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Welcome to Grant Support Services

The Department of Psychology provides grant support services to faculty, research personnel, and graduate students in an effort to facilitate both proposal development and award management. These services are detailed on this website and contact information is provided below.

Department of Psychology Grant News

  • All faculty and students who will seek grant funding from government agencies (e.g., NIH, NSF, etc.) need to make sure that they have Adobe Acrobat Professional software as well as PureEdge Viewer software. Acrobat will allow faculty to create and use PDF files and PureEdge Viewer is required to create proposals to be submitted through Grants.gov.
  • All faculty and students who will seek grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) need to have an account on NIH's eRA Commons. For more information, please contact Trish Alexander in the Liberal Arts Grants and Contracts office at 863-6475 or talexander@psu.edu.
  • All faculty and students who will seek grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) need to have a Fastlane account. For more information, please contact Chris Woods in the Liberal Arts Grants and Contracts office at 865-8030 or cwoods@la.psu.edu.
  • For training on how to use Grants.gov, NIH's eRA Commons, or NSF's Fastlane, please contact Trish Alexander in the Liberal Arts Grants and Contracts office at 863-6475 or talexander@psu.edu.
  • For all faculty and students interested in seeking funding from private foundations or corporations, please contact Alicia Knoedler in the Corporate and Foundation Relations Office, 863-4308 or aknoedle@psu.edu.

    • Internal (Penn State) Funding Opportunities
    This link contains a list of available internal funding programs available at Penn State and applicable to research in the social and psychological sciences.

    Search for External Funding Opportunities:
    Several searchable databases are available to find funding opportunities:

    How-To Guides - Applying for Funding
    Documentation, forms, relevant information and formatting requirements for major funding agencies.

    Boilerplate Resource Descriptions
    Descriptions of Penn State resources and services that are available to faculty for research (e.g., Survey Research Center, General Clinical Research Center, etc.).

    Typical Budget Items and Budget Tools
    Don't know what to put into your budget? What are typical budget items and costs for proposals in Psychology? Where can I get a spreadsheet to work on a draft budget? Information regarding these questions can be found via the above link.

    Other Proposal Resources
    Need a sample cover letter? How about a spreadsheet to determine the ethnic breakdown of your proposed sample? These and many more resources for your proposal are available for your use.

    NIH and NSF Deadlines:

    NIH (most programs):
    New Research Grants: February 1, June 1, October 1
    Revised Research Grants: March 1, July 1, November 1
    National Research Service Awards (NRSA): April 5, August 5, December 5
    AIDS-Related Research Grants: January 2, May 1, September 1
    Institutional Training Grants (T32): May 10 (most Institutes/Centers)

    NSF (most SBE programs): January 15, July 15

    Links to Other Penn State Grant Services Offices:

    Description of Services:

    Contact Us:

    Proposal Development - Government Grants
    Liberal Arts Grants and Contracts Office
    119 Sparks Building

    Telephone 814-863-6477
    FAX 814-863-7287
    Email talexander@psu.edu
    Email jth18@psu.edu

    Trish Alexander - Coordinator of Grants and Contracts

    Jen Hillebrand - Grants Development Specialist

    Proposal Development - Foundations and Corporations
    Alicia J. Knoedler, CRA, PhD
    Assistant Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations
    Five Old Main

    Telephone 814-863-4308
    FAX 814-865-6468
    Email ajk12@psu.edu

    Award Management
    Amy Larimer
    Financial Administrative Assistant
    Department of Psychology
    417 Moore Building

    Telephone 814-865-1815
    FAX 814-863-7002
    Email alr9@psu.edu

    Department Research:

    Department Funding Trends 2000-2006

    Areas of Faculty Expertise - coming soon

    Current Department Research Projects - coming soon

    Research Institutes and Centers involving Psychology Faculty:

    Frequently Requested Websites:

    National Institutes of Health – Office of Extramural Research webpage

    National Science Foundation – Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences

    Grants.gov - Electronic Proposal Submission

    NIH's eRA Commons - NIH's electronic proposal and award management system