Overview

In partnership with the Office of Sponsored Projects, the Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation (SSC) offers free grant development assistance each year to a limited number of early-career tenure-track faculty at The University of Texas at Austin who have not received federal funding to date. The Division’s staff will assist you in developing the methods section of your grant, and will provide feedback on related areas of the proposal (particularly the specific aims, method, and study design). Staff can also provide a letter of support for your grant application to document the statistical and mathematical consulting resources available to you at The University of Texas at Austin.

Our statisticians can assist faculty in the areas of psychology, sociology, education, communications, and many related social science fields. We can assist with both observational and experimental designs. Statistical analyses include: power analyses; ANOVA and MANOVA; linear, logistic, ordinal, or multinomial regression; survival analysis; factor analysis; cluster analysis; multilevel modeling; structural equation modeling; and longitudinal data analysis. Software expertise includes: SPSS, SAS, Stata, HLM, AMOS, Mplus, and SUDAAN.

Our mathematician can assist faculty in the areas of biomechanics and movement science; metabolite compartmentation, convection, diffusion, and concentration oscillations; absorption and transmission spectral properties, NMR, and Mössbauer spectroscopy; biogerontology; media exposure modeling; economics; and other areas of scientific computation. Mathematical analyses include: intrinsic scaling, dimensionless variables, and dimensional analysis; modeling and simulating a system; optimization; data animation; and time-series analysis. Software expertise includes: IMSL, Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, CPLEX, and GAMS.

Each year eight faculty members will be selected for the program through a competitive application process.

Deadline

Information about the spring 2010 program will be posted in fall 2009.

Eligibility

Tenure-track faculty members who have joined UT in the last three years and have not yet received federal funding are eligible to apply.

Apply

Information about the spring 2010 program will be posted in fall 2009.

Questions

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