Dear all,
Judging from the oral presentations yesterday and the drafts, this will be a fabulous collection of grant proposals. Some final details for our collective benefit:
- A hard copy is required for the final version, due in class.
- The budget. This is supposed to be an interesting but not stressful exercise. Please make a good-faith estimate of your likely budget, spelling out how many years of person-labor at a particular rate, your bulk supplies, key services, and any special equipment that your fantasy home institution isn’t likely to have. Then add 50%, and provide that number. I am hoping to judge budgets much as “Price is Right” with a special prize (TBA) to the victor, but this is a very minor component of your proposal. It just shows that you’ve thought about how one actually might do the work you propose. You should also state what agency might be likely to support your work.
- References. Please use an accepted, consistent format such as the ASM example that I describe in the assignment and do not reference nonscientific, popular sources unless absolutely necessary.
- Design/Outcomes. For most of you, a visual model of your design and a figure of your expected outcomes can go a long way to explaining exactly what you plan to do and justify your predictions. Strongly consider including such figures.
