Panther RISE Grant Program
Request for ProposalsA collaboration between Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University, the PRISE program encourages productive research and scholarly collaborations to better position our faculties to pursue multidisciplinary research and innovation projects.
Proposal Deadline: May 30, 2025
PRISE Program Overview
The Panther RISE (PRISE) program was established in 2021 as a joint seed funding program to support and enhance productive scholarly collaborations between Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) and Texas A&M University. Administered jointly by the Texas A&M Division of Research and PVAMU Division of Research & Innovation and with funding support from The Texas A&M University System and the Texas A&M Division of Research, we are pleased to announce the 2025 PRISE Request for Proposals: the fifth year of the program.
As federal funding agencies continue to prioritize collaborative and interdisciplinary research of national and global importance, the PRISE program should be viewed as a seed funding opportunity for researchers at the two institutions to advance innovative research and leveraging of extramural funding. Please note that PRISE funding cannot be used to support research activities that are not in alignment with federal and state policies.
Key Dates for 2025
- April 9, 2025Release of PRISE Request for Proposals
- May 30, 2025Proposal Deadline
- June-July 2025Proposal Evaluation by Review Committee
- August 2025Decision/PI Notifications
- Oct. 1, 2025Award State Date
Award Selection and Funding
Teams selected for funding will receive $40,000 total, with $20,000 provided to the PVAMU principal investigator by PVAMU and $20,000 total to the Texas A&M principal investigator by Texas A&M. Funding decisions will be made through a review process. The guidelines for the PRISE Grant Program as defined by PVAMU are outlined in the RFP.
Eligibility
The PRISE program is open to tenured/tenure-track faculty members from all disciplines at both institutions. To apply to this program, two faculty investigators (one from each institution) must collaborate and submit a joint research/creative/scholarly proposal, following the guidelines provided in this announcement.
Research Themes
Proposals supporting the following thrust areas are encouraged.
- Community and Economic Resilience
- Emerging Technologies and Innovation
- Health and Quality of Life
- National Security
- Space Exploration
- Sustainability and Environment
Finding Collaborators at Both Institutions
PVAMU collaborators can be identified using the following sources
Prairie View A&M
Prairie View A&M collaborators can be identified using the following sources.
Texas A&M
Texas A&M collaborators can be identified using the following sources
Requirements
- An investigator from either institution may participate in only one proposal. Submission of multiple proposals by the same investigator will result in the disqualification of the proposals.
- Current awardees (PIs) of an active PRISE grant are not eligible to submit a PRISE proposal (as PI) this year.
- All proposals to be funded will be reviewed for research compliance requirements (including
IRB, IACUC, IBC, and Export Control requirements, as appropriate). Funds will be released only
after appropriate compliance requirements have been met. - The investigator team is expected to submit a report to the PRISE program at the completion of
the project outlining the outputs, outcomes, and impact of the project. - The investigator team is expected to submit a collaborative proposal to an external funding
agency by Fall 2027. - Previous PRISE awardees whose awards have ended but have not submitted a collaborative
proposal seeded by (or related to) the PRISE funding to an external funding agency are not
eligible for this competition. - No-cost extensions are not permitted. Unspent grant funds will be returned to the PRISE program.
Prairie View A&M Budget Guidelines
- Total budget should be $20,000.
- Allowable expenses include hardware/software, graduate and undergraduate student salaries/wages, graduate student tuition, travel funds, and supplies.
- At least $10,000 of the budget must be used for graduate student support.
- Please provide a one-paragraph justification of your budget.
- Please make your budget for 20 months (Oct. 1, 2025 – May 31, 2027).
Texas A&M Budget Guidelines
- Total budget should be $20,000.
- Allowable expenses include hardware/software, graduate and undergraduate student salaries/wages, graduate student tuition, travel funds, and supplies.
- No Texas A&M faculty salaries are allowed.
- Please provide a one-paragraph justification of your budget.
- Please make your budget for 20 months (Oct. 1, 2025 – May 31, 2027).
Proposal Submission
PRISE proposals must be submitted as PDF files via the InfoReady portal by May 30, 2025. All elements
of the proposal (summary, project description, leverage of prior support, required letters, and budget must
be submitted by one of the two investigators (on behalf of the proposal team).
Frequently Asked Questions
Current awardees (i.e., those with an active PRISE grant) may not be awarded a new grant until successful completion of their funded project. PRISE is a seed funding program. An important measurement of its success is the leverage of additional funding from extramural sources. Investigators with prior PRISE funding must provide a list of extramurally funded proposals/awards leveraged.
The PRISE program is designed to support training of graduate students. The 2024 PRISE Grant Program is expected to fund up to 10 teams working on projects of mutual interest. Teams will consist of one Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) tenured/tenure track faculty member, one PVAMU graduate student, one Texas A&M tenured/tenure track faculty member and one Texas A&M graduate student.
The PRISE program is designed to facilitate collaboration between faculty members at Texas A&M University and Prairie View A&M University.
Allowable expenses include graduate and undergraduate student salaries/wages, graduate student tuition, travel funds and research supplies.
Texas A&M and PVAMU made the decision (at the beginning of the program in 2021) to restrict eligibility to tenured/tenure-track faculty members at both institutions. PVAMU has maintained this eligibility restriction for their faculty.
Upon further consideration, Texas A&M has expanded PRISE eligibility to Texas A&M professors of practice who have a significant (i.e., 25% or more) research appointment, an active research program, and research responsibilities in their department (i.e. annual performance expectations must include research performance). Professors of practice or other instructional faculty members with no significant research appointment or responsibilities are ineligible. Note that confirmation of research appointment or responsibilities by the unit head via an email to vpr@tamu.edu (also attached to the PRISE proposal) is required for eligibility.
Only tenured/tenure track faculty and Texas A&M professors of practice with a significant research appointment and research responsibilities are eligible to apply.
Contact
Henry Fadamiro
Associate Vice President for Research, Strategic Initiatives Office of the Vice President for Research Division of Research- henry.fadamiro@tamu.edu
- (979) 845-8585