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Funding Tips

• Sun Microsystems Collaborative Research Program
• Join Research Support Listserv
• Customized Departmental Funding Workshop
• New to UNC-Chapel Hill? Move Your COS Faculty Expertise Profile Too

Funding Tips

Sun Microsystems Collaborative Research Program
Sun Microsystems is interested in starting communication between UNC-Chapel Hill researchers and Sun engineers to explore areas of joint interest in internet/intranet technology, wireless activity, services (N1 and SunOne), and other appropriate technologies in hardware and software. Through Sun’s Collaborative Research program, Sun engineers hope to establish long-term relationships with Carolina faculty to collaborate on research and technology projects. Sun is interested in ideas and technologies that will have commercial importance in two to five years and will help provide direction to Sun engineering and product groups.

Funding is available in the range of $40,000-50,000 for student programs and up to $100,000-150,000 for faculty research projects. Multi-year projects are preferred, but year-to-year projects and renewals are possible. Use of Sun Microsystems products is not a requirement. Deliverables such as papers or presentations will be required (no products).

For more information about the Collaborative Research program, with examples of some active collaborations, refer to this web site. You may also want to look at other programs in Sun’s Strategic Programs portfolio, designed to create business partnerships with higher education and K-12 institutions. These include Sun Academic Excellence grants, Centers of Excellence, EduSoft, Cisco Networking Academy, and others. For more information, click here.

Please submit a one-screen abstract with a statement of your project goals for the next year or two to the contact below. Quick turnaround on responses will be provided.

Contact: Emil Sarpa, Ph.D., Director of Corporate External Research, Sun Microsystems
Email: emil.sarpa@sun.com
Phone: 650-786-3088
fax: 650-786-3451

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Join Research Support Listserv
All Carolina faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and research administrators are invited to join the Research Support email list. You will receive brief messages twice a month to announce new issues of and updates to Research Support, the online newsletter for sponsored research news, funding tips and opportunities, and timely information from all of the offices supporting research at Carolina.

When you go to the listserv web page, choose "Join research_support," then enter your information into the table. Click on the "Save" button and your email address will be added to the list.

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Customized Departmental Funding Workshop
Whether you are a departmental administrator or individual faculty member, the GrantSource Library would like to come to your department or center to present a customized workshop for your faculty and staff on obtaining funding for your department’s research, training, and program needs. The GrantSource Librarian will demonstrate some online resources that faculty and staff can use to identify funding sources in your discipline. You will also learn how to set up a Community of Science Funding Alert, an electronic customized precision search for targeted grant information. Other topics will include tips for conducting a funding search and an overview of resources available to researchers through the GrantSource Library. Please contact the Library at 962-3463 or gs@unc.edu to schedule a workshop or seminar.

For a schedule of workshops at the Center for Development and Learning, Odum Institute for Research in Social Sciences, Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, and others, click here.

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New to UNC-Chapel Hill? Move Your COS Faculty Expertise Profile Too
If you are a new faculty member or researcher who came from another Community of Science member university, you can quickly transfer your existing expertise profile to UNC’s COS faculty expertise database. All you need to do is add a “present position” indicating your new appointment and update your previous appointment to include the date that it ended. Once the position changes have been saved, your profile will display your new affiliation to this university. Welcome to Carolina!

If you need assistance in updating your Faculty Expertise Profile, please contact the GrantSource Library for an individual consultation or plan to attend one of our many workshops.

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