University of Texas at Arlington, Intensity Frontier
Award ID:
Award Title:
Graduate Instrumentation Research Award (GIRA) 2025
Award Type:
Student programs
Location:
Arlington, Texas 76010, United States of America
Subject Areas:
Appl Deadline:
2025/08/01 11:59PM
(posted 2025/04/03, listed until 2025/10/01)
(posted 2025/04/03, listed until 2025/10/01) Description:
Description
The GIRA program aims to encourage and facilitate greater involvement of physics graduate students in significant instrumentation development, to boost recognition of instrumentation work as a vital part of PhD training, to foster the growth of future HEP instrumentation experts in the US, and to strengthen university-lab ties on instrumentation development. GIRA has been established by the Coordination Panel for Advanced Detectors (CPAD), a standing committee of The Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society. The GIRA program aims to award one or two proposals to be funded by the DOE Office of High Energy Physics. Additional proposals may receive honorable mentions. The award will provide a stipend of $45,000 per year. The award is renewable for 2 consecutive years total. Renewal for a third year will only be considered under exceptional circumstances The addition of a tuition supplement will be determined by OHEP on a case-by-case basis, with a cap of $65,000 on the total including a stipend. The proposal must be for a graduate student to conduct research on high energy physics instrumentation, to be carried out mainly in the US at a university or at one of the following national labs: ANL, BNL, FNAL, LANL, LBNL, LLNL, ORNL, PNNL or SLAC. The applicant must name a faculty or staff mentor. Even if the work is not to be carried out at one of the labs, the project should include a staff partner from one of these labs. This may or may not be the same person as the mentor. Only students enrolled in accredited US Physics PhD programs are eligible to submit a proposal (only one proposal per applicant is allowed). Students must be already enrolled in order to apply. It is expected that most students applying will be in their 2nd or 3rd year, but there is no hard requirement beyond being enrolled. The start date of the fellowship can be chosen within 6 months of the award date. The student may not take classes for credit during the performance period, as the award is for full time research. Auditing and professional training courses are allowed, as this may be necessary for instrumentation work. There is no obligation to seek renewal; some projects and student research plans may be satisfied with just one year of instrumentation work, while others may call for two or more. The maximum expected award duration is two years with a third-year renewal only in exceptional cases. Complete application packages including mentor and lab partner letters must be submitted by 08/01/2025 Applications should include 1) Cover Letter 2) Curriculum Vitae 3) Research Proposal (3 pages max, references not included in the page count) 4) Supporting Letter from Research Mentor 5) Supporting Letter from Lab partner 6) Unofficial Transcripts The expected measure of performance is one instrumentation publication per year of the award in a refereed journal or proceeding. Renewal of the GIRA award (if sought) requires no additional review as long as performance is met and the awardee contacts the GIRA panel and submits a `progress report’ which contains an abstract, summary of accomplishments, work plan for the renewal year, and list of all talks and publications made. Renewal instructions will be provided with the award. For renewal to a second year, the student may submit a progress report and publication plan in lieu of a publication. Renewal for a third year in extremely unlikely and will only be considered for an extremely strong case under exceptional circumstances.Application Materials Required:
Submit the following items online at this website to complete your application:
- Cover letter
- Curriculum Vitae
- Research Proposal
- Supporting Letter from Research Mentor
- Supporting Letter from Lab partner
- Unofficial Transcripts
- Two reference letters (to be submitted online by the reference writers on this site )
And anything else requested in the description.
Further Info:
University of Texas at Arlington
108 Science Hall
502 Yates St
Arlington, TX 76019
108 Science Hall
502 Yates St
Arlington, TX 76019