College of Health Sciences Seed Grant -- 2018

Request for Proposals(RFP)

Faculty

The College of Health Sciences (CHS) has made money available once again for faculty research. All faculty(tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenure-track) within the CHS are encouraged to apply. Additional eligibility criterion is that the faculty member must be at the University of Wyoming during the subsequent academic year following the summer for which the grant-in-aid is awarded. If the faculty member has any doubt on their status and eligibility, they should consult with their unit head or CHS Research Committee.

Awards will be announced at the College of Health Sciences Grand Rounds
Thursday, April 5th, 2018

Guidelines:

Seed Grant Proposal:

Money is available to faculty in the form of a seed grant. These funds are intended to be start up funds to generate future, externally funded research within the College. Applicants are requested to submit proposals for research projects that will lead to the submission of a peer-reviewed manuscript and a grant for external funding. If you have been a previous recipient of CHS seed grant support, you need to include a report on the benefits and progress obtained from the previous funding. Funds are available for use during the 12 months following funding of your project. Grant recipients are expected to orallypresent the results of their research in the future Grand Rounds or CHS Research Seminar series.(Signature is required below).There is a 3-year eligibility cycle for this award, i.e. faculty receiving funding for this award cannot apply again for 3 years.

Maximum Research Award: $7,500

Submission Deadline: Friday, March 2nd, 2018at 5pm

Requirements: Proposals must be 1500 words or less (excluding Appendices) and must include the follows:

  1. COVER SHEET (provided below)
  2. INTRODUCTION (that provides the general context for the research)
  3. APPROACH(that includes strategy, methodology and analyses ofthe research)
  4. SIGNIFICANCE (that addresses importance and scientific merit of the research, as well as its relevance to the human healthand well-being)
  5. FUTURE PLAN (that describes how this proposal fits within your overall research agendawith identified external funding agency, and how this research will result in additional grant fundingwith specified grant submission dates)
  6. APPENDICES
    must include
  7. Biographical sketch including recent and current funding (internal or external)
  8. Proposed budget with justification
  9. Bibliography
  10. If the PI received pervious seed funding, a copy of project report should be submitted to the CHS (A project report outlining the findings of your research and timeline for manuscript or grant submission should be submitted to the CHS Research Committee within 18 months of receiving a CHS Research Grant).

may include

  1. Sample forms
  2. Letters of support

NOTE: Proposals will be reviewed by members from all disciplines in the CHS, thus, should be written in a manner that is understood by all in general (i.e. avoiding ambiguity with less use of professional jargon).

Evaluation: Each proposal will be carefully reviewed by the CHS research committee members and scored as follows:
4 = Excellent

3 = Good

2 = Average

1 = Acceptable

0 = Unacceptable

The mean score will be calculated and used for ranking. In case of tie, additional voting will be performed to determine the rank.

Although the quality of research proposal is mostly valued, the actual ranking will be needs-basedand the following rules will be applied:

A proposal submitted by a non-tenured faculty member will receive a bonus of 10% of its mean score when it is ranked with proposals submitted by tenured faculty.

If an applicant who is already ranked high (top 3) in the faculty seed grant application also competes for the faculty travel awards, the mean score of his/her travel award application will be discounted for 10% before being ranked.

If the proposal remained to be top ranked after the application of the above two rules, the proposal should be recommended for an awardregardless.

Directions:Proposals including the cover page (attached below)should be submitted tothe assignment folder of “Faculty Research Grant” on the WyoGroups named CHS Research Committee. Please email Qin Zhu () to request your membership of this WyoGroup before submission. All submission should be madeby March 2nd 2018. The submission file should be named as“XXX-CHS Faculty Seed Apply-18”.Obviously your last name will replace the XXX above.

Qin “Arthur” Zhu

Associate Professor of Kinesiology and Health

CHS Research Committee Chair

Division of Kinesiology and Health, Corbett111

Email:

Office phone: 307-766-5752

College of Health Sciences

Research Grant Proposal 2018

Required Cover Sheet

Faculty Name ______

College unit ______

Title of Research Project

Budget Request: $ ______

Signature statement: I understand that acceptance of a CHS grant award obligates me to an oral presentation of the funded research in the future CHS “Grand Rounds” or CHS Research Seminar series, and submission of a report to the CHS research committee outlining the findings of the research and timeline for manuscript and/or grant submission within 18 months of grant funding date.

Signature ______Date ______

Office/cell phone______Email:______