GRANT WRITING WORKSHOPS SERIES

AGENDA

Thursday, February 10^th, 4:00 PM

147 Nanaline Duke Bldg., Medical Center

4:00-4:05	Technical arrangements
4:05-4:20	Students who have a grant proposal idea will share their idea with the group
4:20-4:40	Idea development, teamwork and creativity	Jeffrey Glass, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of Master of Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship Program
4:40-4:55	-Key elements of idea development -How to “sell” your grant idea to a funding agency -How to utilize collaboration opportunities -How to develop good relationships with a granting agency	Priscilla Wald, Professor of English Bob Guenther, Professor of Physics and Executive Director of the Fitzpatrick Center
4:55-5:20	-General questions and discussion -Share your ideas with invited faculty and students and gain new perspectives and access to resources.

Questions or comments: discuss them online: http://cierd.cs.duke.edu/forum/

Workshop speakers

Priscilla Wald, Professor of English

Priscilla Wald teaches and works on U.S. literature and culture, particularly literature of the late-18th to mid-20th centuries. Her current work focuses on the intersections among the law, literature, science and medicine. She is currently completing two projects, one on contagion, culture and the evolution of the outbreak narrative, and the other work on the public understanding of the genome sciences. She is especially interested in analyzing how the language, narratives and images in the popular media register and promote a particular understanding of the science that is steeped in (often misleading) cultural biases and assumptions. In her research, her teaching and her professional activities, she is committed to promoting conversations among scholars from science, medicine, law and cultural studies in order to facilitate a richer understanding of these issues. Wald is the author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form. She is also associate editor of American Literature as well as on the Advisory Committee of the PMLA and the editorial board of Literature and Medicine. She has a secondary appointment in Women's Studies, is on the steering committee of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy and for ISIS (Information Sciences + Information Studies), the internal advisory committee of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, and is an affiliate of the Center for Medical Ethics and Humanities. 

Jeffrey Glass, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of Master of Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship Program.

Jeffrey T. Glass is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is the Director of the Pratt School Master of Engineering Management Program at Duke University. He also holds the Hogg Family endowed chair in Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship Program. Formerly, he was the Co-Director of The Institute for the Integration of Management and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and held the Joseph F. Toot, Jr. endowed chair in the Case School of Engineering. Prof. Glass received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Virginia. He also received an MBA from Duke University. His current appointment involves research in electronic and biological materials as well as the development of joint educational, research and technology transfer activities related to the intersection of business and technology. He consults and holds advisory board appointments with various companies in materials-related areas. Prior to his appointment at CWRU, he was the Vice President of R&D for Kobe Steel USA Inc. with a focus on electronic materials. Prior to joining Kobe Steel, he was a tenured faculty member in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University and continues to hold an adjunct appointment with that department. He has been involved in the study of Innovation Management in technology-based organizations with a focus on the early stages of technical development. He holds an adjunct appointment at the Kenan Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina where he teaches an executive MBA course in Managing Innovation. Jeff’s technical research has focused on the growth and characterization of thin films for electronics, primarily diamond, Zinc Oxide and Silicon Carbide. Chemical vapor deposition, sputtering, materials analysis and electronic properties are his areas of interest. He has published over 100 papers and book chapters, edited six books and is a co-inventor on 11 patents. He has been a short course instructor for several professional societies and companies and has organized numerous conferences. He has given over 50 invited presentations in 12 different countries. He served as a member of a Presidential Science Advisors committee for the assessment of diamond technology in Japan and has received two teaching awards and the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award.

Bob Guenther, Professor of Physics and Executive Director of the Fitzpatrick Center

Dr. Guenther received his undergraduate degree from Baylor University and his graduate degrees in Physics from University of Missouri. He has had research experience in Condensed Matter and Optical Physics. For nine years he was active in Research Management as a Senior Executive in the Army, responsible for the Physics Research sponsored by the Army. In that role he managed a program of about $20M/year involving about 100 individual projects. He also served as a senior advisor to the Army on a variety of issues such as electric gun technology, high energy lasers, and automatic target recognition.  From June 1997 through May 1999, he held the position of Interim Director of the Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory. Dr. Guenther has established a new undergraduate education program at Duke in cooperation with Industry entitled Applied Science which began in the Fall of 2000. Dr. Guenther now holds the position of Associate Director for Education at the newly created Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communication Systems at Duke University.