says something about the the co-PIs. I’m going to pull it up real fast.

Eligibility. Okay. Those who have been copies and external funded projects need to determine their award. Okay. We’ve already said that. Anyone who has received external funding as a co-PI and/or… PI or co-PI while working at WSU. So they have to cover…. They can’t…. I think there’s is only the $100,000 threshold.

It says here that facility, faculty who have held the role of a collaborator in this program are eligible to become a PI or co-PI provided. So, yeah, collaborators are fine. So I think the co-PI is just merely the $100,000 threshold. Not the hire date. Again, I’ll double check that, but I’m guessing that’s the answer.

All right. I hope that everybody that sees this gets to apply. And, if you have any questions, reach out to me. I should be able to answer or find the answer. And then, I can always share it with other people. If if it becomes a big a big ask. But thanks for coming today. And we’ll see you guys for your notice of intent coming up in December.