Deadline for receipt by College, Institute, or Center Ranking Committee: October 6, 2008
Deadline for College, Institute, or Center Ranking Committee to forward to ORC: November 10, 2008
Announcement of Awards: After the Research Council reviews the proposals and funding recommendations are made available, each reviewed grant applicant will be officially notified of the final recommendations via letter.
Please note that all grant funding is contingent upon the availability of funds.
Purpose:
The purpose of this grant program is to initiate new faculty research activities, which will strengthen faculty credentials and make them more competitive for external funding appropriate to their discipline. All proposals must clearly address this objective. Proposals for work related to the applicant's past research must show how the proposed research differs from, and clearly enhances, the faculty member's research agenda.
Other worthwhile objectives such as curriculum development, student research projects, cataloging, or compiling of information, self-development through courses or workshops and other in-service projects, or studies that only gather descriptive information, though highly meritorious, are not eligible for funding. Proposals that address only the preparation or publication of reports or manuscripts based on prior research (e.g., a dissertation) are not eligible. Senior Faculty who partner with junior faculty are eligible to participate but cannot act as the Principal Investigator (PI).
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Total Funds Available |
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1. Standard
Any legitimate research area. Interdisciplinary research is encouraged.
Maximum per proposal--$7,500* |
$150,000 |
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2. Arts & Humanities
Research area dealing specifically with the Arts & Humanities.
Maximum per proposal -$7,500*
($6,250 Office of Research & Commercialization,
$1,250 College of Arts & Humanities). |
$30,000 |
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* Exceptional proposals requiring a larger amount of funding may be considered but will require substantial contributions from the PI's department and/or college, institute or center. These contributions may take the form of additional funding or release time. Projects may last one, two or three semesters, starting no earlier than the beginning of summer semester 2009.
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- All tenure-track UCF Faculty who have been in residence at UCF for fewer than six years and have not yet received tenure are eligible to apply.
- Senior faculty who partner with junior faculty may participate.
- Each faculty member may submit or be included in only one proposal.
- Members of the UCF Research Council are ineligible for these awards.
College, Center, and Institute Ranking Committee Guidelines:
Each College, Center, or Institute participating in this program will establish a peer review ranking committee. Each ranking committee will review the proposals and select no more than 10 grant applications to be submitted to ORC for final review by the Research Council no later than November 10, 2008.
Each ranking committee will forward a document on letterhead addressed to the Vice President for Research & Commercialization that contains the names of the PIs, project titles, and their respective ranking (i.e., 1 - 10 with 1 being the highest).
The ranking committees may use the ORC Evaluation Worksheet contained within the RFP or create your own. However, please ensure a blank ORC Evaluation Sheet is attached to each proposal with only the header information completed as per the RFP for Research Council final review. In addition, please include each College, Institute, and Center proposal review and evaluation summaries. These summaries will be sent to the UCF Research Council.
Please submit one original and six (6) copies of each ranked proposal to Suhail Pantojas in ORC for further consideration. She can be reached at 407-882-1116 or via email at spantoja@mail.ucf.edu.
Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
- Technical merit of the proposed research.
- Potential impact of the proposed research on faculty member research program.
- Feasibility of future funding appropriate to discipline.
- Potential benefit to the university.
Research Council Guidelines:
The Research Council will review the College, Center, and Institute rankings, review summaries, and proposals to produce an overall ranking of proposals for the university. The Research Council will place the highest priority on the College, Center, and Institute recommendations.
The Vice President for Research & Commercialization will review recommendations and make the final determination for awards based on the above recommendations and the level of funding available.
Awards will be announced when final recommendations are made by the Vice President for Research & Commercialization.
- The use of funds for equipment is permitted only if the equipment is integral to the research and is not available within the department, college, institute, or center. Justification for equipment must be provided.
- Funds may not be used for travel to attend conferences.
Recipients of funding for this program must submit a final report to the Vice President for Research & Commercialization by the end of the funding period, which will be one, two, or three semesters. This report should include an abstract of the completed work for inclusion in a brochure.
The Research Council will perform an annual assessment of the value of this program to the university by conducting a review of the final reports of the previous year's awards, aided by additional follow-up material requested from their authors. This review will be made available to the Deans of the Colleges, Vice President for Research & Commercialization, Provost, and President.
Each application must contain the following components in this
order:
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