Faculty Support

 

2012 Research Instrumentation Fund (RIF) Program

- Criteria for 2012 only -

 

Apply for RIF Core Grant Here

For 2012, only core research facilities that meet certain qualifications will be eligible to compete for central equipment funds. To allow time for core facilities to meet the new standards described below, the due date for RIF applications has been extended to Monday, February 20, 2012.

To be eligible for central funding, core facilities must have the following characteristics:

  1. A website (linked to the Health Sciences Core Facility website or other campus-wide core facilities website) providing basic information about the core facility, including available instruments and technical assistance, names of the core director and faculty oversight committee, user fees, and information about scheduling use of the facility.
  2. All researchers at the University of Utah may use the facility
  3. A recharge facility approved by the Research Accounting department
  4. A sign-up process to reserve time on the instruments, with an open queue (i.e. first come, first served)
  5. Everyone who uses the facility pays user fees and all on-campus users are charged the same rates
  6. There is a faculty or staff person with responsibility for supervising day-to-day operation of the facility
  7. There is an oversight committee comprised of at least three faculty members whose research programs use the facility. The oversight committee should have a chair and meet at least twice per year.

To apply for recognition as a qualified core research facility, please submit the following information in PDF format to the Core Facilities Executive Committee c/o Angela.Stone@utah.edu. The current Core Facilities Executive Committee members are Profs. Bradley Cairns, Jerry Kaplan, Joel Miller, and Florian Solzbacher and the committee is chaired by the Vice President for Research.

  1. Name of the facility
  2. Technical descriptions of the instruments and services available
  3. Names of the supervising faculty or staff person (core director) and at least three faculty users who have agreed to serve as an oversight committee for the facility
  4. Best available inform ai ton about users and hours of usage of the facility during the past year
  5. The facility's current (FY12) budget, listing separately all sources of income/funding and the budgeted expenditures for personnel, service contracts and other maintenance costs, expendable supplies, and equipment over $1000