The members of the Office of Proposal Development work as a team to support faculty and their staff in all stages of grant development, from initial meetings for project development through the final application submission. Each of the writers has worked on a broad variety of grant mechanisms and the team has experience with most federal agencies, as well as some large foundations. In addition to the grantsmanship and administrative support described below, our staff collaborate with faculty members to support the writing process for effective grant proposals.
Examples of grant support by our office include major institutional infrastructure grants (Clinical and Translational Science Award, Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, C06 construction funding from NIH), support for graduate students (NIH's T32 training grants, Department of Education's Graduate Assistants in Areas of National Need, National Science Foundation's GK-12 program), support for undergraduates (NIH-funded Bringing Engineers into New Disciplines program, NSF's CSEMS program), research on international aid and affairs (USAID, NSF), individual faculty research grant applications and equipment grants from both NIH and NSF.
| M.S. (Peg) AtKisson
Director
(617) 636-2487
peg.atkisson@tufts.edu - Manages the portfolio of projects
- Works with faculty in developing new, transdisciplinary and multi-investigator projects
- Gives grant writing seminars for faculty and post-doctoral fellows
- Watches federal funding trends and works to create institutional structures to support competitive grant applications
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| Barbara Eisenhaure
Grant Writer
(617) 636-2792
barbara.eisenhaure@tufts.edu - Provides grantsmanship advice and editing assistance for specific Office of Proposal Development projects
- Writes the online Office of the Vice Provost newsletter Research News @ Tufts
- Works on Office of the Vice Provost writing projects
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| Amy Gantt
Associate Director
(617) 636-2792
amy.gantt@tufts.edu - Provides project management assistance for multi-investigator and multidisciplinary projects
- Provides grantsmanship advice and editing services for multi-investigator and individual investigator initiated proposals
- Gives grant writing seminars and classes for graduate students
- Works with faculty to make connections to additional resources and collaborators across the university
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| Sarah Sherman
Proposal Development Assistant
(617) 636-2480
sarah.sherman@tufts.edu - Provides assistance in gathering and updating the non-narrative sections of multi-investigator proposals, including biographical sketches, current and pending support, and resources pages
- Offers investigators instruction in the use of funding opportunity databases and assistance in performing targeted searches for funding opportunities
- Creates project management documents from targeted readings of grant application guidelines
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