A number of central administration offices as well as schools, colleges, and departments provide funds to support research, scholarship, and other creative activity. Support is most often available to seed projects in the early stages of development, encourage interdisciplinary work, help purchase equipment, provide bridging support between periods of externally supported work, offset some costs of publication and artistic productions and performances, and provide cost-sharing funds that sponsors may require. Online sources list internal sources of support, including “Find Funding” on the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) website , and “Funding” on the Rackham Graduate School website.  The unit administrator in most schools and colleges also has information about sources of support.

Faculty members are urged to contact their unit administrator and ORSP project representatives for assistance with identifying potential sponsors of research, scholarship, and other creative activity. The Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) maintains a list of sources of support on its “Find Funding” site.

The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) facilitates partnerships between first and second year students and U-M faculty and research scientists. All schools and colleges of the University of Michigan are active participants. UROP pays student wages, provides academic credit options, and manages paperwork. See http://www.lsa.umich.edu/urop for more information.

U-M has 85+ Research Cores across campus giving researchers cost effective access to cutting-edge technologies, services and expertise. Research cores, also known as core facilities or shared resources, are units within U-M that provide services and equipment to researchers on a fee-for-service basis with a focus on direct costs and a requirement to work under a break-even finance model. Most are open to the entire U-M research community regardless of which school or department they or the researcher call home. For more information on research cores, the Research Cores Office and operating a core visit the U-M Research Cores website, cores.research.umich.edu.

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Computing support for scholarship and research comes from many sources:

• The Center for Statistical Consultation and Research (CSCAR) is administratively located in the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) and is available to assist with study design, selection of statistical methodology, and interpretation and presentation of results.
• Information and Technology Services (ITS) has primary responsibility for a wide range of services and infrastructure requirements.
  • For more information, see Chapter 20, “Technology and Communications,” or the ITS website.
• Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR) can assist with all aspects of research from building a team to disseminating results.
• Michigan Institute for Data & AI in Society (MIDAS)
• U-M Research Cores office