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Rajsri Raghunath

Professional Grant Vice-Chair Email: [email protected] Rajsri is the '24-'25 Professional Grant Vice-Chair. She is a 3rd-year PhD student in the Food Science Department. Her research interests are focused on cereals and cereal fibers, specifically how they are degraded by human gut bacteria. In addition to her research, Rajsri pursues her interests in reading, painting and listening to music.

Jasmyne Emerson

Accessibility Vice-Chair Email: [email protected] Jasmyne is a third-year PhD student in Materials Engineering studying the effects of irradiation on reactor pressure vessel steels and welds. With a deep commitment to clean energy, energy accessibility, and diverse representation, she values the importance of inclusivity in academia, especially as a first-generation college student. Beyond her research, Jasmyne enjoys hiking, baking, and playing video games. She is enthusiastic about launching the Accessibility Grant and is dedicated to making Purdue a more accessible campus.

Meredith Ziliak

Travel Grant Vice-Chair Email: [email protected] Meredith is the current Vice Chair of Travel Grants and joined GRAC in the fall of 2021. She’s a third-year PhD student in interdisciplinary life sciences studying auditory neuroscience with a focus in computation. She understands the importance of grants and scholarships for sharing knowledge and research, and is committed to helping Purdue’s graduate students learn about how GRAC can assist funding their travel. She works hard to ensure students of all disciplines have a fair application process and chance at funding. Outside of GRAC, Meredith is often in the lab, but in her scant free time, she loves swing dancing with Purdue Night Train, playing card/board/puzzle games, and exploring cool places around town. Meredith is excited to hear about the exciting research happening on campus and is looking forward to working with you!

Fall 2023 top reviewers

Shuangtng li.

Shuangtng Li is a PhD student in the Educational Psychology & Research Methodology department within the College of Education. His research focuses on understanding the influence of informal learning activities on middle and high school students’ science achievement. He is passionate about self-improvement in his personal life. In his spare time, he enjoys listening to music and spending time with his family. His favorite sport is basketball!

Palak Manchanda

Palak Manchanda is pursuing her PhD in Chemistry with a concentration in analytical chemistry and neuroimmunology, currently in her 5th year. Her research interest is to utilize analytical techniques to uncover the dysfunctional cell states and associated mechanisms in the context of Alzheimer’s disease and Traumatic Brain injury. She loves to cook, and also try food from different places. In her free time, she enjoys painting and redecorating her place. She recently did a Co-op and is applying for jobs and would love to help graduate students navigate through getting internships and managing school alongside and overall help with the development of professional skills.

Fangfang Mo

Fangfang Mo is a second-year PhD student in the College of Education with a concentration in Gifted, Creative, and Talented Studies. Her passion for the realm of gifted education was nurtured during my tenure as a Chinese language teacher in Singapore. In that role, she had the privilege of closely collaborating with gifted students and gaining insight into their distinct academic and socio-emotional requirements. She noticed that certain gifted individuals were vulnerable due to a deficiency in tailored educational support. This experience ignited her drive to delve deeper into the needs of gifted students and to actively search for avenues to empower them to realize their full potential and make significant contributions to society.

Morgan Chaney

Morgan Chaney Dept is a 5th-year PhD candidate co-advised by Esteban Fernandez-Juricic and Jeffrey Lucas in the Biological Sciences department. She is studying the impacts of laser bird deterrents on the physiology and behavior of European starlings (an invasive bird species). She has been a member of PGSG and the GRAC team for two years. In her free time, she likes to play video games and spend quality time with her loved ones.

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The Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA) supports and promotes graduate student education, campus sustainability and graduate student life at the University of Idaho, which includes funding awards related to professional travel, publication and workshops. This includes creating programs and assisting graduate students during their transition from student to professional life. The GPSA is committed to providing a collective voice for graduate students to the University and the State. 

