Faculty Opportunity Awards (FOA) Program: 2021 Call for Proposals

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OSP Weekly 12/14/2020

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Faculty Opportunity Awards (FOA) Program

2021 Call for Proposals

Applications are invited December 14, 2020 through February 5, 2021, 5pm PST.

The Division of Research and Economic Development announces the call for proposals for the 2021 Faculty Opportunity Awards (FOA) Program. The 2021 FOA Program is intended to increase innovative research, scholarly activity, and creative activity where there is potential for subsequent funding by extramural funding agencies, private foundations, or industry. The program is intended to provide seed funding for research, scholarly activity, and creative activity that will provide “proof of concept” for development of strong external proposals. Up to $300,000 is available to support these efforts in this round of awards, thanks to the generous funding provided by the UNLV Research Foundation and the UNLV Foundation.

2021 Call for Proposals

2021 FAQs

The 2021 FOA program is limited to full-time junior (tenure-track) faculty who meet the requirements for Principal Investigator (PI) eligibility. The 2021 FOA program will provide short-term (12 months), non-renewable funding for projects in Research, Scholarly Activity, or Creative Activity. Awards will have budgets up to $10,000 or $20,000 each, depending on the award type.

Please note: Faculty are not eligible to apply if they:

have previously received a FOA
are tenured
currently have funding from any source as lead PI

Application Information

Application Packet

Assemble the FOA application packet in a single PDF (single-space, 1-inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman font). Use exact section headers, sub headers, etc as indicated in all forms and instructions. Use one centered page footer to read: PI Last Name, page number (e.g. Jones, 1) and no page header.

The application packet PDF must include the following:

Cover Page Form (Signed by PI, Chair/Unit Head, Dean)

Required Sections

I. Project Summary (1 page maximum)
II. Project Narrative (5 pages maximum)
III. Budget Plan (2 pages maximum)
IV. Curriculum Vitae (2 pages maximum or length specified by potential future funding agency, e.g. four pages maximum for NIH)
V. Pending and Completed Support (NOTE: If none, you should nevertheless include and reference this section as “Not applicable to this proposal.”)
VI. UNLV Mentor Letter of Support (up to two-pages formal letter of support on university letterhead)
VII. Three UNLV Potential Reviewers

Online Submission Portal

Submit a fully complete and appropriately formatted application packet in the FOA Portal by the Friday, February 5, 2021, 5:00pm PST deadline. No late submissions will be considered. The Principal Investigator will receive an automatic notification when the application packet has been received.