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Funding Opportunities in the Arts & Humanities
Office of Research & Commercialization
Jo Ann Smith, Ph.D.
How Do I Support My Research?
Funding Opportunities & Research Development
Dr. Jo Ann SmithResearch Development Associate
Marysol Murcia Grant Opportunity Development Manager
Maddy ChokshiInformation Specialist
What we do
Assist in identifying funding opportunities Assist in the limited submission process Guide faculty through the proposal submission
process Individually Workshops
Assist faculty in the development of proposals for submission and interpreting guidelines
Assist in building collaborative research teams
How we do it
Funding Sources IRIS COS, Foundation Search
Workshops Internal and external speakers
Internal Programs In-House, Matching Funds
Personal Consultations with Faculty Research Development, Grant Writing
Identify Funding Sources
Assistance to Faculty Identifying Funding Sources
IRIS Data Base Community of Science Data Base Foundation Data Base Individual Searches
Grants.gov or Agency website Federal agencies only Information provided:
Title of program Deadline for application Eligibility Amount/Minimum – Maximum range Number of awards Brief description Link to the application guidelines
http://www.grants.gov
Illinois Research Information Service (IRIS) http://www.library.uiuc.edu/iris/ Serves the arts & humanities and private
foundations
Different from the iRIS database used by IRB
Community of Science (COS) www.cos.com Two components
Funding Opportunities over 400,000 grants
Expertise 500,000 researcher profiles
Automated funding alerts Serves faculty, students and staff
Foundation Search
www.foundationsearch.com Only our unit has access to this database –
not available to faculty and students Private, corporate, and government grant
opportunities 122,000 foundations
Profiles of each foundation
Grant Day – October 26th
Grant Day Workshop
Bi-annual campus-wide workshop Invited presenters from federal, state, and private
funding organizations Discuss proposal preparation
tips, strategies, suggestions, common errors Research Interests Modification and future directions
Note: CAH is working on bringing NEH and NEA Program Directors to UCF (more to come)
Internal Programs Internal Programs
In-House Research Grants
Research Incentives Matching Funds for Federal Agencies (MFFA) Undergraduate Research Initiative Florida High Tech Corridor Industry Matching
Research Program
Research Development
Assistance to Faculty Preparation of Proposals
Discuss Proposals / Research Develop Contacts Editorial Assistance Budgets Program Assessment & Evaluation
Examples of Multidisciplinary Proposals NSF Informal Science
Drs. Walters, Hughes, Ms. Smith Simulation of the1964-65 New York Worlds Fair History, IST Funded $1.4M
NEH Scholarly Editions Dr. Kamroth
Digital Media, University of Kansas, Ohio State Funded $170k NSF I3
NSF I3 Dr. Theo Lotz
Art and Design students will create science-inspired art and design based on the STEM researcher’s
Art, Engineering Pending $1M
Research Development Series1. Find Funding (COS & IRIS)2. Grant Writing3. Partnerships and Collaborations to Increase
Grant Funding4. Building a Budget, Indirect, Subcontracts, &
Matching Funds 5. Protecting Human Subjects and the Review
Process6. Protecting Intellectual Property
Contact InformationJo Ann Smith, Ph.D., CRA Research Development Associate [email protected] 2-2223Marysol Murcia Grant Opportunity Development Manager [email protected] 2-1166 Maddy Chokshi Information Specialist [email protected] 2-1141
