Laurie S. Garton, Ph.D.

Associate Director Research Development Services Division of Research
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Biography

Laurie Garton is an associate director, focusing on junior faculty professional and proposal development in federal young investigator programs such as National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER, U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Early Career, and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) YIPs. In this position, she also serves as co-lead of the Junior Faculty Proposal Writing Academy.

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 and has expertise with the NSF Graduate Fellows program.