Cornell's Research Development (ReD) Team promotes and facilitates research and innovation across the Ithaca campus, AgriTech, Cornell Tech, and Weill Cornell Medicine. We provide a range of services to help researchers enhance their skills as effective communicators, as grant proposal writers, and as advocates for their research.
Services
Cornell's ReD Team plays a crucial role in supporting and advancing research activities among Cornell's faculty, particularly in developing compelling grant proposals to fund research programs and projects. The team works collaboratively with other college-based research development staff. It operates under the direction of the Office of the Vice President for Research & Innovation.
Our key elements supporting Cornell's research and translation community include:
- Proposal Development Services*
- Help research faculty develop funding priorities and identify potential sponsors
- Facilitate collaborations
- Provide assistance with proposal strategy and grantsmanship
- Assist with the development of Broader Impacts plans and community partnerships
- Coordinate letters of support and other ancillary documents for proposal submissions
- Review and edit grant proposal narratives
- Help faculty navigate the grant proposal submission process in coordination with their Research Administrator and Grant & Contract Officer
- Provide project management services for large, complex grants with budgets of $2M/yr (coordinating milestones, internal deadlines, meetings, e-mail reminders, etc.). Note that the proposed budget is an imperfect correlate with the proposal complexity and proposed program complexity that varies among research fields; this filter is used with appropriate discretion by ReD Team.
- Strategic Research Advancement
- Collaborate with leadership to identify areas of faculty-driven research benefiting from a focus on external sponsorship or partnership
- Manage the Limited Submissions Program, important when sponsors choose to limit the number of submissions from Cornell
- Research Development Outreach
- Disseminate funding and engagement opportunities
- Promote activities to foster interdisciplinary research within and across Cornell campuses
- Provide specialized training, such as workshops for early career faculty and agency-specific trainings (e.g., NSF CAREER, DOD, NIH, and Foundations)
*Proposal development services are primarily for research faculty/teams submitting complex multidisciplinary proposals (e.g., center and training grants). In addition, we work with early career faculty submitting to external funding opportunities. As time permits, we also support individual researchers submitting single PI or more narrowly scoped research proposals.
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| Tiffany Fleming CALS Research Development T: (607) 255-1890 E: tfleming@cornell.edu | Molly Towne CVM Research Development E: mas357@cornell.edu> |
Attention Faculty Members: Need help with your research proposal? Book a consultation to discuss funding opportunities, research partnerships, and proposal development strategies. This service is exclusively for university faculty.
To discuss your research development needs or to inquire about our services, please email us at research_development@cornell.edu.
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An initiative launched in 2016 by the Office of Vice President for Research and Innovation (OVPRI) and the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP), Research Development Services (RD) was established to provide dedicated services to help faculty pursue large, collaborative, team science-focused awards. RD catalyzes capacity-building activities, research collaboration, diversity, and pipeline growth, which complements the administrative management of proposals by grant administrators.
