Professor Life 101: Getting Your Career Off the Ground
Finding Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Nuts
and Bolts of Managing a Research Lab
Applying
for an NSF CAREER Grant
Balancing
Teaching, Research, and Service: Strategies for Success and Survival
Advising
and Mentoring Graduate Students
Promotion
and Tenure with Professional Development Consultants
Time
Management
Budget
Management
Proposal
Writing
Submitting a Grant
Other Resources
Professor Life 101: "Getting Your Career Off the Ground" (Jr. Faculty Workshop for Upper Campus, May 2008)
How to Get your Career Off the Ground: It Takes a Village by Janelle Taylor
Prof 101, How to Survive as an Assistant Professor at the UW by Sarah Keller
"Advice for New Faculty Teaching Undergraduate Science" by Sarah Keller and Andri Smith
Finding Graduate and Undergraduate Students (Nov 2006)
Recruiting the Best and Brightest Graduate Students by Les Atlas
Finding Good Students by Nathan Kutz
See also section on Advising and Mentoring Graduate Students
Nuts
and Bolts of Managing a Research Lab (May 2005)
Nuts
and Bolts of Managing a Research Lab Handout (based on the HHMI
lab management resource Making
the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs
and New Faculty and At the Helm: A Laboratory Nagivator by Kathy
Barker)
Handouts from Glenn Bartholomew
Presentation by Mari Ostendorf (coming soon)
Applying
for an NSF CAREER Grant (Spring 2008, 2007 & 2005)
NSF CAREER Program Website
Writing a CAREER Proposal by
Christine Luscombe
The NSF CAREER Award, The Lesson in Two Acts by
Forrest Michael
Proposal Review: A View from the Other Side by
Mark Oskin
Tips for writing an NSF CAREER grant by Eric Agol
Winning NFS CAREER AWARDS by Wendy Thomas
NSF CAREER Proposals:The Reviewers Point of View by Kristi Morgansen
Video
of the workshop (you will need Windows
MediaPlayer or another software that views .wmp files)
Advice
on Writing Grant Proposal by Mark
Oskin
Tips
from past College of Engineering CAREER workshops
Tips for NSF FASTLANE and the University
of Washington grant submission system
Balancing
Teaching, Research, and Service: Strategies for Success and Survival
(Nov 2004)
Handouts
coming soon.
Advising
and Mentoring Graduate Students (Dec 2004)
Process Questions to Ask Faculty and
Graduate Students (posted 1/10/07)
Time
Management Workshop (Nov 2003)

ADVANCE/Office
of New Initiatives Time Management Workshop, November 2003
Scott
Hauck's Time Management Presentation, March 2, 2007
Loveday
Conquest's Time Management Tips
Tomorrow's
Professor tips for new faculty (see Tomorrow's Academic Career postings)
Managing a Budget
(March 2008)
Managing Your Budgets: An Administrator's Perspective, Linda R. Nelson, Director of Finance & Administration,
College of Arts & Sciences
Budget Management, Nancy Nihan, Professor and Director of Transportation Northwest
Workshop
on Promotion and Tenure with ADVANCE Professional Development Consultants
(Sept 2003)
See
the Professional
Development Consultant webpage for handouts from this workshop.
Proposal
Writing
Research Funding Services Fundamental of Grant Writing
(link added 1/17/07) UW's Research Funding Services has a host of resources related to grant writing.
While the primary funding agency is NIH, several of the resources are broadly applicable to many funding agencies.
FISH 521: Proposal Writing for Graduate Students (link added 1/10/07) This course targets students in the College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences. The website provides some excellent basic information about proposal writing. Two links of particular interest are
NSF's
A Guide For Proposal Writing
Addressing
NSF's Criterion 2: Broader Impact
Submitting a Grant
Marti Bosma's Presentation: Submitting a Grant, October 30, 2007
Wei (Wayne) Li's Presentation: Getting the Proposal Out the Door, October 30, 2007
Mary Heusner's Presentation: Nuts and Bolts of Submitting a Proposal, October 30, 2007
Mary Heusner's Handout: Checklist for Submitting a Proposal, October 30, 2007
Other Resources
Career Development Workshops for Junior Faculty sponsored by the Office of the Provost
Mentoring Guidelines and Suggestions for Supporting New and Early-Career Faculty (UMass Amherst)
Questions You Might Ask a Peer, Near Peer, Senior Colleague or Department Chair (UMass Amherst)
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