You must meet the requirement for not having received a Cahill in the past three years to apply. Also, faculty members receiving an award (either as a principal or a co-principal investigator) in the preceding year, or two awards in the last five years, are ineligible.
No. The funds cannot be used for faculty stipends.
Charles L. Cahill Grants for Faculty Scholarship are awarded to full-time faculty to promote scholarship broadly across the University. Faculty members from all academic disciplines are encouraged to apply for funds to support their scholarship efforts.
There is a single application with all PI’s. Then there is single narrative that includes all PI’s and total award budget for the project. Then there are sections for each PI to include a budget and budget justification for their portion of the work. Additionally, details are provided within the application for each item.
Unfortunately, there are no examples of accepted proposals, but you are encouraged to reach out to previous Momentum awardees from your department.
This fund provides support for proposal development and has been established to give faculty the means (ex. travel or data collection) and/or the time (ex. course buy-out) to develop an external sponsored proposal within a 12-month period. The question related to 'Intended Funding Source' prompts faculty to indicate the external funding source(s) they intend to submit final proposals too.
Projects budget and travel period will need to be completed (or at least all expenses paid out) by the end of the fiscal year (May 15th, 20XX) and/or follow UNCW year end guidelines for expenditures. Please work with SPARC personnel if there are concerns about timing of expenditures.
Project Period: Project activities may occur during the funded fiscal year, (July 1 through June 30) but be advised, RMF are supported with State Appropriated funding and must follow State Appropriated spending deadlines and requirements. A proposal for an externally sponsored project will need to be submitted within 12-18 months of receipt of an RMF award.
Budget and Travel Period: All travel and expenses must be completed by May 15th of the funded fiscal year, and/or follow university year-end deadlines, whichever comes first.
Yes, a proposal for external funding must be submitted within 12 - 18 months of being funded and a 1-page report submitted to SPARC, detailing the results of the proposal development efforts. A final submission confirmation is required at the end of the project.
RMF is funded with State Appropriated Funds. If you have questions, your departmental business officer or SPARC representative can assist.
The goal of the Research Momentum funding is to create an opportunity for Principal Investigators (PIs) to develop proposals to be submitted for external funding. The university must ensure individuals serving as PIs on externally sponsored programs are highly qualified individuals with the technical competence and administrative capability to oversee a sponsored project. While there are many highly qualified individuals serving the role of visiting and adjunct faculty, they are limited in their administrative capability to oversee the project, and as such, the university limits the automatic eligibility of Lead Principal Investigators (PIs) to all full-time EHRA faculty.
For RMF proposals - While you are able to participate in this program as a collaborating investigator, you will not be eligible to serve as a Principle Investigator. There are no exceptions. If you are interested in applying, we recommend collaboration with a full-time EHRA faculty member.
For subsequent external proposals - If you are considering applying, we recommend you first reach out to your department chair and discuss your project to determine the feasibility of obtaining a 'limited' PI status. Also consider that for any subsequent externally sponsored proposal where the adjunct or visiting faculty member has been granted a 'limited' PI status - the department Chair and Dean, would need to accept responsibility for completing the award requirements in case the visiting or adjunct faculty member leaves the university before the end of the award period of performance.
Also, prior to submission of an externally sponsored proposal, the department chair, dean/director/vice chancellor, and the Associate Provost for Research and Innovation (APRI) would need to approve the 'limited' PI status.
Since the Research Momentum Fund is considered “seed money” to build a foundation for your research there is an assumption that you will be seeking additional funding after the grant has ended. Please list those potential funding programs in your proposal.
The spending period for Research Momentum Funds runs from July 1st – May 15th and all expenses must be completed by this time period. However, you are still able to work on your project until June 30th, but all spending must be completed by May 15th.
If you opt for a course buyout you must have approval from your dean/dept chair before you would be able to proceed with a course buyout.
The difference between supplies and equipment is that anything required for the project to be completed (for example lab machinery) and cost over $5,000 is considered equipment whereas a cost of less than $5,000 is considered supplies.
This fund provides support for proposal development and has been established to give faculty the means (ex. travel or data collection) and/or the time (ex. course buy-out) to develop an external sponsored proposal within a 12-month period. The question related to 'Intended Funding Source' prompts faculty to indicate the external funding source(s) they intend to submit final proposals to.
If you have previously been awarded a Research Momentum Fund, you will be eligible to reapply 2 years from the end of the award period. If you have received an extension, then the award period will be moved to match the extension deadlines.
Example: If you received an award in 2020 the end period will be 2021 and you will be eligible to reapply in 2023, if you received an extension until 2022 then you will be eligible to apply in 2024. Please note, you will need to have completed the Project Final Report to retain eligibility.
To begin, select the HOME dropdown link and select faculty & staff (external), faculty & staff (internal) or student to be re-directed to the filed list of funding opportunities. Click on any title to view the opportunity overview which includes descriptions, information links and relevant PDF documentation.
Use your UNCW username and password to log in to InfoReady. If you have any issues contact the InfoReady team.
No. You can view requirements and save any application as a draft prior to submission.
Submitted applications can be edited up until the Internal Submission Deadline. "Still Open" opportunities that have passed the Internal Submission Deadline with no applications received will remain open until filled by the first applicant.
All submitted applications that meet the eligibility requirements and are completed as requested are passed on to the internal reviewer(s). InfoReady notifies all applicants of the outcome of their submission.
SPIN text search performs a full-text search against the entire text of the SPIN programs; this includes opportunity titles, sponsor names, synopses, objectives, as well as funding opportunity numbers, email addresses, keywords, and several other fields.
The search automatically invokes inflectional forms of the entered words. For example, a search for test will scan all SPIN programs for: test, tests, tested, and testing.
The search also contains a number of capabilities to build complex searches with various logic and grammar parsing. The commands can be combined together, along with parenthetical logic to dictate the order of operations, for building complex queries defining exactly what you are looking for.
Each opportunity in SPIN is catalogued with terms from their keyword list. SPIN's keyword search allows you to explicitly find opportunities that match one or more of the predefined keywords in our controlled vocabulary of approximately 3,500 terms.
Keywords can be combined in two ways with 'OR' or 'AND' operators. An 'OR' search will find opportunities that have either the keywords Geochemistry OR Geophysics; an 'AND' search is more specific and will find only those opportunities that have both Geochemistry AND Geophysics keywords.
Using SPIN's advanced search interface, searches can be more specifically defined. A dropdown selection allows you to choose the fields to filter where the full text of the opportunity record contains or does not contain the entered selection.
Distinct fields generate AND queries while using the same field multiple times generates an OR query.
After a search has been created you can save the search and receive daily or weekly email alerts. The email sends a list of relevant opportunities.