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Thank you for attending the 2026 First Year Assistant Professor (FYAP) Workshop!

The Council on Research and Creativity (CRC) held its annual First Year Assistant Professor (FYAP) Workshop on Friday, September 18, 2026. The workshop welcomed 110 faculty members and provided an introduction to CRC internal funding opportunities, along with guidance and practical insights on grant writing and research development.

The event included breakout sessions, led by Marlo Ransdell and Sarah Eyerly (Arts & Humanities), Veronica Fleury and Miles Taylor (Social Sciences), David Whalley, Austin Mast, and Jorge Piekarewicz (STEM), and Gregg Stanwood and Chris Martin (Health/Clinical Sciences), as well as a poster session highlighting 73 projects conducted by the previous year's FYAP Grant recipients.

For all our First Year Assistant Professors:

  • The FYAP Grant application is available in the InfoReady Submission Portal. The deadline is October 15, 2026 by 5pm.
  • If revisions are requested on your proposal, you will be notified before Winter Break. Revisions will be due the first week we get back from break. Funding notifications will be sent out the first week of February 2027.

FYAP Resources:

If you need any resources to help you write your FYAP grant proposal:

  • On the InfoReady Support Resources tab of the website, there is a FYAP Grant Application Walk-Through document, which outlines every step in the application process.
  • In the Research Development Successful Proposal Database, the last few years of successful FYAP proposals have been loaded in. Read over some of the proposals from your department (or others) to see the types of research accomplished over the summer, and ideas on how to structure your proposal.
  • You will need a faculty mentor. Reach out to your department chair for recommendations, or contact one of our CRC members.

The deadline to submit your FYAP grant proposal is October 15, 2026 by 5pm! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the Internal Funding Coordinator for assistance: sbcore@fsu.edu.

FYAP Poster Instructions

As you know, one of the conditions of the grant – and future CRC funding eligibility – requires that you submit a poster at the next FYAP workshop, which takes place in the Fall semester following your summer research.

A series of PowerPoint templates have been created specifically for this FYAP poster session if you would like a starting point. You’re welcome to use any other graphic design program (Canva, Photoshop, etc.) to develop your poster, but the finished product must be a printed size of 24 inches (wide) by 36 inches (tall) in vertical orientation to maintain consistency across the presentation.

Open the PowerPoint presentation and choose one of the templates, either blank (fully customizable) or one of the FSU-branded templates. Add/change text, add department logos (see "Lockups" in the FSU brand folder), utilize FSU-branded colors, add charts, graphs, images, anything that will help explain your research and give your poster visual appeal. Browse the FYAP Poster Archive below to see examples of prior-year posters for inspiration. Be mindful of image resolution, as these will be printed very large.

When your poster is complete, if you utilized the template, make sure you remove the instruction slide and any unused templates, then upload your poster to the FYAP Workshop Registration Form as a PowerPoint file (.pptx) or PDF. 

The CRC handles the printing of your poster, so you only need to provide the digital file. After the workshop poster session, please take your poster with you! For anyone who can't attend the session, remaining posters will be held in the CRC Office for two weeks, then recycled. If you would like your poster, please contact the CRC Program Coordinator, Sherry Core, and she will drop off your poster at your office: sbcore@fsu.edu. Also, reach out to her if you have any questions!

FYAP Workshop Poster Archive
(2021 - 2026)

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 1:23 PM