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The Deadline for the 2009-10 scholarship application has passed. Please check back in January 2010 for information on the next scholarship cycle.

Congratulations to undergraduate award winner James Wronski, and graduate award winner Amy Brainer!

To learn about other LGBT scholarship opportunities, visit the GSC's scholarship page.

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Coverage in UIC News on the first LGBT Seed Grant Awards

Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Issues

Request for application for UIC LGBT research grants

Purpose: These grants will provide strategic support for innovative LGBT research and scholarship of national significance at UIC. Applications for grants will be accepted from all disciplines, as long as the focus of the research and scholarship is on LGBT populations or issues.

Background: Over the last decade the interdisciplinary field of LGBT studies has emerged on the UIC campus with scholars working in fields as varied as Anthropology, History, Literature, Nursing, Psychiatry, Public Health, Psychology, and Sociology. The Chancellor's Committee on the Status of LGBT Issues seeks to support and expand this work by encouraging faculty and students to expand the boundaries of what we know about LGBT people. Further research is required to understand a wide range of issues, including, but not limited to, the nature, extent, and determinants of health issues such as mental disorder, drug and alcohol abuse, and related aspects of individual and household well-being among LGBTs; improved forms of prevention, treatment, counseling, and service delivery for LGBTs; sexuality as identity and its intersections with other identity categories, such as class, gender, ethnicity, and ability; increased understanding and interpretation of the experiences of LGBT people; studies on the development of LGBT people and their identities; analysis of public policies that affect the wellbeing of LGBT people; and the constructions and meanings of gender, sexuality, and sexual orientation across different cultures, subcultures and time periods. The topical areas of research as not restricted to the examples above, hence the Chancellor's Committee on the Status of LGBT Issues invites proposals from all disciplines for research projects dealing with LGBT issues and populations.

Three types of awards will be made:

1) Graduate student or Post-doc awards . To promote innovative and significant LGBT research and scholarship, small grants in the $500 - $1,000 range will be awarded to meritorious applications submitted by UIC graduate students and post-docs.

2) Faculty Research Awards. Many faculty can conduct innovative and significant LGBT research with strategic use of limited funding. As such, research grants in the $500 – $5,000 range will be given to support research that can be fully accomplished with these funds. These applications will be reviewed based on the potential for the findings to achieve national significance.

3) Faculty Pilot Awards. Funding for pilot LGBT research with substantial likelihood of gaining future extramural funding. As such, pilot grants in the $500 - $5,000 range will be given to faculty to support the collection of pilot data. Pilot research has a goal of providing preliminary data to inform a future, larger study. As such it is not expected that the pilot study will accomplish significant scientific aims. Instead, consideration of applications for pilot funds will focus on their potential to lead to larger, extramural funded studies.

Click here to obtain application materials

Final Grant Report

Email questions to LGBTGrants@uic.edu

The LGBT Research Seed Fund is supported in part by a grant from the David Bohnett Foundation.