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TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) Grants provide a unique opportunity for the DOT to invest in road, rail, transit, bicycle/pedestrian, port, and multi- modal projects that achieve critical national objectives. Since 2009, Congress has dedicated more than $4.6 billion for seven rounds to fund competitive projects that have a significant impact on the Nation, a region, or a metropolitan area. Through the TIGER program, DOT has awarded grants to 342 projects in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

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Flexibility TIGER can provide capital funding directly to any public entity, including municipalities, counties, port authorities, tribal governments, MPOs, or others in contrast to traditional Federal transportation programs that provide funding to limited groups of applicants (mostly State DOTs and transit agencies). This flexibility allows our traditional partners at the state and local level to work directly with a host of entities that own, operate, and maintain much of our transportation infrastructure, but otherwise have limited ways to receive Federal support.

Innovative Funding TIGER’s competitive structure and broad eligibility allow project sponsors to develop multi-modal, multi-jurisdictional projects that may not be eligible for funding through traditional DOT programs. For example, in 2009, the TIGER program partnered with the State of California (Caltrans) and the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG)— the regional planning agency that represents 18 cities and county government to award $20.2 million to the Otay Mesa Port-of-Entry project– the largest freight border crossing between California and Mexico – to provide a direct six-lane highway link and reduce Interstate congestion.

Leveraging Resources TIGER projects have historically achieved, on average, co-investment of 3.5 dollars (including other Federal, State, local, private and philanthropic funds) for every TIGER dollar invested. The Razorback Regional Greenway TIGER 2010 project successfully leveraged $15 million from the Walton Family Foundation to support development of this 36-mile bicycle and pedestrian network in Northwest Arkansas.

Encouraging Partnership The TIGER program encourages States and localities to work together to bring more innovative, cross-modal proposals to the table. Priority is given to transportation projects that demonstrate strong collaboration among a broad range of participants, integration of transportation with other public service efforts, and/or projects that are the product of a robust planning process. For example, the Miami Trail/Everglades Restoration project, awarded $20 million in TIGER 2014, has extensive stakeholder collaboration and support including the National Park Service, the US Army Corps of Engineers, State and local agencies, and numerous conservation advocacy organizations.

Rural Investments The TIGER program enables DOT to use a rigorous process to select projects with exceptional benefits, explore ways to deliver projects faster and save on construction costs, and make investments in our Nation’s infrastructure that make communities more livable and sustainable, including in rural areas. Since 2009, the TIGER program has provided over $790 million to 117 projects in rural areas across the United States.

TIGER Project Spotlight

Memorial Bridge The Memorial Bridge on US Route 1 is the only bicycle and pedestrian connection between NH and ME and is located in the heart of downtown Portsmouth. Because the bridge had a sufficiency rating of 6 out of 100, safety concerns that resulted restricted bridge traffic to no more than three tons. A $20 million TIGER grant enabled this bridge to resume normal operations and it was reopened in August 2013.

CREATE The Chicago Region Environmental and Transportation Efficiency Program, (CREATE) partners U.S. DOT, the State of Illinois, the City of Chicago, Metra (the region’s commuter rail agency), Amtrak, and the Nation's largest freight railroads in an approximately $1.5 billion program that includes 70 intermodal projects that restructure, modernize, and expand existing rail facilities to improve freight and passenger mobility in and through Chicago while reducing negative environmental and social impacts. The CREATE $100 million TIGER grant leveraged $14 million in State and local funding and $48 million in funding from the private railroads. CREATE adds capacity and reduces delays for trains and motorists using at- grade crossings, and improves roadways and sidewalks.

Atlanta Streetcar Born from a relationship between the city, local businesses, and MARTA (the local transit authority), the Atlanta Streetcar project received a $47.6 million TIGER grant to construct a new east-west streetcar line connecting many of the residential, cultural, educational and historic centers downtown, improving Atlanta’s quality of life and providing enhanced transit options. The streetcar, which opened for passenger service in December 2014, provides residents, students and visitors with easy access to jobs and public amenities in the core of downtown Atlanta, and serves an economically distressed area, spurring pedestrian-oriented development and reinforcing development plans.

US-491 Safety Improvements US-491 is the primary highway in an extremely rural area of northwest New Mexico, connecting the Navajo Nation to surrounding areas, and is a major trucking route with increasingly high volumes of commercial traffic. Prior to construction, this stretch of highway experienced fatality rates between two and three and a half times the state average. A $31 million TIGER grant enabled the Navajo DOT to construct two additional lanes and to separate north-south traffic on this corridor, limiting fatal accidents. Additional safety improvements include construction of turn lanes for acceleration and deceleration, and improved intersections, signage, markings, and drainage facilities.

