Research Opportunity Awards for Faculty
NIH OK-INBRE Summer Undergraduate Research Program - 2012
Call for Summer Mentors
Oklahoma is the recipient of a major grant from the NIH Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Program to operate an IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (OK-INBRE). One of the OK-INBRE initiatives is a summer undergraduate research program to expose promising students to the exciting world of research and as a mechanism for increasing the applicant pool for graduate programs in biomedical research at Oklahoma's comprehensive campuses. We are now soliciting faculty mentors for the summer of 2012.
Each student will receive a stipend of $5,000 (subject to taxes) to pay living expenses over the 9 week (May 23 - July 20, 2012) summer research experience. In addition, each Mentor's laboratory will receive $2,200 for supplies. Each student will present a scientific poster of their summer research project at the end of the program. The cost of preparing the poster is to be covered by the aforementioned $2,200 allocation for supplies.
The mentor application is to be submitted to Sasha Smith at sasha-smith@ouhsc.edu (405.225.9419) by January 31, 2012. Applications from prospective faculty mentors at both the research-intensive institutions and Oklahoma regional universities are strongly encouraged. Applications from COBRE Investigators at OUHSC and OMRF are also strongly encouraged.
For the summer of 2012, we plan to support promising students from primarily undergraduate campuses in Oklahoma. The undergraduate institutions are: Northeastern State University, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Langston University, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, the University of Central Oklahoma, Cameron University, East Central University, Rogers State University, the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Panhandle State University. The students may be placed with faculty mentors at these undergraduate institutions or at the OK-INBRE research-intensive institutions: Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, the University of Tulsa, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, OU Norman, and the OU Health Sciences Center. In addition, mentors are also being solicited for additional students from four participating community colleges: Oklahoma City Community College, Redlands Community College, Tulsa Community College and Comanche Nation College.
Please contact Sasha Smith, INBRE Summer Program Director, at sasha-smith@ouhsc.edu or at 405.225.9419 if you have any questions.
Release/Post Date: September 2011
Application Due Date: January 17, 2012, 5:00pm
Peer Review Date: February, 2012
Earliest Anticipated Start Date: April 1, 2012
Purpose: The primary objective of the Mini-Grant program is to provide funding for faculty at the INBRE undergraduate institutions. Faculty funded through this program gain valuable experience in designing, conducting and reporting biomedical research, thus enhancing their ability to compete for extramural funding beyond the local level. A formal peer review process is employed to select the most worthy science for funding. Competitions for Mini-Grants are held annually.
Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards: Funding for 2012 is anticipated to be up to $00,000 in direct costs to support four awards. Additional awards may be supported by the State Regents for Higher Education.
Budget and Project Period: The total project period for an application submitted in response to this funding opportunity may not exceed one year. Direct costs are limited to $25,000 over the one year period. F&A (indirect costs) may be added at the institution’s negotiated rate. The project period is April 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013.
Eligible Applicants: Full-time, permanent faculty members with unmodified title at the rank of Assistant Professor and higher from Northeastern State University, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Rogers State University, East Central University, Oklahoma Panhandle State University, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, University of Central Oklahoma, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Cameron University, Langston University.
Number of Applications: Applicants may submit more than one application, provided each application is scientifically distinct.
Collaborative Grant Application
Release/Post Date: September 2011
Application Due Date: January 17, 2012, 5:00pm
Peer Review Date: February, 2012
Earliest Anticipated Start Date: April 1, 2012
Purpose: The Collaborative Research Grant Program fosters research collaborations between faculty at research-intensive campuses and their faculty counterparts at the primarily undergraduate institutions. The Principal Investigator must be a faculty member at one of the INBRE undergraduates campuses listed below. The collaborative research must involve an investigator at one (or more) of the research-intensive campuses in Oklahoma: the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, the University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Oklahoma State University and the University of Tulsa. It is the expectation that the major portion of the budget will be allocated to the undergraduate campus.
Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards: Funding for 2012 is anticipated to be up to $100,000 in direct costs to support two awards. Additional awards may be supported by the State Regents for Higher Education.
Budget and Project Period: The total project period for an application submitted in response to this funding opportunity may not exceed one year. Direct costs are limited to $50,000 over the one year period. F&A (indirect costs) may be added at the institution’s negotiated rate. The project period is April 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013.
Eligible Applicants: Full-time, permanent faculty members with unmodified title at the rank of Assistant Professor and higher from Northeastern State University, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Rogers State University, East Central University, Oklahoma Panhandle State University, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, University of Central Oklahoma, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Cameron University, Langston University.
