ACCELERATE FOR SUCCESS GRANTS
Award Cycle: Annual
Limit on Proposals per PI: An individual may participate as PI on one AFS per cycle.
Next Due Date: March 26, 2025
Award Period: FY26: July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026
Applications: Accepted through Arizona Cultivate
Description: The Accelerate for Success program is designed to support team science by creating teams, broadening partnerships, and supporting the development and submission of extramural proposals.
For FY26, RII is seeking opportunities that support one or more of the following:
- Advancement of the Thriving Communities Initiative - Thriving Communities seeks to invest in research, from fundamental to use-inspired to applied, that will have a positive impact on Southern Arizona, the State of Arizona, and the communities we serve as the State of Arizona's Land-Grant, Hispanic Serving Institution, and Flagship Institution.
- New Concepts Aligned with our Institution's Research Strengths - Data, Environment, Health, The Human Experience, National Security, and Space
In addition to the priorities above, RII supports the excellence of U of A’s mid-career faculty and thus, strongly encourages mid-career faculty with novel research ideas to apply to this program. For this opportunity, mid-career faculty are defined as those at the rank of Associate Professor, or recently promoted to full Professor.
RII encourages teams to partner with colleagues in the social sciences, humanities, arts, and education in order to accomplish their objectives. For additional information on impact measurement, broader impacts plans, or inclusion of undergraduates in research, visit the Office of Societal Impact.
Seeding New Research Collaborations: Proposals should describe how the investigators will initiate a new research collaboration on campus or with a partner (including academic, industry, or government) in support of proposal development activities led by U of A. Proposals may include partner universities, but funding is limited to activities on U of A campus or with U of A personnel. Potential activities include but are not limited to: (1) extramural proposal development activities, (2) campus colloquium focused on a strategic research goal, or (3) pilot data collection for a new inter- or transdisciplinary team. Teams may request up to $50,000 in well justified cases.
Proposal preparation, submission, and processing information is available in the RII Proposal Preparation Guide (PPG) v10, which is downloadable in the Arizona Cultivate competition. The PPG includes requirements for the project narrative and supplemental documents; it is strongly encouraged that interested applicants read the PPG in full as proposals that do not match the PPG will be returned without review.
Please note there is a new budget approval process that utilizes an applicant driven routing step after submission. Applicants will input the email address of their business officer or award/research administrator when prompted at the end of the application prior to submission. The email address should be for the person who has authority to create, review, and approve the budget. The system will send a link for approval via the email listed to the business officer or award/research administrator where they may confirm they reviewed and approved the submitted budget. This approval step is required before an application is accepted for compliance checks and formal review. The deadline for business officer or award/research administrator is March 28, 2025 at 5:00 pm MST, so it is recommended to communicate with this individual about your budget and this process in advance.
Solicitation specific information below supersedes information presented in the PPG.
Solicitation Specific Requirements:
1. Eligibility: In addition to the eligibility described in the PPG, the PI and at least one Co-PI must be from distinct disciplines (and generally from two distinct colleges).
2. Proposal Review: In addition to the criteria described in the PPG, special consideration may be made for proposals that will enable high-risk, high-reward research at UArizona.
