The Council encourages the use of URC grants as a stepping stone to extramural support. A special new allocation of funds in the research grant category is available to support basic research in the social and behavioral sciences that has the potential to inform understanding of cancer prevention and control. Publication grants help pay the costs of publishing scientific, scholarly or artistic work. They may be used to pay for such things as photographs, drawings, figures or tables, or permissions to reprint. A faculty member may submit only one URC proposal each semester-either research or publication.
Preference is given to less senior applicants only for the purpose of breaking ties.
Proposals are reviewed twice a year, in fall and spring. Faculty members are sent an announcement in advance of each deadline. All full time members of the research faculty at UNC-CH are eligible to apply for support as well as other full time staff routinely engaged as principal investigators on scholarly or scientific research, such as librarians or curators. This program does not support travel to scholarly or scientific meetings and priority will be given to those who have not received support during the past twelve months. Small grants may be made to cover supplementary expenses involved in adding sponsor visits to travel already scheduled for other purposes.