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APPLICATIONS OPEN: | November 1, 2023 |
APPLICATION DEADLINE: | February 5, 2024 |
AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT: | March 29, 2024 |
AWARD CYCLE: | June 1, 2024 - May 31, 2025 |
Research Infrastructure Announcement of Opportunity
Multi-institutional Awards: up to $15,000**
Major Awards: up to $10,000
Minor Award: up to $5,000
Faculty members in the first five years of their first tenure-track appointment and a full-time faculty member at a WSGC affiliate university or college should apply to the Early-Stage Investigator (ESI) funding program. WSGC will award one ESI applicant up to $10,000. The remaining applicants will be considered for the Research Infrastructure Program award.
*Based on availability of funds.
**Projects demonstrating collaboration between two- and four-year campuses or multiple four-year campuses will be eligible for the multi-institutional award.
The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium (WSGC) Research Infrastructure Program is designed to provide support to faculty and research staff from the WSGC universities and colleges seeking to initiate a new or continue a current research program, as well as from the WSGC industrial affiliates to establish a STEM-related research program. The awards provide faculty and research staff support for a variety of activities related to supporting NASA Mission Directorates.
meet at least two or more of the following:
Successful proposals will combine a robust, relevant research project with a plan that fully integrates students into meaningful, high-caliber, significant research experiences from 10 weeks to a full or academic year, culminating in a presentation. Awards will be based on the proposal topic, quality, credentials of the investigator(s), the probability of success in developing space-related research infrastructure, and specific plans on how this seed funding will help to build this research program.
Periods of performance must begin/end between July 1, 2024 - May 31, 2025.
Submit a proposal addressing each of the six elements listed below. Be sure to clearly identify each element within the proposal. Applicants will be asked to upload the proposal at the bottom of the application. It should not exceed 15 pages, including figures (see the Announcement of Opportunity for more details.
As part of the award acceptance, awardees will present their project at the Annual Wisconsin Space Conference as outlined in the award agreement and submit the following documents on the WSGC application website under Program Applications/Your Applications:
Please direct questions about the Research Infrastructure Program to:
Jeffrey Clark, Ph.D.
Associate Director for Research Infrastructure
Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium
Professor of Geosciences and Special Assistant to the President, Lawrence University
Phone: 920-832-6733
E-mail: [email protected]
Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium
Carthage College
2001 Alford Park Drive
Kenosha, WI 53140
Phone: 262-551-6054
E-mail: [email protected]