Faculty Initiation and Career Opportunity
Center of Excellence FY2023
The primary audience of applicants (faculty initiation) is professors beginning their tenure-earning position between July 1, 2022, and February 1, 2023. The secondary audience is tenured professors (career opportunity) who seek to “restart their research programs.” Due to COVID-19, any tenure-earning professors who started at UTC after January 1, 2021, and did not apply to the CEACSE Faculty Initiation grant for FY2021 are eligible to apply for FY2023.
The maximum individual award amount is $15,000, with no matching. An additional $10,000 may be proposed, including a required real-dollar match of $5,000, which can be from startup funding or from the faculty member’s department chair and/or their unit’s Dean with a letter of commitment to accompany the proposal submission. The maximum award is $20,000 plus $5,000 of matching.
These funds will be awarded on a competitive basis via a review of the funding criteria below and the strategic merit of each proposal. The primary goal of this program is to enable development of new capabilities and extramural projects in the area of Computational Sciences. Thus, any proposal that does not require significant computational modeling or simulation will be returned without review.
The proposal submission deadline is July 5, 2022, at 5pm Eastern Time. All submissions will be electronic, via InfoReady review.