FRTC is a small, internal competition for funds that support Dunlop School faculty members’ research, travel, and computing needs. The funds come from the UC Irvine Academic Senate Council on Research, Computing and Libraries (CORCL), which receives an annual appropriation from the campus Instruction and Research budget. CORCL re-allocates its funds to the academic units’ School Research Committees, and the academic units must then run internal competitions to award the grants. In the Dunlop School, the Research Development Team administers the competition.
The Research Development Team typically releases a call for proposals in late November/early December. The FRTC Committee then reviews the proposals and awards the funds in late January/early February. Announcements are emailed to the faculty from the Associate Dean of Research and Innovation, and reminders are included in the Research Bulletin newsletter.
Dunlop School faculty members can submit proposals to request support for small research projects to generate data for an extramural proposal, travel to collaborate with other researchers, travel to conferences, and computer hardware or software. You can also consult CORCL’s webpage here.
- FY 2025-2026: Expected to open in December 2025
- FY 2024-2025: Closed January 2, 2025
- FY 2023-2024: Closed December 22, 2023
- FY 2022-2023: Closed December 16, 2022
- FY 2021-2022: Closed December 8, 2021
- FY 2020-2021: Closed January 7, 2021