A new Interdisciplinary Proposal Preparation Support Program provides funding for the administrative tasks of preparing interdisciplinary proposals that involve more than one principal investigator.

The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to announce the 2012 recipients of the McKnight Land-Grant Professorships. As always, the ideas and work of this year’s recipients vary widely — from integrated urban planning and mineral magnetism to interactive visual computing.

Computer science and engineering faculty member Chad Myers, center, works with graduate students Raamesh Deshpande, left, and Elizabeth Koch, right, and postdoctoral researcher Jeremy Bellay, foreground, on analyzing the yeast genetic-interaction network. As cells go, yeast is modest. You can see it under a microscope. It plays a role in many old and familiar processes, [...]

The Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment (IREE), a signature program of the Institute on the Environment (IonE), intends to release a formal Request for Proposals for new projects in late January, 2011. The following types of grants will be eligible for consideration: Large Grants, ranging from $250,000 – $750,000, up to 3 years [...]