Program Faculty
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Program Faculty is a sub-section of the 25-page Program Plan’s “B. Program Plan” component. This section expands on Table 2 to illustrate that the proposed program has an appropriate number of mentors with sufficient experience, expertise, and funding to support trainees’ research activities.
Demonstrate the following:
- Mentors have strong records as researchers including recent publications, relevant funding, etc.
- Mentors have strong records of training students at the proposed levels (pre-/post-docs), translating into trainees generating publishable research results
- How trainees will participate in ongoing research projects with their mentors
- A clearly defined collaborative relationship between mentor and trainee regarding joint publications, sponsorship of student research, etc.
- That mentors have prior training experience and relevant active research to the proposed focus area
- Diversity considerations no longer include career stage or scientific background
- Criteria to evaluate, appoint, and remove faculty as needed
Note: Ensure that a substantial number of mentors have active research projects for trainees to participate on.
Data Table References
Incorporate the following into the "B. Program Plan" > "b. Program Faculty" section of your Program Plan. Learn more about Data Tables on the Data Table Support webpage.
Table 2. Participating Faculty Members
- Demonstrate sufficient number of faculty with appropriate level of expertise
Table 4. Research Support of Participating Faculty Members
- Demonstrate appropriate ongoing projects for trainee participation
- Analyze data in terms of total and average grant support
- Comment on inclusion of faculty without research grant support, and explain how the research of trainees who may work with these faculty members would be supported
Table 5A/B. Publications of Those in Training
- Demonstrate that mentors have proven track records in training researchers that contribute meaningfully to the scientific body of knowledge
- Provide evidence that recent graduates of mentor's trainees conducted rigorous research advancing scientific knowledge and/or technologies, with increasing self-direction
- Summarize these data, including, for example, the average number of publications, and how many trainees have published their work
- Indicate how many trainees are published as first author and provide an explanation if available for trainees who completed their doctoral or postdoctoral training without any first-author publications
- New Applications Only: List publications for trainees' representative of those who would be appointed if the grant is awarded
Page Limit: Must fit within the Program Plan’s 25 page maximum. About 5 pages.
Format: Section header: “B. Program Plan” | Subsection header: “b. Program Faculty”
Component Instruction Index
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