Grad Students, PostDocs, New Faculty National Institutes of Health Breakout Session

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Grad Students, Post-Docs, New FacultyNational
Institutes of HealthBreakout Session

• John IvyProposal Development Officer
• Office of Proposal DevelopmentTexas AM
  UniversityandTexas AM Health Science Center
• Copies of this presentation will be available on
  the OPD website, http//opd.tamu.edu/

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Office of Proposal Development

• Supports faculty and others in the development
  and writing of research and educational proposals
  to federal agencies and foundations
• Center-level initiatives
• Interdisciplinary research teams
• New junior faculty
• Institutional diversity initiatives
• Health Science Center collaborations
• Multi-institutional research partnerships
• Offers a full suite of grant writing training
  programs to help faculty develop and write more
  competitive proposals.

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OPD Proposal Support

• Assistance with finding funding opportunities
• Information on particular programs
• What is the funding agency looking for?
• Experiences of other TAMU faculty who have
  applied for that program
• What types of projects have been funded?
• Project planning
• Strategic planning based on review criteria
• Education and outreach components
• Proposal editing
• Conformity with solicitation requirements
• Clarity and organization
• Grammar, punctuation, spelling

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Seminars and WorkshopsCheck our website at
http//opd.tamu.edu/seminars

• One-day Craft of Proposal Writing Workshop
  offered each fall before classes start
• Seminar on strategies for competing for funding
  with breakout sessions on different agencies
  scheduled in the fall
• Semester-long grant-writing workshops offered
  fall and spring semesters
• Seminars on specific programs (instrumentation,
  NSF CAREER, NIH K-awards, etc.) offered
  throughout the year
• Faculty panel discussions on specific agencies
  and research areas in spring

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OPD Member List

• Jean Ann Bowman, PhD jbowman_at_tamu.edu
• Physical Geography/Hydrology, earth, ecological,
  environmental
• Mike Cronan, PE, BS (Civil/Structures), BA, MFA
• Center-level proposals, research and educational
  partnerships, new proposal and training
  initiatives mikecronan_at_tamu.edu
• Lucy Deckard, BS, MS (Materials) l-deckard_at_tamu.ed
  u
• New faculty initiative, fellowships,
  engineering/physical science proposals,
  equipment, and instrumentation
• John Ivy, PhD (Molecular Biology) johnivy_at_tamu.edu
  
• NIH biomedical and biological science initiatives
• Phyllis McBride, PhD (English) p-mcbride_at_tamu.edu
• Proposal writing training, biomedical, editing
• Libby Pasciak libbyp_at_tamu.edu
• Scheduling, workshop management, project
  coordination
• Robyn Pearson, BA, MA (Anthropology) rlpearson_at_tam
  u.edu
• Social sciences and humanities proposals, editing
  and rewriting

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The Continuumfocused on grad school
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Life Sciences Funding Continuum(from NIAID)
R01, R03, R21, R15
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Today's Topics

• NIH Overview
• NIH Funding Mechanisms
• Finding NIH Funding Opportunities
• Elements of an NIH proposal
• Review of proposals

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NIH DHHS fund diverse areas of research

• Biology
• Biomedicine
• Health disparities
• Behavior
• Biochemistry
• Computational science
• Neuroscience

• Mental Health
• Addiction
• Craniofacial disease
• Immunology
• Infectious disease
• Interdisciplinary studies
• Heart Disease

• Your research interests should align with the
  Mission of the Agency from which you seek funding

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Funding Sources for Biomedical Research

• National Institutes of Health 29 bill.
• National Science Foundation 6 bill.
• Dept. of Health Human Services
• Department of Defense
• Foundations
• Environmental Protection Agency
• US Department of Agriculture
• National Aeronautics Space Admin.

