Application Form: FY23 UO Foundation Trustee Excellence Grant

The UO Foundation Trustee Excellence Grant aims to advance exceptional research, scholarship, or creative work by UO faculty in ways that translate to significant impact—be those contributions to their field of scholarship, the discovery of new knowledge, and/or meaningful connections and partnerships with communities.


The UO Foundation will fund two awards at $50,000 each to faculty. Awards will be made to a single faculty member who demonstrates a plan to advance high-impact scholarship and research in instances where faculty resources and/or external funding opportunities are limited. We do not expect to award funds via this program to faculty with significant active external or internal research funding.


Competitive proposals will clearly identify the impact of the research, scholarship, or creative work to be advanced, an appropriate and rigorous research methodology, and the impact of the proposed activity in terms of scholarship and social impact. Proposals that involve student participation in the proposed research are highly encouraged.


Find the full RFP and Budget Template on the OVPRI Website.


Application Deadline: May 15, 2023

Principal Investigator (PIs) Eligibility

Eligible PIs are tenured or tenure track faculty and career research faculty with the classification of research associate, research professor, research scientist, research engineer, principal research scientist, or librarian with 0.50+ FTE appointments during the academic year(s) of the research award.


(Emeritus, retired, courtesy, visiting, instructor, and pro-tem faculty, as well as postdoctoral scholars, are ineligible to apply as a principal investigator.)

You will receive an confirmation email upon submission.

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These awards provide up to $50,000.

Please provide the name of the budget manager/grant administrator in the department managing the award.

Research Type*

UO is now required to categorize all internally funded research activities as either basic, applied, or experimental.


If you are unclear as to which research category to choose, please review the definitions and examples on the OVPRI Internal Awards website. For those faculty who reviewed the definitions/examples and are still unclear as to which category to choose, please send a query to Research Development Services at rds@uoregon.edu.

Upon submission, this form will be routed to your Department Head or Dean for approval.

Please take care to enter the email correctly, as the submission generates an automated process to send material to the supervisor. Incorrect email addresses will create significant delays in processing your request.

Attachments

Please attach your combined PDF application. PDF should include the following, in order:

  1. Abstract
  2. Proposal Narrative
  3. References Cited
  4. Biographical Sketch or CV
  5. Current & Pending Support for PI
  6. Budget Justification
  7. Excel Budget (use the template provided on the program webpage)

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