New Faculty Checklist

In your first semester, you will be introduced to:

• Representatives across the Northeastern RD enterprise at an “intake” meeting to understand the breadth of support available in your college and centrally
• Your designated grant administrator, who will help you with proposal budgeting, documentation, and submission (researchers in CPS, DMSB, NUSL and others without a dedicated research administrator will work with the NU-RES Hub team)

You may also want to get acquainted with:

• Center for STEM Education to discuss development of your broader impacts goals
• Corporate/Foundation Relations to identify industry contacts and potential partnerships
• Community Engaged Teaching and Research to discuss applicable community partnerships
• Northeastern’s government relations firm, Lewis-Burke Associates, our resource for information about emerging federal funding programs and priorities. Your RD contacts will communicate with you about relevant opportunities to engage with and learn from Lewis-Burke Associates.
• Northeastern Library Resources:
  • Open Access Publishing
  • Research Data Services
  • Find/Search Journals
  • Research Databases
  • Directory of Research Librarians

All new faculty should:

• Learn how to search for funding opportunities using Pivot and other tools
• Familiarize yourself with how Research Development can support your research
• Consider submitting a proposal to Northeastern’s TIER 1 Program
• Familiarize yourself with the breadth of institutional resources supporting research at Northeastern
• Learn where to find boilerplate descriptions of university resources, recorded workshops and training materials, and guides to federal funding agencies on the Research Development SharePoint site

Early career researchers may want to:

• Review successful early-career proposals from colleagues in your discipline. All faculty have access to the Research Development sample proposal library, which contains successful proposals submitted by Northeastern faculty. In addition, COE researchers have access to a proposal library on the COE Research Development SharePoint site
• Review the New Faculty Guide to Competing for Research Funding
• Identify 3-4 peer reviewers for proposal review support (inside or outside NU)
• Work with your RD team find out about any college-specific resources for proposal development, such as graphic design services
• Ask for your first few proposal submissions to be reviewed by the RD team
• Register for early-career workshops led by NU, NSF, NIH etc. 
• Join relevant professional societies (e.g., AAAS, ASEE, SWE, disciplinary societies, etc.)