GRANT WRITING FOR NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES RESEARCH
Interactively address the knowledge, approach, and professional skills (conceptual, technical, and writing) required to create a successful grant proposal and initiate a career in research. Format is focused on the planning and completion of NIH-style grant proposals. Lectures and workshops will address the development of long term goals, hypotheses, and specific aims, as well as research design and methodology. Basic guidelines and approaches to proposal review and scoring are also covered. Several key components of a grant proposal will be generated using an iterative and peer-supported process.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Consent of instructor Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the components of an NIH grant and the content expected within each section during the review process. Audience: Graduate 2. Succinctly analyze the current literature on a significant topic and identify gaps in knowledge that are worthy of further investigation. Audience: Graduate 3. Generate overall objectives, hypotheses, and specific aims for projects that fill knowledge gaps. Audience: Graduate 4. Construct a compelling research plan that describes the significance of completing a project’s objectives, the methods to be used in the research, and potential problems and alternative strategies. Audience: Graduate 5. Give and receive critical constructive feedback and revise research ideas in response. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the components of an NIH grant and the content expected within each section during the review process. Audience: Graduate 2. Succinctly analyze the current literature on a significant topic and identify gaps in knowledge that are worthy of further investigation. Audience: Graduate 3. Generate overall objectives, hypotheses, and specific aims for projects that fill knowledge gaps. Audience: Graduate 4. Construct a compelling research plan that describes the significance of completing a project’s objectives, the methods to be used in the research, and potential problems and alternative strategies. Audience: Graduate 5. Give and receive critical constructive feedback and revise research ideas in response. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027