This Sponsored Project Handbook is designed to provide principal investigators (PIs) and other research and administrative personnel and staff at the University of North Texas (UNT) guidance on:
The Faculty PIs drive the research enterprise at UNT by garnering resources and funding to support their research endeavors and their training of students involved with research. The research enterprise at UNT is overseen by the Vice President of Research and Innovation. The staff within the Division of Research and Innovation (DRI) provide research services support to faculty and researchers so that they are successful in garnering and utilizing resources and funding for research purposes.
Research is comprised of the creative and systematic work undertaken by PIs to increase the stock of knowledge—including knowledge of humankind, culture, and society—and to devise new applications of available knowledge. There are three types of research activity: basic research, applied research, and experimental development. To aid our continuity of being a Hispanic Serving Institute, Carnegie Tier 1 Research Institute, and progress towards national research university status, as defined by the State of Texas, the Division of Research and Innovation is adopting a high standard of best business practices aligned with peer and aspiring institutions.