Number of Applications: Applicants may submit more than one application, provided each application is scientifically distinct.
Release/Post Date: September 2011
Application Due Date: January 17, 2012, 5:00pm
Peer Review Date: February, 2012
Earliest Anticipated Start Date: April 1, 2012
Purpose: The primary objective of the Equipment Grant Programs is to enhance research infrastructure at the OK-INBRE partner undergraduate institutions. Faculty funded through this program will obtain important biomedical research equipment that will enhance their ability to compete for extramural funding beyond the local level.
Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards: Funding for 2012 is anticipated to be up to $100,000 in direct costs to support four awards. Additional awards may be supported by the State Regents for Higher Education.
Budget and Project Period: The total project period for an application submitted in response to this funding opportunity may not exceed one year. Direct costs are limited to either $35,000 for large equipment grant applications and $15,000 for small equipment grant applications. The project period is April 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013.
Eligible Applicants: Full-time, permanent faculty members with unmodified title at the rank of Assistant Professor and higher from Northeastern State University, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Rogers State University, East Central University, Oklahoma Panhandle State University, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, University of Central Oklahoma, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Cameron University, Langston University.
Number of Applications: Applicants may submit only one application per year.
for Curriculum Development or Grant
Proposal Development
The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education will provide funds for release time from teaching obligations (up to 5 teaching load credit hours) to assist faculty members at Oklahoma regional universities in the preparation of grant applications to support biomedical research projects or curriculum redesign and course development intended to improve the preparation of future biomedical researchers. Curriculum redesign and course development must follow the interdisciplinary approach described in the National Academy of Sciences publication BIO2010 (http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10497#toc).
Requirements for Curriculum Development Release Time Awards:
1. Within 30 days of completing the release time award, the funded applicant must provide a progress report. The report should be sent to Dawn Hammon as a PDF file or e-mail to dhammon@osrhe.edu (or by regular mail to: Dawn Hammon, OK-INBRE, 655 Research Pkwy, Suite 200, Oklahoma City, OK 73104), which outlines how the course development proceeded and was incorporated into the faculty member's home institution or department. This report should be approximately one page with one inch margins and 12 point font and submitted within 30 days of the completion of the release time.
2. If a progress report is not received within 30 days as required, then future requests for curriculum development release time funding will not be approved.
Requirements for Proposal Development Release Time Awards:
1. The applicant must provide one exact copy of the submitted grant application generated through the approved release time. The copy of the submitted grant application should be sent to Ms. Dawn Hammon as a PDF file at dhammon@osrhe.edu (or by regular mail to: Ms. Dawn Hammon, OK-INBRE, 655 Research Pkwy, Suite 200, Oklahoma City, OK 73104) within 10 business days of submitting the original to the funding agency.
2. After the grant application has undergone peer review at the funding agency (e.g., NIH, OCAST, ACS, non-profit…), the applicant must transmit the final critique provided by the funding agency to Ms. Dawn Hammon as a PDF file or e-mail to dhammon@osrhe.edu (or by regular mail to: Ms. Dawn Hammon, OK-INBRE, 655 Research Pkwy, Suite 200, Oklahoma City, OK 73104) within 10 business days of getting the final critique and summary statement.
3. If a faculty member is provided Release Time for Grant Proposal Development, a grant application MUST be submitted within six months of the end of the release time that was awarded (unless the applicant provides evidence in their Release Time Application that the funding agency has only one deadline per year or that the deadline for which they will be submitting their application is beyond the six-month window).
4. If a faculty member fails to comply with regulations 1, 2, and 3 above, they will no longer be allowed to submit Release Time Applications for Grant Proposal Development in the future.
$10,000 Award
One or more awards annually
Deadline for summer 2012 is February 20, 2012
Faculty at regional Oklahoma universities can apply for Research Opportunity awards with a maximum budget of $10,000 in direct costs plus F&A to support a summer project in a lab at one of Oklahoma's research-intensive institutions: the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, the University of Oklahoma Norman campus, Oklahoma State University, or the University of Tulsa.
The funds may be used for both summer salary support and lab supplies for the lab sponsor. Please submit a 1-2 page description of the project, including a brief statement on how skills learned during the summer will be used in the educational mission of the regional university. Also include a support letter from the lab sponsor and biographical sketches for both the regional university faculty member and the lab sponsor. Please submit a budget for your project on the NIH form page. If the budget is to be split between two institutions, please include a budget page for each institution. These materials should be submitted electronically to Dawn Hammon at dhammon@osrhe.edu