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 1, 2007

RE: 2008 Research Partnership Program for the Support of Scholarship, Research and Graduate Education

It is with pleasure that we announce the 23rd round of the Research Partnership Program, initiated with the aim of improving the scholarly and research environment for both faculty and graduate students. This year, the following opportunities will be available:

The Spring/Summer Research Grants Program will award a maximum of 40 grants to faculty to enable them to hire doctoral students to assist with their research and scholarly projects while providing both financial support and tasks of intellectual benefit to participating doctoral students.

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 guidelines (links above), carefully noting 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.

We would appreciate your making these application materials available to ALL instructional and primary research faculty and librarians.

Please note the application deadline for the two awards is Monday, March 10, 2008.