Questions: resdev@arizona.edu
Last updated: January 28, 2025
AWARDEES
2024-2025
- Zhou Chi, Animal & Biomedical Sciences-Res, Role of circulating immune cells in fetal growth restriction-impaired fetal endothelial function
- Curiel-Lewandrowski Clara, College of Medicine - Tucson, Deconvolution methods to guide opportunities and timing to intervene with topical immunoprevention strategies
- Vedantam Gayatri, College of Agric and Life Sci, A Novel Antimicrobial Technology: Focus on Eradication of Infectious Diarrheas
- Snider Ashley, College of Agric and Life Sci, Investigating Acid Ceramidase: A Key to Understanding Microglial Response in Stroke
- Bhattacharya Martha, Neuroscience, Profiling Lipid and Metabolic Disruptions Underlying TMEM184B-associated Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Pires Paulo, College of Medicine - Tucson, Development of a model of Amyloid-Related Imaging Abnormalities for Pre-clinical screening of putative therapeutic agents
- Zhang Lianyang, Civil Arch Engr and Mechanics, Enhancing community sustainability and resilience through integrated monitoring, modeling and mitigation (M3) of land subsidence and earth fissures in southern Arizona
- Blankinship Joseph, Environmental Science-Res, Treating Soil Health to Enhance Crop Nutrient Density and Human Wellness
- Moore David, Sch of Natural Resources-Ins, Augmenting Arizona Research Sites through Soil Characterization: controls on carbon and water cycling
- Baltrus David, School of Plant Sciences-Res, Characterizing the impact of agriculture on co-occurrence of antimicrobial resistance genes
- Duhamel Solange, College of Science, Seasonal Dynamics of Contaminants and Microbial Responses in the Santa Cruz River
- Meredith Laura, Sch of Natural Resources-Ins, Harnessing microbial adaptation as an innovative solution to H2 leak mitigation for the clean hydrogen economy
2023-2024
- Matthew Cordes, Science (and Medicine), Chemistry and Biochemistry, A novel and damaging sphingolipid metabolite produced in human tissue by recluse spider venom
- Yong Ge, Eller College of Management, Management Information Systems, Analyzing Circulating Metabolites for Predicting Cardiopulmonary Diseases
- Chris Lim, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Community, Environment, and Policy, Modeling air pollution and traffic compositions in Tucson
- Ute Lotz-Heumann, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Department of History / Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, Samuel Pepys’s Social Network in 17th-century London
- Jeffrey Pyun, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Liquefication of Elemental Chalcogens and Chalcogenide Glasses: A New Route to Highly Transparent Inorganic Polymers for Infrared Optics
- John Ruiz, Science, Psychology, Blood collections in Latinx/Hispanic communities.
- Jennifer Stern, College of Medicine-Tucson, Medicine - Division of Endocrinology,Exacerbating Liver GABA Production, a Model of Accelerated Aging
- Guang Yao, Science, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Epitranscriptomic analysis of a novel quiescence-to-senescence transition in cellular aging
2022-2023
- Purnima Madhivanan, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Health Promotion Sciences, Building a UA Research Collaboration around the PISTACHIO BIRTH COHORT
- Robert Wilson, Science, Psychology, Personalized force guidance using reinforcement learning with learning optimization in surgical skills training
- John Jewett, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, New strategies for mosquito larvicides
- Pavel Polynkin, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Feasibility assessment for the laser-based remote detection of viruses in human exhaled breath
- Frank Duca, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Animal & Comparative Biomedical Science, Utilizing novel techniques to understand gut-brain neural connections that control food intake
- Amit Ashok, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, Optical Sciences, Fundamental Limits of Robust Imaging and Sensing
- Kaveh Laksari, Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Association of cerebrovascular tortuosity with cerebral amyloid angiopathy and Alzheimer's disease
- Brian Enquist, Science, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Using a trait-based approach to understand desert plant resilience to aridity and future climate change
- John Streicher, College of Medicine-Tucson, Pharmacology, Development of Clinically Translatable 18F-Radiotracers for In Vivo Detection of TPSO in Age-Related Alzheimer's disease by Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging
2021-2022
- No competition
2020-2021
- Debra Guinn, College of Medicine-Tucson, OBGYN, Arizona Prenatal Infection with SARS-CoV2, Transmission dynamics, and Childhood Health/Immunity Outcomes (Az-PISTACHIO)
- Justin Hyatt, Science, Steward Observatory, A Satellite Command Station for UArizona
- Mark Kear, Social & Behavioral Sciences, School of Geography, Development & the Environment, Heat, Housing, and Health: Convergent Exposure and Thermal Insecurity in Mobile and Manufactured Housing
- Laura Meredith, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources & the Environment, Harvesting water in the desert: risks and mitigation of pathogen invasion in soils in water-saving retention and reuse applications
- David Moore, Agriculture & Life Sciences, School of Natural Resources & the Environment, Advancing innovative and transformative ecological science
- Jarrod Mosier, College of Medicine-Tucson, Emergency Medicine, A Novel Mixed-Reality Simulation System for Improving Patient Safety During Difficult Airway Management
- Barry Pryor, Agriculture & Life Sciences, Plant Sciences, Creating Bioregenerative Closed-loop Food Production Systems
- Jeffrey Pyun, Science, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Computational Chemistry and Machine Learning for Accelerated Discovery of Long Wave Infrared Transparent Plastics: A Route to Inexpensive IR Thermal Imaging Cameras
- Rochelle Rodrigo, Social & Behavioral Sciences, English, Researching the Impacts of an Online Readability Lab in First Year Undergraduate and Graduate Learning