‘LASERS’ team in College of LAS will provide faculty grant assistance
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A new team in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will help build the college’s research enterprise. New grant coordinators in the College of LAS are part of the newly organized LAS External Research Support team (LASERS).
The group will collaborate with LAS faculty and departmental grant coordinators to assist with the preparation of grant and contract proposals for federal and non-federal sponsors and provide advice on planning and preparation of these proposals.
Diane Smith, Holly Mace and Sandra Norvell are new grant coordinators in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.The LASERS team includes grant coordinators Holly Mace, Sandra Norvell and Diane Smith, as well as Venita Currie, LAS fiscal officer, and Martin Spalding, LAS associate dean for research and graduate studies.
“There is more demand for additional documentation and information to accompany proposals,” Spalding said. “LASERS will provide proposal preparation support for faculty so they can focus more on the research and scholarship of the proposal.”
The LASERS grant coordinators can assist with the following:
Identification of possible funding opportunities
Interpretation of proposal guidelines
Preparation of GoldSheets, budgets, budget justifications
Subcontract communications (pre-award only)
Assembly of biosketches or CVs, current and pending support, conflict-of-interest lists
Uploading of documents to FastLane, Cayuse or Grants.gov
Eventually, the LASERS team will develop some “boiler-plate” templates for such things as postdoctoral mentoring and data management, and will act as a resource to assist in development of “Broader Impacts” sections for NSF proposals
Each grant coordinator will have a primary responsibility for the following departments:
Holly Mace, 294-2280, hlizzy@iastate.edu
Computer Science
Economics
Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
Mathematics
Psychology
Sandra Norvell, 294-1594, snorvell@iastate.edu
Anthropology
English
Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication
History
Intensive English and Orientation Program
Music & Theatre
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Political Science
Sociology
World Languages and Cultures
Diane Smith, 294-2698, smithd@iastate.edu
Chemistry
Physics and Astronomy
Statistics
Mace and Smith will provide backup support to department coordinators for:
Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology
Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
Genetics, Development and Cell Biology