Training and Mentoring Materials

Training and Mentoring Courses

• USC Workshops and Training Courses
• Navigating the SF 424 and the Grants.Gov Electronic Submission Process
• Mentoring Resources for Academically-Bound PhD Students and Postdocs

Materials from Workshops and Presentations

• Funding Strategy Workshop Notes (PowerPoint)
• "NSF Funding and Writing Successful Proposals", a mentoring talk by Prof. Timothy Pinkston

Proposal Writing Guides

• NSF proposals writing advice guidelines
• NIH proposals writing advice and guidelines
• NIH SBIR and STTR proposal writing advice and guidelines
• "The Art of Grantsmanship" from the Human Frontiers of Science
• "The Academic Scientists' Toolkit" article from Science
• A short course on proposal writing from the Foundations Center
• "The Proposal Writer's Guide" from U. Michigan
• Searchable portal for grant writing resources
• The Strategic Grant-seeker: A Guide To Conceptualizing Fundable Research in the Brain and Behavioral Sciences by Judy Illes 

Useful Reading

• The New Professor's Handbook: A Guide to Teaching and Research in Engineering and Science by Cliff I. Davidson and Susan A. Ambrose