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DHHS Overview

• Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
  Administration (SAMHSA)
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
  (ATSDR)
• Health Resources and Services Administration
  (HRSA)
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Administration on Aging (AoA)
• Program Support Center (PSC)
• Indian Health Service (IHS)

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FY 2007 OPERATING PLAN NIH DISCRETIONARY BUDGET
AUTHORITY 29.228 BILLION
gt80 awarded to gt325,000 extramural researchers
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NIH 20 Institutes, 7 Centers
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"Know the Funding Agency" The NIH Mission

• NIH is the steward of medical and behavioral
  research for the Nation. Its mission is
• science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about
  the nature and behavior of living systems and
• the application of that knowledge to extend
  healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness
  and disability.
• http//www.nih.gov/about/

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The Goals of NIH

• foster fundamental creative discoveries,
  innovative research strategies, and their
  applications as a basis to advance significantly
  the Nation's capacity to protect and improve
  health
• develop, maintain, and renew scientific human and
  physical resourcesthat will assure the Nation's
  capability to prevent disease
• expand the knowledge base in medical and
  associated sciences in order to enhance the
  Nation's economic well-being and ensure a
  continued high return on the public investment in
  research
• exemplify and promote the highest level of
  scientific integrity, public accountability, and
  social responsibility in the conduct of science

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National Institutes of Health

• Each Institute has its own mission
• Each Institute has its own budget
• Each Institute has its own activities
• Each Institute has its own ways of doing things
• When youre planning to submit a grant, check
  with program directors from different institutes
  to determine their specific policies and interest
  in your science.

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Choose an Appropriate Funding Mechanism

• At NIH, there are three principal types
• Training T F
• Career K
• Research Project Grant R

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NIH Training Awards

• Institutional training awards (T)
• Individual training awards (F) for predoctoral
  (F31), postdoctoral (F32), or senior fellowships
  (F33)
• Limited to US citizens or legal aliens

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NIH Career Development (K) Awards

• Directed at retraining, professional career
  development, or recognition of career success
• Typically requires 75 research effort (offers
  "protected time")
• K Kioskhttp//grants1.nih.gov/training/careerdeve
  lopmentawards.htm
• Career Award WizardHelps you select the right
  career awardhttp//grants.nih.gov/training/kwizar
  d/index.htm
• Participation may be restricted to certain
  Institutes and Centers

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Research Grants for Independent Scientists

• R01 Large Research Grant
• 4-5 years, 250,000/yr
• R03 Small Grant
• 2 year max, 50,000/yr max
• R21 Exploratory Research Grant
• High Risk High Reward
• Transformational
• 2 years, 275,000 total
• R15 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA)
• Primarily undergrad institutions
• Institute must have received lt3mill/yr in NIH
  funding

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Unsolicited vs. Solicited

• NIH makes a distinction between solicited versus
  unsolicited proposals
• Unsolicited (investigator-initiated) proposals
  (82)
• Parent Announcements (Program Announcements, PA)
• Solicited (agency-initiated) proposals (18)
• Program Announcements (PA)
• New research programs and updates to ongoing
  programs (renewable)
• Request for Applications/Proposals (RFA/RFP)
• One time request to fulfill specific agency
  research objective or need

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New Investigator Programhttp//grants.nih.gov/gra
nts/new_investigators/index.htm
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For New Investigators

• K99/R00 Pathway to Independence
• Must have fewer than 5 yr postdoc experience
• Open to US and non-US citizens
• 2 yr mentored Post-doc 75 effort required
• 3 yr independent, tenure-track or equivalent
  position 75 research effort
• R01 fast review for new investigators
• Check box on cover page for new investigators
• Example Oct 5 Submit Mar 1 Summary
  Statement Mar 20 Resubmit (Mar 5, Jul 5, Nov 5)

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For New Investigators

• More lenient R01 payline for new investigators
  (varies by IC)
• In FY07, 500 R01 awards to be made to new
  investigators
• DP2 Directors New Innovator Award
• For exceptionally creative work of new
  investigators
• Requires highly innovative approaches that have
  the potential to produce an unusually high impact
• Must have completed doctoral degree within 10
  yr
• Awards up to 300,000

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A New InitiativeIdentify Early Stage
Investigators

