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SUMMER SESSION

 

Critical Thinking in Research

Summer Grant-Writing Course for Faculty and Advanced Graduate Students
Dr. Joseph Fagan, Lucy Adams Leffingwell Professor

PSCL 453 CRITICAL THINKING IN RESEARCH
JUNE 2 - JULY 28
TUES & THURS 3:00-5:20 p.m. or MON & WEDS 3:00-5:20 p.m.
Room: TBA

The goal of Dr. Fagan's workshop is to produce fundable proposals.

Faculty from all the major academic divisions at Case who have taken Dr. Fagan's course have brought in some $33 million in total costs over a 17-year period. Dr. Fagan has been awarded grants from various divisions of the NIH, the NSF, the Edison Biotechnology project, the Spencer Foundation, SBIR's 1 and 2, and research contracts from private industry. He has served as a grant reviewer for numerous public and private granting agencies. Finally, he served as chair of the Institutional Review Board at Case for 22 years. In that capacity he reviewed some 7,000 research proposals.

The goal of Dr. Fagan's course is to produce a clear statement of your research ideas in the form of a PHS, RO1 grant proposal. Through exercises and discussion, your ideas will be elicited, refined, and conveyed in speech and in writing. A first draft of your grant will be critiqued by three reviewers. The critiques will provide a basis for preparing a final proposal.

If you have questions, please contact Joseph Fagan at <jff@case.edu>.

Readings for the course will be provided.

SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
Class 1: OVERVIEW
Class 2: PRELIMINARY DISCUSSION OF TOPICS
Class 3: TOPICS AND THE CYCLE OF SCIENCE
Class 4: STYLE, TOPIC STATEMENT DUE
Class 5: PHS GRANT FORMS OVERVIEW
Class 6: LETTER AND WRITING PLAN DUE
Class 7: METHODS AND AIMS
Class 8: BACKGROUND, SIGNIFICANCE, AND DESCRIPTION
Class 9: FORMAL TALKS
Class 10: FORMAL TALKS
Class 11: PROPOSAL DUE - 3 P.M. WITH EXCHANGE OF PAPERS
Class 12: MOCK SITE VISITS
Class 13: MOCK SITE VISITS
Class 14: Q&A SESSION
Class 15: FINAL REVISED PROPOSAL DUE, 3:00 P.M.

How to Register:
Full-time CWRU faculty may receive three-credit hours of tuition waiver in the summer.

Faculty and all others not enrolled in a CWRU degree program need to apply as "non-degree students" through the School of Graduate Studies.  Information for non-degree seeking students can be found at: http://www.case.edu/provost/gradstudies/nondegree.html

School of Graduate Studies is located at Nord Hall, 6th floor
(216) 368-4390

Application to Apply as a Non-Degree Student will be posted by mid-March.

Registration for Graduate students/Non-Degree Graduate Students begins April 7.

For CWRU Faculty who wish to apply for a tuition waiver:
Once accepted by the School of Graduate Studies, faculty should fill out the Tuition Waiver and Tax Exemption forms and bring them to Human Resources in Crawford Hall between June 1 and July 1 (the last day to submit forms). Graduate tuition benefits are taxable. The first $5000 is tax-free. If the course is job-related, a Tax Exemption form is available. See links below.