Vice Chancellor for Research Sandra Brown and CSE Prof. Larry Smarr in his capacity as director of UC San Diego's Integrated Digital Infrastructure (IDI) initiative have set a deadline of June 15 for faculty seeking support of two kinds: funding for transformational projects, and funding for digital research platforms.
The projects getting the green light will start receiving support in September. The one-year projects will fund work with campus IT providers (including ACMS, ACT, Qualcomm Institute, The Library and SDSC) that is consistent with the university's strategic plan. Specifically, IDI is supposed to develop and promote "the use of novel digital, computing and/or networking technologies." Faculty are considered early adopters of technologies that will allow them to explore the application of new digital methodologies in research and education.
The 'transformational' grants will range from $1,000 to $75,000, to enhance research in a single lab or teaching a specific class or set of classes. The Digital Research Platform grants range from $50,000 to $300,000 and must serve the needs of multiple faculty members, research staff and students. The larger grants are intended to create distributed but unified environments for advanced research in order to make UCSD researchers more competitive for external funding from NSF, NIH and other agencies.
Who is eligible to submit a proposal? Any academic who is eligible to serve as a Principal Investigator on an extramural award may request a grant. However, only personnel with instructional responsibilities are eligible to submit a request for an instruction-related project.