Graduate Research Grants

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

McGEE and LEVORSEN RESEARCH GRANTS IN
EARTH SCIENCES

FOR 2012

This is the annual call for proposals for funds to support graduate student research. This Call for Proposals is funded by several sources within the School that support graduate student research. 

Who may submit: These funds will be used to support graduate
student research and will be directed to graduate students who are engaged in
research to meet the requirements of a Ph.D. or MS/Ph.D. (where the MS is
intended to continue directly to a Ph.D.). 

Allowable Expenses:  Research supplies, research travel expenses, field expenses, or other special project costs.

Unallowable Expenses:  Computer hardware, travel costs or fees associated with attending non-Stanford courses or workshops. These research grants are considered a form of financial
aid. 

Previous award:  There is a two-time limit on these awards, as well as a lifetime limit of $6,000. If
you have had previous funding from this program, please add no more than one
page of explanation of results of that project, how budgeted funds were spent,
and how the current proposal relates to it.

Award amounts:  No individual grants will exceed $4,000; because of the demand, most may be
smaller.  These research grants are considered a form of financial aid.  Payments will be disbursed as student aid in the form of a stipend check and may be tax-reportable at year-end.  For this reason, recipients are encouraged to keep all receipts of their expenses.  Students studying in the U.S. on visas are reminded to take international taxes into consideration when constructing their budgets. 

Students applying for grants to support international travel are required to attend one of the school's International and Field Research Workshops on the afternoons of either April 26 or May 2.  Details about these workshops will be announced separately. 

Form and length of proposal: Proposals should be limited to no more than five double-spaced pages;
the inclusion of lengthy appendices is discouraged. The proposals should
include: 

(1) an abstract;

(2) a narrative that includes the following points:

(a) a definition of the research question;

(b) the importance and relation to past or ongoing research;

(c) a work plan;

(d) the expected results and expectations for future funding; and

(3) a budget.

The faculty member who has agreed to serve as research advisor will be contacted online with a request to approve your proposal. 

For questions, please contact Roni Holeton, Asst. Dean, roni@stanford.edu.

Selection process: 
Reviewers are Associate Dean Steve Graham and Assistant Dean Roni
Holeton.  Proposals will be considered competitively. Students should view this as an opportunity to
develop new and exciting research ideas, and to present these ideas in a
concise and convincing proposal. Requests to extend or to supplement support
from ongoing, funded projects will be given lower priority. Such proposals must
present a strong case for the importance of continued support for the student’s
research, as well as for the scientific significance of the project.

Notification:  Funding decisions will be announced the week of May 21, 2012. 

Please note that you cannot pause and then return to the application once you start it.  So, be sure you have your proposal and information ready to go ahead of time.

 

Click the following link to submit your application:

http://pangea.stanford.edu/pages/research/applications/mlrp/