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Funding Tips

• One Stop Searching for Internal Funding at Carolina Now Available
• Customize Your COS Funding Alert Service
• Finding Funding for Minority Graduate Students
• Register for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Email Alerts

Funding Tips

One Stop Searching for Internal Funding at Carolina Now Available
Looking for internal sources of funding at Carolina? A new web-based database of internal funding opportunities will make your search easier. Developed by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, this searchable central database provides access to information about University-administered sources of funding for Carolina faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars, and students. You can find funding opportunities for research, travel, awards, prizes, fellowships and other scholarly or professional activities.

The Carolina Internal Funding Opportunities Database also provides an excellent way to publicize to the UNC-Chapel Hill campus community any funding opportunities administered by your department, office, center, or institute. We encourage all campus units to participate in the database by entering all funding opportunities that you provide. With your help, the internal funding database will become a one-stop searching place for internal funding at the University.

How can you participate? Please designate a contact person to be responsible for inputting your funding information and have them contact us right away. To request access to begin adding your internal funding opportunities to the database, send an email, including contact’s name, department, email, and phone number, to gs@unc.edu.

If you have any questions, please contact the GrantSource Library at 962-3463. We look forward to helping you publicize your funding opportunities throughout the University.

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Customize Your COS Funding Alert Service
The Community of Science (COS) funding alert service notifies Carolina faculty members and research staff about funding opportunities from federal and private agencies. The funding alert can be customized to run specific searches—like having your own electronic "librarian.”

Many UNC-Chapel Hill faculty members have not updated their COS search profiles to reflect their new research interests. To ensure that your COS funding alert is providing the most relevant results, please take a few moments to login and update your expertise profile. Then go to the “Access Your Funding Alerts” section to modify or add funding alerts with keywords that describe your new research areas or departmental program needs.

New faculty or research staff members who wish to register for COS funding alerts first need to register with COS, go to “Join” to activate an account, and then to “Add an Alert” to start getting your own email funding alerts.

If you’re interested in learning how to customize this service to your particular interests, the GrantSource Library staff will be happy to work with you in your office. Please contact the GrantSource Library at 962-3463; email, gs@unc.edu. Online help is available.

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Finding Funding for Minority Graduate Students
Minority graduate and professional students in all disciplines are invited to attend the GrantSource Library’s "Finding Funding Basics" workshop about the process of obtaining funding for graduate research and study. Library staff will provide instruction in the best use of on-line resources and databases, an introduction to the process of finding funding, and tips for conducting a funding search.

The workshop will be held Friday, November 7,2003, in room 2518 of the Carolina Student Union from 4:30-5:30 p.m.

This workshop is part of the Graduate School's monthly networking events entitled "Diversity Days," which are designed to promote and celebrate Carolina's diverse graduate and professional student population.

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Register for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Email Alerts
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides grantmaking for research on health care accessibility, chronic diseases, health behavior, and substance abuse. Register now to receive updates on Foundation activities, notices of newly posted funding opportunities in your areas of interest, notices of new content posted within selected program areas, and monthly updates on major program areas.

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