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Camelia Kantor

Pennsylvania State University, PA·Education Research

Winning and managing research grants takes skills that many smaller colleges lack staff to provide. These skills include writing proposals, following federal rules and tracking spending after an award.

Fields

Education Research

Social Science

Topics

research administration

sponsored programs

grant management

Grants
1 known grant, through Nov 2029

What they work on

  1. Adapt Penn State's ACOR Certification & Education Series into a modular, open-access curriculum covering proposal development, compliance and post-award management.
  2. Train cross-institutional teams of research administrators and early-career faculty from over 20 institutions, especially primarily undergraduate and minority-serving institutions.
  3. Deliver about 2,900 hours of consulting each year to help early-career faculty and research administrators build competitive research teams and secure funding.
  4. Improve participating institutions' research competitiveness, compliance and financial accountability, while encouraging collaboration between institutions.

More about the research

Primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) and minority-serving institutions (MSIs) often lack this support, which can keep their faculty from competing for research funding.

Why it matters

STAIR could help smaller and minority-serving colleges win and manage more research funding. Their faculty and students would gain wider access to research. A better-trained research administration workforce may also lower compliance and financial risks at institutions with limited resources.

Known grants

From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.

Skilled Training in Administration and Institutional Research (STAIR)

NSF · Dec 2024 – Nov 2029

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The school

Pennsylvania State University: 60 labs on PI Pages, $1.3B a year on research, 743 research doctorates a year.

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