Research

Support Services: Faculty & Student Research

The Center for Research Facilitation provides the following services to support faculty and student research in the college.

1. Career consultations for new faculty. Learn more

2. Proposal Consultation

• Design, methods, power calculations, analysis
• Think Tanks: Strategic planning sessions held throughout the research process. They are used to brainstorm proposal direction or about how to respond to an RFP. Learn more
• Mock Reviews: Represents a funding agency’s review process, particularly NIH. Used to identify areas for strengthening the aims, background, and methods. Learn more

3. Proposal Preparation

• Budget preparation
• Application formatting and editing
• University grant processing

4. Proposal Implementation

• Statistical support (programming and analysis)
• Data management
• Language translation referral
• Editing/consultation for manuscripts

5. Research seminars and workshops

6. Library of software, methods/statistics books

7. Identification of grant funding resources

8. Small funds for faculty research

9. Seth Rosen Graduate Student Research Award

Learn more about the Office of Research Facilitation (ORF)

Visit the ORF Blackboard site, or contact us directly:

Carol Estwing Ferrans, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Dean for Research
E-mail: cferrans@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.8445

Susan Littau, MJ, RN
Assistant to the Associate Dean
E-mail: slittau@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.3932

Olga Sorokin
Project Coordinator
E-mail: osorok1@uic.edu
Phone: 312.996.9717

Edward Wang, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
E-mail: chewang@uic.edu
Phone: 312.413.0148

Diana Wilkie, PhD, RN, FAAN
Professor and Harriet Werley Endowed Chair
E-mail: diwilkie@uic.edu
Phone: 312-413-5469