VCU Presidential Research Incentive Program Announces New Awards

The Virginia Commonwealth University Presidential Research Incentive Program, or PRIP, has announced its third round of internal funding awards totaling more than $299,000 to supplement the nearly $220,000 provided by the units to support faculty engaged in new, emerging or continuing research.

In this round of funding, 13 awards involving 23 faculty members received funding, supporting projects across the institution from medicine, allied health, arts, education, engineering, social work, dentistry, nursing, business, pharmacy and the College of Humanities and Sciences.

Once again, this unique program has brought together investigators interested in common research paths from across schools and within departments to share expertise and knowledge.

Faculty grants were awarded based on a two-step review process involving the schools and the VCU Research Development Advisory Council. The first stage was a school level review, in which each school received applications from its faculty and established a rigorous review process that used the PRIP Review Committee (PRC) selection criteria, which centered on the scholarly merit of the project, the potential for extramural funding leading from this project and the contribution of the project to the scholarly trajectory/line of inquiry of the investigator. Each school forwarded to the PRC those applications receiving the highest ratings at the unit level and for which there was a funding commitment from the dean or relevant department chair.

PRIP dollars provide 60 percent of the award and the faculty member’s department and/or school provided 40 percent. The funding period is 18 months.

For more information on the program: http://www.research.vcu.edu/vpr/prip/.

For the complete list of awardees, visit http://www.news.vcu.edu/pdf/PRIP_Spring 2011Awardees_FINAL.pdf.