WelchX Retreat
WelchX Retreat and Pilot Grants
| Applications Open | Application Deadline | Participants Announced |
| February 1 | March 1 | April 1 |
Pilot Grants
| Application Portal Opens | Application Deadline | Award Announced |
| June 21 | July 9 | August |
Welch eXperimental (WelchX) Collaboration Retreats
This program aims to bring together Texas researchers to topically focused chemistry meetings and stimulate them to ideate on challenging issues of our time. Early-to mid-career tenured faculty will be invited to this fully in-person summer meeting to stimulate collaborations that foster lasting connections among the participants, thus increasing the density of research ties across Texas and spurring the growth of basic research in the chemical sciences.
The theme for the 2024 WelchX collaboration retreat is:
"Chemistry of Life"
The retreat will take place Monday, June 17 - Thursday, June 20 at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center in Austin.
Participation in WelchX is by invitation only. To participate, you must first apply and be selected by the WelchX organizing committee. WelchX retreat participants are eligible to develop the collaborative concepts they design at the retreat into funding proposals to be considered for WelchX collaborative Pilot Grants of up to $100,000 for 12 months.
Applications accepted February 1, 2024-March 1, 2024.
WelchX Pilot Grant List
The current WelchX Pilot Grant list as of December 31, 2023 is now available below.