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Key Dates   

RFA Announced:                October 26, 2020
Applications Due:               January 11, 2021, by 5:00 pm
Awards Announced:           March 2021
 

GSC Grants Information Sessions: Various times in Oct/Nov/Dec.

View workshop schedule and sign up at:
 http://research.olemiss.edu/upcoming-presentations.

Purpose

Through this RFA, the Graduate Student Council (GSC) solicits applications from currently enrolled graduate students in any discipline. GSC Research Grants are funded by the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) and the Graduate School (hereafter, “the UM Sponsors”).

Program Goals

1. Increase marketability, competitiveness, and graduate/postgraduate opportunities of UM graduate students by helping them develop a record of writing and winning grants.
2. Increase the number of proposals from, and awards for, UM students to fund graduate research, study, and creative scholarship.
3. Expand the ability of UM graduate students to conduct research, creative, or innovation projects to a degree that would not be possible with departmental funds alone.

Timeline and Funding

        The Sponsors will award up to twenty grants of up to $1,000 each in Spring 2021 for projects to be conducted between May 2021 and April 2022. Applications requesting more than $1,000 will be returned without review, as will those with total project costs exceeding $1,000 that fail to list the committed sources (departmental, personnel, etc.) of funding for costs above the $1,000 grant.

          Each application will contain two main parts: a proposal to conduct a project at UM (the GSC project); and a proposal to prepare and submit an application to an appropriate External Funding Opportunity that the applicant has identified. The awarded funds will be spent on the GSC project. However, as a condition of the award, the Awardee will also be required to prepare and submit by April 2021 a compliant, on-time application to the identified External Opportunity. Thus, development of the application for the External Opportunity will happen in parallel with the execution of the GSC project. The two may be related, but do not have to be. 

Principal Investigator (PI) Eligibility

UM (Oxford) graduate students from any discipline that conducts research, creative scholarship, or innovation activities are eligible to apply, as long as they are enrolled in good standing in their respective programs, and are planning to be enrolled in the summer or fall 2019 semesters. Applicants must attend one offering of the one-hour GSC Grants workshop that has been scheduled for three dates in December and January. Students view the workshop schedule and sign up at http://www.research.olemiss.edu/upcoming-presentations. Previous GSC Grant recipients who have completed those projects and submitted final reports may apply again. The graduate student/applicant will be the Principal Investigator on the project. No more than one graduate student may serve as a PI per application/award, and each graduate student may submit only one application.

Reporting

Awardees should submit final reports by April 30, 2022, to gscgrants@olemiss.edu, using this template.