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Ron and Jane Rada River Studies Center Margins of Excellence Grant Program

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Proposal Examples

Types of Developmental Activity

A.   Curricular and/or experiential learning development activities

    Examples:

·       Development of a sustainable and recurring course-embedded undergraduate research or creative activities in an existing course.  Examples of novel research or creative projects could include work on a project for a client (the client could be on or off-campus) or help for students to design and implement a project of their own.

·       Development of a sustainable and recurring service-learning project for undergraduate and/or graduate students.

·       Faculty development for teaching enhancement not normally provided by University resources.  This could include participation in seminars, workshops, and short courses that may or may not be associated with conferences, "mini" sabbaticals at collaborating institutions/agencies, etc. 

·       Funds to support study of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects of instructional or experiential learning programs associated with aquatic science or the scholarship of freshwater.  Such projects would lead to peer-reviewed publication(s) in reputable SoTL journals.

·       Funds to purchase extra-ordinary instructional instruments, displays, data, or software.

·       Academic program enrichment activities for faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and collaborating institutions/agencies/corporations. Activities could include but not be limited to guest speakers/seminars and field trips. Some of these activities could be developed as a series.

B.   Research Developmental Activities

Examples:

·      Support for grant writing of proposals for multi-year, multi-collaborator research projects requiring extramural funding in excess of $200,000 for the funding period.  Such funding agencies could include calls from the National Science Foundation, Wisconsin Sea Grant, United States Department of Agriculture, etc.

·      Resource match support for extramurally funded research opportunities of limited size (< $100,000) and duration (1 year). 

·      Faculty development for research enhancement not normally provided by University resources. This could include participation in seminars, workshops, and short courses that may or may not be associated with conferences, "mini" sabbaticals at collaborating institutions/agencies, etc. 

·      Funds to enhance analytical or scholarly capabilities.  These could include specialized instrumentation, data sets, software, or sample analyses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTE: This program is coming to an end in 2024. The final deadlines for proposal submission are: November 25th for Confluence proposals and December 2nd for Tributary proposals.