Faculty Webinars & Workshops

The Research and Innovation Office (RIO) offers this 30-minute informal opportunity for anyone across campus to speak with Research Development Specialist Donna Axel. Bring your questions about searching for funding!

RIO's Search for Funding webpage: https://www.colorado.edu/researchinnovation/research-development/funding/external-funding/search-funding

• Who: All CU Boulder Faculty, Research Staff, Postdocs, and Graduate Students
• When: March 11, 2025: 3pm-3:30pm
• Where: Virtual via Zoom

Due to security measures, please have your VPN activated and use your IdentiKey email for registration or be sure you are logged into CU Boulder Zoom prior to registering for this meeting: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/

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(Please register using your CU Boulder Identikey email.)

Join us for a presentation followed by Q&A on the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. Co-sponsored by the Research & Innovation Office (RIO) and CU's Office of Top Scholarships, this event features Julia V. Lieber (Outreach & Recruitment Specialist for the Fulbright Scholar Program, IIE) and CU Boulder’s Eric Vance (Applied Mathematics). 

Dr. Vance will speak about his experiences as a Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia. Julia Lieber will speak about the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program which offers over 800 awards in more than 135 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research and carry out professional projects around the world. College and university faculty, as well as artists and professionals from a wide range of fields can join over 400,000 Fulbrighters who have come away with enhanced skills, new connections, and greater mutual understanding. 

• Who: All CU Boulder Faculty (all ranks) and staff interested in the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
• When: Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 2-3 p.m. MT
• Where: Virtual via Zoom

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(Please register using your CU Boulder Identikey email.)

This session will provide a deeper dive into how to best plan to evaluate broader impacts projects using various methods, evaluation tool options, and assessment rubrics. In addition, we will connect participants with campus resources for effective engagement successful planning. Laying this foundation will better position participants in securing grants and awards and with achieving their broader impacts plans.

Please join us for an introductory workshop on proposal writing for grant applications, as well as the process for applying for grants at CU, specifically customized for scholars in Education.

• Who: Specifically designed for School of Education faculty, this workshop is open to all (including across disciplines, staff of all ranks, and graduate students and postdocs).
• When: Thursday, March 20, 2025, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. MST

In this 1-hour workshop, the School of Education (SOE), the Research & Innovation Office (RIO), and the Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG) will provide tips for writing successful proposals and specific instructions for how to initiate OCG’s extensive support services for external grants.

Designed to be an introduction to ways you can leverage CU’s support services, we welcome faculty members, graduate students, and staff with a range of experience with grant preparation—whether you are early career and new to grant proposals or further along in your career and have already submitted several proposals, we hope that the information and strategies will be of use to you. The presentation will allow time for Q&A.

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(Please register using your CU Boulder Identikey email.)

NSF MRSEC Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) Proposal Presentations & Teaming Event

Join CU Boulder’s Research & Innovation Office for an interactive event to enhance the quality and competitiveness of our Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG) proposals for the NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) program. This event will take place on April 2, 2025, from 8:30-10am in a hybrid format (Regent 302 and virtual, with a recording available). 

Event Highlights

• IRG Proposal Pitches: Present your IRG ideas, even if they are still in the early stages, and gain feedback from peers.
• Collaborative Feedback: Receive constructive input from a diverse audience of faculty and research leaders.
• Team Building: Explore interdisciplinary collaborations to enhance proposal competitiveness.
• Idea Refinement: Use this opportunity to identify and address gaps in your proposal.

Participation Details

• Eligibility to Pitch: Only faculty who have submitted IRG proposals by the internal deadline will be invited to present.
• Audience Participation: Open to all researchers who wish to provide feedback and explore potential collaborations.
• Format: 5-10 minute, 5-slide (maximum) pitches to showcase your IRG concept.
• Deadline: Faculty must submit presentation slides to rio@colorado.edu by 11:59pm on March 31, 2025.

Post Event Process

• Attendees will complete a survey to provide feedback on the presented IRGs.
• RIO will establish for final IRG selection an internal committee and review process that will be guided by NSF’s criteria. 

This event is inspired by best practices in team science, which emphasize transparent, interdisciplinary engagement as a pathway to fostering the most innovative and competitive research initiatives.

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(Please register using your CU Boulder Identikey email.)

The goal of this workshop is to educate and equip participants with the budgeting and financial planning skills necessary to develop proposal budgets, specifically, budgets for broader impacts projects.

Participants will learn how to plan early and will understand the essential components of a strong proposal budget that considers funding required to implement broader impacts projects successfully. Campus resources will be shared with participants to support budgeting and financial planning. Laying this foundation will better position participants with securing grants and awards and with achieving their broader impacts plans.

• Who: CU Boulder Faculty and Staff
• When: Friday, April 4, 2025, 12-1:30 p.m. MT
• Where: Virtual Via Zoom

Register for one or more of the five workshops supported by the university’s DEI Impact Grant with matching funds from RIO. Up to 40 participants will receive $250 for participation in at least three workshops and in the JEDIA Scholar Learning Community. Please reach out to Dr. Ennis if you have any questions at tanya.ennis@colorado.edu.

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The goal of this workshop is a continuation of developing a Broader Impacts Plan.

Participants will learn about establishing partnerships to reach their intended audience and how to actualize their broader impacts plans effectively with their intended audience. Participants will learn to utilize valuable resources like the ARIS toolkit and gain insight into the guiding principles and evaluation criteria set by the National Science Foundation. Participants will engage in foundational activities for developing a project budget, for creating goals and for evaluating the results of the broader impacts project. We will also review evaluation tool options, an assessment rubric, and connect PIs with resources for successful planning. Laying this foundation will better position participants with securing grants and awards and achieving their broader impacts plans.

The Research and Innovation Office (RIO) offers this 30-minute informal opportunity for anyone across campus to speak with Research Development Specialist Donna Axel. Bring your questions about searching for funding!

RIO's Search for Funding webpage: https://www.colorado.edu/researchinnovation/research-development/funding/external-funding/search-funding

• Who: All CU Boulder Faculty, Research Staff, Postdocs, and Graduate Students
• When: May 7, 2025: 11am-11:30am
• Where: Virtual via Zoom

Due to security measures, please have your VPN activated and use your IdentiKey email for registration or be sure you are logged into CU Boulder Zoom prior to registering for this meeting: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/

  Register Here

(Please register using your CU Boulder Identikey email.)

This session will provide a deeper dive into effective research “with” and “by” communities building off the Spring 2024 workshop with Dr. Leilah Lyons, an NSF Program Director of the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) Program. Increasing participants’ capacity to center and develop authentic partnerships with communities is the focus of this workshop. 

This workshop will address ways to refrain from common transactional practices that perpetuate tokenism and exploitation of communities when engaging with them for research purposes. Developing and fostering mutual beneficial partnerships is the focus of this workshop. Laying this foundation will better position participants with securing grants and awards and achieving their broader impacts plans.