Seed Grant Program

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The program’s objectives are to promote research, outreach, and creative activities in all branches of learning that will improve competitiveness for external funding, and/or which will result in publications, patents, or exhibitions/performances appropriate to the PI’s discipline. The purpose of the program is to support early career faculty establishing scholarly program or established faculty transitioning into a new scholarly area, discipline, or interdisciplinary area. Early career faculty are given priority in the review and selection process. The Research Council particularly encourages proposals that cross disciplinary lines. Details are in the Request for Proposals. Proposal quality is important since the process is highly competitive and based upon peer review.

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Examples of Proposals Funded in Previous Years

• Actinide Speciation and Coordination Chemistry in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids and Supercritical Fluids
• String Instruments for the Lionel Hampton School of Music Preparatory Division
• WikiLeaks and 21st-Century Democracy: An Ethical Analysis
• An Investigation into American Piano Repertoire of the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries
• The Face in the Mirror is Not Your Own: A Memoir
• French Modern Art and "Indochina": Aesthetics and Cultural Politics, 1880-1940