Dear Colleagues,
The Keck Foundation offers a set of funding opportunities for which UMBC may only submit a limited number of applications. As a lead institution, we may submit up to four concept papers (one page each) in each of two research areas (eight slots in all). The two categories are:
- Science and Engineering
- Medical Research
If you would like to be considered for one of UMBC's slots, please email your one-page concept paper to limited-submission@umbc.edu by Monday, January 15th. We are glad to provide feedback on preliminary drafts sent to the same email address by January 8th. Please make it clear which of the two categories is more relevant for your proposal.
You can read more about allowable costs and the program's priorities here. Note that the program's priorities are:
- Focus on important and emerging areas of research
- Have the potential to develop breakthrough technologies, instrumentation or methodologies
- Are innovative, distinctive and interdisciplinary
- Demonstrate a high level of risk due to unconventional approaches, or by challenging the prevailing paradigm
- Have the potential for transformative impact, such as the founding of a new field of research, the enabling of observations not previously possible, or the altered perception of a previously intractable problem
- Does not focus on clinical or translational research, treatment trials or research for the sole purpose of drug development
- Fall outside the mission of public funding agencies
- Demonstrate that private philanthropy generally, and the W. M. Keck Foundation in particular, is essential to the project’s success
Again, please submit your one-page concept papers to limited-submission@umbc.edu by Thursday, January 15th if you wish to be considered for one of UMBC's slots and by January 8th if you would like some preliminary feedback before the January 15th deadline.
Sincerely,
—
Don Engel, Ph.D., PMP
Assistant Vice President for Research
Affiliate Assistant Professor of Physics
Affiliate Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle, ITE 220
Baltimore, Maryland 21250
donengel@umbc.edu, 410-455-2837