Guiding Principles
The Office of Research and Scholarship (ORS) has a strong commitment to helping new, early stage and established investigators successfully compete for research funding and to helping all faculty achieve scholarly success. The program is designed to provide a rapid response to investigators’ needs for projects that have a high potential for success if given the right pilot data. It is also designed to support the development and dissemination of scholarly products. Participation in the program provides substantial benefits.
Benefits
- Funding for pilot data critical for grant submission, resubmissions and publications
- Mentorship in grantsmanship and scholarship from senior investigators/scholars
- Funding to help establish new research and scholarly directions
- Review of aims pages and grant proposals in CHS PI research meeting
- Funding to send grant proposals out for early external review
Eligibility
Full-time College of Health Sciences faculty in all title series are eligible to participate in this program, regardless of career stage. Faculty must be active participants in the Research & Scholarship Support Program before applying for program funds.
Program Components
This new initiative features:
- Monthly research meetings
- Pilot research project funding
- Funding for scholarship projects
- Post-doctoral research funding
- Microgrants to facilitate undergraduate research
Research & Scholarship Support Program Compliance
Recipients of program funding who fail to follow program expectations will forfeit the opportunity to receive additional monies until in compliance with the program. If a post-doctoral scholar/fellow is not compliant, his or her mentor will also forfeit the opportunity to receive additional program funding until the post-doc returns to full compliance.
ORS funding cannot be used for:
- Faculty or staff salary
- Conference travel
- Professional memberships
- General purpose computing equipment
- Journal fees
- Faculty, staff, or student effort