2023 Opportunity Award 

Eligibility -

• Any UCI graduate student or postdoctoral researcher (including project scientists, specialists etc), who is present at the retreat, may submit one or more proposals.

• Any pair (or trio) of individuals who meet the above criteria may jointly submit a proposal (at least one of them must be present at the retreat).

Project Requirements -

• The proposed project must be a short-term (up to 1 year), feasible research investigation that answers a question related to this year's theme.

• It must be interdisciplinary: it must involve participation from at least two lab/research groups representing different disciplines or departments. 

• It must be a "new" project, and it must address the year's theme.

• Your advisor/PI must agree to let you work on the project.

• You/your team are expected to attend next year's retreat and give a presentation on your progress (retreat registration fees are waived for opportunity awardees).

Prize! 

• Eternal glory 

• To the winner: a total of $500 toward a valid educational or research expense (laptop, books, meeting travel, etc.). If a winning team has two pr more entrants, they will split $1,000. 

• To the involved research groups: $10,000 in opportunity funds to carry out the proposed research.

• Waived registration for those presenting at next year's retreat.

To submit -

• Step 1 - BEFORE 5:00 pm on Wednesday, 4/5, hand in (or e-mail) to Emi, a one paragraph abstract (can even be handwritten) briefly describing the nature of the project.

• Step 2 - Send a more complete description (up to 3 pages) by e-mail to eembler@uci.edu by MIDNIGHT Monday, 4/17.

*The proposals will be judged by the CCBS faculty based on significance, interdisciplinarity, feasibility, responsiveness to theme. *