The Vice President for Research is pleased to offer a number of research funding opportunities for Brown Faculty. Research Seed Funds and Salomon Awards are competitive grants distributed directly to faculty researchers and administered by the Office of the Vice President fo rResearch (OVPR). OVPR distributes the Humanities Research Funds to department chairs, who then make allocations to individual faculty within their departments. Detailed guidelines are available in the document "OVPR Research Fund Guidelines 2009-2010".

If you have any questions regarding these award programs, please contact Anne Windham in the Office of the Vice President for Research.

Research Seed Funding was created to help faculty compete more successfully for large-scale, interdisciplinary, multi-investigator grants. Investigators may propose projects with budgets up to $100,000. The deadline for applications is Thursday, December 3, 2009.
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The Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Awards were established to support excellence in scholarly work by providing funding for selected faculty research projects deemed to be of exceptional merit. Investigators may propose projects with budgets up to $15,000. The deadline for applications in Tuesday, November 3, 2009.
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Humanities Research Funds help support faculty research in departments and fields in the arts, humanities and social sciences with limited external funding opportunities. Faculty apply directly to their chairs for support; full-time faculty may request up to $1,800. The deadline for chairs to present their departmental requests to OVPR is Thursday, November 19, 2009.

Cost-sharing funds are intended to help secure specific external funding opportunities or to enable certain scholarly endeavors.  Most commonly, cost-sharing related to external funding opportunities provides a portion of the amount required to purchase equipment, for capital expenses associated with placing equipment, to purchase complementary equipment, or to support technical staff required to operate equipment. In support of other scholarly endeavors, funds may be requested to provide partial support for various faculty activities where external funding is limited.
Cost-sharing funds may be requested by completing the applicable downloadable form (see column at right) and will be considered on a case by case basis.

For questions on OVPR cost-sharing, please contact Beth Hurt (Beth_Hurt@brown.edu).