Workshop or Seminar Series Application Guidelines

Prepare the following information for our proposal submission website.
After submission, you may change your proposal any time until the deadline.

IMPORTANT: Your faculty collaborators will be required to log on to our site to submit their biosketches.

Proposal Role Definitions

These proposal roles are defined to help you in planning and submitting your proposal.

  1. Principal Investigator
    The person primarily responsible for the workshop or seminar series: a faculty member at a UC campus or a person who has PI status on their campus.
  2. Collaborator
    Someone peripherally associated with the workshop who provides expertise or serves as a speaker. This person can be UC or non-UC affiliated.

Contact information

For the applicant and collaborators

  • Name
  • Address
  • Phone
  • Email

Biosketches

For the applicant and collaborators

  • Education & training
  • Research & professional experience:
    Include in chronological order relevant employment, grants and awards, publications, and professional activities (i.e. memberships). Limit to 2 pages.

Proposal information

  • Title
  • Research area - select one
    Ecotoxicology
    Environmental Fate
    Epidemiology/Health Effects
    Mechanisms of Toxicology
    Nanotoxicology
    Policy
    Pollution Prevention/Green Chemistry
    Remediation/Bioremediation
    Risk Assessment

Abstracts

  • A short description of the workshop/seminar series.
    Limit to half a page. This will be posted on the TSR&TP website upon funding. Write it for an audience with no special knowledge of your field.

Budget

Amounts and descriptions

  • Budgets can be up to a maximum of $20,000
  • Administrative expenses
  • Facility costs
  • Travel
  • Other
  • Matching Funds (if any)

Workshop/Seminar Series Plan

Limited to 3 pages or less in PDF form - to be uploaded to site

  1. Relevance to toxic substances in CA

    2. Why is this workshop or seminar series relevant to current or emerging problems of toxics in California?

  2. Goals of workshop

    3. What outcomes do you anticipate by hosting this workshop or seminar series?

  3. List of speakers/chairs/participants and/or topics

    4. Who are the likely participants and what topic areas will be covered?

  4. State agency and industry involvement

    5. Are any state agencies or industry representatives involved in the planning or implementation of this workshop or seminar series? What is the extent of their involvement?

  5. Follow-up plans (e.g., proposal development)

    6. How will you continue the impact of this workshop or seminar series? Will a proposal be developed for extramural funding?

Letters of Support (if applicable)

  • State agency support
  • Industry support

Statement of Compliance

The proposal applicant must agree to TSR&TP's terms and conditions of funding:

I agree to comply with all reporting requirements with the submission of an annual report on the funded activities. I agree to acknowledge the TSR&TP for any publications resulting from TSR&TP funding. I also agree to attend the TSR&TP Annual Research Symposium.

If all the funds are not used by the end of the grant period, the applicant must request a no cost extension or return remaining funds to the TSR&TP.

To the best of my knowledge, all of the information submitted in this application is true and correct.