RDC Small Grants Program Final Report Submission


Recipients are asked to acknowledge RDC funding in any publications or presentations with this statement:

          This work was funded (in part) by a grant from the East Tennessee State University
          Research Development Committee Small Grants Program.

Each recipient of an award must report to the Committee upon completion of the project or the grant period as to the final expenditure of funds, the results of the research, and proposed or resulting publications. The report must be submitted to the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs no later than 90 days after the termination date of the grant. No person shall be eligible for consideration for a Research Development Committee award unless final reports from previously funded projects have been filed and approved by the Committee.

Instructions

1)  Create your report in word processing software such as MS Word using the guidelines listed below for the content of your report);

  Guidelines for the Content of Your Report
   
  Your report's filename should contain your last name followed by first initial and RDC.  For example, John Smith's final report submission should be named: smithjRDC.docx. Uploaded filenames should not contain spaces.
   
 

The following information should be included within your report (feel free to copy & paste the items below into your Word document):

  1. Your name
  2. RDC Grant Number
  3. Grant Title
  4. The original aims and objectives of the research project at the time of the award
  5. The extent to which these objectives have been achieved
  6. The principal outcomes of the work and its significance to the field

2)  Attach your report to an e-mail message;

3) In the body of this e-mail, answer the following questions (feel free copy & paste the items below into your e-mail message):

  1. PI Name:
  2. College:
  3. Department:
  4. Rank (ex: Full Professor, Asst. Prof., Assoc. Prof., Adjunct Prof., Research Prof., Other-please specify):
  5. Co-PI (if any):
  6. Grant Title:
  7. RDC Grant Number:
  8. Type of Grant Award (ex: Research, Publication, Travel):
  9. Amount Awarded:
  10. Did your award result in any of the following:

             Publication of book

               Publication in peer-reviewed journal

               Publication in a non-peer-reviewed journal

               Presentation/performance (poster or oral) at a conference

               Presentation/performance (poster or oral) at other venue

               Preliminary data collected for an grant proposal

               Grant proposal submitted to an external sponsor

               Patent

               Creative product or artistic creation

               Other

4)  Send the e-mail message (with the report attached) to research@etsu.edu