A fund has been created by Duke, NCSU, RTI, and UNC-Chapel Hill, which will provide small grants for activities that will promote greater dialog among researchers at the four participating institutions. The broader aim is to enhance collaborative work.
To enhance scientific collaboration, small grants (less than $20Keach) will be made available for activities that bring together researchers from at least three of the four institutions (one of which must be RTI) together. These collaborations should ultimately lead to joint proposal development for external funding. Some examples of areas of common research interest include energy, global health, biomarker research, and global climate change. Examples of the type of activities that may be funded include:
Questions and suggestions should be directed to the following: Duke (Jim Siedow), NCSU (John Gilligan), UNC-Chapel Hill (Tony Waldrop), and RTI (Wayne Holden, Bert Maggart, or Satinder Sethi). Request for funds can be sent to Satinder Sethi at RTI, with a clear explanation of the proposed activity and its likely impact, along with a budget and justification for the amount being requested. Funding decisions will be a made by a committee with representatives from each institution, which will meet approximately every six-eight weeks.
Signed by all four institutions