(FOA)-Limited
Submission Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research 2019 New Innovator
in Food and Agriculture Research; February 12, 2019
Purpose:
The Foundation for Food and Agricultural
Research (FFAR) seeks nominations for its 2019 New Innovator in Food and
Agriculture Research Award. With this program, FFAR intends to support and
promote the future generation of exceptionally talented and creative new
faculty who are conducting critical research and establishing research programs
that will lead to expanded availability of food and facilitate the global
practice of sustainable agriculture as the worlds population grows to more
than 9 billion people by the year 2050. The New Innovator Award seeks to
promote career advancement of highly creative and promising new scientists who
intend to make a long-term career commitment to research in food and
agriculture and bring innovative, ground-breaking research initiatives and
thinking to bear on problems facing food and agriculture. Within the scope of
the New Innovator Program, investigators will have the freedom to explore new
avenues of inquiry that arise during their research. Therefore, FFAR is
interested in the program of research to be explored and its impact as opposed
to a list of very specific aims. It is expected that through this program
investigators will have the ability to pursue highly creative ideas, to firmly
establish their early lines of research into important food and agriculture
scientific areas and provide stability in funding during their critical early
career years by reducing the time spent on writing
applications.
FFAR
recognizes that agriculture and food sciences are highly complex, requiring
individuals from a variety of disciplines to realize the potential in each
field or research area. Particularly for early stage investigators,
collaborators are often essential for success. While this award is made to an
outstanding early career investigator, applicants should include information
regarding essential collaborators and include letters of support from those
collaborators. When submitting full proposals to FFAR, applicants should select
the category that best fits their research program:
Category
1-- Target Areas of Research:
Achieving
a Deeper Understanding of Nutrition and Healthful Food
Choices
Enhancing
Sustainable Farm Animal Productivity, Resilience, and
Health
Improving
Plant Efficiency
Managing
Food Production Systems to Enhance Nutritional Outcomes
Optimizing
Agricultural Water Use
Spurring
Food System Innovation
Transforming
Soil Health
OR
Category
2--FFAR Challenge Areas:
Advanced
Animal Systems
Health
and Agriculture Nexus
Next
Generation Crops
Soil
Health
Sustainable
Water Management
Urban
Food Systems
Eligibility:
Nominees must have been hired on or after August 1, 2015 for a tenure-track or
equivalent position.
Matching
Requirement:
1:1 cash match from non-federal sources
Funding
Amount: up
to$100,000 per year for up to three years
Link
to Funding Opportunity Announcement
Institutional
Limit:
2
Internal
Competition: To
participate in the universitys selection process,please upload
the following materials,assembled into a single PDF
file, to the Office of the Vice President for Research via this
portal, with a copy to your Associate Dean for
Research by February 12, 2019:
A
committee will be convened to review the material and make a recommendation.
For
questions or issues with submission through the portal, email the limited
submission mailbox (limitedsubmissions@uky.edu),
or call 257-2861.
Deadlines: Nominations: February
28, 2019. Self-nominations are not accepted. Invited full applications: March
11, 2019