Office of Research

Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program

Limited Submissions

IGE projects are expected to generate potentially transformative models for improvements in graduate education and workforce development that prepare the next generation of scientists and engineers for the full range of possible STEM career paths to advance the nation’s STEM enterprise. IGE is dedicated to (a) piloting, testing, and validating innovative approaches to graduate education, and (b) generating the knowledge required for the customization and implementation of the most successful, transformative ones.

Eligibility Requirements

The primary beneficiaries for IGE projects must be master’s and/or doctoral students in STEM-designated degree programs. Eligible degree programs include research-based STEM master’s and doctoral degree programs and Professional Science Master’s programs but do not include programs that only award certificates or professional degrees.

Application Instructions

Pre‐proposal instructions

Please submit:

1. A one‐page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach

2. CV (not NIH format) of the PI

to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday, February 10, 2022. 

Opportunity Details

Program web page

Program Announcement No.

NSF 20-595 (2022)

Deadlines
02/10/2022 UW Internal Deadline Closed
03/16/2022 OSP Deadline
03/25/2022 Sponsor Deadline
Sponsor

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Funding amount

$4,000,000

Maximum Number of Applications

2

Eligible groups
  • All campus

Inquiries and Contact Information

Investigators who identify a grant, award or fellowship program that restricts the number of applications that can be submitted from an Institution should immediately contact their Chairperson, Associate Dean for Research (or Dean, if no ADR) and the Office of Research (see below) if they intend to prepare a response. Failure to do so, or to meet the deadlines for submission of pre-proposal, will preclude submission of the application through the Office of Sponsored Programs.

For general inquiries, or to request a listing of a limited submission opportunity that should be but is not already listed, please email us at limitedsubs@uw.edu.