Applicant

• Name and contact information of the person submitting the proposal.
  • UIUC appointment(s)
  • Biographical Information
    • Short curriculum vita not to exceed two pages listing employment, education, awards, and publications. Please also note graduate and undergraduate student research supervision.
    • Optional: Long curriculum vita and website URL.
  • Optional Information
  • Gender, Ethnicity, Birth date
• Future sabbatical leave plans
• List other sources of support for which you have applied, or intend to apply, to support this project. Please note that these appointments may not be combined with another UIUC release time-appointment such as Humanities Release time, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities fellowship, etc.

Proposal

• Proposal Title
• Two-sentence description of your proposed project. In the case of a successful proposal, this information will be used in published references to your project.
• Summary statement of your proposed project (up to 300 words, approx. 1/2 page) written in language that a non-specialist would understand.
• Statement of Plans (3 pages). The selection committee includes faculty members from the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the arts. It is therefore to your advantage to describe your project using plain language that is accessible to the non-specialist. Applicants in scholarly or professional fields should provide a detailed, concise plan of research. Applicants in the arts should submit a similar statement of plans defining the proposed creative activity. 

Letters

Unit head's letter of nomination is required. The letter should indicate why you are being nominated and include an assessment of your accomplishments. Units may nominate up to two (2) promising young faculty.

Three Referees. Provide the name, institution/organization, phone number, and email address for referees. All referees must be widely recognized scholars or professionals who are familiar with your scholarly accomplishments. At least two referees should come from institutions other than UIUC. One of the two letters MUST be from someone who did NOT serve on your dissertation committee or as your postdoc advisor. The last referee may be a UIUC faculty who is not in your unit or the Center for Advanced Study.

• Applicant prepares request for support. After submitting your application, you continue on into the website to generate email messages for your primary unit head and each referee. These auto-generated emails attach/enclose the Instructions to Referees with your narrative. Just follow the prompts and click on the "Send this message" button.
   
• You are encouraged to contact your primary unit head and three referees ahead of time and ask them to prepare letters of support. The selection committee cannot guarantee consideration of letters received after the deadline.