Introduction

Research Board provides support for individual or group research projects. This support is intended to:

• Help promising new faculty initiate their research on this campus
• Provide seed money for research in new directions
  
• Provide support for preliminary studies to improve the potential for attracting external research support
  
• Provide modest resources for important research in fields for which external support is either quite limited or unavailable
  
• Provide matching funds sometimes required by external sponsors.

The board expects to augment the resources available from campus units and external sponsors. It also serves as a vehicle for institutional support in fields such as the humanities where such research support is otherwise quite limited.

The Research Board does not serve as a source of continuing support for specific research activities or research facilities.

Please Note: ONLY applications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are eligible for consideration.

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Important Notice!
"Effective October 1, 2003, all Campus Research Board (CRB) and Scholars’Travel Fund (STF) applications that include requests for travel to locations for which travel warnings and/or mandatory evacuation orders have been issued by the U.S. Department of State and/or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must include prior approval of the proposed travel from the Office of the Provost, as outlined in the Campus Administrative Manual (http://www.admin.uiuc.edu/cam/CAM/ix/ix-a/ix-a-26.html), before any funding allocation will be made. Absolutely no reimbursements will be made for travel to these locations prior to receiving this approval from the Office of the Provost or for travel expenses of any type for trips that are subsequently declined."

Questions concerning this program may be directed to the Executive Secretary of the Research Board at 333-0030 or by e-mail at reschbd@uiuc.edu.