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UC DAVIS: ACADEMIC SENATE March 6, 2007 MEMBERS OF THE ACADEMIC SENATE; DEANS, DIRECTORS, DEPARTMENT CHAIRS, and ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS RE: 2007-2008 Call for Grants to Promote Extra-Mural Funding and Interdisciplinary Research ($10,000-$40,000) DEADLINE: Friday, April 13, 2007 The Committee on Research (COR) is now accepting applications from members of the Academic Senate for Grants to Promote Extra-Mural Funding and Interdisciplinary research. These grants will be of three types with the funding distribution dependent on the number of outstanding applications received in each category. (a) INSURANCE GRANTS: These grants which will be awarded as "insurance" to faculty who have already made applications for funding to grant programs external to UCD for the fiscal year 2007-08. Last year, approximately 20% of applications for Insurance Grants were funded. The maximum amount that can be requested is $30,000. Priority will go to junior faculty. Faculty who are selected for the internal grant will only receive the funding if their external application is not funded for 2007-08. Included in "extra- mural funding applications" are grant applications to University of California programs that are external to the Davis campus. For the Insurance category, each proposal will be first reviewed to ensure that it meets the requirements of the program. Given the diversity of research areas, the difficulty of obtaining adequate expert review, and the fact that these grants have already been submitted to an outside agency, COR will randomly rank the acceptable proposals with extra weight given to proposals from junior faculty. (b) SEED GRANTS: Faculty can also apply for unconditional seed grants to provide start up money aimed at major new initiatives, preferably by teams of faculty who are preparing to apply to a specific extra-mural funding opportunity. The maximum amount that can be requested is $40,000 and may be spent over 15 months. Only the strongest of such seed grant proposals, however, will be funded. Last year about 8% of such applications were funded. The New Initiative grants are designed as seed funds that will lead to major outside grant applications. COR envisions that such proposals would allow for the development of unique teams of researchers or unique facilities. Accordingly, COR will give a lower priority to requests from individual faculty members for extensions of their existing research work. The Insurance category better meets those needs. Each of the New Initiative proposals will be reviewed by the COR Grants committee based on their prospects for a successful program which includes, but is not limited to, potential for significant extramural support, for bringing high visibility to campus, and for allowing teaming of faculty. (c) COLLABORATIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH GRANT: With the goal of advancing collaborative, interdisciplinary research that pairs natural and biological scientists with social scientists and/or with arts and humanities scholars at UC Davis, faculty research teams may apply for grants up to a limit of $30,000 to be spent over a 15-month time period. The objective is to develop research projects of mid- or long-term duration bridging the natural and human sciences, in order to integrate the campus's strengths in these areas. The range of substantive themes and problems that these projects may address is unlimited. By way of example, proposed projects may include, but in no way are limited to, the following broad fields of inquiry: the natural and built environment; demography and gender relations; natural resources; technology and economy; cultures of science and philosophy; race and ethnicity; or geographically- defined area studies. Emphasis should fall on the attainment of original findings and insights by means of interdisciplinary and collaborative methods. The Committee on Research Grants committee encourages the formation of applicant teams of no more than four-to-five members. Applicants should specify in their proposals the sources of extramural funding they intend to seek in the future, but award of grants under this heading is not dependent in the first instance on such considerations. For all of the above grant categories, in the case of joint applications, one proposal should be submitted by a PI, with biographical details included to cover all faculty on the proposal. REVIEW: The review will be internal to the COR grants committee. ELIGIBILITY for the Faculty Research Grant Program: All members of the Academic Senate and Emeriti with recall status are eligible for this grant. Academic Federation members with research responsibilities in their title description can be included as members of joint applications. ALLOWABLE EXPENSES: All expenses in the furtherance of the applicant's research, except for faculty salaries, are allowable as long as they are justified in the proposal and meet university rules for eligibility. All books, films, equipment, etc. purchased with grant funds are the property of the University after they have served the grant holder's purpose. PROCEDURES: 1) Applications must be submitted electronically, via e-mail attachment, to kapulliam@ucdavis.edu, by 11:59 p.m. Friday, April 13. Only one application of any grant can be submitted. If more than one application is submitted the first submitted version will be the one reviewed. 2) The web page http://academicsenate.ucdavis.edu/committee_cor.cfm sets out the form of the application and the details required. 3) Applicants will be notified electronically by May 31 whether they have been awarded funds. Please contact Kimberly Pulliam, Academic Senate Office with any questions, at (530) 752-4918 or kapulliam@ucdavis.edu. Marion Miller Chair of the Committee on Research 07-031
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