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Welcome to the Grants Development Office website. The office is here to help UMM faculty and staff with both pre- and post-award grant activities. Click here to see a comprehensive list of funding opportunities. Some upcoming deadlines:

NEW! Minnesota Government Grantseekers Website A new site supported by the MN. Department of Administration gives grants information from 23 state departments. Click here to view.

IAS Body and Knowing Awards for Research and Creative Projects June 4, 2008

Fulbright Scholars in Residence Program October 15, 2008

What's Inside

Grant Support
Find out about internal and external Funding Sources. Research funding agencies through our online Funding Search Databases. Learn what you need to know to submit a grant - Proposal Preparation - and what to do after you've received one - Post Award Assistance. For useful information, visit Publications, Resources and other Information. You'll also be able to access the University's Electronic Grant Management System (EGMS).

University Resources
For a variety of research and funding related information, link into the Dean's Office. Review important Annual Deadlines for system-wide grants (UMM deadlines are often earlier). Access important institutional facts and figures through Institutional Research and keep up on recent faculty developments through the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning. Also access important University offices that can help with a number of research related issues from Human Subjects protections to Responsible Conduct of Research (now known as FIRST).
Current Grants at UMM

Tammy Berberi, Assistant Professor of French, and the French Discipline have been awarded an $1,800 grant from the French-American Cultural Exchange (FACE) for the second consecutive year, in support of Entre Nous, UMM’s French student organization, to bring the Tournées Film Festival to UMM and the Morris Community. The Festival will include five award-winning feature films from across the francophone world. Paris, je t'aime will be shown on Valentine's Day (a Thursday) at 7:00 p.m. at the Morris Theatre on East 6th Street in Morris, MN.
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James Cotter, Professor of Geology, has been awarded a $499,526 grant from the National Science Foundation for his project "UMM Step Program." The funds will support a project designed to encourage Native American students to graduate from science, technology, engineering and/or mathematics (STEM) fields through innovative curriculur, recruiting and mentoring stategies. More >>

Gordon McIntosh, Associate Professor of Physics, has been Plan-It-Greenawarded a $97,063 grant from the National Science Foundation for his project "Research at Undergraduate Institutions: SiO Master Studies." The project will determine the integrated flux density of the emission and velocity shifts of maser features in four different vibrational states from Mira and R Cassiopeia. The phase dependence and vibrational state dependence of any variations will be examined to look for the effects of the possible passage of a shock through the circumstellar material or other mechanisms that could produce the observed variations.

Tom McRoberts, Director of Continuing Education, RegioTournées Film Festivalnal Programs, and Summer Session, and Center for Small Towns (CST) has received a $202,109 grant from the Otto Bremer Foundation. The funds will be used for the development and implementation for the "Faculty and Student Fellows" program. This three-year program will further connect communities with UMM to enhance regional community development activites across western Minnesota. With its more than 10-year history of working on community-based, locally identified issues, CST will utilize its staff, methodology, and resources to provide neede assistance to communities in the region.

 


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UMM Grants Development Office is a unit of the University of Minnesota, Morris,  
University of Minnesota Sponsored Projects Administration, and
the Office of the Vice President for Research


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