The University of Idaho is investing an additional $3 million of institutional funds annually in its efforts to increase research productivity and expand the number of doctoral degrees awarded. This funding, enabled by a public-private partnership on the university’s energy infrastructure, is named the P3-R1 Initiative.

P3-R1 funding will be deployed through three mechanisms:

Matching competitive externally funded grants
Matching new, externally funded endowed fellowships
Strategic initiatives

The purpose of this investment is to incentivize change and incentivize actions that will:

Significantly increase the award of research/scholarship doctoral degrees at U of I
Significantly increase the amount of externally funded research at the U of I
Increase the effective F&A rate of externally funded research at U of I

The P3-R1 Grant Matching Program

The bulk of P3-R1 funding will be deployed as a match on newly awarded, externally funded grants, as described below.

All matches on new awards will be initiated by a request from the lead PI on the award to ORED, by filling out the P3RI Award Form on InfoReady Review.
The P3R1 Committee (Chris Nomura, Brad Ritts, Jerry McMurtry, Ginger Carney, Michael Parrella, Dennis Becker, Brooke Blevins, Suzie Long and Sean Quinlan) meet monthly to approve match distribution.
The P3R1 Committee will consider adjustments to the programs, such as match ratios, as the program progresses.
The P3R1 Committee may consider allowing reallocation of P3R1 funding from doctoral students to postdocs or vice versa on a case-by-case basis.
Matches will be made on first-come basis until funds are committed ; at any time and without notice, matches may be suspended due to availability of funding.
When adjustments to the program are made, including eligibility and award ratios, only new awards will be eligible for the new program levels.
Awards are at the discretion of the P3R1 Committee and VPRED
P3R1 matches will be limited to a maximum of 50% of the total F&A in the sponsored award budget, ORED may adjust this limit at any time.

Doctoral Research Assistantships

One (1) doctoral graduate assistantship for every two (2) fully-funded externally-funded doctoral research assistantships fellowship (a 1:2 match: external ratio)
1. Grant must include full federally negotiated on-campus, industry, or Ag/Forestry experiment station F&A or USDA-limited F&A of 42.5% (on certain USDA grants); grants with off-campus and reduced F&A rates are not eligible.
2. The award must have a minimum of four (4) doctoral student-years fully-funded to qualify (e.g. 2 students for 2 years, 4 students for 1 year minimum)
3. To qualify grant must support full stipend, tuition and fees for all graduate students. Support in the match award will match levels in the externally-funded assistantships

Postdoctoral Fellowships

One (1) Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship is provided to all NSF CAREER grant recipients as well as other prestigious early-career grants (such as DARPA Young Faculty Awards).
One (1) Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship to all PIs who receive an NIH R01 as an assistant professor or within one (1) year of promotion to associate professor.
One (1) Postdoctoral Fellowship for every fully funded externally funded postdoctoral fellowship.
1. Grant must include full federally negotiated on-campus, industry, or Ag/Forestry experiment station F&A or USDA-limited F&A of 42.5% (on certain USDA grants); grants with off-campus and reduced F&A rates are not eligible.
2. The award must have a minimum of one (1) postdoc-year of support to qualify
One (1) Two-Year Postdoctoral support for PIs with at least 4 fully funded Ph.D. students on a single new grant award, such as a large training grant.
1. Grant must include full federally negotiated on-campus, industry, or Ag/Forestry experiment station F&A or USDA-limited F&A of 42.5% (on certain USDA grants); grants with off-campus and reduced F&A rates are not eligible.
2. Grant must fund at least 4 graduate students in each year of the grant and grant program must be at least 36-months.