Research Funding Opportunity Webinars. IES (Institute of Education Sciences) announces Research Funding Opportunity Webinars: The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) will host a series of webinars related to research funding opportunities at the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) and the National Center for Education Research (NCER). The four sessions include:

• Overview of the evaluation of state and local education programs and policies program
• Overview of IES education research training grants
• Grant writing workshop for development projects (goal 2)
• Grant writing workshop for young investigators

Detailed information is available at: http://ies.ed.gov/funding/webinars/

Research Division training opportunities: Proposal Development and Budget Building
Two part series: September 16 and 18, 9:00 a.m., 115 Taylor Hall/Parsons Penn
To register: https://cals.wisc.edu/research/General/training/upcoming/propDev.html

Opportunity for in-person effort training. In-person effort training will be held by RSP on Monday, August 4^th at the Genetics/Biotechnology Center. Attending the session will satisfy the UW requirement for effort certifiers. This is the last chance for an in-person training session before the consequences go into effect for people who have not completed all their requirements. To register for the August 4th session: http://www.rsp.wisc.edu/effort/training. More about consequences for not training: http://www.rsp.wisc.edu/effort/effortConsequences.html