On behalf of the chancellor’s office, Dean Pogliano is pleased to announce the Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Collaboratories: An Opportunity for Funding for Faculty and Student Collaborations. This call is for funding for new projects to be conducted from January 1, 2018 – December 31, 2018.
The Chancellor will fund small interdisciplinary groups of faculty willing to form a collaboratory to supervise the research of 3 to 5 graduate, undergraduate or professional students for one year. A second year of funding is possible but not automatic; awardees will need to submit a progress report one month before end of the project period. The funding will support full or partial fellowships for the jointly supported students.
The aim is to encourage faculty and students from different disciplines to work together as they develop preliminary results sufficient to support applications for extramural funding.
Eligibility:
Faculty collaborators (3-5 PIs):
- must be from at least two divisions and three departments.
- must be eligible to chair doctoral committees may apply for the Collaboratories program.
Supported students (3-5):
- must be enrolled in at least two different departments (although not necessarily the same departments as the faculty members)
- must have completed one academic year at UC San Diego in their program
- incoming students are not eligible
- if a student graduates from UCSD and will be continuing in a graduate program in the fall, they are not eligible to participate until the following year
- must have a GPA of 3.00
- must be in good academic standing and making expected progress towards a degree.
Application Requirements:
All application materials should be sent in a single PDF. Application instructions are below:
- Filled application, can be downloaded on the Graduate Division website and it also attached to this email
- List of 3 to 5 cooperating faculty, along with departmental affiliations
- List of 3 to 5 students to be supported, along with department affiliations, PIDs, and current GPA at the time of application
- A CV for each faculty and student participant listed (2 pg. max per person)
- A jointly written abstract (less than 100 words)
- Proposal with title, description of the work to be undertaken (2 pg max, including references) in 12-point typeface
- A first-year budget indicating the academic quarters for which support is requested and the proposed fellowship value (not to exceed $15,000 per graduate student and $7,500 per undergraduate student)
- Please note this award is meant to fund student researchers ONLY, funding for new equipment is not an allowable cost under this award
- Signed agreement that the supervising faculty jointly intend to seek outside support for the project to be undertaken by the interdisciplinary group
***Effective March 1, 2010, no individual faculty member or student may be named on more than one proposal in any given round.**
Please note that there is a total of $62,500 available for this round of funding.
Submission and Deadlines:
For more information please visit: http://grad.ucsd.edu/resources/general/interdisciplinary-collaboratories.html
Final proposals should be submitted electronically to gradadvisor@ucsd.edu by 4:00 p.m. on Monday, September 25th, 2017.
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