- Author: Kathleen P Nolan
2016 President's Research Catalyst Awards
Letter of Intent Due Date: June 4, 2015
Purpose: UC President Janet Napolitano and UC Research Initiatives are pleased to issue a Request for Proposals for the 2016 President's Research Catalyst Awards. This president's initiative aims to advance innovative research in areas of strategic importance to UC that has the potential to benefit California, the nation and the world, and to stimulate public support for UC research. Awards are made on a competitive basis for highly meritorious research that fulfills the following programmatic goals:
- Catalyze innovative scholarship that makes significant contributions to knowledge and science in areas of strategic importance to UC, and that has the potential to improve human lives, society, the environment, or the economy, enhance culture and community, or provide other public benefit
- Catalyze multicampus and systemwide collaboration that positions UC as a national leader
- Catalyze faculty collaboration across career stages to provide mentorship, support professional advancement, and position UC faculty as leaders in key fields
- Catalyze graduate student training opportunities in cutting-edge interdisciplinary or multi-disciplinary research
- Catalyze public engagement in the UC research mission through opportunities for community collaborative research, citizen science, or other community outreach, education and engagement
- Catalyze undergraduate participation in research through educational, curricular or training/internship components (as appropriate to the fields and disciplines)
Eligibility: Proposals must be submitted by a lead Principal Investigator who holds a PI status at a UC Campus. Proposals must also identify a collaborating PI at another UC Campus, the UC managed National Laboratories, the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, or other systemwide research entities. Proposals must include the participation of at least 3 campuses and broader systemwide engagement is encouraged.
This announcement is intended to highlight only a few of the exciting new funding opportunities that are coming up. Please visit our Funding Opportunities Calendar for more upcoming funding opportunities. New opportunities will be posted to this calendar frequently. You can also sign up for the RSS feed to get automatic notices when new opportunities are added. Please remember this calendar is not exhaustive and we encourage you to seek out other opportunities as applicable to your program/research.
Thank you.
Kathleen Nolan, Director, ANR Office of Contracts & Grants (OCG)