Contact Us
Contact Us
Office of Research Development
For general inquiries, please email ord@rowan.edu.
To discuss collaborative research opportunities, please contact:
Sean Fischer
Assistant Vice President for Strategy & Collaboration
856-256-5806
For questions about your project idea or the status of a current proposal, please contact:
John Manuel
Manager
856-256-5324
About US
Mission Statement
The mission of the Office of Research Development (ORD) is to increase the number and quality of competitive, interdisciplinary, and collaborative proposals that support faculty research at Rowan University.
Guiding Principles
ORD will strive to achieve this mission by partnering with faculty members to develop project ideas, identify funding sources, form proposal writing teams, edit proposal narratives, and prepare proposals for submission. In order to advance its mission and key objectives, the staff of ORD approaches its work with three guiding principles:
- Exposure: We interview faculty members to understand their research needs, and then identify good funding matches through rigorous prospect research.
- Quality: We improve the quality of project narratives on proposal submissions. We edit and suggest changes to improve brevity, clarity, and message consistency. We look to meet compelling scholarship with creative salesmanship.
- Capacity: We build the capacity of faculty members and staff to become well-trained grant writers and prospect researchers themselves. Our aim is to empower faculty members with timely and targeted training that will build on their roles as educators and researchers.