Get Help With Your Grant

Contact Northeast SARE

If you are having problems with your Graduate Student Grant project--bad weather, personnel changes, equipment, or any other kind of disruption--you should call or e-mail the SARE office and see if there is anything we can do to help.

Sometimes a phone call or a site visit can result in a way around a problem, and sometimes the project plan of work can be revised or redirected. Don't hesitate to keep SARE informed and ask for support if you need it.

Advice about unexpected results

Keep in mind, however, that unexpected results are not necessarily understood to be a problem. For example, if you started your project assuming that one pest management technique is better than another or better than a control, you may be discouraged or dismayed if your findings say otherwise. Yet many of the most interesting projects have counterintuitive or surprising results, and sometimes these surprises open up new areas of inquiry.

Still, problems do come up--having problems is an emergent property of SARE's preference for innovative and sometimes risky projects. SARE staff will do their best to advise and support you so that at least some version of the original project can go forward.