Graduate Research and Creative Activity (GRACA)

GRACA proposals were accepted on a rolling basis until funding ran out.

If you are looking for additional funding resources, please consider using GrantForward to search for external funding opportunities.

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What is UNO’s GRACA Grant?

Graduate Research and Creative Activity (GRACA) grants support faculty-mentored graduate student research and creative activity.

Grants of up to $5,000 per student are available to currently enrolled UNO graduate students.

Eligibility is restricted to those UNO graduate students (and students from other NU programs) who pay their tuition through UNO.

Please read the guidelines and FAQs for additional details about GRACA.

View sample proposals

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until funding runs out. There is no specific deadline for GRACA applications, but we recommend students apply as early as possible.

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GRACA Guidelines

View the 2024-2025 GRACA guidelines

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The GRACA Application

Have you spoken with a Scholarship Team Member in the The Office of Financial Support and Scholarships about how a GRACA award may impact your financial aid or scholarship package? If not, we strongly advise all students do this BEFORE applying for GRACA.

The GRACA competition is run through NuRamp. You will need your NetID and password to log in.

As a reminder, you may need your faculty mentor to assist you in completing the "compliance" section of the application as there are additional questions you may not be able to answer on your own.

Compliance Approvals

If the proposed project involves any form of work with human subjects or their personal data (including interviews), vertebrate animals, and/or biohazardous materials, the student and mentor must obtain either approval or a waiver from the IRB (human subjects), IACUC (vertebrate animals), and/or IBC (biohazards). If you are unsure whether or not this applies to the proposed project, visit one of the following websites to confirm:

1. IRB for those working with human subjects or their personal data. Be sure to complete the “Does My Project Require IRB Review?” questionnaire, even if you don’t think your project will need it.
   1. The IRB now has open office hours! Click here for more information.
2. IACUC for those working with live vertebrate animals.
3. IBC for those working with biohazardous materials.

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Sample Proposals

College	Department	Title
AS	Political Science	A Study on Anger in Politics: How Political Candidate Diversity Affects The Perceptions of their Anger Expressions
AS	Biology	Fire Frequency and Genetics of Great Plains Bees
AS	Psychology	Effects of Nerve Transection on Taste Nerve Function
AS	English	Analyzing Multimodal Projects in the UNO Composition Classroom
AS	Sociology & Anthropology	Singing for Our Lives: The Motivations of Millenials in Queer Choruses
AS	Mathematics	The Impact of Plug-In Electric Vehicles Users Charging Behavior on Electric Grid
BA	Finance, Banking, & Real Estate	Exploring and Developing Effective Team Behaviors: An Analysis of Emerging Business Professionals
BA	Marketing/Management	Malevolent Creativity: An Analysis of Far-Left Extremist Online Communiques
CFAM	School of the Arts	Creating an Omaha Fringe Festival
CEHHS	H&K	Impact of Muscle Temperature on Muscle Growth and Breakdown at Rest: Influence of Local Muscle Cooling on Mitochondrial Related Gene Expression
CEHHS	Special Education & Communication Disorders	University Instruction on Dyslexia: Implication of Legislative Bill 1052
CEHHS	Biomechanics	Force Production Variability during Leg Press Exercise in ACL Reconstruction Patients
CPACS	Gerontology	Retirement Planning and Preparation in the COVID-19 Era: A Holistic Approach
CPACS	School of Public Administration	Quieted Voices: A Phenomenological analysis of the experiences of Black/African-American collegiate aviation students
CPACS	Criminology and Criminal Justice	Investigating Racial Disparities Among Missing/Runaway Youth on a National Scale
IST	Computer Science	SWAN: Distributed Analytics and Smart WorkloadPrediction with Scalable Wide Area Network
IST	SI2	Computational Tools for Developing Peptide-based Viral Inhibitors