All investigators and co-investigators must have been members of the Virginia Academy of Science for six months at the time of application. If a graduate student applies, the student’s major professor must be a co-investigator.
The research must be carried out in the state of Virginia or sponsored by an institution in the state.
The investigator need not be affiliated with any particular type of institution (public, private, academic, industrial, etc.).
Publications resulting from these funds must acknowledge support from the Virginia Academy of Science.
Deadline for receipt of applications will be Feb 1. Notices of awards will be made about March 1.
$11,500 in funds is available for Small Project Research Grants in 2025. The Virginia Academy of Science anticipates awarding 2 to 5 awards of $1,250 to $5,000, but will consider requests up to $10,000.
Preference is given to initiation of projects (“seed money”).
Proposals for work to update or extend information on natural systems in Virginia and on human impacts on those natural systems are encouraged. Examples of past work that could be updated were published in The James River Basin: Past, Present, and Future and in The Great Dismal Swamp. The Great Dismal Swamp was published by the University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville for the Old Dominion University Research Foundation.
The authorized institutional representative must sign off on the proposal and indicate how funds are to be transmitted, should the proposal be successful.
Grant recipients must submit a final report accounting for how the funds were used, and a summary of the research results obtained, to the Executive Officer (vasoffice@vacadsci.org) within one year of grant disbursement.
