Transportation to Washington, D.C. to Visit Funding Agencies
Chancellor Hemenway, Provost Lariviere and Interim Vice Provost Warren
have made a firm commitment to grow and stimulate the research
enterprise at KU. In support of this commitment, the Chancellor
is making the university airplane available to researchers who
can benefit from face-to-face meetings with funding officials
in Washington, D.C. There is no charge to the researcher for
these trips; the only requirement is that researchers must have
a scheduled meeting with program officers to discuss the possibility
of funding for a future sponsored project.
Dates for trips in the upcoming academic year are:
- September 25, 2007
- October 16, 2007
- November 7, 2007
- January 30-31*, 2008
- March 26, 2008
- May 1, 2008
* Please note that the January flight leaves on the 30th and returns on the 31st.
On each of these dates, the KU plane will leave the Lawrence
airport at approximately 6:00 a.m. (CT), arriving in Washington
between 9:30 and 10:00 a.m. (ET). The return flight leaves that
evening around 5:00 p.m. (ET) and arrives back in Lawrence at
approximately 7:30 p.m. (CT). Each researcher is responsible
for making his or her own meeting and transportation arrangements,
including transit to and from the airport, and for any accompanying
expenses while in Washington.
Space on each flight is limited and is open only to faculty
or faculty-equivalent researchers actively seeking funding. If
you are interested in reserving a seat on one of these flights,
please contact Linda Crawford, assistant to Vice Provost Warren, as soon as possible (lcrawfor@ku.edu). If you are assigned
a seat for one of these trips, it will be necessary for you to
provide us with your email address, agency being visited in Washington,
and your home telephone number so we are able to call you early
on the morning of a scheduled trip in case a flight is cancelled
due to bad weather or mechanical problems. Be assured that we
will not give out your home number to anyone; we must have that
information logged into our records before space on the plane
can be reserved for you. We will send all passengers a detailed
map with directions to the KU hangar at the Lawrence airport.
If you would like to receive electronic notification of future
trips, please e-mail lcrawfor@ku.edu and ask that your name be placed
on the e-mail distribution list.
The Center for Research (KUCR) has initiated another program
to enable KU researchers to meet with funding officers. KUCR will pay for one trip a year per researcher to visit
a sponsor. A maximum of $750 per trip is available. A Faculty/Staff
Research Development Travel Fund form must be completed, returned to KUCR, and approved by Barbara
Armbrister, Director of Research Administrative,
before arrangements are finalized for such a trip. Please contact
Michelle Ginavan at mginavan@ku.edu or 785-864-7688 for further
information on this program.
Questions? Please contact:
Linda Crawford
785-864-7298 | lcrawford@ku.edu
Assistant to the Vice Provost | Office of Research and Graduate Studies
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