What is the Faculty Mentoring Grant?
UROP is committed to promoting and expanding research and creative work opportunities for undergraduate students across campus. To increase undergraduate student participation in these opportunities during the summer, UROP is awarding up to $100,000 for the Faculty Mentoring Grant for Summer Undergraduate Research and Creative Work! The grant will be awarded to University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) faculty who will mentor UHM undergraduate students conducting research and creative work projects in the Summer. Grant recipients must plan to use 100% of the funds to support the students’ projects.
Application Information
The application cycle is open from February 1 and will close on March 1, 2023, 11:59 pm HST. Applicants are encouraged to review the 2023 Request for Proposals before sending in their application. Applications must be submitted via the InfoReady Platform.
UROP encourages applications from all disciplines, and is particularly interested in receiving applications from non-STEM fields and from early-career (tenure-track, non-tenured) faculty in any discipline. For questions, contact urop@hawaii.edu, or visit the FAQs page.
Faculty Eligibility
Eligible applicants include UHM faculty who meet one or more of the following requirements:
- Tenured/tenure-track
- Classified by the UHM Graduate Division as Regular or Cooperating Graduate Faculty at any level (1-3)
- Currently ineligible faculty may: (i) partner with an eligible faculty member to submit a joint proposal; the eligible member must submit the proposal, and will receive the grant funds if successful; or, (ii) complete a Faculty Mentor Eligibility Petition; the Faculty Mentor Eligibility Petition must be submitted to UROP at least two weeks prior to the submission of a Faculty Mentoring Grant proposal in order to ensure timely consideration of the Petition.
Please note that granting of faculty mentor eligibility is not guaranteed. Applicants who choose to petition for eligibility in lieu of partnering with an eligible UHM faculty member and are not ultimately granted eligibility will not be considered for the Faculty Mentoring Grant. Grant funds will not be disbursed to successful applicants until eligibility is granted.
Student Eligibility
Eligible undergraduate mentees include UHM undergraduate students who plan to graduate from UHM, but who have not graduated before the end of Summer, and who will not be concurrently funded with UROP Project Funding in the Summer (Prior recipients of UROP Project Funding must have finished all completion requirements by end of the previous Spring semester to be eligible).
Maximum funding request
Faculty across all disciplines at UHM may apply for up to $5,000 for one undergraduate student mentee or a maximum of $10,000 for two or more mentees.
Acceptable expenditures
All funds are to be used to directly support the undergraduate student’s project in the Summer.
Allowable expenditures include:
- Materials and supplies
- Travel costs for students
- Student wages
Non-allowable expenditures include:
- Faculty salary or overload
- Student tuition
- Any expenses not directly related to the student’s summer project
Fund distribution
Funds will be distributed to successful faculty applicants as a RTRF account, and faculty will have until August 31 to expend all funds.
Other Funding Sources
In addition to the Faculty Mentoring Grant, UROP also offers Student Project Funding. Refer to the Programs & Resources section for an at-a-glance comparison of UROP’s key funding opportunities.