• Designed to encourage early transition to
  independence
• the average age at which an investigator first
  obtains R01 funding has increased by more than 5
  years between 1980 to and 2001
• New Investigator  An NIH research grant
  Principal Investigator who has not yet competed
  successfully for a substantial, competing NIH
  research grant
• Early Stage Investigator (ESI)  An individual
  who is classified as a New or First-Time
  Investigator and is within 10 years of completing
  his/her terminal research degree or is within 10
  years of completing medical residency
• NIH will collect necessary data from the eRA
  Commons personal profile
• NIH will eliminate the New Investigator Check Box
  on the application face page
• New or First-Time Investigators will continue to
  be identified by determining whether the
  individual has had significant, previous NIH
  funding
• PD/PIs who receive a substantive, competing NIH
  research grant will lose their New Investigator
  status and hence their status as an ESI
• Applications from ESIs and New Investigators will
  be identified to reviewers so that appropriate
  consideration of their career stage can be
  applied during review
• New Investigators as well as ESIs will be
  eligible for the Full Implementation to Shorten
  the Review Cycle for New Investigator R01
  Applications Reviewed in Center for Scientific
  Review (CSR) Recurring Study Sections

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Application Due Dates
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Finding NIH Funding

• Search All Federal Agencies Grants.gov
• Search all of NIH NIH OER
• Search your favorite NIH IC(s) NIH IC home
  pages
• Sign up for email notices by weekly/daily
  listserves
• Sign up for RSS feeds
• Other strategies Other sources
• Google
• Colleagues
• National Science Foundation
• Acknowledgements in publications
• Philanthropy News Digest / The Foundation Center
• Commercial search providers Community of
  Science (COS)

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Parent Announcements
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Example Sequencing Technology
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Example Sequencing Technology
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Staying Informed on NIH FOAs

• e.g., at NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts

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Assess the CompetitionKnow what was recently
funded

• Learning about recently funded research in your
  area helps you understand what an agency is
  looking for in the review process
• Search on-line databases of funded projects
• Review abstracts of funded proposals on agency
  web sites
• Talk to the principal investigators of funded
  proposals in your area
• Obtain copies of funded proposals
• Ask the PI

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CRISP http//report.nih.gov/crisp/

• Computer Retrieval of Informationon Scientific
  Projects
• A searchable database of federally funded
  biomedical research
• What similar projects have been funded?
• Has someone already been funded to pursue my
  idea?
• Who are my competitors?
• Who are potential collaborators?

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CRISP search results
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Preparing Proposals

• All NIH proposals use either the electronic form
  SF424 or the paper PHS398.
• The transition to SF424 for F and K awards is
  delayed
• Step 1 Download the Instructions and Forms via
  the NIH OER website
• http//grants2.nih.gov/grants/funding/424/
• http//grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs39
  8.html
• Step 2 READ THE INSTRUCTIONS

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Speak with the Program Officer early and often
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Writing for Reviewers

• Reviewers often have 8 or 10 proposals to read
• Use white space, underlining, bold, bullets,
  figures, flowcharts to make main points easy to
  find
• Put main idea of sections and paragraphs up front
• Write for the reviewers
• Make it easy for them to assess your proposal
• Make it easy for them to be your advocate

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Common Elements of PHS398 R01

• Cover page/face sheet
• Description Project Summary (Abstract)
  Relevance
• Performance site, key personnel
• Table of contents
• Budget page(s)
• Budget justification
• Biosketch of PI, biosketch of all other major/key
  personnel
• Resources
• Research Plan (Items A-D)
• Other Information under Research Plan (Items E-J)
• References cited, human or animal research
  subjects, inclusion of minorities/children in
  clinical studies, data sharing plans, etc.
• Appendix items
• Checklist

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Introductory writing tips

• Title, Summary (Abstract), and Introduction
  (Specific Aims) are key
• May be all reviewers read
• Must excite and grab the attention
• Reviewers will assume errors in language and
  usage will translate into errors in the science
• Dont be overly ambitious in what you propose,
  but convey credibility and capacity to perform

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Introductory writing tips

• Sell your proposal to a good scientist but not an
  expert
• Some review panels may not have an expert in your
  field, or panels may be blended for
  multidisciplinary initiatives
• Agencies reviewers fund compelling, exciting
  research
• Proposals are not journal articles proposals
  must be user-friendly and offer a narrative that
  tells a story that is memorable to reviewers

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Title

• Used by agency administrators to route your
  proposal to the appropriate reviewers
• Should provide an accurate representation of
  your proposed project
• Should generate interest in and enthusiasm for
  your proposed project
• Should conform to agency requirements
• Program name
• Number of characters (NIH 81 incl. spaces)

