Intramural Programs
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The UH Hilo Research Council has established three intramural grant programs. Full time faculty or professional staff may apply for these grants, but may only apply once per year for each type of grant. In general, junior faculty are favored over senior faculty in award decisions, although the major criterion is merit. One grant program is for travel awards, which are to be awarded for travel to professional conferences where the faculty/staff member will be presenting papers and/or posters that report on their research efforts. Travel awards are for a maximum of $2400. A second intramural program is for seed money grants. These support research by faculty, for a maximum of $15,000 annually, that is expected to yield results that will help the investigator receive extramural funding for research in the future. The third intramural program is the research relations fund, which is designed to fund small grants (maximum of $5000 annually) for scholarly activity in academic fields that normally have little chance for extramural funding.
The UH Hilo Research Council may change the award programs on a yearly basis based upon funding and faculty interest, by adding or deleting programs or by changing the funding levels allocated to these programs.
You may wish to consult our page on Tips for Making Budgets when preparing an application for one of these programs.