INTERNAL AWARDS PROGRAM

Application Deadlines: Fall Cycle, October 15, 2007; Spring Cycle, February 22, 2008

Signed application and all supporting material must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. by these deadlines in the Division of Sponsored Research at one of these locations:

• Suite 160, University Technology Center (UTB), 3650 Spectrum Blvd. on the Tampa Campus

• KRC 3113, Knight Research Center on the St. Petersburg Campus

• Room C321 (Sandy McDonald) on the Sarasota/Manatee Campus

The application guidelines and form are available below as a Word document with text form fields.

Sending your proposal to Sponsored Research through Intercampus Mail is not recommended. Applicants who choose to do so should address the envelope to the NEW DSR Mail Code: 30338 USF Holly Dr. - Attention: Liz O'Connell. Proposals received after the deadline will not be reviewed, regardless of how they were sent. It is the applicant's responsibility to see to it that the proposal is received on time.

To submit as a hard copy: upload the document to your computer, fill it out, print it, obtain all signatures, and submit original application by the deadline.

To submit the proposal electronically: upload the document to your computer, fill it out, print it, obtain all signatures, scan the document as a PDF file, email it to SRO@research.usf.edu by the deadline. Be sure to check the PDF file to ensure the format is consistent & correct and that the illustrations & graphs are readable in black/white.

Please contact Liz O'Connell, Internal Awards Coordinator, if you have questions or problems preparing the proposal ( oconnell@research.usf.edu; 813.974.0997)

PROPOSAL HINTS FOR RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP PROPOSALS

Reviewers recommend that you limit the introduction/background section of your project description to approximately one page in order to allow more space for a fuller discussion of the core of the project. The remainder should be used to describe what you plan to do to produce valid, reliable, publishable, and fundable results.

Reviewers typically focus on the following questions:

• What are you trying to accomplish?
• How is it done now, and what are the limitations?
• What is truly new in your approach that will remove those limitations?
• If successful, what difference will it make?
• Are your data collection and data analysis methods appropriate and will they lead to publishable and fundable results?

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Last updated: June 28, 2007
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