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V.1.d. Seed Funding
A variety of seed grant and small grant programs are operated by the Office of Research and Economic
Development, some in cooperation with the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic
Affairs. UNT plans to continue these programs during the timeframe of the current strategic plan for
research.
The Research Initiation Grant (RIG) is intended to stimulate and aid (1) faculty members at the beginning
of their academic careers or (2) faculty members seeking to rekindle their research efforts by undertaking
research projects that will establish or reestablish their involvement and expertise in a given area of inquiry or
activity. The Research Opportunities Program (ROP) provides assistance to university research and
scholarly activities that show a high potential for attracting and maintaining support from external funding
agencies. The Research Enabling Grant (REG) enables faculty members to carry out high quality research
and scholarly activities in areas for which external funds are demonstrated to be unavailable. RIG, ROP, and
REG awards are limited to $7,500 budgets for one year or less; competitions are held annually.
The Research and Creativity Enhancement (RCE) award supports selected tenured faculty in the liberal arts
and fine arts to enhance their research, scholarly, and/or creative endeavors. To compete for the annual
award of up to one-month's summer salary and $3,000 travel/project expenses, an applicants must be a full-
time, tenured faculty member with the rank of Associate Professor or Professor whose scholarly discipline is
in the arts or humanities.
The Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship provides $5,000 in summer salary support for selected
faculty early in their academic careers to enable them to concentrate on research activities during summer
months. This annual competition is open only to junior faculty.
Small Grant awards ($1,000 or less) allow researchers to meet unexpected research costs that arise during
the academic year, and that are not viable as ROP, RIG, or REG submissions. Pursuit of Extramural
Support Travel (PEST) awards assist researchers with travel to funding agencies and provides funds to bring
program officers or other funding agency personnel to UNT. Applications for Small Grants and PEST
awards are accepted year-round.
In the past two years, the Office of Research and Economic Development has sponsored periodic
competitions for supporting needed research infrastructure such as equipment, space renovation, and other
re-useable research resources. The need for additional infrastructure competitions will be monitored, based
on the types of grant awards obtained and equipment shortfalls noted by researchers, chairs, and deans. If
needed, additional infrastructure competitions will be held.
Investigators occasionally have research-related funding needs as cost-sharing for an external grant proposal,
or funding needs that are not associated with a grant proposal and do not fall within one of the normal internal
funding mechanisms described above. The Office of Research and Economic Development has an explicit
procedure for faculty researchers to request such funds in partnership with their chair and dean, and plans to
support as many viable requests as resources will allow.39
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