Graduate Student Success

1. Complete the application information.

Click here for the InvoNet application! In this application, you will need to provide your information, your research advisor's information, and information about your academic program.

2. Attach your Project Proposal.

This is a 1500-word summary that includes the following:

1. 1. Title
   2. Purpose
   3. Significance
   4. Methods
   5. Preliminary results if available
   6. Reference section (not counted toward the 1500-word count)

The student submitting the graduate research award proposal should keep in mind that most, if not all, of the proposal reviewers will not be conversant with the student’s research discipline. For a more highly competitive application, avoid discipline-specific scientific jargon and acronyms. If the reviewers cannot understand your proposal, it will not be scored competitively.

3. Attach your Project Budget.

The budget total request may be any dollar amount up to $2,000 for all the GSA members and up to $2,200 for an active GSA member and/or a College Representative for GSA. You will need to upload a proposed budget with the items requested, justifications, and requested amounts.

Download the Project Budget Template

4. Attach your Funding Sources.

This is a document listing all the other sources of funding for your research, including intramural and extramural funds.

5. Your advisor must send us a Letter of Support.

Your research advisor must send a Letter of Support to us at gradsuccess@utoledo.edu (Letters of Support sent to other inboxes or emails will not be received). 

The letter must be in Word Document or PDF form, signed by your advisor, and include the following information:

• Student is making progress toward degree completion.
• Student is in good academic standing.
• The research project is approved and monitored by the research advisor.
• The research is part of dissertation, thesis, scholarly project, or field experience required for degree completion.
• The budget request is appropriate.
• The research advisor is willing and able to provide oversight of the expenditure of the awarded funds.

6. Ensure additional documents below are submitted.

If the below is not already on file, you will need to submit the following to gradsuccess@utoledo.edu:

• Your Plan of Study if your program uses paper Plans of Study
• If you are conducting any research involving human subjects, animals, biohazardous subtances, or radioactive substances:
  • GRAD form if your program is required to submit this by COGS (Graduate Research Advisory Committee Approval & Assurances form) 
  • OR evidence of approvals for your research if your program does not submit a GRAD form

If you are unsure if your documents are on file or what you will need to submit, please contact gradsuccess@utoledo.edu as soon as possible. We are happy to help!

The College of Graduate Studies will not reach out to you if any materials are missing from your application. Any missing materials will result in your application being considered incomplete and ineligible for review.