Grant Proposal Deadlines

Deadline policy.  In order to be maximally effective, the Office for Nursing Research follows a table of deadlines that is used to guide the preparation of new grant applications.

All grants are due to the Division of Sponsored Programs (DSP) 5 business days before the final, sponsor’s deadline. This rule is university‐wide and nonnegotiable: https://research.uiowa.edu/dsp/late-routing-policy [1]

The deadline for submitting proposals to the ONR occurs in two phases:

1. Fifteen business days before the sponsor’s deadline:  All supporting materials (e.g., budget and justification, resources, letters of support, biosketches, and appendices). Submitting these pieces early will allow a significant amount of the document uploading to take place ahead of time and minimize the likelihood that a last-minute technology failure or electronic bottleneck due to high internet traffic will prevent a grant from being submitted.

2. Ten business days before the sponsor’s deadline:  The research narrative of the grant (i.e., Research Plan: Specific Aims, Research Strategy, and other pieces detailed below).

Priority for Submission.  Given the reduced lead time that results from changing the deadlines, there is less leeway for late submissions. Priority for submission will be given to those who meet the deadlines. If a proposal comes in late, it will be sent to the back of the queue and it may not be submitted.

Holidays.  When a deadline falls on a Saturday (e.g., June 5), most sponsors automatically extend the deadline to the next business day.

Quality Control.  Grants that are submitted prematurely reflect poorly on the CON as a whole. If the ONR feels a proposal is not sufficiently complete to be a viable submission, the Associate Dean for Research may ask a PI to delay submission to the next cycle of applications.