Award Guidelines
Eligibility
The principal investigator must hold faculty status or be PI-eligible at UVA to submit an Analytics Research Award.
Funding Limit
Although the Awards will be in the form of vouchers, the use of the voucher may not exceed $10,000.
Maximum Proposal Duration
In general, the proposed tasks for the Award should be completed within six months of the start date. However, no Awards may go past June 30, 2028.
Approved Activities
The activities in the proposal should be related to the acquisition, storage, or analysis of data as it relates to a research project. Priority will be given to proposals that request collaborative services of the Research Computing team.
Timelines
Dates for Awards
Award proposals are accepted at any time throughout the year; however, your best chance for receiving an award will be if you submit on the Proposal Deadline, shown in the following table.
| Proposal Deadline | Award Announcements | Award Start Date |
| June 29, 2026 | July 20, 2026, | Aug. 10, 2026 |
| Sept. 28, 2026 | Oct. 19, 2026 | Nov. 9, 2026 |
| Jan. 11, 2027 | Feb. 8, 2027 | Mar. 8, 2027 |
| Apr. 5, 2027 | May 3, 2027 | June 7, 2027 |
| July 12, 2027 | Aug. 9, 2027 | Sept. 13, 2027 |
| Oct. 11, 2027 | Nov. 8, 2027 | Dec. 6, 2027 |
| Jan. 10. 2028 | Feb. 7, 2028 | Mar. 6, 2028 |
Application Details
Before you apply, we highly recommend that you have a consultation meeting with a DAC member to discuss the services that you are planning and what the budget will look like for those services.
To request a consult, please contact us at RC-DAC@virginia.edu.
Application Requirements for Awards
To apply for the Analytics Research Award, the principal investigator must submit a proposal (2 pages maximum, Calibri 11-point font, single-spaced with 1-inch page margins) that includes the following:
- The PI’s name, computing ID, and department
- A title for the project
- A description of the project and its goals
- A description of the type(s) of data collected for the project and how the data will be used to meet the goals of the project
- A description of how the Analytics Research Award will support the goals of the project, including the use of vouchers to obtain services
- A plan for how the Analytics Research Award will lead to future support (e.g., external grants or other funding) for this or subsequent projects. Priority will be given to proposals that state how an RC team member will be included in future funding proposals.
- An attachment with a budget showing the services and expected costs that the Award would cover. (The attachment will not count toward the two-page limit.) Please contact the DAC (RC-DAC@virginia.edu) to request a consultation for preparing the budget.
Evaluation Criteria
The proposals will be evaluated on the following criteria:
- The completeness of the submission
- The clarity of the descriptions (the reviewers may not be familiar with the PI’s discipline)
- The diversity of the data
- How this Award will advance your research or enhance the community of researchers at UVA
Submit your proposal, in PDF format, through the Analytics Research Awards Submission form.
Please follow the instructions on this page precisely to ensure your proposal is received and processed correctly. No changes to your proposal will be considered after you submit it.
Voucher Disbursement
After the Awards recipients have been announced, the Data Analytics Center will work with the PI to determine the disbursement of the Award vouchers.
Publicity & Communication
The PI must acknowledge Research Computing in any publication, presentation, or poster that results from the work done on the Award.
The PI agrees to allow a feature about the research project to be posted on the Research Computing website and available for other communications opportunities.