Past Events
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Creativity in Research – Workshop I: Developing Your Research Process
Rescheduled to March 3, 2026 Join us for interactive workshops aimed at graduate students and postdocs who may be feeling stuck or uninspired to see their research from a new angle. You will gain skills to boost your research productivity and improve your ability to define and solve research problems.* At Workshop I: Developing Your Research Process, we will learn about design-thinking tools to explore and improve the way you approach your work.
Faculty Peer Review Session
Do you have a writing project on which you’d like to receive feedback from peers? Are you having a difficult time finding peers with the time to offer you effective feedback? Are you feeling stuck on a specific component?
Unlocking Success: Skills and Strategies for SciENcv
Grant Writing Academy Seminar Series The requirement to use SciENcv and the NIH Common Forms is fast approaching (NOT-OD-26-018, January 25, 2026)! Join Danny Sierra, Proposal Development & Training Manager in Pediatrics, for a deep dive into the new formats, the functionality available in SciENcv, and techniques for how to get ahead in mastering the new system for Biosketch forms. About the Speaker: Danny Sierra, M.Ed CRA, is the Proposal Development & Training Manager in Stanford's Office of Pediatric Research Development with over eight years of experience in proposal development at the department level.
R2G2: NIH New Simplified Review Framework
NIH has simplified its peer review process for most research project grants! The new framework for NIH Peer Review Criteria reorganized Significance, Investigators, Innovation, Approach, and Environment into three factors, all of which contribute to the overall impact score.
Writing Non-US Grants Workshop
Are you an international student or postdoc at Stanford and are you wondering what kind of grants you can apply for? The Grant Writing Academy is organizing a one-hour workshop about non-US grant writing.
Strategic Writing for Quals and Beyond (BIOS 242 – Section 1)
Registration for this Autumn 2025 course is now closed. If you are a graduate student and interested in joining, email Crystal Botham.
R2G2: Budgeting Basics for Pre-Award Management
Struggling with understanding everything that goes into pre-award budget management? Want to gain some clarity, especially during these uncertain times? Come join us for a 1hr session to learn all about the pre-award budget basics!
Faculty Peer Review Session
Do you have a writing project on which you’d like to receive feedback from peers? Are you having a difficult time finding peers with the time to offer you effective feedback? Are you feeling stuck on a specific component?
Smart and Effective Funding Searches
Grant Writing Academy Seminar Series With federal funding becoming less predictable, it is more crucial than ever for researchers to explore alternative funding sources. To address these challenges, Stanford provides access to tools like GrantForward and Dimensions, designed to streamline your funding opportunity searches.
NSF GRFP Info Session & Panel Discussion
Recording (Click Here) & Slides (Click Here) Join the Grant Writing Academy on August 4, 2025 @ 11AM-12:30PM (pacific) to learn more about the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). Proposals are due October 2026.
K-Series Empowerment Bootcamp: A transformational journey for postdocs preparing K Awards – (June 16, 23, 30)
We are currently recruiting postdocs to join one of two scheduled K-Series Empowerment Bootcamps! K-Series Bootcamp #1: May 20, May 27, June 3 at 9AM-4PM K-Series Bootcamp #2: June 16, June 23, June 30 at 9AM-4PM Submit your application to join our K-Series Empowerment Bootcamp #2 – Registration is closed at this time. Grant writing can feel overwhelming, isolating, and high-stakes—especially when you're still finding your voice, your footing, and your future.
Postdoc Writing Retreat
Do you want to develop a strong writing practice? Or, perhaps you’ve already begun the journey but it isn’t quite working out the way you hoped?
MSCA Workshop Series
Are you an (international) graduate student or postdoctoral researcher thinking about applying for the 2025 round of the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowship? If this sounds like you, we invite you to sign up for this workshop series to obtain all the best tips and tricks on how and when to apply, get step-by-step instructions, feedback, and support in crafting your application!
K-Series Empowerment Bootcamp: A transformational journey for postdocs preparing K Awards – (May 20, 27, June 3)
We are currently recruiting postdocs to join one of two scheduled K-Series Empowerment Bootcamps! K-Series Bootcamp #1: May 20, May 27, June 3 at 9AM-4PM K-Series Bootcamp #2: June 16, June 23, June 30 at 9AM-4PM Submit your application to join our K-Series Empowerment Bootcamp #1 – Registration is closed at this time. Grant writing can feel overwhelming, isolating, and high-stakes—especially when you're still finding your voice, your footing, and your future.
European Research Council (ERC) Grants Info Session
Are you a talented early-career scientist who has already produced excellent supervised work, is ready to work independently and shows potential to be a research leader? Do you want to move to the EU to continue your independent PI-career?
Spring Proposal Bootcamp (BIOS 263)
Registration is closed. If you are a graduate student interested in enrolling in Spring 2025, email Crystal Botham.
Pivot and Pitch: Reframing your research to increase funding success
Given the shifting landscape of research funding, it is more important than ever to equip ourselves with the know-how to identify new funding opportunities, find connecting threads between our research and the available funding opportunities, and effectively communicate these alignments in our grant writing. Come join us to learn firsthand from CoCo Headley and Daniel Kim about how they pivoted their research to different funding opportunities and topics, and to learn new and creative strategies for identifying new funding opportunities to fund your research and support your career development from Brandi Stephens, Megan Mayerle and Liz Seckel.
R2G2: Engaging in Team Science: Collaboration is Hard, Best Practices for Success
Solving complex scientific challenges requires collaborating with experts from different disciplines. While the theories surrounding building trust, having difficult conversations, setting expectations, and accountability are easy to comprehend, putting everything into practice is hard work.
R2G2: Fireside Chat on Fostering Independence
Join us for an inspiring session with Dr. Fatima Rodriguez, a distinguished associate professor and trailblazer in cardiovascular medicine. After completing her fellowship at Stanford, Dr. Rodriguez successfully transitioned from a clinical fellow to an assistant professor with a successful lab focusing on training the next generation of diverse researchers!
From Setbacks to Success: Reframing Failure as Opportunities in Grant Writing
More information coming soon