THE MOST WONDERFUL PROPOSAL EVER WRITTEN TITLE GOES HERE
Solicitation Number and Program Title
PI – Professor Wonderful
Budget Justification
PERSONNEL
Principal Investigator-Professor Wonderful will be responsible for overall coordination of MSU
work at 15% Academic year (1.35 academic months) and 0.5 month summer.
Dr. Wonderful will:
 Have primary responsibility for organizing data collection and qualitative data analysis
 Act as principal developer of general tools and formative assessments
 Work with Co-PI’s Fabulous and Magnificent on development and revision of topicspecific teaching materials and professional development materials
 Organize professional development at the MSU site
 Have primary responsibility for annual reports
Co-Investigator -Professor Fabulous, PhD, Professor in Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at
Michigan State University will be a Co-Investigator for this project. Dr. Fabulous will be
contributing conceptual expertise in deafness and hearing impairment as well as methodological
expertise in the identification of genetic causes of complex diseases. Dr. Fabulous will devote 5%
effort (.45 AY and .15 SUM months) during the academic year and summer of years 1-4.
Two weeks summary salary is requested for Professor Magnificent. Co-PI Magnificent will direct
work on analysis, including metabolics and the genomics at Michigan State University summer
training program. He will supervise senior Postdoctoral person listed below and undergraduate
student listed below on network analysis and laboratory validation.
Postdoctoral Associate (12 person months AN) will work on amino acid metabolic network
validation through intensive bench work during the first year of the project.
Research Assistant: TBN. A Research Assistant will be hired at 100% effort (6 person months in
year 1 and 12 person months years 2-4) beginning in month 6 of the project and continuing for
the duration of the project. The RA will be responsible for sample management, DNA extraction
and purification protocols, DNA management and storage, and genotyping efforts in the
laboratory under the direction of the PIs.
Three (3), twelve-month, research graduate students (50% time) will assist the PI’s with all of the
responsibilities listed above, particularly data collection, data analysis, and development and
revision of assessments.
An undergraduate Project Aide will be hired at the beginning of the project to assist the principal
investigators at the community-based project office. The project aide will be hired for 19 hours
per week (5.76 person months) in years 1-4.
Salary increases for MSU personnel are calculated at 2% for year 2-4.
FRINGE BENEFITS: MSU fringe benefits are based on a specifically identified rate for all
employees. Under this system, costs are identified into four categories and accounts will be
charged only to the extent that an employee receives those benefits. Categories are; Retirement;
FICA; Other/Miscellaneous; and Health Costs. The fringe rate for summer faculty salaries is
7.65% for all years. Graduate assistant fringe rate is a flat rate based on health insurance and
Tuition/Fees remission, with the health insurance portion reflected as fringes and the tuition and
fees portion reflected in the “Others” category (and excluded from the F&A calculation).
EQUIPMENT: Funds are requested for a custom-built computing server (quad six-core Opteron
CPUs, 32GB RAM) that will be used for code development and routine computing tasks for this
project.
TRAVEL: Travel funds are requested for principal investigator to attend the required PI meeting
at the National Science Foundation. We budget one two-day trip for each of the PI’s per year for
each of the data collection sites (Airfare $777, Hotel 2 nights $180, Mileage to airport $20, Per
Diem $117 and misc $50 for a total of $1,144 in year 1 with 2% inflation factor years 2-5).
PARTICIPANT SUPPORT COST: STIPENDS – Funds are requested for two undergraduates
in years three; each would receive $5,000 stipends for ten weeks of training as part of the Plant
Genomics at Michigan State University REU Program. OTHER – A housing allowance of
$2,200 per year is requested for each summer student intern.
MATERIALS/SUPPLIES: Specific research supplies include: Accelerometers, Pedometers as
intervention tool for students and caregivers, Height boards, Scales, Teacher/Leader Program
Training, a desktop computer for data collection from the pedometers, scales, and height boards.
This computer will be used exclusively for the described project. Other supplies may include but
are not limited to long distance telephone and fax charges, postage, copying, publishing, and
voice mail expenses
Project specific supplies include, but are not limited to SPSS and HLM software, project laptop
for data collection at local schools, long distance telephone/fax charges, and project
survey/handout copy charges. The laptop and software will be utilized in instrument design,
field-testing, piloting and validation in classrooms in 23 elementary schools in the Wonderful
School District (6 classrooms in each school building) and to perform analyses on the data
collected.
NOTE: These computers use was specifically stated in the budget justification as to the USE of
the computer directly related to the project and how it benefits the project.
CONSULTANTS: Dr. Consultant will provide 2 days of consultation, annually, at $500/day
related to sensory assessments in institutionalized older adults as well as the eventual
development of targeted interventions. Dr. Consultant will participate in quarterly electronic
communications with the PIs; in addition she will attend the annual large team meetings held in
our partner communities.
DISSEMINATION: Funds are requested for publication of manuscripts resulting from this
project. Podcasts, webinars, websites may be utilized to disseminate this wonderful information. list who, what, when where, why and how much it will cost to build and maintain it.
SUBCONTRACTS: Separate budgets and budget justifications are included for: University of
California-Berkeley, Bellevue School District, American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS), National Geographic Society and Colorado State University.
OTHER: Substitute teacher payments will allow participating teachers in Cohorts 1 and 2 to
participate in academic year workshops.
Teacher incentives are included. Teacher stipends for participation in the energy education
network are requested at a rate of $100/teacher (about 4 hours of teacher participation).
Working meeting subsistence included for meetings with other PI’s, advisory board, teachers, etc.
These meetings may include MSU personnel not in overnight travel status.
Graduate student tuition and fees are included here. Graduate student tuition and fees and are not
included in the modified total direct costs calculations.
The Wonderful school system has negotiated a lease with MSU for rooms within a vacant
elementary school building (closed three years ago due to school consolidation) to serve as our
community-based project site. Funds are requested to pay rent for the community project site in
Years 1-4 of this project at $1,000/month with a 2% inflationary increase budgeted for each
subsequent year
Fees for processing teacher continuing education unit (CEU) credits are included.
FACILITIES AND ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS: The negotiated F&A rate at Michigan State
University is 53.5% for the duration of the proposed project.