Small Grant Program

The " Small Grant Program for Nebraska Women in Science" will award competitive grants

ranging from $1500 to $3000 per award. The objective of these awards is to help women

faculty enhance their research competitiveness. The grants are intended for such

activities as:

Travel to conferences related to research

Travel to NSF Headquarters to meet with program officers

Travel to workshops or training sessions related to a specific research project

Buying software or other tools for research projects

Hiring graduate assistants for research projects

Supporting course buyouts for research time

Eligibility

All women faculty in universities in the state of Nebraska who are engaged in research in

science, mathematics, engineering and technology fields are eligible. Clinical medicine and

production agriculture are excluded, since NSF does not support these areas. If you have any

questions about eligibility, please contact ILZE ZIGURS, chair of the evaluation committee ,

at (izigurs@unomaha.edu) or at 402.554.3182.

Deadline and Place for Submission

Grant proposals must be submitted no later than midnight of Friday, May 30, 2003.

Proposals must be in the form of a Rich Text Format document and submitted at the Small

Grant Program website, http://cmit.unomaha.edu/wise/submit.asp. The website will be

open for submission on MAY 15.

Format and Contents of Proposal

Proposals are strictly limited to a total of 3 pages, single-spaced.

The first two pages should contain:

1. Your name and the title of the project

2. Brief description of the specific research for which the grant would

be used.

3. Amount of funds requested and what the funds would be used for (maximum

amount is $3000).

4. Explanation of how the award would help build your competitiveness

in research.

Be as specific as possible as to how the award would increase the probability of success in

your research, e.g., in starting a new research project, developing a research proposal to a

funding agency, or finishing a project. Show how the grant is really important to getting

innovative work done, e.g., because of inaccessibility to alternate funding. If you hold a

post-doc position, show how the research that you are doing is independent from the group in

which you work.

The third page  should consist of a CV that contains the following details:

1. Name, rank, department and school affiliation, complete contact information.

2. Academic degrees received, where and when.

3. Grants received, when and from what source.

4. Complete citation information for five most recent publications.

5. Summary info for other publications - how many; any other info you want to

provide within the one page allowed.

Criteria for Award

Awards will be made based on the extent to which the applicant can show that the grant will

increase her competitiveness as a researcher and help her overcome specific barriers.

Preference will be given to people early in their careers who have not been able to get

competitive funding elsewhere and to mid-career people who are forging a new research

direction. The program is not intended fro those who are competitively funded at the

national level.

Decision Process, Timeline, and Follow up

A small committee of faculty  will evaluate the applications.

Awards will be announced by July 1, 2003. Funds must be spent by December 31, 2003.

Given the short time between submission and award decisions, late applications cannot

be considered. Proposals that do not follow the required format and submission process

will not be considered.