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Student Fellowship Application Guidelines

Prepare the following information for our proposal submission website.
After submission, you may change your proposal any time until the deadline.

IMPORTANT: Mentors and collaborators will be required to log on to our site to complete their Statements of Compliance and upload letters of support. They will be given 2 weeks after the proposal deadline to finish their tasks.

When you finish your portions of the proposal, it will be considered submitted, but incomplete until your mentor and collaborators (if any) complete their portions.

Contact information

For the applicant, mentor professor(s) and any collaborators

• Name
• Address
• Phone
• Email

Proposal information

• Title
• Project status - select one
  New (never submitted to TSR&TP)
  Continuing (1 year of funding previously received, proposal is for 2nd year)
  NOTE: Most proposals are funded for 2 years. Some may be awarded 1 year based on review committee considerations.
  Resubmitted (proposal submitted to TSR&TP in a previous year)
• Animal or human protocol numbers and dates of approval (if applicable)
• Research area - select one
  Ecotoxicology
  Environmental Fate
  Epidemiology/Health Effects
  Mechanisms of Toxicology
  Nanotoxicology
  Policy
  Pollution Prevention/Green Chemistry
  Remediation/Bioremediation
  Risk Assessment

Abstracts

• Technical abstract:
  This abstract should be a succinct, accurate description of the proposed work when separated from the application. Limit to half a page. Proposal reviewers will use this abstract. Write it for an audience of varied disciplines.
• Non-technical abstract:
  Limit to half a page. This abstract will be posted on the TSR&TP website upon funding. Write it for an audience with no special knowledge of your field.
• Project objective:
  Provide a one to two sentence, non-technical description of the project's overall objectives and key milestones.

Budget

Amounts and descriptions for year 1 and year 2 of grant

• Budgets can be up to a maximum of $60,000 over 2 years
• Stipend (amount/month and number of months)
• Student fees (state resident only)
  Some campuses may automatically pay the in-state fees of fellowship recipients. In this case, the fees will be deducted from the total award.
• Supplies (list by category)
• Travel (purpose, and if known, dates and locations)
• Other

Student information

TSR&TP reserves the right to request official transcripts for all funded Fellowships.

• Undergraduate Status
  University name, degree year, major, major GPA, overall GPA
• Graduate Status
  University name, major, expected degree, expected graduate date, major GPA, overall GPA
• GRE scores
  Verbal, quantitative, analytical

Biosketches

For the applicant, mentor professor and any collaborators

• Education & training
• Research & professional experience:
  Include in chronological order relevant employment, grants and awards, publications, and professional activities (i.e. memberships). Limit to 2 pages.

Other Grant Support (past and present)

List grant support for the applicant's research only, not the mentor professor.

List all past TSR&TP support (from a lead campus or other). If you have ever attended the TSR&TP symposium and presented a poster, you have probably been funded.

Resources list

Specify the facilities to be used for the conduct of the proposed research. Indicate the performance sites and describe capacities, pertinent capabilities, relative proximity, and extent of availability to the project. Under "Other", identify support services such as machine shop, electronics shop, and specify the extent to which they will be available to the project.

• Laboratory
• Clinical
• Animal
• Computer
• Office
• Other

Research Plan

Limited to 5 pages or less in PDF form - to be uploaded to site

1. Specific Aims
   Generally, hypothesis testing research and/or research directed towards understanding at a mechanistic level is more likely to be funded than purely descriptive studies.
2. Relevance to the UC TSR&TP
   We fund a broad range of studies in various disciplines, so this requirement is broadly construed. Consulting our list of previously funded projects and Research Priorities (links from the RFP on the TSR&TP website) will often help define relevance in this context.
3. Background
   Why is this research project important enough to problems of toxics in the environment to warrant funding? Limit this section to 2 pages.
4. Research Design and Methods
   How will you successfully carry out this research project?
5. Data Management
   What statistical analyses will be used to interpret the data?
6. Future Importance of Research
   How is your research relevant to or how does it address future problems?
7. Literature Cited
8. Continuing Projects: Progress Report
   If you are applying for a second year of funding, provide a brief description of the work accomplished and what the new grant will address. (Not applicable to new or resubmitted projects)

Letters of Support

• Mentor Professor
  Your mentor professor will be sent an email with instructions to submit a letter of support for your project and sign the statement of compliance. Mentors will be given 2 weeks after the proposal deadline to complete these tasks. Mentor letters must address:
  1. Contribution and/or extent of involvement by the mentor in writing this proposal
  2. Quality of the student
  3. Significance and quality of the project
  4. Adequacy and access of resources required for the project that are not covered by the fellowship
• Collaborators (if any)
  If the proposal includes collaborators, they will need to submit letters outlining their commitments to the project. Collaborators will be given 2 weeks after the proposal deadline to upload their letters.

Statement of Compliance

The proposal applicant, mentor professor and collaborators must agree to TSR&TP's terms and conditions of funding:

I agree to comply with all reporting requirements for each year this proposal is funded and/or extended, including the submission of annual reports on funded research activities and reports on trainee career paths. I agree to acknowledge the TSR&TP for any publications resulting from TSR&TP funding. I understand that presenting a poster of the research findings at the Annual Research Symposium is expected for each year this proposal is funded and/or extended.

I also understand that this grant is made solely to the student named in this fellowship. If the student graduates or leaves the university, the remaining fellowship money must be returned to the TSR&TP. If all the funds are not used by the end of the grant period, the applicant must request a no cost extension or return remaining funds to the TSR&TP.

To the best of my knowledge, all of the information submitted in this application is true and correct.