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Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship Program (GIA)
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ALERT: Effective Fall 2008, Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry and Scholarship applications will be submitted electronically. Application will be available September 3, 2008.
Deadline Dates:
Application routed to approvers by: Monday, September 22, 2008
Applications routed to Graduate School by: Thursday, September 25, 2008
We are pleased
to announce the Fall round of the FY2009 Grant-in-Aid Program
administered by the Office of
the Dean of the Graduate School. This program represents one
important means by which this office is able to promote the scholarly
and artistic activities of the faculty and their graduate students and
to foster academic excellence within the University. Guidelines
have been established to ensure that the available funds are distributed
fairly, are effective in sustaining the vitality and quality of
research at the University, and as seed money, help to stimulate
the development of funding from external sources.
Faculty members whose needs fall into one of the fundable categories and do not currently hold a Grant-in-Aid, are encouraged to submit applications. Applications will be reviewed by either the Biomedical Research Advisory Committee or the General Research Advisory Committee according to the area of the research. Applicants are encouraged to consult the evaluation criteria used by the review committees prior to writing their proposal.
While there
is no rigid maximum amount of a grant, we aim to use our limited
funds to support as many worthy projects as possible. In FY2008,
127 grants were awarded with an average
award of $23,048. Requests for amounts considerably larger than
the average are rarely granted, at least not in full. In such cases
if a grant is awarded, it will likely be contingent on the applicant
raising matching funds.
The grant period
for proposals awarded in the Fall begins January 1, 2009, and ends
June 30, 2010. Guidelines prohibit a faculty member from holding
more than one Grant-in-Aid during a grant period (with the exception
of shared equipment awards) whether or not funding has been fully
expended. Therefore, the next grant period for which January 1, 2009,
awardees could seek additional Grant-in-Aid funding is that beginning
July 1, 2010 (submission deadline in February 2010).
All proposals
must be submitted electronically (online application available September 3, 2008).
In view of the limited funds available for this purpose and an anticipated increase in faculty needs, it is in your best interest to submit your application by the prescribed deadline. The deadline for submitting your application to approvers is September 22, 2008. ALL APPLICATIONS must be approved and routed to the Graduate School by September 25, 2008. Please check with the UMM--Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Office (320-589-6015) or email petersdk@mrs.umn.edu  ) for the internal deadline of that campus.
For questions, please call Faculty Grants Office at 612-625-2356
or email facgrant@umn.edu .
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