The office of the vice chancellor of research offers proposal development assistance for early-career faculty members preparing research proposals. Maria Shaub, a new proposal developer, will provide assistance with activities including solicitation analysis, project management, narrative development and technical editing. Proposal development assistance will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis for early-career faculty members preparing research proposals.

To be considered for early-career proposal development assistance, the principal investigator must be either:

• a tenure-track, untenured faculty member, or
• a non-tenure-track research faculty member

If the office is not able to fulfill all requests for assistance, priority will be given to early-career principal investigators who have not yet received significant externally funded awards and are in the first three years of their career at S&T.

The office also provides proposal development assistance for researchers of any faculty rank working on proposals that are large, complex or otherwise strategic to Missouri S&T. Request forms for both services are available on the sponsored programs website and should be submitted to research@mst.edu.