Dear UNE Faculty,
The UFA Research and Scholarship Committee, in collaboration with the Associate Provost for Research and Scholarship and the Office of Sponsored Programs, is pleased to announce the 2021 Fall Mini-Grant program.
The broad aim of this program, as noted in the attached Request for Applications (RFA), is to stimulate the research and scholarship activity at the University of New England. These competitive mini-grant awards are designed to support both junior faculty who are developing a research & scholarship program and senior faculty who are pursuing a new direction or beginning a project that has not been previously funded at any level. If you have received funding before from this mini-grant program, it is important to clarify in your application how the previous funds were used to advance your scholarship and how the project proposed here differs from the earlier funded project.
The goal of the UFA Research and Scholarship Committee is to identify the highest quality proposals regardless of discipline or purpose. However, to increase the efficiency of the review process and to better assess the merits of a given proposal, we utilize discipline-specific review groups. Applicants should identify the program category that best represents their area of research or scholarship. Faculty members of the UFA Research and Scholarship Committee, with the assistance of discipline-specific ad-hoc reviewers, review and rank the submitted proposals. These recommendations are then submitted to the Associate Provost for Research and Scholarship (APRS) who makes the award decision, funding the greatest number of highly-ranked proposals within the available budget.
If you have any questions on the application or the review process after reading this announcement in full, please contact at ORS@une.edu
Best of luck in preparing your application for the APRS Mini-grant Awards.
Sincerely,
The UFA Research & Scholarship Committee
The Office of Research and Scholarship