Collaborative Incentive Research Grants Program
The Program’s Purpose and Philosophy
The purpose of the Collaborative Incentive Research Grants Program is to enhance, through multi-campus collaborations, the prestige and prominence of the University to a national and international audience. The program is administered by a review committee chaired by the Vice Chancellor for Research and faculty chosen from among the Executive Officers of the University’s doctoral programs and Senior Faculty at the campuses.
Since its inception in 1994, the University has encouraged faculty to address problems that will lead to new and future areas of multi-campus or multi-disciplinary research strengths. This is consistent with the fact that the program is funded from the indirect costs recovered from successful faculty grant proposals, and explains why a major goal is to seed research that will become the basis of new external grant proposals.
To lay the groundwork for future grant submissions, the collaborative team must contact a program officer at a federal or state agency or foundation to discuss with that individual whether their proposed research would fit within the guidelines of their funding program.
In order to have the greatest impact for awardees, the Collaborative Incentive Research Grants (CIRG) Program will be funding 2-year awards beginning this year.
