Genius - Smarts
The Genius/Smarts Account is composed of 2 elements:
- Your Genius Profile and your Smarts Activity Profile.
- Genius is the interactive part; Smarts is the active part of the system
- Sponsored Programs Information Network Database
GENIUS
Account Profile contains your "resume" and your information selection criteria and keywords. This is the account to which you have input. You can add, subtract, or modify any element of your profile, including your search keywords.
SMARTS
- Smarts reads your name, parameters, and keywords each night
- Then Smarts interrogates the SPIN database for programs which match your needs
SPIN
Then Smarts sends all program "hits" that it has not already sent to you by email for reading the next morning.
- The Genius/Smarts Program is located on the internet at:
www.infoed.org/.
- Go there and click on "Create a New Profile." This will take you to a list box with all the participating institutions listed.
- Select our campus and click on the "Continue" button.
- You will then go to the New Profile Registration page.
- On the "New Profile Registration Page" fill in each area. We recommend that your "unique 9-digit identifier" be your SSN.
There are tens of thousands of people in this system, none of whom can have your SSN. Click on "Submit" when you are ready.
- The next page is the "Profile Summary Page." Notice that there are two green buttons and five red ones. These are mandatory
profile areas which you must fill out. Your account will not be validated until all seven areas are properly completed.
- Notice also that there are about 16 blue buttons for areas of your Genius Profile. You may fill these out at any later time.
If you are interested in collaborations with other Genius/Smarts account-holders or if you are interested in being found for consultancies by corporations and others that have Genius/Smarts memberships, then fill these areas out as soon as you can.
- Follow instructions in each area. In the General area notice that you have the opportunity to select hierarchical searches.
Read this carefully. If you do not understand it, call the Office of University Research, and we will help you with it.
- The "Key Words" area is critical. DO NOT check the boxes for an entire category. You will get swamped. Under most circumstances
you will not select a keyword in ALL-CAPS, as these have nearly the same effect as selecting a whole category. Select from 10 to 50 keywords and then let the system generate mail for you. If you get nothing, call the Office. If you get too much mail two weeks downstream, eliminate some of your keywords.
- The "Applicant Types" area should be seen primarily as a description of you pursuing your main interests. However, if you are working with graduate students and would like to receive information about funding for graduate students also check that Type.
- You should check every "Award Type" that you could conceivably be interested in.
- The rest of the areas are reasonably well-defined and self-explanatory. Avoid default settings; make choices.
After you have completed your profile, Smarts will send us a message saying that you think you are ready for validation. Normally, students will not be validated. Normally, part-time instructors will be validated, but the experience with them is not good. They almost never tell when they are no longer working in the University. This is for University personnel only. Part-time faculty must use a University email address.
When your account is in good (enough) shape to be validated, we will let Smarts/Genius know, and within a couple of days you will begin to received email announcements of funding opportunities. The first emails are likely to be quite a bit larger than the subsequent ones. If you have any problems contact the Office of University Research. Do not call or write to InfoEd directly. They must check back with us in any case.
