New Faculty Research Development Award
The New Faculty Research Development Award program is paused. Please check back for future updates.
The New Faculty Research Development Award is designed to begin building a sustainable program of research, scholarship and/or creative activity for the applicant. Potential outcomes could include publications, conference papers, presentations, websites, technologies or techniques, databases or datasets, physical collections, audio or video products, educational aids or curricula, or proposal to an external funding opportunity. If the awardee intends to pursue external funding for the proposed activity, the proposal should indicate a specific external funding opportunity or potential sponsor(s) in the proposal.
A crucial aspect to the success of this program is mentoring. Applicants should work with their center director, department chair or dean to select a faculty mentor. Mentors will guide applicants in developing their research program and assist in planning and preparing their proposal. Ideally, mentors will be faculty in a related research area with experience and success in obtaining external funding and support.
Awards are managed by the KU Office of Research and must comply with all applicable KU policies and procedures.
Final reports will be required at the end of the award period. Awardees who do not submit final reports within 120 days of the award close date will not be eligible for future Office of Research funding opportunities.
The NFRD final report should consist of the following sections:
- A one-paragraph lay summary of the project activities. This summary should be suitable for a lay audience and for publication in Office of Research communications. Any necessary deviations from the activities proposed should be noted in a separate paragraph.
- A list of the outcomes of the project (e.g., publications, presentations, juried exhibits, professionally produced CDs, scholarly awards, external grants awarded, etc.), with full citations.
- Abstracts of all project-related publications and grants.
- Description of how the objectives of the Sustainability Plan have been met.
- Curriculum vitae for the PI using any federally accepted biosketch format. Examples of biosketches:
- Current & Pending Support or Other Support form in any federally accepted format. No page limitation. Please see:
- If the award was intended to lead to external funding, provide the name of the funding agency or foundation, length of the award, and amount of the award for any grants received related to the project.
- Suggestions for improving the NFRD award program.