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OFFICE OF SPONSORED PROGRAMS
Research Mentoring Program

As part of the New Faculty Initiative, the Office of Sponsored
Programs has launched the Research Mentoring
Program. The objective of this new program is to help strengthen the research mission of the
university. Research mentors are tenure-track faculty who have de-monstrated a high level of success in obtaining grants and contracts to pursue their research interests. During the fall semester, the research mentors will serve as role models to tenure-track faculty by offering practical advice from firsthand experience in developing successful grant proposals. During the spring semester, they will be available to provide advice and guidance to any tenure-track faculty who decides to develop a grant proposal.

• Research Mentors 2001–02
• Eliza Berry: Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics
• Cindy Daley: Assistant Professor of Agriculture
• Steve Lewis: Assistant Professor of History
• Rich Rosecrance: Assistant Professor of Agriculture
• Kristina Schierenbeck: Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
• Tony Waters: Assistant Professor of Sociology

Research Mentoring Workshops
During the fall semester, research mentors will lead a series of six Research Mentoring Workshops that will focus on sharing practical advice in developing grant and contract proposals while carrying a full teaching load. These workshops will take place every two weeks during the fall semester, 12:30 to 2:00 pm in Kendall Hall, Rooms 207 and 209, with the exception of the workshop on Oct. 31, which will be held in Tehama 131. The Office of Sponsored Programs will provide lunch to all workshop participants. These workshops are open exclusively to full-time tenure-track faculty.

The final workshop of the fall semester will be a practicum where the research mentors, with assistance from development specialists in the Office of Sponsored Programs, will assist new faculty in transforming their research ideas into proposal development outlines. These outlines will then serve as a basis for the development of grant proposals during the spring semester.

During the spring semester, the research mentors will avail themselves to tenure-track faculty who decide to pursue grant and contract proposal development by providing encouragement, advice, and guidance. Development specialists will provide tenure-track faculty with assistance in developing all aspects of their proposals. }

Tom LeBlanc is the new proposal development manager, Office of Sponsored Programs. He has an Ed.D. from Harvard, where his emphasis was research methods in the areas of administration, planning, and social policy. He and his family moved to Chico after a three-year stint in Ghana, where he helped implement an Education Management Information System as part of a Harvard project.