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Funding opportunity: ND EPSCoR emerging area seed award proposals due Oct. 28

The ND EPSCoR—UND office seeks to provide up to five $35,000 seed awards to UND researchers in areas of emerging high impact and transformative research related to the Track-1 research centers. Information on the Track-1 research centers (i.e., Regional Climate Studies (CRCS) and Sustainable Material Science (CSMS)) can be found on the ND EPSCoR website.

Primary evaluation criteria include potential for:

  1. Linking of the ongoing ND EPSCoR Track-1 CSMS and CRCS efforts through intellectual merit related to sustainable materials science and regional climate studies.
  2. Development or use of cyber-enabled discovery and innovation.
  3. Enhancing broader impacts of the ND EPSCoR Track-1 project elements of: diversity; education and workforce development; or partnerships, collaboration and communication (see ND EPSCoR Track-1 Strategic Plan).
  4. Collaboration between the UND researcher and a current ND EPSCoR Track-1 participant at a TC located in ND (Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College, Sitting Bull College, Turtle Mountain Community College or United Tribes Technical College) or a ND university system PUI (Dickinson State University, Mayville State University, Minot State University or Valley City State University).
  5. Submitting competitive research proposals to the NSF during the award or shortly thereafter.

Proposals are due in the ND EPSCoR UND Office PRIOR to October 28, 2016. Awards will be announced on or about November 1, 2016.

The RFP, cover and budget pages are available at https://www.ndepscor.ndus.edu/ under “Funding Opportunities – Researchers and N.D. Industry.”  Questions may be directed to Mark Hoffmann, Associate Vice President for Research Capacity Building and ND EPSCoR Associate Project Director, at 777-2492 or mark.hoffmann@und.edu.