Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the UIC Global Excellence Task Force and the UIC College of Medicine’s Center for Global Health has established an annual seed grant program to foster new trans-disciplinary and mixed and multiple methods research in global health and well-being at UIC.
Grants will be made for new hypothesis driven pilot research with a substantial likelihood of gaining external funding or that can be completed with a limited budget. Priority will be given to projects that:
- address global health and well-being research priorities;
- integrate multiple elements which can include, for example, biomedical science, social science, humanities, architecture, art, communications, urban planning, business, criminal justice, diversity, social justice and engineering;
- incorporate mixed and multiple methods;
- include investigators from both UIC’s East and West campuses.
This opportunity is open to full time tenure and non-tenure track faculty from any department. Applications must involve a minimum of 2 colleges representing both East and West campuses – only one of which can be from the health sciences. Each award will be a base maximum of $15K for one year; up to an additional $5 K will be awarded if matched 1:1 by the involved colleges, departments, or centers.
Deadlines
Letter of Intent: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 – Noon
Application: Thursday, May 1, 2014 – Noon DEADLINE EXTENDED – Thursday, May 8, 2014 – Noon
Awards announced: September 2014
Questions should be referred to jburian@uic.edu. With these applications we invite you to build teams capable of creating global solutions to shared health and well-being challenges. We are grateful for the collaboration and support of Chancellor Paula Allen-Meares, Provost Lon Kaufman, Vice Chancellor Mitra Dutta, and CGH Director Timothy Erickson.
Sincerely,
Professor of Psychiatry
Director, Global Health Research Training, CGH
Director, International Center of Responses to Catastrophes
Teresa Cordova
Great Cities Institute
