Budget and Application Assistance

Cornell offers administrative support for graduate student grants and fellowships that are awarded directly to Cornell through college-level sponsored research offices or at the department level. If you’re not sure who supports your grant, check with your PI or graduate field administrator.

Available services may include help with drafting budgets and budget justifications, formatting CVs and supplementary documents, completing application or federal forms, and interpreting program solicitations, sponsor guidelines, and Cornell policies.

College Research Office (CRO)

  • College of Veterinary Medicine

Pre-award Research Operations (PRO)

  • Cornell College of Architecture, Art, and Planning
  • Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
  • Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy
  • Cornell College of Arts and Sciences (supported by the Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science)
  • Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) units supported by CALS Office of Pre-Award Services (OPAS) (e.g. psychology, neurobiology and behavior, molecular biology and genetics)
  • Cornell Duffield Engineering
  • Cornell Law School
  • Cornell Tech
  • Cornell Laboratory Accelerator-based Sciences and Education
  • Lab of Atomic of Solid State Physics

Office of Pre-Award Services (OPAS – formerly OSR)

  • Cornell College of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
  • Cornell Human Ecology (all)
  • Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management/Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business
  • Some College of Arts and Sciences departments (e.g., psychology, neurobiology and behavior, molecular biology and genetics)