1. Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives (I 3)
Deadline: March 4th, 2019 at 5pm

2. Funding Goals
Develop novel transdisciplinary line of research that leads to submission of one or more substantial proposals for extramural support for a longer-term project
I3 partnerships should emerge from shared research interests and needs and be developed in relation to external funding opportunities, UO’s institutional strengths, and academic priorities
List of prior awardees and their project title on RDS website

3. Funding Goals
Represent a new direction for the lead faculty member or research team
Create or strengthen interdisciplinary research partnerships
Demonstrate significant scientific or scholarly merit
Have strong potential
for extramural funding
List of prior awardees and their project title on RDS website

4. Past I3 Recipients
Gendered Justice: Addressing Violence Against Women in Guatemala and the U.S.
Lynn Stephen, Anthropology
Erin Beck, Political science
Neuroimaging Approaches to Studying the Neurodevelopmental Effects of Malnutrition in SE Asia
Jeffrey Measelle, Psychology
Dare Baldwin, Psychology
Geeta Eick, Anthropology
Geraldine Richmond, Chemistry
Josh Snodgrass, Anthropology
Neural Mechanisms Underlying Second Language Learning
Santiago Jaramillo, Biology
Melissa Baese-Berk, Linguistics
List of prior awardees and their project title on RDS website

5. Eligible Applicants
Tenured or tenure track and career non-tenure track faculty in the research associate and research professor classification with full time (1.0 FTE) appointments who will hold a UO appointment during the academic year(s) of the research award are eligible
Faculty members may submit only ONE application as principal investigator, but may serve as a team member on other proposals
Funding preference is given to investigators without active VPRI seed funding from other internal awards programs

6. Ineligible Applicants
Emeritus, retired, courtesy, Visiting, instructor, postdoc, librarian, and pro-term faculty are ineligible
Faculty members funded through the I 3 program are not eligible to compete in future grant cycles for three years from the activation date of the successful proposal

7. Scope of Award Expected Outcome
$50,000 for up to 24 month project period
Projects begin 7/1/2019
Final reports due 30 days after end of project period
Expected Outcome
Submission of a proposal for extramural funding for a center, program, or large-scale research grant that involves multiple faculty investigators for an award period of three or more years

8. Budget: Allowable Expenses
Travel
Equipment
Supplies
Contractual services
Core/shared facility use
Graduate or undergraduate student effort
Technical personnel
External collaborators

9. Budget: Unallowable Costs
Replace current funding from another source
Faculty salary or stipend
Instructional release
Construction or facility renovation
Curriculum or career development

10. Application Components
Proposal Cover Sheet
Proposal Narrative (3 pages)
Curriculum Vitae (2 pages)
Current and Pending Support
Budget & justification
Letter of support (Department head, dean, center director)
Times New Roman font in 11 point or larger and 1” margins

11. Proposal Narrative Introduction Proposed Plan
Background or rationale for the project, including significance
Describe how the proposed work represents a novel research direction among an interdisciplinary team
Identify current status of the research at UO
Proposed Plan
Describe overall project aims or goals
Identify specific research, scholarly, and/or proposal development activities to which funds will be applied, how you will complete these activities, the roles and responsibilities of each collaborator, and how these activities will enhance the competitiveness of the project for external funding
External Funding Strategy
Identify external funding agency and program and submission deadlines, and provide strategy and timeline to prepare and submit to these opportunities
Describe the fit between the proposed project and external funding priorities/opportunities
References: limited to 1 additional page

12. Review Process Initial review: Compliance with guidelines
Primary review: Faculty Committee appointed by OVPRI
Notification of awards: May 2019

13. Critical Information Deadline: 5pm, Monday, March 4th, 2019
Review committee consists of faculty across disciplines; write for a sophisticated, scholarly audience, but not your disciplinary peers
Develop strong argument for your project
Reach out to RDS with questions