Duke University
Arts and Sciences Council Committee on
Faculty Research
Professor Scott DeMarchi, Chair
e-mail: scott.demarchi@duke.edu
Maryscot Mullins,
Staff Assistant
109 Allen Bldg., Box 90044
Durham, NC 27708
Office: 668-2755
FAX: 684-8697
e-mail:
mmullins@duke.edu
The Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research is provided with funds for the purpose of promoting Arts & Sciences faculty research activities. The committee considers matters relating to faculty research, and oversees three distinct programs: one, funding to cover the expenses of travel to and participation in professional meetings and conferences, called Arts and Sciences Professional Meeting/Conference Travel Funding; the second, an annual peer-reviewed competition for small research grants, called Arts & Sciences Council Annual Research Grants; and the third, a biannual peer-reviewed competition for funding scholarly meetings at Duke, called Arts and Sciences Council Conference Grants. These are three independent programs; a faculty member who receives funds from one in a given year is not therefore disqualified from applying to the others in that year. Faculty eligible to apply to these programs are regular rank faculty with primary appointments in departments or programs in the School of Arts & Sciences. Regular rank faculty are those in the tenure or tenure-track ranks, full-time Lecturers, those in the Professor of the Practice ranks, those in the Research Professor ranks, and Emeriti faculty. Non-regular rank faculty are not eligible.
Arts & Sciences
Professional Meeting/Conference Travel Funding.
This funding is available to eligible faculty who present
a paper or otherwise participate in a meeting or conference program.
Application for funding must be made in advance of travel on the form provided,
and must be supported with documentation of participation. Reimbursable
expenses are meals, lodging, transportation, parking, and registration fees.
The maximum reimbursement is $1000 per fiscal year for up to two domestic trips or $1500 for up to two foreign trips. Download the Request for Professional Meeting/Conference Travel Form (Word) for details and an application.
Arts and Sciences Council Annual Research Grants. This annual competition, open to
eligible faculty, offers research funds in an amount useful for pilot research
projects, research write-up projects, components of larger research projects
otherwise difficult to fund, and the like; currently the maximum award is
$5,000. Applications must be submitted, on the application form provided, by
the announced deadline in mid to late March each year; awards are announced at the end of April.
Applications are reviewed by a faculty committee which is divided into three
sub-committees, each composed of faculty from one of the three Arts &
Sciences divisions (Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences) and
reviewing applications from that division. Committee members are appointed by
the Dean upon recommendation of the Executive Committee of the Arts & Sciences Council.
The program is being administered through the offices of Arts and
Sciences Administration. Please direct any inquiries to Maryscot Mullins, 109
Allen Building, phone: 668-2755, e-mail:
mmullins@duke.edu
.
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