This seminar teaches new investigators how to write a grant application, a subject that is missing from the educational backgrounds of most junior faculty members. The program content is appropriate for senior graduate students, postdoctoral research fellows, and non-tenure track faculty members who aspire to tenure track and have never written a successful grant application. The seminar is a modification of the advanced seminar, Write Winning Grants. The difference is that the pace here is slower. For example, more time is allowed for questions and discussion and more basic material is included (e.g., organizational structures of the major federal funding agencies, how priority scores are calculated, what facilities and administrative [indirect] costs are, how to analyze a critique in anticipation of resubmission, etc.). As would be expected, greater emphasis is given to how one starts to build an academic career, including how to write a career development award. Another difference is that the last hour is devoted to questions and answers. For example: What should a trainee be thinking about with respect to proposal writing while still in training? When and how should a mentor be approached by a senior graduate student / postdoctoral research fellow who wants to take a project with him / her? How does a student gradually become independent of a mentor? Why do many assistant professors fail to merit promotion and tenure?

All participants receive an extensive handout, as well as a copy of "The Grant Application Writers' Workbook"