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Project Summary (Abstract)

• Used by agency administrators to route your
  proposal to the appropriate reviewers
• Provides a concise overview of the proposed
  project
• Requires that you provide a great deal of
  information within a very limited amount of space
  (NIH 30 lines)
• Becomes public record if the project is funded

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Project Summary (Abstract)

• One of the most critical sections
• May be one of only a few elements a reviewer
  reads
• Communicate excitement and grab the reviewer
• Consider writing the Abstract after you've
  written your Research Plan
• Use the same elements of the Specific Aims in the
  same order
• Brief introduction to the topic
• Gap in knowledge or critical need
• Broad, long-term goals
• Specific Aims
• Describe research design and methods
• Summarize the Significance of the project
• Avoid summary of past accomplishments
• Avoid use of the first person

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Project Relevance

• The second component of the Project
  Summary/Abstract is Relevance
• Corresponds to "Project Narrative" in SF424 forms
• Using no more than two or three sentences,
  describe the relevance of this research to public
  health
• Be succinct and use plain language that can be
  understood by a general, lay audience

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Connect budget to the research narrative

• Be sure activities discussed in the narrative
  (Research Plan) are reflected in the budget
• In budget justification, personnel, materials,
  supplies, equipment, travel should reflect that
  necessary to complete Research Plan
• Base budget on real costs
• Remember that reviewers know what things cost
• Factor in both direct and indirect costs
• Factor in cost escalations for multi-year projects

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Resources

• Demonstrate that it is feasible to conduct the
  proposed research project at your institution
• Laboratory
• Clinical
• Animal
• Computer
• Office
• Other

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Research Plan

• Introduction (Resubmissions only)
• A) Specific Aims
• Long-range goals
• Hypothesis
• B) Background Significance
• C) Preliminary Studies / Progress Report
• D) Research Design and Methods
• Structure based on Specific Aims

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Specific Aims

• Critically important
• Must provide a conceptual overview
• Must outline the project goals, objectives
  (aims), and expected outcomes
• Must be clearly written leave no room for
  interpretation
• Must grab the reviewers attentionand generate
  enthusiasm for the project
• Must be able to stand alone
• Often Title, Abstract, and Specific Aims may be
  the only three parts that all reviewers will have
  an opportunity to read

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General organization of the Specific Aims
Introduction to the problem. Identification of
need or gap in knowledge. Long term research goal
and specific project goal Central
hypothesis Specific Aims
Project outcomes benefits
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Specific Aims

• Provide a framework
• State a long-range goal of your research program
• Tie to program/agency mission and goals
• State a specific hypothesis or critical need that
  your experiments will address
• Provide a rationale for your approach
• State specific, measurable Specific Aims
• Discuss expected outcomes
• Do not be overly ambitious!

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Your Central Hypothesis

• The foundation of your application the
  conceptual underpinning on which the entire
  structure rests.
• Generally applications should ask questions that
  prove or disprove a hypothesis rather than use a
  method to search for a problem or simply collect
  information.
• The goal of more applied research may be to
  discover basic biology or develop or use a new
  technology.
• If your application is not hypothesis-based,
  state this in your cover letter and give the
  reasons why the work is important.

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Background Significance

• Consider starting with Significance and tie into
  Specific Aims
• Explain explicitly why proposed research is
  important
• Specify how your research will extend and advance
  knowledge in the field
• Identify what you will be able to do following
  successful research that you cannot now do.
• Tie to agency and program goals
• Relate to review criteria (e.g., innovation)
• Make Significance easy to find
• Communicate your excitement!

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Background Significance

• Background should tie closely to your proposed
  research
• Describe state of the field
• Provide context for proposed project
• Demonstrate your familiarity with the field
• Nature of the problem and Identification of the
  opportunity
• Acknowledge alternative hypotheses or models
• Be thorough and concise
• Do not be dismissive of previous research

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Preliminary Data / Progress Report

• Discussion of preliminary data must connect
  clearly to proposed project
• Determine how much preliminary data to include
• Can vary with funding mechanism
• Present the results in a logical order
• Illustrate your results

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Research Design Methods

• Structure based on Specific Aims or Review
  Criteria
• Include approaches and detailed methods
• Be clear about how you will accomplish your
  stated goals and objectives. Include details
• What, specifically, will you do when you get the
  money?
• Schedules and milestones may be helpful
• This is especially important if you are a
  relatively new researcher
• Identify expected, measurable outcomes
• Identify and address anticipated pitfalls and
  alternate approaches
• Avoid ambiguous terminologybe specific!

