University of California, Los Angeles
ER-18: Sustainability Research Incentives

The National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education Research Traineeship (IGERT) on Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA is a 3 year fellowship that provides a $30,000 stipend/year, tuition, fees, travel stipend to participate in a scientific conference or workshop, internships and international experience. The fellowship will develop leaders in environmental energy through integrated research and coursework in the science, business and policies of clean technology. Completion of a 1-3 month cross-disciplinary internship with an industrial partner or national laboratory is encouraged. Each fellow's participation includes academic, research training and professional development with scientific, business and policy emphasis. Program features include clean energy lecture, laboratory and seminar-based curriculum, internships or international experience, business development and small company opportunities along with community involvement activities in K-12.

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) and the Academic Senate Council on Research (COR) have established a Seed Grant Opportunity to Enhance Transdisciplinary Research/Scholarship. The goal of this novel grant mechanism is to provide significant resources to faculty from the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences for the purposes of exploring new areas of research scholarship across disciplines. The OVCR and COR wish to stimulate the faculty to seek collaborations beyond their own disciplines. We believe that these humanistic disciplines, the core of any great research university, can more broadly interact across the campus to enhance creation of new knowledge and scholarship. Some illustrative examples of projects/themes might include cyberpoetry, medical narrative, art applied to engineering design, performance and medicine, digital embodiments and learning, neurolinguistics and pattern recognition, diversity research, poverty, evolution environment and human migration, a symposium about a particular theme with specific expected collaborative research outcomes, etc. This list is merely intended to provide suggestions and is not intended to be restrictive.