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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; color: black;">Dear Cullen College of Engineering Faculty,</span><br>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; color: black;">As you may already know, the announcement for the Grants to Enhance and Advance Research (GEAR) internal awards has been posted:</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><a href="https://uh.edu/research/funding-opportunities/internal-awards/gear/" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="OWA34d883b2-2cc6-145d-fcb0-9e3f321c64e8" class="x_OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">https://uh.edu/research/funding-opportunities/internal-awards/gear/</a></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; color: black;">The deadline to submit proposals to the College is
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><b><u>5 pm on November 3, 2023</u></b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; color: black;">. Submission instructions:</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">submit your proposal via email as a pdf to:
</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;"><a href="mailto:egrgrant@central.uh.edu" id="OWA29845f87-5a8a-3474-b6fc-3580fcb117c7" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-linkindex="1" data-safelink="true" style="margin:0px">egrgrant@central.uh.edu</a></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;"> using
the following naming convention for the pdf: </span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">Lastname_GEAR2024_Preproposal</span></li><li style="align-self: start; margin: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: "2. "; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">use the attached cover page</span></li><li class="x_elementToProof" style="align-self: start; margin: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: "3. "; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">your preproposal must include the following elements along with the cover page: (a) Proposal Narrative (up to 3 pages inclusive of illustrations
and tables, font no less than 10 pt with 1 inch margins, 1.5 spacing), PIs 2-pg NSF biosketches, PIs NSF current & pending, and your budget using the UH budget template and with review from our internal RA team. </span></li><li class="x_elementToProof" style="align-self: start; margin: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: "4. "; color: black;">
<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: black;">Forward your budgets for review by 5:00 pm on October 27, 2023 to</span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: black;"><b> </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;"><b>egrgrant@central.uh.edu</b></span></li></ol>
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