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This comprehensive online series is designed to demystify every key element of a successful grant application--from Specific Aims to budgets and review criteria. 

The series is a collaboration between the Jacobs School Office of Faculty Affairs and the Office of the Vice President for Health Sciences. 

Presenter: Gustavo Arrizabalaga, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs 

• March 24: Effective Rhetorical Strategies for the NIH Specific Aims Page
  • Learn how to craft a persuasive and reviewer-friendly Specific Aims page using effective rhetorical strategies. This session highlights key structural patterns, language choices, and framing techniques that help communicate significance, innovation, and feasibility with clarity and impact.

• April 7: Demystifying the Review Panel Process  

• April 9: Collaborators, PIs, mPIs, Co-Investigators, Consultants and More
  • This session clarifies the many roles that make up an NIH-funded research team. Learn how responsibilities differ among PIs, multi-PIs, co-investigators, consultants, and collaborators, and how to structure a team that aligns with NIH expectations and strengthens the overall competitiveness of your application.

• April 22: VPHS Scoring, Significance, and Success at NIH

The Jacobs School Office of Faculty Affairs invites you to participate in a hands-on, customized support session focused on creating accessible materials aligned with Title II and WCAG 2.1 AA standards. CATT (Office of Curriculum, Assessment and Teaching Transformation) consultants will provide individualized support grounded in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles. 

What to Bring: your laptop and specific projects to work on during the session.

Sessions will take place in room 6201 at the following times:

• Monday, March 30 (8–10 a.m.)
• Monday, April 6 (11–1 p.m.)
• Monday, April 13 (2–4 p.m.)

The goal of this series is to create a community of practice at Jacobs around publishing teaching scholarship. In each session, we will focus on the different steps necessary to convert teaching activities into publishable scholarship. 

• April 29: Identifying Topics & Learning from a Panel of Jacobs Teaching Scholars
  • In this session, participants will review standards of teaching scholarship to identify a potential teaching topic that they could publish. We will  also be inspired by a panel of Jacobs faculty who have published on teaching topics. 
    • Melissa McCartney, PhD, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
    • Jennifer Meka, PhD, Associate Dean for Medical Education and Director of the Medical Education and Educational Research Institute (MEERI)
    • Alysia V. Kwiatkowski, DO, Assistant Dean for Medical Curriculum
    • Stuart D. Inglis, PhD, Director of Human Anatomy Laboratories