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Project schedule

• Delineate the key milestones
• Incorporate the agency and program requirements

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Review of NIH Proposals

• Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
• Administers and coordinates peer review
• http//www.csr.nih.gov/default.htm
• Divisions (4)
• Integrated Review Groups (IRG) 23
• Study Sections (SS) 220
• Scientific Review Officer (SRO)
• Members (peers with expertise in SS research)
• Standing members
• Ad hoc members
• Study section rosters postedhttp//www.csr.nih.go
  v/Roster_proto/sectionI.asp

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What happens when you submit an application?
Center for Scientific Review
1) Scientific Review Group or IC Review Branch
2) IC Advisory Council
Institute Director
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CSR Review Streamlining

• Proposal received at CSR
• Assigned to an IRG, then to a Study Section (SS)
• The Scientific Review Officer (SRO) assigns a
  primary, secondary, and tertiary reviewer
• Review is a two-step process
• 1) Peer review is merit-based
• Investigator-initiated proposals (R01, R03, R21)
  are read by the 1, 2, 3 peer reviewers
• Bottom 50 of proposals are identified about 1
  week prior to the SS meeting (triaged or
  streamlined)
• All three reviewers must agree on the streamlined
  proposals in order for the proposal to be triaged
• Streamlined applications receive summary
  statements verbatim from each reviewer, but are
  not discussed nor scored
• SS meets to review and discuss applications
• Primary reviewer presents your proposal to the
  group (reads the abstract)

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CSR Scoring Proposals

• 1) Peer Review (cont.)
• SS members discuss your application, the primary
  reviewer answers questions about the proposal
• SS members assign a score to the proposal between
  1-5 (1outstanding, 5forget it)
• After the meeting the SRO calculates the average
  score for each proposal, multiply by 100 to get a
  3 digit score (100-500)
• SRO calculates a priority score or percentile
  ranking of the score based on the past 3 cycles
  of grant scores within SS
• SRO prepares a written critique of your proposal
  based on reviewers comments
• 2) Advisory Council or Board
• Meritorious proposals considered against mission,
  needs, and budget
• IC Program Officer makes recommendation to IC
  Director
• IC Director makes funding decision

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Your application is reviewed at study section by

• Experts
• Non-experts
• People who are reading lots of grants
• People who want to be excited by science
• People who will be irritated by a sloppy
  application
• So,
• Submit a high quality, reviewer-friendly
  application!
• Have people review your application critically
  well before submission

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For what are Reviewers looking?NIH General
Review Criteria

• Significance
• Ability of the project to improve health
• Approach
• Feasibility of methods and appropriateness of
  budget
• Innovation
• Originality of research
• Investigator
• Education, training, relevant experience
• Environment
• Suitability of facilities and institution support

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Three possible outcomes

• Triaged
• Discussed, scored, not funded
• Discussed, scored, FUNDED!

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Revisions Resubmission
X Two

• Three strikes youre out
• Read the reviewers comments
• Take a break
• Re-read the reviewers comments
• Dont take them personally
• Read the reviewers comments, AGAIN
• Call the program officer for more feedback
• Evaluate if you should resubmit

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Interpreting Reviews Planning to Resubmit

• Were certain issues mentioned consistently?
• Plan how to address those issues
• Did the reviewers misunderstand your proposal?
• Plan how to make your text more clear
• Was no clear issue mentioned?
• May not have excited reviewers enough
• May not be an area they wish to fund now
• May not fit into their research portfolio
• Begin working on the revisions. Incorporate the
  revisions that you think make your proposal
  better than the previous submission
• Many funded proposals were funded after multiple
  submissions ? intelligent perseverance is the key!

