Funding
For more information or guidance on identifying and applying for optimal funding opportunities for your project contact the Center on Health, Aging, and Disability.
CHAD Pilot Grants
The goal of the Center on Health, Aging, and Disability’s Pilot Grant Program is to support innovative, groundbreaking interdisciplinary research aimed at advancing our understanding of health and wellness, aging, disability and the maintenance of a high quality of life. This annual call is issued in the spring semester and is limited to tenured and tenure-track faculty with in the College of Applied Health Sciences. Support is limited to $30,000 and 18-month projects.
Pilot Grant Application Guidelines can be found here.
Please use this page to submit your application.
For more information, please contact Wendy Bartlo at wbartlo@illinois.edu
Recent CHAD Pilot Grant Recipients
2018
- Berdychevsky, Liza
- Assistant Professor, Recreation, Sport and Tourism
- Tailored Internet -Based Sexual Health Education for Older Adults: Conducting Seniors’ Needs Assessment and Developing the Messages
- Mejía, Shannon
- Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Intraindividual Dynamics of Fall Risk
- Monson, Brian
- Assistant Professor, Speech and Hearing Science
- Capturing perinatal auditory experience
- Wilund, Ken
- Associate Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Implementation of an Anti-Hypertensive Medication Deprescribing Protocol in Hemodialysis Clinics
2019
- Mattie (Hahn), Laura
- Assistant Professor, Speech and Hearing Science
- Impact of Child and Maternal Gestures on Word Learning in Down Syndrome
- Khan, Naiman
- Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Role of Omega-3 Lipid Metabolites in Obesity and Cognitive Function
- Konopka, Adam
- Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Establishing the common marmoset as a model of age-related osteoarthritis
2020
- Zou, Sharon
- Assistant Professor, Recreation, Sport and Tourism
- Exploring an Efficient and Equitable Entrance Fee for Public Lands: A Community-based Investigation in the Indiana Dunes National Park
2021
- Raj, Mina
- Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Towards the development of guidelines for inclusive foods in long-term care
- Hernandez, Manuel
- Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Artificial intelligence energy-regulation modeling to predict and classify fatigue levels and types in people with multiple sclerosis: A feasibility study
- Allen, Jacob
- Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
- Gastrointestinal And Metabolic Effects from a Prebiotic, Lifting, and Aerobic iNtervention (GAMEPLAN)
For more information, please contact Wendy Bartlo at wbartlo@illinois.edu
Travel Grants
This fund is designed to support tenure-track faculty, tenured faculty, academic professionals, and lecturers/instructors/clinical associates/research associates (not post-docs or students) who are presenting research papers or posters.
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Tenure-track and tenured faculty
This fund is designed to support tenure-track faculty, tenured faculty who are presenting research papers or posters. This fund is to be used after other sources of funding, like the Campus Research Board’s Scholars Travel Fund, have been exhausted. Travel grants can be used for multiple trips but are limited to $1,000 per year (July 1-June 30th) per person. This funding will not carryover from year to year.
Specialized Faculty and Academic Professionals
CHAD will provide travel support in the amount of $500 each year for academic professionals and specialized faculty (i.e. clinical, teaching, or research professors) presenting research or other scholarship at a conference. Travel grants can be used for multiple trips, but are limited to $500 per year (July 1-June 30th). This funding will not carryover from year to year.
Grant Database
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Use the grant database, Grant Forward, to look for any funding opportunities that are compatible with your research interests.
Campus Funding
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The Jump Applies Research for Community Health through Engineering and Simulation program in partnership with the University of Illinois College of Engineering.
The Scott Edward Erickson Endowed Research Award
Purpose: The fund will be used to provide seed money to researchers investigating schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and a failure to understand what is real.
Support provided: The total project period for an application submitted in response to this funding opportunity may not exceed eighteen (18) months. Currently, the total amount potentially available is $5,000, to be distributed based upon scientific merit to one or two proposals. The awarded amount could be $5,000 maximum, but not less than $2,500.
Please address the following in your proposal:
Criteria:
- Focus on schizophrenia
- Reflects potential for a significant impact on knowledge of schizophrenia
- Holds promise to enhance the quality of life for individuals with schizophrenia
- Significance, innovation, potential to garner future extramural funding or further work of PI
Eligibility:
- Principal Investigators must be associated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- If a student, the application must include letter of support from the major advisor
Application Process:
- Applications must include a cover letter, title, one-page abstract of project, and CV’s of PI’s. Budget and justification of budget (include a statement of other financial support for the work if the amount awarded is less than the budget proposed) is also requested.
Submission: Please send application materials to Wendy Bartlo (wbartlo@illinois.edu) by January 15, 2021.
Please email Jeff Woods (woods1@illinois.edu) if you have any questions about submissions.
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