Accomplishments
Computing, Data Science & Access To Civil Justice
Project orchestrators Professor J.J. Prescott and Dr. Meghan O'Neil were selected to participate in a National Science Foundation workshop
2018 INNOVATE Competition
Project won the 2018 INNOVATE public service competition and received the Judge's Choice Award.
ODR and Recovery Video: Court, Community, and Tech Partners Remove Barriers to Recovery with ODR
Project was featured in a Matterhorn webinar which included key members of Washtenaw County: Judah B. Garber, Lisa Fusik, and Jason Schwartz.
Videos
About Mcubed
The University of Michigan's Revolutionary Way of Funding Research
Mcubed stimulates innovative research and scholarship by distributing real-time seed funding to multi-unit, faculty-led teams.
Through this first-of-its-kind research funding program, faculty from at least two different campus units can form a collaborative trio, or “cube,” and request either $60K or $15K to advance their idea right away.
Housed in the University of Michigan Office of Research (UMOR), Mcubed is part of the Third Century Initiative, established by the president and provost. Building upon U-M's excellence and spirit of cooperation across disciplines, Mcubed makes great ideas go!
News & Announcements
The Health Sciences Council and the Center for Interprofessional Education have partnered with Mcubed to fund five interdisciplinary teams with goals of improving post ICU patient outcomes to improving cross cultural attitudes among health care providers, and more.
For the first time, Mcubed has distributed funding to faculty from all three University of Michigan campuses.
Since UM-Flint enlisted in Mcubed 3.0 last fall, U-M faculty can form collaborative trios, or “cubes,” across or within the Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses. Faculty from all three sites have been mapped onto a common set of disciplinary units, and each cube must include at least two different units.
Through Mcubed’s unique token-based peer review process, the cube teams can secure $15,000 or $60,000 to advance their innovative research or scholarship right away.
Mcubed was launched as a grassroots effort by a team of faculty members to help catalyze innovative research projects without traditional peer review. The conventional grant review process often takes months and can prove too big a hurdle for a new team with a novel idea to clear.
As part of Mcubed, faculty from at least two different units can form a collaborative trio, or cube, and request either $15,000 or $60,000 to advance their idea right away.
Mcubed 3.0, which runs from 2018-2020 is now open! Requests for the second distribution of cubes must be complete by Wednesday, February 6th at 12 noon. For more information on how to form a cube, read here.
Testimonials
