Faculty Research Grants

DEADLINE:
The third week of each Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters:
  • Monday, October 3, 2011
  • Monday, January 16, 2012
  • Monday, April 9, 2012

Awards are announced at the end of each quarter.

OVERVIEW:
Faculty Research Grants are intended to support the research and creative projects of faculty in fields for which there is little or no external funding or start-up money available.  Awards are restricted to those in:

  • Divisions II and III (social sciences and humanities) of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
  • School of Communication
  • School of Education and Social Policy
  • Bienen School of Music

   
ELIGIBILITY:

  • Regular full-time faculty, including tenure-track or tenured faculty at the assistant professor level or above. (Regular faculty is defined as voting members of the faculty of the school in which they hold their appointment. Specifically excluded from eligibility are emeritus faculty, part-time adjunct faculty, research faculty, visiting faculty, contributed service faculty, faculty whose contracts will not be renewed for the following year, and faculty who plan to resign their appointments or retire.)
  • Professional library staff members
  • Artists in Residence or lecturers with continuing appointments
  • Postdoctoral fellows with at least a one-year appointment at the University
  • For individual projects, the highest priority is the provision of seed money for new projects by new faculty in all ranks, but especially junior faculty. Awards are granted to more established senior faculty in fields for which there is little or no external funding available.
  • Requests for supplemental funding for ongoing projects will not be disallowed, but they will receive a lower priority than new projects and require more elaborate budgetary justification than requests for start-up money. 
  • The maximum award for individual projects is $5,000.
  • Recipients are limited to one research grant per year.


INSTRUCTIONS:
Please carefully read the detailed award information and application instructions.

All completed, department approved applications must be collected into a single pdf file and submitted to the online fellowship tool by the person designated to be the TGS nominator for the department/program. 

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