Summary
Proposals to cover the costs of travel and instrument use fees incurred in the use of the jurisdiction’s shared research facilities. The Core User Facilities (CUF) program will be administered through the BoR’s Office of Research and Sponsored
Initiatives and will operate under the guidance of the State’s EPSCoR Committee. This funding opportunity is made possible through the Louisiana Networks of Excellence for Tomorrow (LA-NEXT) project which is funded by the US National Science Foundation’s EPSCoR Collaborations for Optimizing Research Ecosystems (E-CORE) program through a four-year (2025-2029) grant to the Louisiana Board of Regents. This RFP is designed to facilitate science and engineering (S&E) research, education and training opportunities for faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate and undergraduate students by providing access for qualified proposals to the CUF. Preference may be given to projects aligned with the research priorities of the State Science & Technology (S&T) plan but all projects that
utilize CUF instrumentation and expertise are eligible for consideration.