Research Council - Grants-in-Aid

Awards will be for projects that promote a faculty member's research creative and scholarly activities which may or may not enhance the prospects for obtaining outside support.  Grants-In- Aid funds are available to scholars from all disciplines and can be used for whatever aspect of a project during a twelve-month period deemed necessary by the applicant, except faculty salary support.   These may include, but are not limited to, equipment, travel, stipends for research assistants, fees for permission to publish, as well as subventions to support publication. Preference will be given to non-tenured junior faculty and to those who have not received a Grant-In- Aid or Faculty Seed Grant from the Research Council during the previous two years. Recipients of a Grant-In- Aid are encouraged, but not required, to submit a proposal for outside funding.  Two or more eligible faculty members who are collaborating on a project may submit a joint application. Awards will be made up to $6,500 for individual applications and $10,000 for joint applications.

Eligibility:
Applicants must be a UNL faculty member on a continuous appointment (tenure-leading or tenured with a rank of Assistant Professor or above), or a research (associate or assistant) professor or senior lecturer on the payroll of UNL. Other employees of the University (e.g., Extension Educators, Lecturers, and Senior Research Associates) will be eligible to apply for Research Council funds only if they can document all of the following:
(1) Their university appointment includes research responsibilities;
(2) They are eligible to be a Principal Investigator on a federally funded project in their role as a university employee;
(3) They have a multi-year appointment with the University such that they will have an appointment during the period when the proposed project will be conducted with the reasonable expectation of having an appointment should they apply for and receive a federal project;
(4) There is evidence that they have a long term commitment to the University;
(5) Their supervising administrator writes a letter supporting their eligibility for Research Council funds.
Visiting and adjunct appointees ranks are excluded.

Application:
The application (one Grant-In- Aid OR one Faculty Seed Grant per faculty member) should include:

• Completed application with required signatures.
• Three page statement of work (addressing what will be done, how it will enhance the applicant's research /scholarship efforts, time lines, expected outcomes, and future research and scholarship anticipated to result from the proposed project; in the case of a joint application, proposers should take care to delineate exactly which activities and contributions each participant will be responsible for).
• Completed budget sheet.
• Curriculum Vitae (2 pages, including publications for the last 5 years, current and pending grants for the last 5 years).
• NEW: all new applications for funding must include a description of what has been done with previous Research Council funding within the last five years. The descriptions should include awards from Interdisciplinary Grants, Seed Grants and Grants-In-Aid.

Grants-In-Aid Evaluation Guidelines
Grants-In-Aid Commonly Asked Questions