I (and a colleague, who reads this list so she needs to get public credit!) were working together to get a Challenge grant in at 2:30-ish yesterday. It was so very NOT fun.
So... we did it. But I also started leaving increasingly worried e-mails in the PIs inbox, starting last Monday, that I needed everything immediately or I couldn't guarantee that her application would get through grants.gov. By yesterday morning, I was CC-ing her Chair. At first, I wanted to give her all the gentle support she needed to get this application right. By the end, I just wanted it to be in writing that we were trying, and that if it didn't go through it wasn't our fault.
I'm not sure that this kind of hand-holding is supposed to be so much of my job. It sounds awfully like "If you don't get up RIGHT THIS MINUTE you're going to miss the bus" doesn't it? We've decided to err on the side of creating a culture where research and external sponsorship are the norm. To get from here (in my departments external funding is the exception rather than the rule) to there (where I can rely on "my" faculty to understand the game), I do a lot of hand-holding.
Andrea
>>> "Brown, Leesa" <xxxxxx@SEATTLEU.EDU> 4/27/2009 4:21 PM >>>
2:17 pm in Seattle and I still don't have things like the research
design methods. This is despite setting deadlines to get it submitted.
If there are any technical errors, it will be too late to start a new
package and submit it before 5 pm. My PI isn't getting me everything
until 2:45 - or so he says.
Good thing I only have one Challenge application. That doesn't include
the last minute subcontract on another Challenge grant that came up at
10:00 this morning. We won't talk about that problem right now. J
I am hoping that all the early submissions will mean that g.g will be
wide open for us slackers!
Leesa Brown
Sponsored Research Officer
Seattle University
901 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
(206) 296-6161
http://www.seattleu.edu/academics/grants
<http://www.seattleu.edu/academics/grants>
From: Research Administration List [mailto:xxxxxx@hrinet.org] On
Behalf Of Marta Torruella
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 2:13 PM
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Subject: [RESADM-L] Wasn't that fun!
Can't wait to do it again Ugh!
Best of luck everyone on the west coast!
Marta I. Torruella, CRA
Associate Director
Sponsored Research and Program Development
The Rockefeller University
1230 York Avenue, Box 82
New York, NY 10065
(Founders Hall, Room 301)
Tel: 212-327-8175; Fax: 212-327-8400
xxxxxx@rockefeller.edu
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