Online Application

1. This year we will be using UW NetID authentication. If you do not have a NetID, follow the link to activate your NetID account first.

1. The Competition Announcement and Research Committee Policies contain information that should help answer most questions. If you have questions that are not answered in these documents, call Steve Schwoegler (2-8386).
2. This year we will be using UW NetID authentication. If you do not have a NetID, follow the link to activate your NetID account first.
3. Use Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later or Firefox 1.5 or later. Some of the older browsers may not communicate SSL securely with our server. DoIT (4-4357) provides technical support to get Microsoft Internet Explorer or Firefox running on your computer.
4. Use the scroll bar to see more of each page.
5. To go to the next field TAB or use the mouse. The ENTER key will usually not move to the next field. TAB moves through the fields visible on the screen.
6. To begin your application, click "Go to online Fall Research Committee Application".
7. There is no EXIT button to get out of the online application. To exit click the "Save" button if you want to save what you just changed and then exit from your browser. Our database will remember everything you have saved. To get back to your application start your browser, go to our site and sign in (NetID and Password).

1. Subsequent logons require the applicant's NetID and the Password.
2. Remember the password is case-sensitive.
3. If you forgot your NetID password, follow these instructions from DoIT Help Desk.

1. To exit the application process at any time just exit from your browser. To do this go to your browser menu and do File | Exit or File | Quit.
2. WARNING Save the section you are working on before you exit your browser. If you don't save before you exit, your latest changes will not be saved.

1. If you encounter inexplicable behavior, exit (use File | Exit ) your browser. Then restart your browser, it will solve most problems in most cases.
2. If you are using a word processor with the Smart/Curly/Pretty Quotes option to cut and paste to the Project Description, it may cause SAVE to fail or to save incorrectly. To work around this, replace all apostrophes with single quotation marks and replace all the “curly” double quotation marks with the plain double quotation marks.
3. Text may not wrap correctly on some video monitors with less than 12”display.
4. Any leading whitespace in a “numerical” field will cause SAVE to fail.
5. You can't create more than one application.  An exception to this is when you are also submitting a Multi-Disciplinary application.  See the Multidisciplinary section for details.

Fall Competition

1. For the purpose of this application Multi-disciplinary is defined as:

   "a mode of research by teams or individuals that integrates information, data, techniques, tools perspectives, concepts, and/or theories from two or more disciplines or bodies of specialized knowledge to advance fundamental understanding or to solve problems whose solutions are beyond the scope of a discipline or field of research practice."

   From: Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research (2005); The National Academies (pg. 26).
2. Multidisciplinary (MD) Team Research Proposals:[Back]
• A MD proposal is one submitted by a team representing two or more different fields.  Contact (262-1044) your Graduate School divisional Associate Dean if you have questions on MD applications.
• Only one application should be submitted to this competition for a MD Team.
• If you are submitting only a MD Team proposal this year, Register using your personal NetID and check the MD Team check box on the first page (Project Title, Principal Investigator, and Project Description) of the application.
• If you are submitting two proposals to this competition, an individual research project as well as a MD Team proposal, use your personal NetID (e.g. schwoegler) for your individual proposal (do not check the MD Team box for the individual proposal) and contact Steve Schwoegler (2-8386) for a temporary NetID (e.g. tmp-fc1) for your MD Team proposal, then check the MD Team box inside the application.
• Application limitations allow MD proposals to have only one person listed as Principal Investigator.  At the very top of the “Project Description” text box, type in the name, division and department of the other PI's involved.  If these other PI's will be requesting salary support for themselves, provide the months and percent time of appointment that is needed.
• Since the Budget page of this application can accept salary requests for only one PI, please calculate the salary request for the other PI's and enter that amount on one of the lines in the “Academic Staff” section of the Budget page (title it: “Other PI's”) so it can be included in the total request.
3. We use look up tables to bring in information from some university maintained databases. Using the NetID provided when you first registered,  some information may already be inserted for you (name, campus address, phone number, e-mail address, and the 2006-2007 salary rate and base). Please fill in blank fields and correct any information that is incorrect. Making a change to this Fall Competition application will not update the University database that provided the information. Contact your department to find out how official changes can be made.
4. The title may be up to 250 characters long or about 50 words. You can not underline or bold text.
5. The Project Abstract section should be 100 words or less.
6. We strongly suggest that you enter the Project Description section right before you SUBMIT your final application. The reason is that every time you choose (to view, edit or print) the section which includes the project description, the whole section has to be reloaded from our database. You can SAVE everything else on this page, leaving the project description blank, then come back to fill in the project description right before you print a copy for yourself and SUBMIT.
7. The Project Description should be no longer than 8,000 characters (approximately three to four double-spaced pages with 12 point Times font size). If you are concerned about the length of the project description you saved, after you SAVE go to the Print Manager to view what was saved.
8. You can not include special characters, bolding, underlining, graphics, equations or formulas in the project description. If, however, you cut/paste from WordPerfect, most accent marks can be included. If you feel your project description will not be understandable with these limitations, take a copy to your interview or work this out with your interviewer when they call to set up the appointment.
9. You can type directly into the Project Description field or copy and paste text from a word processor document. For safety's sake we recommend creating the project description in a word processor and saving it before you copy/paste.

1. If your project does not require any of these approvals, you do not need to fill in this section.
2. If your project requires human subject, animal welfare, or biological safety approvals, you must provide current status information.
3. Human subject, animal welfare, and biological safety approvals are good for one, three and three years respectively. At the time your Graduate School award is scheduled for activation (July 1, 2009), an updated approval must be provided to the Graduate School before your award can be activated.

1. Enter up to four (4) of the most relevant items under the Active Awards, Pending Applications, To Be Submitted Applications sections.
2. Also briefly explain  the results of your previous Graduate School support. If you have more entries than there is space available, bring the additional information to your interview.

1. To move to the next field TAB or mouse click. We recommend TAB if you want to immediately see the calculated results of your new entry.
2. The Principal Investigator salary should be your ending 2008-2009 UW salary rate and base (academic or annual). The Graduate School will update awards with the new rate when necessary.
3. The budget page includes sections for Fringe Benefit and Tuition Remission costs.
4. Fringe Benefits: This number is calculated for you using the amounts you enter elsewhere in the individual salary sections of the budget. A grid on the budget page will show how the Fringe Benefit amount was calculated. The grid and *TOTAL FRINGE BENEFITS amount are calculated fields. You can not make entries in this section.
5. Tuition Remission: Fiscal year 2009-2010 grants will be charged tuition at the flat rate of $4,000 per semester for each Graduate Student that has a one-third time or greater appointment during that semester. Enter how many semesters of tuition support you will need for the graduate students in your budget. The number of semesters must match the graduate student salary request. The Graduate School does not pay Tuition Remission charges that are not associated with graduate student salary payments on that account.

1. When you are contacted by a Research Committee member to set up your interview, you will be asked to send them a copy of your current Curriculum Vitae and any other documents that will help them understand your work or proposed work.

Do not send a copy of your Curriculum Vitae to the Graduate School.

1. Because of the limitation of Netscape browsers, you can't print directly from a "Form". We provide a Print Manager (located in the application, at the top of the page) to help you print what you have saved so far.
2. After clicking the appropriate section from Print Manager you will see that section on the screen.
3. You can print the full application by choosing "Print All Sections".
4. Use the printer friendly option to print a nicer copy of your application.

1. Before you submit your application, you should use the Print Manager to check for correctness on each section.
2. Click "Submit" only when you are sure you are done. After you submit you can still view or print your application but you will not be able to change it. If you SUBMIT by mistake, please contact Steve Schwoegler (2-8386).

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