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Strengthening Sponsored Research Infrastructure and Faculty Development at Swarthmore College

Award Number: G11HD080231
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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Strengthening Sponsored Research Infrastructure and Faculty Development at Swarthmore College - DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Swarthmore has a sponsored research program that can be considered robust for a small liberal arts college. This project is designed to bring the College's practices up to the level of our R1 partners. This will enable Swarthmore to collaborate more effectively with R1-level institutions, either as a subcontractor or prime grantee. This capacity-building will, in turn, expand our nation's pool of undergraduate researchers - an important pipeline, as Swarthmore is fourth in the country in per capita production of students who go on to achieve a PhD in the natural sciences, engineering, or the social sciences. Furthermore, the sponsored research enhancement proposed here is designed to be replicable at peer institutions; Swarthmore will share information about best practices for (and pitfalls to avoid) in growing from a small- to medium-sized sponsored research program. The project is timely: In December 2011, Swarthmore completed its latest strategic plan, which foregrounds faculty and student research, high-impact learning experiences, community-based learning and research, and creating a more diverse, inclusive campus culture. In the coming years, we expect to hire approximately 25-30 new faculty, as we move from a 5- to 4-course load, with the concurrent expectation that faculty spend increased time on involving students in their own research and mentorship of students' research. Also, over the past decade Swarthmore has pioneered some programs to promote underrepresented minority (URM) participation in STEM research; now, with student enrollment increases planned for the coming decade, the College seeks to redouble those efforts. We also see additional as-yet-untapped potential for sponsored research growth in certain fields (e.g., our emerging neuroscience curriculum; behavioral health research led by faculty in the Economics Department) and will develop explicit sponsored research connections in those areas. Qualified student demand for research opportunities is outstripping the College's ability to provide them: not only laboratory research, but social science research that includes international and local community projects, and Swarthmore faculty (and students) are engaging in increasingly complex and challenging behavioral and social science research. This project seeks to ensure Swarthmore's growth in all these areas is supported by a proactive Sponsored Research Office strengthened by efficient pre-/post-award administration and compliance strategies and tools and backed by clear institutional policies in a campus culture that recognizes the infrastructural needs that make research excellence possible.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = -$685 )
2021	2019	SWARTHMORE COLLEGE	500 COLLEGE AVE	SWARTHMORE	PA	19081	DELAWARE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	5	9/9/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$685
														Subtotal = -$685

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $88,764 )
2019	2019	SWARTHMORE COLLEGE	500 COLLEGE AVE	SWARTHMORE	PA	19081	DELAWARE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	5	3/30/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$88,764
2019	2019	SWARTHMORE COLLEGE	500 COLLEGE AVE	SWARTHMORE	PA	19081	DELAWARE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	5	8/2/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $88,764

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $90,762 )
2018	2018	SWARTHMORE COLLEGE	500 COLLEGE AVE	SWARTHMORE	PA	19081	DELAWARE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	4	3/21/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$81,685
2018	2018	SWARTHMORE COLLEGE	500 COLLEGE AVE	SWARTHMORE	PA	19081	DELAWARE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	001	4	6/9/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$9,077
														Subtotal = $90,762

Issue Date FY: 2017 ( Subtotal = $91,140 )
2017	2017	SWARTHMORE COLLEGE	500 COLLEGE AVE	SWARTHMORE	PA	19081	DELAWARE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	3	6/30/2017	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$91,140
														Subtotal = $91,140

Issue Date FY: 2016 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2016	2015	SWARTHMORE COLLEGE	500 COLLEGE AVENUE	SWARTHMORE	PA	19081	DELAWARE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	2	6/9/2016	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2015 ( Subtotal = $91,680 )
2015	2015	SWARTHMORE COLLEGE	500 COLLEGE AVENUE	SWARTHMORE	PA	19081	DELAWARE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	2	4/3/2015	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$91,680
														Subtotal = $91,680

Issue Date FY: 2014 ( Subtotal = $91,146 )
2014	2014	SWARTHMORE COLLEGE	500 COLLEGE AVENUE	SWARTHMORE	PA	19081	DELAWARE	USA	Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research	000	1	4/29/2014	NEW	$91,146
														Subtotal = $91,146

Grand Total All Awards = $452,807

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Strengthening Sponsored Research Infrastructure and Faculty Development at Swarthmore College

Award Number: G11HD080231

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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