• Research Board
  • About Research Board
    • Purpose
    • Letter from the Chair
    • History
    • Research Board Members
  • General Guidelines
    • Types of Support
    • Special Opportunity
    • Publication Subventions
    • Eligibility
  • Application Deadlines
  • Application Process
    • Application Instructions
    • Application Submission
  • Proposal Review and Board Action
  • Administration of Awards
    • Budget Revisions
    • Grant Extensions
    • Report and Acknowledgement
  • Summarized Data
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Eligibility Guidelines

Applications must be initiated by faculty to fill a specific need for support. Each proposal must have a primary applicant (or principal investigator) responsible for conducting the project and submitting a final report. Collaborative projects may have one or more co-applicants.

Tenured or tenure-track faculty members are eligible to apply as primary applicants. Ranked, non-tenure-track faculty whose eligibility has been approved previously by the board may also apply. Non-tenure track faculty may serve as co-applicants. In exceptional cases that present advantages for the university, emeritus faculty may be considered for support. Non-tenure track research faculty may apply for eligibility at the next meeting of the Research Board. For a full description of the eligibility and application requirements, please see the NTT Eligibility Application Form. 

Only one proposal from a primary applicant will be considered in any review cycle. If an applicant is a co-applicant on a different proposal in the same review cycle, the Board will take into account the multiplicity of requests to fund the same applicant and this may have a negative effect in the review process. 

Revised Proposals:  Proposals revised in response to a previous review will be considered, but repeated submission of the same proposal is discouraged. The maximum number of resubmissions of the same project is limited to two over a five year time period. Revised applications judged to have little or no change may not be sent out for peer review.

Primary applicants who have received a research board award may apply again no sooner than one year from the official end date of the most recent individual/collaborative award (except those that support meetings and special opportunity projects). In reports accompanying subsequent applications, primary applicants who have been funded must demonstrate explicitly the impact of previous support on their scholarship and grant seeking activity.