Funding Opportunity: CSUPERB 2021 Graduate Student Research Restart Program

Deadlines: 

• Summer 2021 proposals: Monday, May 10, 2021 
•  2021/22 Academic Year proposals: Monday, June 7, 2021

Maximum Amount:  $7,000

Award Notification: Within 30 days of submission

Project Duration: Summer 2021 – Spring 2022

The California State University Program for Education and Research in Biotechnology (CSUPERB) aims to assist graduate student researchers across the California State University (CSU) system as they restart, reinitiate and re-engage in existing and established research activities after campus laboratory closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Graduate Student Research Restart Program will be open to both master’s and doctorate level graduate students and provide one-time funding for Summer 2021 and/or the 2021-22 Academic Year. This program will not fund research activities started after campus COVID-19 closures and research not impacted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Students may perform the research over Summer 2021 or stretch it out over the following fall and spring semesters of the 2021-22 Academic Year.

Eligibility:

• The research projects must be biotechnology-related. CSUPERB defines biotechnology as a fusion of biology and technology. CSUPERB welcomes and encourages applications from CSU student-faculty teams in all disciplines related to the current practice of 2021 Graduate Student Research Restart Program RFP 2 of 4 biotechnology, including but not limited to life sciences, physical sciences, clinical sciences, math,computer science, agricultural science, engineering, and/or business.

•  The Graduate Student Research Restart Program is open to CSU master’s doctorate level students in good standing. Eligible students will have suffered a disruption in their CSU based research projects as a direct result of the halting of research activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• An eligible student must plan to remain at his or her CSU campus for the duration of the proposed project.

• Projects must represent research that was on-going at the time of the COVID-19 disruption. New research activities cannot be supported with these funds.

•  Student applicants applying for the entire $5000-worth of the student scholarship must demonstrate a full-time commitment for Summer 2021 or an equivalent commitment if the student will perform the research across the 2021-22 Academic Year. CSUPERB defines a summer full-time commitment as working 30 – 40 hours a week for approximately 13 weeks.

How to Apply: The complete proposal package, including a signed cover sheet, must be submitted electronically on the 2021 Graduate Student Research Restart Program proposal template using CSUPERB's CSYou system (use “Apply” link  HERE). Faculty mentors should submit the complete proposal, in either Microsoft WORD or Adobe PDF format using CSUPERB's CSYou electronic submission system. Only faculty mentors can login to the CSYou system using their campus-issued ID/username and password.

If you have questions about the CSUPERB 2021 Graduate Student Research Restart Program, your eligibility, the application, or the selection process, contact R. Christine Montgomery at rmongomery@sdsu.edu or Bianca R Mothé at bmonthe@sdsu.edu