GRANTS FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY AND RESEARCH PROGRAM--GEAR UP [Updated 28 May 2009]

The purpose of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Grants for Entrepreneurial Activity and Research Program [GEAR UP] is to provide funding to support faculty and staff research and scholarship as well as entrepreneurial activities that will generate new sources of revenue for the campus.

The Grants for Entrepreneurial Activity and Research (GEAR UP) Program has been temporarily suspended.

Application Deadline	Project Period	Review Decision Notification
February 1, Annually	July 01 to June 30	May

If the deadline falls on a weekend, proposals are due the following Monday.

REVISED Complete Request for Proposals (Instructions and Forms--includes new Out-of-State Travel Approval Request Form)
Required ORSP Transmittal Form
REVISED Request for Proposals (Instructions ONLY--includes references to new Out-of-State Travel Approval Request Form)
NEW Out-of-State Travel Approval Request Form (required if proposal includes request for out-of-state travel funds)
Budget Form Only
UW-Whitewater Growth Agenda

2008-2009 GEAR UP FELLOWS
Principal Investigator/Department: Title	Project Period	Award
Julie Cross/Music: Recording Project: Women of Song	01 Oct 2008 to 30 Sep 2009	$5,000
Manohar Madan & Tom Bramorski/Management: Pilot Grant: Needs Assessment and Market Analysis for non-credit Courses	01 Oct 2008 to 30 Sep 2009	$4,000
David Welsch/Economics: For Profit versus Not-for-Profit Charter Schools	01 Oct 2008 to 30 Sep 2009	$5,000
John Chenoweth/ITBE: Wisconsin Center for Information Technology Services	01 July 2008 to 30 June 2009	$5,000
Elisabeth Harrahy/Biological Sciences: Triclocarbon in Surface Waters and its Toxicity to Ceriodaphnia dubia	01 July 2008 to 30 June 2009	$5,000
Maxwell Hsu/Marketing: Support for Attending a Research-Related Training Seminar at Texas A&M University	01 July 2008 to 30 June 2009	$1,690
Russel Kashian/Economics: Weather Derivatives: Are They a Successful Risk Manangement Approach for Counties and Municipalities?	01 July 2008 to 30 June 2009	$1,355
William Mickelson/Mathematical and Computer Sciences: Development and Validation of a Listening Components and Behaviors Scale	01 July 2008 to 30 June 2009	$3,875
Jimmy Peltier/Marketing: Entrepreneurship Curriculum Outreach	01 July 2008 to 30 June 2009	$3,800
David Van Doren/Counselor Education: Identifying the Need for Counseling Services in the Tri-County Region	01 July 2008 to 30 June 2009	$4,900
F. Peter Wagner/Political Sciences: Citizens into Subjects? Romania's EU Security Politics and Policies and their Impact on Romanian Democracy and Democratization	01 July 2008 to 30 June 2009	$5,000
Michael Woller/Biological Sciences: Release of GnRH Isoforms from  Hypothalamic Explants of 6 Species of Trout and Salmon	01 July 2008 to 30 June 2009	$5,000
2008 GEAR UP FELLOWS
Principal Investigator/Department: Title	Project Period	Award
Richard Cummings/Accounting: Continuation of Public Use Tax Form (P.U.T.F.)	01 Jan 2008 to 31 Dec 2008	$4,200
Kris Curran/Biological Sciences: Characterization of the Ontogeny of the Circadian System in the Xenopus retina	01 Jan 2008 to 31 Dec 2008	$3,961
Robert Kuzoff/Biological Sciences: Functional Divergence among Ovule Regulatory Genes in Distantly Related Crop Species	01 Jan 2008 to 31 Dec 2008	$5,000
Leda Nath/Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice: Comparative Workplace Policy, Family, and the Luxembourg Income Study	01 Jan 2008 to 31 Dec 2008	$4,187
2007-2008 GEAR UP FELLOWS
Principal Investigator/Department: Title	Project Period	Award
Kirsten Crossgrove/Biological Sciences: The Role of Nuclear Receptors and Cytocrhome   P45 Enzymes in Dauer Recovery in Caenorhabditis elegans	01 Aug 2007 to 31 July 2008	$5,000
Jeff Herriott/Music: People in Glass Houses - A New Interactive Composition for CONTACT Contemporary Music	01 Aug 2007 to 31 July 2008	$2,500