Seed Grant Program

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The program’s objectives are to promote research, outreach, and creative activities in all branches of learning that will improve competitiveness for external funding, and/or which will result in publications, patents, or exhibitions/performances appropriate to the PI’s discipline. The purpose of the program is to support early career faculty establishing scholarly program or established faculty transitioning into a new scholarly area, discipline, or interdisciplinary area. Early career faculty are given priority in the review and selection process. The Research Council particularly encourages proposals that cross disciplinary lines. Details are in the Request for Proposals. Proposal quality is important since the process is highly competitive and based upon peer review.

Proposal Submission

Proposals are due by 5:00 p.m. Friday, February 1, 2013. Please submit proposals through the UI’s Electronic Internal Proposal Routing System (EIPRS) at www.sites.uidaho.edu/osp. EIPRS allows your proposal file(s) to be uploaded as a PDF, and enables electronic routing and signatures. Please note that, since this is an internal grant program, the proposal will not need to be reviewed by your Sponsored Program Administrator in the Office of Sponsored Programs. Sarah Koerber (skoerber@uidaho.edu), Proposal Development Specialist, Office of Research and Economic

Seed Grant Proposal Tips

Examples of Proposals Funded in Previous Years

• The Role of Financial Literacy and Social Networks in Retirement Investment Decisions
• Design, Build, Test, and Instrument a Prototype Artificial Sky
• Discovering and Voicing Indigenous Perceptions of Adventure Recreation: Maori Perspectives
• Viral Competition in Lung Epithelial Cells
• Examining the Roles of Women in Sustainable Agriculture
• Thermal Depolymerization of Tires and Synthetic Rubber Wastes
• The Pricing-To-Market of US Firms
• The Visible Woman: Poems about Sarah Winchester, Victorian Heiress to the Rifle Fortune
• Numerical Simulation of Magnetic Nanoparticles Using Electromagnetic Separation Device