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University Research Foundation: Conference Support

Also see the University Research Foundation
Guidelines
and Fall 2003 Awards.

The conference support program is designed for scholarly meetings that will be convened on the Penn campus, thereby providing enrichment opportunities to interested faculty, students, and staff, most frequently in the format of a 1-2 day colloquium. The intent is to support meetings that are designed to enhance existing research and scholarly programs, particularly in disciplines where external funding is difficult to obtain. Funding will be limited to no more than $3,000 per event, and should be dedicated to reimbursing the speakers for travel and accommodations, but not for meals and entertainment. It is expected that funding from the University Research Foundation will supplement funding from other sources and will not be the sole source of funding for the meeting. Grants will not become "entitlements" and cannot be renewed in successive years.

Applications for the Conference Support Program will be processed in the same cycles that now are used for URF project applications, (March 15 and November 1) and will be reviewed by the same committees. Applications should be brief, usually no more than 3 pages, and should include:

  • Name and contact information for the applicant, who must be a faculty member (tenure track, research track, or clinician-educator track)
  • A description of the purpose of the meeting
  • A proposed program agenda (appendix)
  • A proposed list of presenters (appendix)
  • The number of Penn students and faculty expected to attend
  • An explanation of the benefit to Penn students and faculty
  • An explanation of the benefit to scholarly or research programs at Penn
  • Relationship of the meeting to department, institute or center programs
  • The names of faculty who are organizing the meeting
  • Identity and contact information for the business administrator who would be responsible for administration of the funds
  • A budget, itemizing the types of proposed expenditures (appendix)
  • Evidence of matching funding from institutional or external sources
  • Evidence of institutional support in the form of no cost facilities and AV support
  • Proposed URF review committee (humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, or biomedical)

Please submit applications in electronic format, MS Word, plus a single hardcopy to Lanese Rogers, larogers@pobox.upenn.edu, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, 118 College Hall, 19104/6303, (215) 898 7236.

 

 


  Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 22, February 17, 2004

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