Required Materials
Application:
Maximum three pages, not including CV, current/pending/anticipated follow-up funding sources, and level of support.
- Brief descriptive title
- Justification
- This statement should make a case for why the grant is needed, including how the grant will benefit the applicant professionally in ways that would otherwise not be possible.
- Emphasize the new direction of the proposed research that is not currently supported by other funds. How is this project different from currently funded projects?
- Time of proposed activities for which funding is sought
- Budget Summary (see template)
- Equipment and faculty and technical staff salaries are not eligible; a wide variety of other expenses will be considered. Please include budget justification.
- For those with significant remaining startup funds, please include an explanation why the new funds are required.
Additional Materials:
- Current and Pending Support, anticipated sources of follow-up funding
- Remaining funds from start-up package
- Current and pending federal and other support – submit abstract and aims (the abstract and aims are not part of the 5-page CV limit).
- identify follow-up funding for which you may apply, assuming that the data from this grant supports such an application.
- Applicant’s CV
- Limited to five pages in length
- Includes a list of all publications in the last five years and up to five other significant publications
- Mentor or chair’s letter of support (maximum two pages)
- A brief statement describing your experiences and/or approaches to fostering research and mentoring in support of the diversity, equity, and inclusion goals of the university as embodied in its founding principle: “any person…any study” and its core value of belonging.