Laurie S. Garton, Ph.D.

Associate Director – Early Career Faculty Research Development Services Division of Research
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Biography

Dr. Laurie Garton is an associate director, focusing on early career faculty professional and proposal development targeting federal young investigator programs through workshops, seminars, and writing groups, along with strategic one-on-one consultations and reviews targeting the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER, U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Early Career Research, and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Young Investigator Programs.

Garton started her academic career at Youngstown State University in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department as a tenure-track faculty member, following her B.S., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering (environmental) from Texas A&M. She joined the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) in 1999 and began work on technical research project grants related to interdisciplinary environmental themes. For more than 15 years in that position, she focused on assisting junior faculty, especially targeting federal young investigator program grants and conducting workshops and guiding engineering faculty through the proposal development process. As part of TEES Research Development, she also assisted research teams working on multi-principal investigator, multi-institutional level proposal efforts.

Garton has reviewed for NSF, has expertise with the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and currently serves in a 2-year appointment as a reviewer for the National Organization of Research Development Professionals new journal, Research Development Review: The NORDP Journal.