Application for Support as a UAB Institutional Core Facility
The UAB Institutional Core Facility Program is intended to promote the development and operation of outstanding Core
Facilities that can serve the needs of UAB investigators. The program is designed to assist cores in developing sound
business plans, developing and maintaining robust standard operating and quality assurance procedures, providing
customer-focused service to facilitate the advancement of scholarship, and to assist in maintaining the financial stability
of the core.
Designation as a UAB Institutional Core Facility carries with it the mandate to:
 Provide investigators with outstanding and responsive services;
 Provide a venue for collaborations among investigators across unit boundaries;
 Facilitate the recruitment and retention of faculty;
 Provide training for faculty, staff and students in the use of equipment and Core-specific methods;
 Enhance the research mission of the institution through Core-based education or outreach activities;
 Develop long term plans to ensure that the Core will be able to adapt to the changing needs of the user base.
TIMELINE FOR APPLICATION SUBMISSION, REVIEW PROCESS, AND FUNDING
May 8, 2015
RFA released
June 15, 2015
Applications submitted to OVPRED by 5:00 PM
June 20, 2015
Applications distributed to Advisory Panel
July 15, 2015
Advisory Panel recommendations submitted to the VPR and representatives from
schools.
August 1, 2015
Start date for funding
ELIGIBILITY
Specific criteria must be met in order to be eligible for designation as a UAB Institutional Core. These are:
 Cores must be available to all investigators on campus
 Cores must have a minimum of 20 unique extramurally funded users/yr
 Cores must be able to demonstrate community engagement, e.g. organization of workshops, symposia, or
courses
INSTRUCTIONS
Complete the application below in 11-point font with no less than 0.5” margins. Please adhere to the space limitation
for each item. Call or email Dr. Kent Keyser (934-7757; ktkeyser@uab.edu) with questions about the application.
Completed applications must be submitted to Dr. Keyser 5:00 PM, June 15, 2015.
BODY OF THE APPLICATION
1. Summary – On up to two pages, provide an overview of the Core, including its mission, leadership, oversight (for
example internal or external advisory committees – list members), and a list of services currently offered. List Pseries grants (start and end dates) that support the Core, etc. Briefly describe the UAB-centric enrichment
activities such as workshops, symposia, faculty, student, and staff development activities, classes, etc., that the
Core has supported since 04/01/2012. On a separate page, please include a list of funded Core users during the
past 12 months who have provided fiscal support to the Core.
2. Current Core Operating Budget
Current budget
10/01/13 -09/30/14
Income
Center support
School support
Department support
Extramural funding (e.g. P grant - specify)
User fees
Other (if applicable)
Total Income
Expenses
Personnel expenses
Director
Assoc. Director(s)
Core staff (list below)
Operating expenses
Supplies
Preventive maintenance or maintenance
contract costs
Methodology or technology development costs
(explain below)
Seminar or workshop attendance (explain
below)
Faculty, staff, and student enrichment (on
campus workshops, courses, etc. explain below)
Other
Total Expenses
Balance (surplus or shortfall)
10/01/14 – 03/31/15
2. A. List of Core personnel with % effort, and additional table explanations as needed
3. Requested amount, and justification. Please include information such as potential changes in the status of P grant
funding, and other details.