ORD Workshops: Current Academic Year
The Office of Research Development will offer several professional development opportunities during the 2024–25 academic year. Unless otherwise indicated, the workshops listed below will be offered in-person on the Clemson main campus. Personnel located on other Clemson campuses can reach out to us at vprord@clemson.edu to discuss other ways to access these events.
Workshops Overview
R-Initiative Overview
R-Initiatives are internal funding opportunities that support faculty members’ collaborative scholarship and research. This virtual, pre-recorded info session will offer an overview of each R-Initiative opportunity, detail the application process, and provide tips for successful proposals. Following the video release, ORD will host office hours during which faculty can ask questions.
Date: October 2024
Mentoring Plans
This workshop will provide insight into new NSF and NIH requirements for graduate student and postdoctoral mentoring plans. Attendees will also learn about resources offered through Clemson’s Graduate Center for Transformational Mentorship and opportunities to work with the center to support their students/postdocs and build their own mentoring skills.
Date: January 2025
Series: Writing Effective Research Objectives and Specific Aims
This three-part interactive workshop series will provide guidance on crafting effective research objectives, hypotheses, and specific aims and will include dedicated discussion and writing time. Attendees will complete short assignments with the goal of finishing the series with a set of research objectives or specific aims for a particular funding opportunity.
Date: January – February 2025
CAREER Academy
NSF’s prestigious NSF CAREER awards position assistant professors to succeed as researchers and educators. In this virtual, pre-recorded info session, Jane Jacobi will provide an overview of the NSF CAREER program and of the ORD CAREER Academy. Following the video release, ORD will host office hours during which faculty can ask questions.
Date: November 2024
Designing Effective Graphics for Grant Proposals
Communicating a research project in a visual format is vital to engaging reviewers, but creating graphics can present a unique set of challenges. The goal of this workshop is to provide faculty with guidance on how to design appropriate, accurate, and compelling proposal graphics ranging from conceptual figures to data tables and graphs.
Date: Early January 2025
Engaging Stakeholders: Community Organizations
Many federal agencies emphasize collaborations with community organizations as ways of increasing research impact. This workshop will present best practices for partnering with community organizations, including initiating and nurturing partnerships, assessing stakeholder needs to inform project design, and conducting use-inspired and place-based research.
Date: February 2025
Faculty Insight
Faculty Insight is a tool for enhancing research that provides a window onto the efforts of colleagues at Clemson. This hands-on workshop with staff from Academic Analytics/Faculty Insight will guide faculty through using Faculty Insight to find collaborators, identify funding opportunities, and visualize collaboration networks.
Date: March 2025
