Sent on behalf of Amaury Nora

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Dear Faculty Colleagues,

 Attached you will find guidelines for a brand new seed grant program - the INTRA program.  This program recognizes that research takes various forms and is not necessarily limited to the hard and applied sciences.  It is also a recognition of the fact that faculty in some disciplines do not need large amounts of seed funds.  For instance a faculty may need funds to conduct research for a book she is writing or to conduct a survey in a local high school.  

The INTRA program will be confined to the faculty of the 5 colleges listed in the guidelines  and will be limited to $5k per grant. It is expected that the seed funding will lead to either external funding or some other identifiable/measurable deliverable. The guidelines and the overall concept has been approved by your respective Dean and Associate Dean for Research. 

In this seed grant program, the faculty would submit their applications (via Cayuse) to their Associate Dean for Research.  Each college will then assemble an internal review team to grade and rank the proposals and send this information to the VPR office.  The VPR office will make the final announcements based on quality of the applications as assessed by college reviews and a sense of proportionality (the size of the T/TT faculty in each college compared to the total such faculty in the 5 colleges involved).  Assuming that all Colleges will fairly screen for basic quality, the larger colleges can expect to get more grants.    The total number in any year will be limited to a maximum of 20 grants ($100k).

This program will initially provide funding for AY 2014-15.  If funding levels for the VPR office are maintained by the institution in the following years, the program will continue.

For questions, please contact Jaclyn Shaw

CMA

C. Mauli Agrawal

Interim Vice President for Research

UTSA