Over 13,000 students applied to the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) from the National Science Foundation (NSF), but only 2,000 succeeded in receiving an award. Candace Benjamin, UT Dallas PhD student and “super scientist” in the Gassensmith Lab, shines among those winners. Candace will receive three years of financial support towards a research-based masters or …read more
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) is designed to give researchers a good look at the challenges and needs of the Department of Defense (DoD) and national security as a whole. The purpose, like the other young faculty programs, is to give researchers the opportunity to build relationships and understanding …read more
Guidelines Procedures Rebudgeting Setting up a Cost Center Cost Transfers Close-Out of a Project Funding Cost Share Budget Account to Proposal Crosswalk Research Assistant vs. Participant Cost vs Subject Payments
Pre-Award Administration Budget Negotiations Preliminary budget negotiations are often conducted between the Principal Investigator and the technical contact for the sponsor in order to determine an appropriate level of funding for the program proposed by the Investigator. Such preliminary discussions are encouraged. The Principal Investigator should contact OSP for established rates for fringe benefits, facilities, …read more
Term Acronym Definition A A-110 Uniform administrative requirements for grants agreements, a circular published by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB), that sets forth standards for obtaining consistency and uniformity among federal agencies in the administration of grants to and agreements with institutions of higher education, hospitals and other non-profit organizations. Replaced …read more
NIH awarded Dr. Benedict J Kolber with $2,631,263 for his project on the Impact of Amygdala Lateralization on Processing and Modulation of Bladder Pain.
A one-of-a-kind Energy Storage Systems Campus (ESSC), led by the University of Texas at Dallas, is assisting with reshoring lithium-ion battery manufacturing and driving advances in battery chemistry, prototype production, and workforce development. Read more about this exciting endeavor here. UT Dallas will develop and commercialize new technologies and manufacturing processes, make raw materials more …read more
The UT Dallas AHT/STEM Collaboration Grant is an internal funding mechanism designed to stimulate interdisciplinary research collaborations between AHT and STEM faculty. Principal investigators (PIs) who accept a UT Dallas AHT/STEM Collaboration Grant commit to the pursuit of external funding for the collaborative effort within 12 months of receiving the AHT/STEM Collaboration Grant funding. Activities …read more
Overview The UT Dallas and Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) Seed Projects for Research INnovation and Technology (SPRINT) Grant is offered to enhance greater scientific and engineering collaboration between the two institutions with the expectation that the teams will jointly respond to future external funding opportunities. This program provides opportunities for researchers to work together in …read more
The GrapheneTX agency awarded Dr. Dong Qian $555,579 for his research on SBIR: Development of Data-driven Digital-twin Software DD-Cure for Carbon Fiber Composite Curing. This project intends to establish physics-based data-driven tools for process modeling of composite curing. Research tasks will include calibrating the process model’s parameters using the results of experiments, creating a machine learning model …read more
