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The responsibilities formerly handled by the Department's Research Committee are now being handled by the GARC. In this capacity the GARC is charged with recommending to the Chair distribution of monies earned by sponsored research in the Department and accruing in the Indirect Cost Recovery account (currently 1-90270, often called the "Overhead Account"). The specific duties of the Research Committee are:

  1. Make recommendations to the Chair concerning the utilization of the overhead account pertinent to the support of research activities in the Department.

  2. Provide advice to the Chair on requests from Faculty for expenditures of Overhead funds that exceed a faculty-established limit (currently $5,000).

  3. Administer distribution of overhead and non-overhead funds that are awarded to graduate students in support of research. Instructions for application, selection criteria, amounts and due dates will be published as part of the Department’s World Wide Web page. (URL, http://atlantic.evsc.virginia.edu/evsc) Specifically, the awards are:

    • Mini-grants for graduate research. These are awards for conducting research toward a degree by graduate students who have little or no other funding. Awards of up to $1000 may be made by the Research Committee to students applying for such funds.

    • Travel grants for graduate students. Graduate students may apply no more than once per degree for assistance (up to $400 per request) to attend a regional or national meeting at which the student is presenting a paper on work conducted during the graduate tenure in the department.

    • Research Awards: Graduate students may compete for additional research funding from several research prizes. These prizes include the Fred H. Moore Research Awards, The Bannon Award (for coastal research), and the Odum Foundation Award. Currently, the award amounts are up to $2500 for a Ph.D. award and up to $1500 for an M.S. award.

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