Program Information
RAMP awards are designed for smaller-scale funding opportunities that require a rapid response, allowing faculty to innovate in the moment and to seize strategic and time-sensitive opportunities as they arise.
This program provides support ranging from $500 to $5,000 as the budget allows, with smaller requests encouraged. Larger funding amounts are considered if the proposal warrants and program budget allows.
Fund Uses
Broadly speaking, the function of OVPRI Internal Awards is to support faculty as they push their research and creative work to the next level. RAMP funds have been used to:
- Support the development of creative works
- Acquire materials for research or projects, including wages for student researchers
- Travel to either meet with collaborators or bring them to Vanderbilt
Eligibility and Terms
- All full-time, VU-employed (Provost-reporting) faculty are eligible.
- Faculty may submit up to one proposal per fiscal year as lead faculty.
- Applicants are encouraged to consider how their proposal advances inclusive excellence.
- Funds may not be used to support faculty salary.
- Faculty are not eligible to submit another proposal until all reporting requirements have been met.
- Each participating faculty member must disclose all institutional research support funds, including endowed-chair funds, annual allocations, and other such sources.
- All funds must be used within the awarded period (i.e. no carry forward).
Review Process
Proposals will be accepted on a monthly basis July through May. Proposals will undergo an administrative review; applications are reviewed for alignment with the program and allowable funding uses.
RAMP applications will enter into review on the below dates:
- July 31st, 2024
- August 31st, 2024
- September 30th, 2024
- October 31st, 2024
- November 30th, 2024
No review in December.
- January 31st, 2025
- February 28th, 2025
- March 31st, 2025
- April 30, 2025
- May 31st, 2025
No review in June.
We aim to distribute review decision to all applicants within ~1 month of their proposals entering the review process.
Application and Proposal Information
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Applicant Information
- Lead Faculty First and Last Name
- Lead Faculty VUnetID
- Lead Faculty Department
- Lead Faculty Appointment Title
- Department Administrator Name and Contact Information
- Collaborators (up to 4 faculty)
Proposal Information
- Proposal Title
- Project Summary (100 words)
- Project Proposal including detailed description of work to be completed. Discuss the overarching theme, research question, area of scholarship or creative expression to be addressed. Detail the timeliness and/or time-sensitivity of the funding. Review project timeline and how funds will be used. (750 words)
- Significance and impact of the work/scholarship on the field, the community, the university and/or the faculty involved. (250 words)
- Outline the anticipated outcome and note any future activities or projects this funding would facilitate. (250 words)
- Disclose current internal funding for all VU faculty involved. Each participating faculty member must disclose, in specific dollar amounts, all institutional support funds, including endowed-chair funds, annual allocations, and other such sources. If none, please put N/A.
- Total funding requested
Uploads
- Detailed budget
- Optional supporting image attachment. Such attachments are only for images or graphics that cannot be included in the program description text box.
- NOTE: Additional written content or files will not be reviewed
For more information about RAMP, please contact ovprfunding@vanderbilt.edu.