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Are you looking for funding for your own research project? With GRC Short Grants we support postdocs and advanced doctoral researchers in situations where unforeseen costs or structural obstacles complicate a promising academic career. Projects can be applied for individually or as a group . The application volume is between CHF 500 and CHF 5'000 . Repeat submissions for the same project are not possible.

The FAQ contain further guidance on how to submit an application and manage a Grant.

Funding deadlines and award process

The call for GRC Short Grants is open continuously and applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. The submission date must be 3 months prior to the start of the activity. 

The GRC Coordination Office decides on the approval of the applications. The decision will be communicated no later than 8 weeks after submission of the application.

What can be funded?

The format of eligible activities is deliberately kept open to accommodate the widest possible range of academic projects. The core objective of the GRC Short Grant is to ensure an added value of the activity for the individual academic career of the grantee and socially sustainable project planning. Please refer to the factsheet with our Budget planning guidelines  for guidance on how to effectively design your application. 

• Materials and operations (such as data collection, fees, publications)
• Publication costs (such as APCs / printing costs)
• Personnel (for early career researchers, student employees, experts, volunteers)
• Peer formats (such as mentoring and research groups, event series, smaller projects)
• Self-organized events at UZH (such as workshops, conferences, and meetings)
• Participation fees (such as training courses, workshops, conferences, meetings); excluding travel expenses, for travel costs see Travel Grants
• Science communication to the public (outreach)
• Academic teaching or mentoring activities

A necessary condition for funding through a GRC Short Grant is that the project cannot be funded through other means. In the award process, it is therefore checked whether other funding options are available. It is the responsibility of the applicant to provide the necessary information.

Who can apply?

All advanced doctoral researchers and postdocs of UZH. Postdocs are all early career researchers employed at or affiliated with UZH who have completed a doctorate and are also engaged in research after the doctorate and at the time of application. Advanced doctoral researchers are all doctoral researchers employed or enrolled at UZH who can credibly demonstrate that they are on a plausible academic career path to the postdoctoral phase as defined above.

How much funding can I apply for?

You can apply for funding from CHF 500 up to a maximum of CHF 5,000. Please follow our instructions in the budget planning guidelines  for the effective design of your application. 

GRC Short Grants may be applied for as matching funds. As a rule, applicants are required to be transparent about all sources of funding for the proposed activity. A global budget that clearly contextualizes the funds requested from GRC must be included.

Steps for submitting the application

Applications for a GRC Short Grant must be submitted digitally. You can enter and submit your application in the GRC Tool . The information provided can be saved at any time and completed at a later date. You must include the following documents with your application:

• Short academic CV
• Description of the activity
• Detailed timeline of the activity with milestones
• Rationale for persons to be compensated or experts to be invited. 

Before you submit your application, please consider the following points:

• A UZH professorial faculty member must provide their own cost center for financial processing of the grant.
• Is your application complete?
• Have you indicated all possible sources of funding? Is a global budget available?
• For projects with planned events: Are rooms reserved for your event?

Only applications that are complete and received in a regular manner can be accepted for formal review.  The application can only be considered ‘submitted’ once you have received confirmation by email.

Assessment criteria

• Added value of the activity for the academic career of the early career researchers.
• Societal added value of the activity.
• Sustainability of the activity regarding the aspects of ecology, social responsibility, and planning of the scientific career (see Sustainability Guidelines ).
• Budget (the use of the requested funds is appropriate, targeted and sufficiently justified).

Financial processing and reporting

• Settlement of accounts is generally done through the cost center of a Chair at UZH.
• An accountability report must be submitted no later than 2 weeks after completion of the activity. Accountability reports for GRC Short Grants are to be submitted digitally. You can enter and submit your accountability report in the GRC Tool . The information provided can be saved at any time and completed later. All necessary documents for the submission of your report can be found directly in the GRC Tool as soon as you open your report there.
• In event announcements (website, flyer, program, etc.), reference must be made to the support provided by Graduate Campus.  

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GRC Grants are funding awarded for individual initiatives. Get an insight into the diversity of projects that have been realized:

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