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About the University of California Research Funding

The University of California Office of the President's Research Grants Program Office (RGPO) supports research that is critical to California, the nation and the world. RGPO programs enhance UC’s research capacity and excellence, which helps attract top faculty, graduate students, government funding and companies to our state. Within this office, UC Research Initiatives (UCRI) offer unique opportunities for collaboration and seed funding across the full breadth of academic disciplines and scholarship at UC, from the arts and humanities to engineering, natural sciences, social sciences, education and medicine.

Five types of programs form the core of the current UCRI portfolio:

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UC-Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI)

MRPI funding supports innovative multicampus research collaborations that strengthen UC’s position as a leading public research university.

About the UC-Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI)

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UC-HSI Doctoral Diversity Initiative

The UC-Hispanic Serving Institutions Doctoral Diversity Initiative (UC-HSI DDI) aims to enhance faculty diversity and pathways to the professoriate for underrepresented students from California Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs)

About the UC-HSI Doctoral Diversity Initiative

UC-HSI Resources

UCOP UC-HBCU Initiative

Through the UC-HBCU Initiative, the UC seeks to improve diversity and strengthen UC graduate programs by investing in relationships between UC faculty and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

About the UCOP UC-HBCU Initiative

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