Grants Boot Camp
Monday April 28, 2025 | 8:30 AM - 3:00 Pm
FSU Research Foundation Conference Room
For this Office of Research Grants Boot Camp, we'll cover the details you'll need to craft a successful proposal, including perspectives from successful awardees across the career spectrum. We'll also have opportunities for 1-on-1 consultations (~20 minutes) to discuss your research plans, so please feel free to bring something you're working on!
AGENDA
8:30 AM Check-in & Refreshments
9:00 AM Session 1 (hybrid)
Overview of Grant Writing Basics
Budget and Budget Justification
Submitting Your Proposal in RAMP
10:30 AM Session 2 (hybrid)
Personnel Documents using SciENcv
Other Attachments
Special Topics
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM Panel Discussion (in person only)
Featuring Drs. Ravi Nagpal, Hoyong Chung, Sarah Eyerly, and Dawn Carr
2:00 PM 1-on-1 Consultations (optional for faculty researchers, in person only)
3:00 PM End
The intended audience for this workshop is faculty researchers. Some sessions (noted above) will be available in a hybrid format.
Speaker Information:
This workshop will be moderated by Beth Hodges, Director of Research Development. Speakers will include staff from across the FSU Office of Research, including Beth Hodges, Michelle Francis, Rose Driber, Nicole Viverito, and Tracy Ippolito. Panelists will include faculty from various disciplines spanning the research career spectrum who have had success winning grants. See additional details on our panelists below.
Questions? Please email bhodges@fsu.edu.
Ravinder Nagpal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Health, Nutrition and Food Sciences, Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
Dr. Ravi Nagpal is an Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Food Science and Director of the Gut Biome Lab in Anne’s College. He is a food and gut microbiologist by training, and pursues research focused on understanding the role of the gut microbiome in host aging-associated intestinal and neurocognitive health. The overarching goals of his research program are to discover gut ‘dysbiosis’ elements and underlying cellular, molecular, and microecological mechanisms of beneficial versus pathogenic microbes and metabolites in host physiology. From that, he aims to harness this knowledge to develop novel nutritional/pharmacological interventions to foster a healthier microbiome and ameliorate gut, cardiometabolic and neurodegenerative disorders, including obesity, type-2 diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease. To support this work, Dr. Nagpal has received funding as a PI and Co-I from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Florida Department of Health, Infectious Diseases Society of America, National Almond Board, National Peanut Institute, National Watermelon Board, Yakult Probiotics, Southern Shrimp Alliance Inc., McCormick Science Institute, and Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics.
Hoyong Chung, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Dr. Hoyong Chung is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University. His research primarily focuses on polymer synthesis, with a strong emphasis on developing sustainable lignin-biomass-based polymers, biomedical adhesives, and novel biodegradable polymers. Dr. Chung’s research is highly interdisciplinary, bridging chemical sciences with chemical and biomedical engineering to address critical challenges in sustainability, healthcare, and polymer material science. His work has been supported by multiple funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA), and the Department of Defense (DOD). In addition to federal funding, his research has attracted support from private companies, hospitals, and international agencies, further demonstrating the broad impact and applicability of his work.
Sarah Eyerly, Ph.D.
Professor of Musicology, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, College of Music
Dr. Sarah Eyerly is a Professor of Musicology and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development in the College of Music at Florida State University, and a faculty affiliate in FSU’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Center. Her research interests include sound studies and sound art, performance practice, music and religion, and the geo-humanities. She has received research awards and funding from multiple federal, public, and private humanities and arts organizations, including the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the American Musicological Society, the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, the Mozart Society of America, and the American Society for Ethnohistory. She has also received a Developing Scholar Award from FSU. She regularly reviews applications for several funding agencies in Europe and the United States, including the NEH, the ACLS, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Dawn Carr, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Social Sciences and Public Policy
Director, Claude Pepper Center
Dr. Dawn C. Carr is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Claude Pepper Center at Florida State University. Dr. Carr’s work seeks to enhance health and wellbeing as people move through middle and later life and the resources and interventions that allow people to remain active and engaged members of society for as long as possible. Her recent work examines how working and volunteering influences physical, psychological, and cognitive health in middle and later life, and the role of psychological resources in shaping recovery from stressful exposures such as spousal loss, financial precarity, falls, and the onset of chronic health conditions.