This fund will provide financial support for up to three years for seminars based on new intellectual groupings. To be eligible for funding, seminars must draw on faculty scholars from at least two schools. Seminars that include Penn graduate or undergraduate students will be particularly welcome as will seminars with participation from the non-academic community outside the University. The fund will provide each seminar with from $10,000 to $25,000 (depending on documented need) a year for up to three years. Funding in the second and third years is subject to success in the previous years. Success is defined as growing attendance, publications, general visibility and other evidence of intellectual progress. Each proposal must contain criteria by which its success can be judged.
Applications to the Provost's Interdisciplinary Seminar Fund should contain:
The completed application should be at the office of the Vice Provost for Research, 212 College Hall/6381, by 5 p.m. on Friday, February 2, 1996. A committee will review the applications and funded proposals will be announced by mid-March.
-- Ralph Amado, Acting Vice Provost for Research
Ed. Note: Other grant opportunities for scholars are in this issue: grants for faculty to conduct cancer-related research projects, and scholarships to help cover the cost of conducting research in France.
Almanac
Tuesday, December 5, 1995
Volume 42 Number 14