- Tips
- Work closely with your faculty mentor
- Provide advanced notice for your faculty mentor (e.g., minimum two weeks advanced notice when requesting for application review and Project Mentor Form submission)
- Thoroughly review the UROP application guidelines in full (even if you are a repeat applicant or have a group member who is)
- Utilize resources provided by UROP, including sample budget tables, rubrics, etc.
- Plan ahead and work on training/research compliance as early as possible (earlier than you might imagine)
- Attend an Information Session
- Email urop@hawaii.edu with any questions
- Review the Funding Recipient and the Completion sections to learn about what happens if applicants are accepted for funding
- Common mistakes that disqualify an application in the preliminary review stage include:
- Going over the word count limit
- Graduating in the application semester
- Proposing to conduct all or most of the research/creative work in the application semester (i.e. timeline must consist of at least one semester or summer following the application semester)
- Requesting for more funding than the allowed amount
- Group applicants omitting individual budgets
- Common mistakes that may not disqualify an application but could reduce chances of getting funding
- Providing insufficient justification for a budget item
- Not itemizing each item in the Budget Table (each budget line should consist of one item or one line item in a receipt)
- Omitting a Stipend Table (when requesting for a stipend)
- Omitting a Summary Table
- Providing a Budget Table that does not fit within a Word document with 1-inch margins all around
- Miscalculating the total budget amount.
- Providing inconsistent budget calculations across the Project Funding Application, Applicant Information Form, Budget Table, and Summary Table
- No or inadequate clarification of stipend overlap, if any
- Providing insufficient details/not fully answering a question (e.g., training/research compliance, previous application history, etc.)
