<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1.7pt; border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr style="height: 3.95pt;"><td width="626" valign="top" style="width: 470.9pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; height: 3.95pt;"><p class="SponsorTitle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19.786666870117188px;"><br></p><p class="SponsorTitle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19.786666870117188px;">This may be of interest to some Best Bits members…</p><p class="SponsorTitle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19.786666870117188px;"><br></p><p class="SponsorTitle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19.786666870117188px;">Google | <a href="https://research.google.com/research-outreach.html#/research-outreach/faculty-engagement/faculty-research-awards" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">Faculty Research Awards</a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 28.2pt;"><td width="626" valign="top" style="width: 470.9pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; height: 28.2pt;"><p class="Sponsordeadline" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; text-align: justify; background-color: white; color: red; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15.546667098999023px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sponsor Full Application Deadline: <strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Saturday, September 30, 2017 (11:59 p.m. PDT = 2:59 a.m. EDT on Sunday, September 31)</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p class="OSRdeadline" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; text-align: justify; color: red; line-height: 15.546667098999023px;">OSR internal deadline with mandatory OSR checklist: Monday, September 25, 2017, 10:00 a.m. <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 28.2pt;"><td width="626" valign="top" style="width: 470.9pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; height: 28.2pt;"><p class="ListservSectionTitle" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15.546667098999023px;">Objective:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="ListservSectionContent" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; line-height: 15.546667098999023px;">The Faculty Research Awards Program, sometimes referred to as the Research Awards Program, supports academic research in computer science, engineering, and related fields. Through the program, Google funds world-class research at top universities, facilitate interaction between Google and academia, and support projects whose output will be made openly available to the research community. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Awards are structured as unrestricted gifts to universities and are designed to support roughly the cost of one graduate student for one year of work.</span><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 28.2pt;"><td width="626" valign="top" style="width: 470.9pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; height: 28.2pt;"><p class="ListservSectionTitle" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15.546667098999023px;">Value and Duration:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="ListservSectionContent" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; line-height: 15.546667098999023px;">Most awards are in the 40,000-70,000 USD range. <br>The maximum amount a Principal Investigator can request is 150,000 USD. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="ListservSectionContent" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; line-height: 15.546667098999023px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Faculty Research Awards generally support basic expenses for one student for one year</span>, so budgets are frequently reduced to this level of support. If two universities are involved, we may support one student at each school.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="ListservSectionContent" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; line-height: 15.546667098999023px;">Indirect costs, administrative costs, and overhead should not be included in the budget. It is Google’s policy not to pay for overhead on unrestricted gifts.<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 28.2pt;"><td width="626" valign="top" style="width: 470.9pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; height: 28.2pt;"><p class="ListservSectionTitle" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15.546667098999023px;">Eligibility:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="ListservSectionBullet" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; text-indent: 0cm; line-height: 15.399999618530273px;">Each Principal Investigator and co-PI (if applicable) on a proposal must be a permanent faculty at a university or a degree-granting research institution. Assistant professors, associate professors, and full professors are encouraged to apply. There are no limits on the number of proposals that can be submitted by different Principal Investigators (or co-Principal Investigators) from the same university.<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 66.5pt;"><td width="626" valign="top" style="width: 470.9pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; height: 66.5pt;"><p class="ListservSectionTitle" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15.546667098999023px;">Additional Information:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="ListservSectionBullet" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; text-indent: 0cm; line-height: 15.399999618530273px;">Success rate is approximately 15%. Decisions will be announced approximately 4 months after the submission deadline. Decisions will be communicated to the primary Principal Investigator listed on each proposal as well as announced on the Google Research blog.<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 3.95pt;"><td width="626" valign="top" style="width: 470.9pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; height: 3.95pt;"><p class="ListservSectionBullet" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; text-indent: 0cm; line-height: 15.399999618530273px;"><br></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 28.2pt;"><td width="626" valign="top" style="width: 470.9pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; height: 28.2pt;"><p class="ListservSectionTitle" style="margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15.546667098999023px;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Application </span>guideline<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="ListservSectionBullet" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri Light', sans-serif; text-indent: 0cm; line-height: 15.399999618530273px;"><a href="https://research.google.com/research-outreach.html#/research-outreach/faculty-engagement/faculty-research-awards" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://research.google.com/research-outreach.html#/research-outreach/faculty-engagement/faculty-research-awards</a><br>For more details, please see <a href="https://research.google.com/research-outreach.html#/research-outreach/faq/faculty-research-awards" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">FAQ</a> and <a href="https://research.google.com/research-outreach.html#/research-outreach/faq/proposal-advice" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">Proposal Advice</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></body></html>