I have attended two NSF Regional Conferences and heartily recommend the
experience.     The most valuable benefit is getting to know NSF staff, not
just program officers, on a more personal level than is possible in phone
calls and emails.     It works both ways -- they also get to attach a face
to a name.   Over the years, I have drawn on these contacts to get quick
answers to policy and grant questions or to track down the "right" person to
call.  The grant-writing information is excellent, but basic -- so most of
us will have heard it already.   But I always find it helpful to hear agency
people in person so that I can pass on their advice to faculty members.    A
faculty member who attended one of these conferences found the grant-writing
advice to be just what he needed -- and proceeded to get research funding
the first time he submitted a proposal.    I'm not sure the cost-benefit is
there if you have to fly across country and stay extra nights at expensive
hotels ... but if you can keep the transportation/lodging costs down it's an
excellent value.

Frances Vinal Farnsworth
Coordinator of Sponsored Research
Munford House
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753

Tel:  802-443-5889
Fax:  802-443-2081
Email:  xxxxxx@middlebury.edu
Web:  http://www.middlebury.edu/~grants/

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Krell [mailto:xxxxxx@IIT.EDU]
Sent: Wed, October 22, 2003 12:21 PM
To: xxxxxx@HRINET.ORG
Subject: [RESADM-L] Feedback sought re: NSF Regional Conferences

Hi resadmr's,
I am interested in feedback from those of you who have attended an NSF
regional conference.  Was it helpful to your institution? if so, how? in
particular, did it help you to win grants afterward?

An NSF regional conference agenda can be seen at:
http://www.research.umn.edu/conferences/nsf/conf_agenda.cfm
thanks in advance.
Glenn Krell

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Glenn Krell, M.P.A., C.R.A.
Director, Research Proposal Development
Illinois Institute of Technology
3300 South Federal Street, M/B 301
Chicago, Illinois 60616
312-567-7141 (voice)
312-567-7517 (fax)
www.grad.iit.edu/research/opd.html
"Pull up your socks, pull up your pants, get in there and fight for your
federal grants!"

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