Request for proposals — faculty research grants

Spring deadline — Friday, February 1, 2019

These grants are one-year (max $7500) of funding. The grants support new research, creative or scholarly activities or for high quality projects not likely to receive external funding. To be eligible, a person must:

1. Be a ranked faculty member;
2. Have submitted the final report for his/her previous FRG to the Graduate College prior to last February 1st;
3. Not received a summer fellowship for 2019 from the Graduate College, and
4. Remain with the University for a year after the project is completed.

For more information, see the faculty research grant webpage. If you have questions, contact the Graduate College (836-5335).

Request summer 2019 graduate teaching assistant funding

Forms due Friday, February 15, 2019

The Graduate College will send a form to be used to request funding from the Graduate College for summer graduate teaching assistants to each Dean and Department Head the middle of January 2019. The form must be used when making a request for this funding. You must describe:

1. The duties (i.e., grading, lab-set up, lecture) that each GTA will perform and the number of weekly hours each duty will require;
2. List the courses that each GTA will support and indicate last summer’s enrollment or this summer’s projected enrollment;
3. Indicate how many student credit hours will be directly generated by the GTA; and
4. Provide the name of the supervising faculty member(s) for each GTA.

This source of funding is only to support teaching. The 2019 Summer Graduate Teaching Assistant Request Form will be due into the Graduate College no later than February 15, 2019. Awards will be made by the first part of March 2019.

International travel application deadline approaching

The deadline is Tuesday, January 15, 2019.

The funding is to support faculty international travel that will “advance the university mission, in a manner related to the research of the faculty member.” This funding supports faculty presentation of research. The international travel award provides up to $2,500 to the recipient. This is a one-to-one match with funding secured by the applicant. The matching funds may come from (a) the faculty member’s department and college; (b) external grants that include funding to present research and/or (c) funding provided by the conference/event for conference fees, lodging, food, or travel expenses.

To be eligible Faculty members must:

• Be full-time, permanent, faculty actively involved in research (preference may be given to a junior faculty member for whom the trip is more likely to advance his/her career);
• Faculty members who have previously received an international travel award will only become eligible to receive additional funding for travel that starts at least one year from the month of their previous funded conference date;
• A member of the international travel awards committee is eligible to apply; if the member applies, then an interim committee member from his/her College will be selected to replace the regular committee member for the round of competition he/she has applied;
• Conferences/events located in a restricted travel area will generally not be awarded funding;
• The applicant must be presenting original completed research/creative activities or program participation (panelist, discussant, etc.) at the conference, performance, exhibition or other invited event; and
• Only one trip is permitted per application.

Eligible faculty who choose to apply for an international travel award should be cognizant of the competitive nature of the process and be aware that not all applications may be funded.

For more information, see the international travel webpage. If you have questions, contact the Graduate College (836-5335).