WORKSHOP SUPPORT
Award Cycle: Quarterly
Limit on Proposals per PI: An individual may participate as PI on one Research Workshop (RW) proposal per cycle.
Limit on Awards per PI: An individual may not have more than two active RW awards at a given time.
Proposal Due Dates: First University of Arizona business Wednesday of July, October, January, and April
Earliest Start Date: Three weeks after quarterly due date
Award Period: Nine months from award date
Applications: Accepted through Arizona Cultivate
Description: RII supports workshops that bring experts together to discuss recent research or education findings in order to support the long-term planning of interdisciplinary, team science programs. Ultimately, these workshops should enable the future submission of a high-quality and relevant research proposal to an external sponsor. RII is particularly interested in funding workshops to further the UArizona’s Strategic Plan.
Shared support by partner institutions is encouraged. A workshop proposal should generally be submitted at six months in advance of the scheduled date. Workshops must be accessible and welcoming to diverse audiences (see the UArizona DRC event planning guidance).
Applicants may request up to $15,000 in support of a workshop held in Tucson.
Special Priority: Applicants should consider how and whether they can support cross-campus and partner engagement on the following topics: PFAS, Environment & Health, AI for the Humanities (including ethical use for language preservation), Microplastics. Each of these topics has the opportunity to incorporate physical scientists, engineers, social scientists, natural scientists, humanists, arts scholars, and more. Consider building an interdisciplinary team to apply.
Proposal preparation, submission, and processing information is available in the RII Proposal Preparation Guide (PPG) v10, which is downloadable within the Arizona Cultivate competition. The PPG includes requirements for the project narrative and supplemental documents; it is strongly encouraged that interested applicants read the PPG in full as proposals that do not match the PPG will be returned without review.
Solicitation Specific Requirements:
Proposal Preparation:
- Narrative: the two-page narrative should include statements on the need for such a workshop and the list of topics to be discussed, the overall impact of the workshop, the societal impact of the workshop, significance or intellectual merit of the workshop, and the potential return on investment. In addition, the narrative should include why UA is well positioned to be a leader in the proposed area as well as an analysis of recent workshops or events at other institutions.
- Supplemental Documents:
- No more than one-page table including the names and organizational affiliations of the organizing committee and invited participants.
- No more than one-page on how the meeting will be organized (including a draft agenda)
Please note there is a new budget approval process that utilizes an applicant driven routing step after submission. Applicants will input the email address of their business officer or award/research administrator when prompted at the end of the application prior to submission. The email address should be for the person who has authority to create, review, and approve the budget. The system will send a link for approval via the email listed to the business officer or award/research administrator where they may confirm they reviewed and approved the submitted budget. This approval step is required before an application is accepted for compliance checks and formal review. The deadline for business officer or award/research administrator is 5pm on the day after the quarterly competition deadline, so it is recommended to communicate with this individual about your budget and this process in advance.
Questions: resdev@arizona.edu
Updated: January 22, 2025
AWARDEES
2023-2024
- Michler Jeffrey, CALS, AREC, Building Capacity for Conducting Geospatial Impact Evaluations
- Zhu Haining, College of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Support for the 3rd International Research Conference on Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Schilke Oliver, Eller College of Management, Management and Organizations, Workshop on "Trust and Networks"
- Weinstein Beth, CAPLA, School of Architecture, First US Symposium on Remembering Spaces of Internment
- Grandner Michael, Medicine, Psychiatry, Arizona Sleep and Circadian Research
- Schmidt Nicole, N/A, UCATT, Universal Design in Research
- Ellerman Brian, RII, FORGE, Fostering Entrepreneurial Empowerment in Underserved and Underrepresented Communities Workshop
- Carroll Stephanie, Public Health, Community, Environment and Policy, Building Action and Power: Tribal Leaders and Scholars Workshop
- Slinski Stephanie, ALVSCE (Division only), Yuma Center of Excellence for Desert Agriculture, Desert Ag Soil Health Initiative Knowledge Mapping Workshop
- Block Geoffrey, Medicine, Boyer Liver Institute, Current Topics on Fatty Liver Disease: An Opportunity for Innovation on Diagnostics and Treatment
- Mutlu Zafer, CE, MSE, Interdisciplinary Meeting for Planning, Advancing Collaboration, and Teamwork for Semiconductors (IMPACTS)
- Emms Julie, College of Law, Center for Quantum Networks, Quantum Information Privacy and Security (QIPS) Forum
- Bean Jonathan, CAPLA, Architecture, Planning the 2025 Symposium on Building-Energy Research (SymBER)
- Schrenk Lisa, CAPLA, Architecture, Best Practices in International Expositions Workshop
- Roveda Janet, College of Engineering, College of Public Health, College of Nursing and CALS and School of Plant, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, Improving the Quality of Home Health Care and Wellbeing with Interoperable Medical Devices for Bioconvergence
- Guo Bo, College of Science, Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Application for support to organize and host the 25th Computational Methods in Water Resources (CMWR) Conference at The University of Arizona
- Josephson Anna, College of Agriculture, Life, and Environmental Science, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Equitable Agriculture and Environmental Management Workshop
2022-2023
- Mona Arora, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Community Environment & Policy, COVID, Climate Change, and Preparedness: Lessons Learned Workshop
- Jennifer Carlson, Social & Behavioral Sciences, Sociology, BRIDGS Strategy Workshop
- Sharon Collinge, Arizona Institute for Resilience, Cultural transformation in the geoscience community: Building capacity for Indigenous students, scholars, and communities toward environmental and societal resilience
- Julie Emms, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Center for Quantum Networks, Arizona Quantum Initiative Inaugural Workshop
- Harris Kornstein, Humanities, Public & Applied Humanities, Queer Play: Politics, Pedagogies, Praxis
- Shu Fen Wung, Nursing, Biobehavioral Health Science Division , Government-Industry-University Partnerships to Advance Digital Health Systems, Bioconvergence and Health Equity (UA DC Center)
- Alicia Allen, College of Medicine – Tucson, Family & Community Medicine, Identifying Priorities for Advancing Research at The University of Arizona on Female Biology and Creation of Scientific Hub for Empowering Research on female health Advancement (SHERA)
- Daniel Martinez, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Sociology & Mexican American Studies, Working Group Meeting for Mapping Migrant Deaths along US Southwest Border
- Melanie McKay-Cody, Education, Disability, Psychoeducational Studies, North American Indian Sign Language Conference
2021-2022
- Jonathan Bean, Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture, Architecture, DC Workshop: Transforming Buildings & Energy
- Brian Ellerman, Arizona FORGE, Building the Southern Arizona Coalition for Climate Adaptation and Resilience Workshop Series
- Andrea Gerlak, Udall Center, The Art and Science of Geospatial Tools in Environmental Engagement: Convening an Agency Dialogue
- Lisa Schrenk, Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture, Architecture, The Creation of an Institute for the Study of International Expositions
2020-2021
- No competitions