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Three Myths
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Myth 1

• It's so competitive now that a new investigator
  has no chance of funding.
• Truths
• Balderdash
• If you dont apply, you will not be funded

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FIRST TIME INVESTIGATORSAS A PERCENTAGE OF ALL
COMPETING AWARDEES
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Myth 2

• Nobody gets funded on the first submission
• Reality
• At NINDS in 2005, 58 of the K awards were
  obtained on the first submission
• Plan on resubmitting, but make your first
  submission as good as it can be anyway
• You cannot be funded on the resubmission without
  a first submission!

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Myth 3

• You have little chance of funding when initially
  triaged
• Reality
• Plenty of applications are funded after initially
  being triaged

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Life Science Funding Source Listings

• Grants.gov http//www.grants.gov
• National Institues of Health
• Office of Extramural Research http//grants.nih.go
  v/grants/OER.htm
• Individual Institutes and Centers
• National Science Foundation http//www.nsf.gov/
• Find Funding http//www.nsf.gov/funding/
• Funded Research http//www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/
• GrantsNet sponsored by AAAS and
  HHMI http//sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/funding
• Congressionally Directed Medical Research
  Programs http//cdmrp.army.mil/funding/default.ht
  m
• Philanthropy News Digest RFP listings http//found
  ationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/
• American Cancer Society http//www.cancer.org/docr
  oot/RES/RES_0.asp
• American Heart Association http//www.americanhear
  t.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier9713
• Cancer Research Institute http//www.cancerresearc
  h.org/criprogs.html
• Life Sciences Research Foundation http//www.lsrf.
  org/geninfo.htm

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Web Resources

• National Institutes of Health http//www.nih.gov/
  
• Grant Application Basicshttp//grants.nih.gov/gra
  nts/grant_basics.htm
• All About Grants Tutorialhttp//www.niaid.nih.gov
  /ncn/grants/default.htm
• New Investigator Portalhttp//www.niaid.nih.gov/n
  cn/grants/new/portal.htm
• Annotated R01 Research Plan and Summary
  Statementhttp//www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/grants/app/
  
• Mock Peer Review Videohttp//www.csr.nih.gov/Vide
  o/Video.asp
• CRISP funded biomedical researchhttp//crisp.cit.
  nih.gov/

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Web Resources

• Grants.gov http//www.grants.gov
• GrantsNet sponsored by AAAS and
  HHMI http//sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/funding
• Congressionally Directed Medical Research
  Programs http//cdmrp.army.mil/funding/default.ht
  m
• Philanthropy News Digest RFP listings http//found
  ationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/
• American Cancer Society http//www.cancer.org/doc
  root/RES/RES_0.asp
• American Heart Association http//www.americanhear
  t.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier9713
• Cancer Research Institute http//www.cancerresear
  ch.org/criprogs.html
• Life Sciences Research Foundation
  http//www.lsrf.org/geninfo.htm
• National Multiple Sclerosis Society
  http//www.nationalmssociety.org/

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http//foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/
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Additional Postdoctoral Fellowship Information
Sources

• Google is your friend! Search postdoctoral
  fellowship
• UCSF Biochemistry Biophysics listinghttp//bioc
  hemistry.ucsf.edu/fellowships.html
• American Cancer Societyhttp//www.cancer.org/docr
  oot/RES/RES_5_1.asp?siteareaRES
• American Heart Associationhttp//www.americanhear
  t.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier9713
• Cancer Research Institutehttp//www.cancerresearc
  h.org/postdoc.html
• Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundationhttp//www
  .drcrf.org/apFellowship.html
• Helen Hay Whitney Foundationhttp//www.hhwf.org/H
  TMLSrc/ResearchFellowships.html
• Life Sciences Research Foundationhttp//www.lsrf.
  org/geninfo.htm
• The National Academieshttp//www7.nationalacademi
  es.org/fellowships/
• National Multiple Sclerosis Societyhttp//www.nat
  ionalmssociety.org/Research-Postdoct.asp
• GrantsNet sponsored by AAAS and
  HHMIhttp//sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/funding?
  CFID1015488CFTOKEN17265996

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Questions?

• Copies of this presentation will be available on
  the OPD websitehttp//opd.tamu.edu/