Applications Open for OVPR Competitive Awards

11/21/2024

The Office of the Vice President for Research has several project-based, annual internal award programs open for application. All three have a deadline of Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. 

These competitive awards are for full-time SLU faculty foster research and scholarly activities, develop research that is competitive for external support, and promote the growth and excellence of SLU as a research institution.

The President’s Research Fund has two programs, one for medical school faculty and one for projects in STEM disciplines. Both support promising projects with strong potential to attract external funding. These funds have been available since 2009 to support research and scholarly activity. PRF awards support data collection or other pilot activities that the awardee will use as the basis for extramural grant or contract applications. The PRF funds can be used for seed funding for a project, bridge funding, or development of a new collaboration or area of research. 

The Beaumont Scholarship Research Award is intended to encourage faculty researchers working in the arts, humanities, and social sciences to further and complete scholarly research projects and to conceptualize and prepare for applications for external funding.

The Health Research Grant Program is intended to encourage individuals or collaborative groups of interdisciplinary researchers across two or more academic units with projects in the health sciences to advance their research and conceptualize a larger future grant application for external funding. New working relationships are encouraged. Applications for pilot projects should include a tentative plan for a future structured grant and clearly describe how the seed money will support the future grant application.

The application deadline for all of the programs listed above is Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, at 5 p.m. 
 
More information about these and other internal funding programs can be found online.