Research Partnership Program Memo Program Announcement

MEMORANDUM

TO: Deans, Directors, Department Heads and all University of Michigan Faculty

FROM: Stephen R. Forrest and Janet A. Weiss

DATE: December 5, 2008

RE: 2009 Research Partnership Program for the Support of Scholarship, Research and Graduate Education

OVPR and the Rackham Graduate School announce with pleasure the twenty-fourth round of the Research Partnership Program, to enrich the scholarly and research environment for faculty and graduate students. Once again this year, the following opportunities will be available:

The Spring/Summer Research Grants Program will award a maximum of 40 grants to faculty members to enable them to hire doctoral students to assist with their research and scholarly projects. These grants support faculty research while also providing financial support and tasks of intellectual benefit to participating doctoral students. In addition to the 40 awards, we will award two Sokol Grants for Faculty and Graduate Student Research Projects in the Sciences as a part of this program. Additional information regarding the Spring/Summer Research Grants Program is available at www.rackham.umich.edu/1724.

The Distinguished Faculty and Graduate Student Seminars Program will provide a maximum of 5 awards to groups of faculty, students or graduate programs proposing innovative seminars and colloquia to foster collaboration and stimulate new research.

Please review the attached materials carefully to note the differing purposes of the two types of awards in order to guide your faculty and students to apply to the most appropriate program for their planned activity. Please make these application materials available to all instructional and research faculty and librarians.

Please note the application deadline for the two awards is Monday, February 2, 2009.