Where can I find out about extramural funding for research opportunities?

CHASS Funding Newsletter

Once per month, CHASS faculty will receive the CHASS Funding Newsletter. The newsletter contains important news about:

• Extramural funding on campus
• News highlights from federal, state, foundation, and private sponsors
• Acknowledgement of new awards to faculty
• Upcoming funding opportunities (deadlines usually 2 months from publication)

Funding opportunities for faculty are filtered into each newsletter based on individual’s research interest areas. Only those announcements which match a faculty member’s keywords appear in his/her newsletter. To view or modify your keywords, visit http://www.ora.ucr.edu/ORA/Newsletters/UserSignup.asp and enter your UCR email address (firstname.lastname@ucr.edu). You can view previous issues of the newsletter by visiting the newsletter archive at www.newsletterarchive.com.

The CHASS Funding Newsletter is a joint collaboration between the CHASS Dean’s Office and the Office of Research Affairs (ORA). Questions regarding the newsletter can be directed to MaryAnn Beaman, CHASS Coordinator of Extramural Funding.

Funding Search Engines

ORA Database - Funding opportunities appearing in the CHASS Funding Newsletter are housed in a searchable database maintained by ORA. Faculty can search by keyword criteria, recently posted announcements, and upcoming deadlines.

SPIN by InfoEd International is a subscription-based service provided to the campus community by ORA. SPIN allows users to filter searches based on multiple search criteria and key words. Users can save searches and have results emailed to their campus email address on a regular basis. Because the service is limited to UCR faculty, researchers, and staff, it is only available through UCR computers accessing the Internet via the campus’s IP address.

IRIS: Illinois Research Information Service is maintained by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Deadlines for upcoming opportunities are arranged by academic level and discipline. Users can also search the entire IRIS database specifying keyword criteria and have search results emailed to their UCR email account. Like SPIN, this service is only available via computers accessing the Internet via the campus’s IP address.