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Interdisciplinary Research Initiation Awards Program |
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Deadline for Proposals: Monday, 12 January 2009 |
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The Office of Research Development invites a collaborative group of at least four faculty members from at least two separate departments to develop an external proposal that will help support an interdisciplinary program of excellence. This program supports the goals of the university’s strategic plan to encourage and develop interdisciplinary research. Awards of up to $100,000 are expected to generate submission of an interdisciplinary proposal to a nationally competitive funding agency. Investigators must be full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty at the University of Toledo and who will be at the university for the 2009-10 academic year. The PI must be from a college on Main Campus but may include co-investigators from Health Sciences. Funds may support summer salary and fringe benefits (maximum summer support is for six weeks’ salary and fringes), academic year release time, other support personnel, cost of outside participants or consultants, travel, equipment, materials and supplies as necessary to organize, prepare and submit a proposal to an external agency. Funding is available in May 2009 with all expenditures completed by 15 May 2010. Awardees must submit a written report to the Office of Research Development by 31 August 2010, summarizing the results of the project with a list of presentations, publications, proposals and funding directly resulting from the project. Awardees will also be expected to provide the Research Council with a presentation on the progress and results of their project. Proposals that pass administrative review will be sent to expert external reviewers for comment and evaluation. The primary consideration is whether the investment in the proposed activity will produce a coherent research group likely to emerge as nationally competitive and able to win competitive funding. Proposals must make it clear that the interdisciplinary nature of the project adds value, that each investigator is making important contributions, and that there are specific external sources of support for the activity Proposals must be double spaced, font size 12 points or higher, and submitted as a single PDF file. The following information must be included: |
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Full proposals are due by 3 PM on 12 January 2009. Submit one hard copy of your proposal with the signed cover sheet and a single PDF file of the complete proposal via e-mail or disk to Dr. Elsa Nadler, Office of Research Development, 3rd Floor, CCE Building, Health Science Campus, urafp@utoledo.edu or elsa.nadler@utoledo.edu. |