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DEADLINE CHANGED:
Proposals for the One-Year Research Expense Grants
will be due Tuesday, February 3, 2004
   

Committee members, 2003-2004
Past committee members
Program announcements
Grants awarded


Texts of successful proposals (past years):
Research Leaves
Three-Year Research Expense Grants
One-Year Research Expense Grants
Student Research Assistant Awards


Archives of past program announcements

What the Faculty Manual says about the Faculty Research Committee

Members of the Faculty Research Committee for 2003 - 2004

• Jean Cadogan, Department of Fine Arts

• Robert Fleming, Department of Biology

• Paul Lauter, Department of English

• John Platoff, Department of Music

• Stephen Valocchi, Department of Sociology

• James Wen, Department of Economics

In addition to these elected members, the committee is joined by the Dean of the Faculty, who is an ex officio member (funds for Faculty Research Committee awards come from the Dean's budget) or his designate. The director of faculty grants acts as secretary to the committee.

Past Members of the Faculty Research Committee (1999- )

• Joseph Byrne, Department of Fine Arts 
• William Church, Department of Chemistry
• Timothy Curran, Department of Chemistry
• Sheila Fisher, Department of English
• Mark Franklin, Department of Political Science
• Karl Haberlandt, Department of Psychology
• David Henderson, Department of Chemistry
• Douglas Johnson, Department of Music
• Kenneth Lloyd-Jones, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
• William Mace, Department of Psychology
• Beth Notar, Department of Anthropology
• Miguel Ramirez, Department of Economics
• Todd Ryan, Department of Philosophy
• Heather Sharkey, Department of History
• Barbara Sicherman, Kenan Professor of American Institutions and Values

Competitions and Deadlines in 2003 - 2004

  Please note: All deadlines are TUESDAYS, not Wednesdays as in previous years.

September 9, 2003: Research Leave Program  [For faculty with sabbaticals in 2004-05 and 2005-06 only]
October 21, 2003: Three-Year Research Expense Grants
October 21, 2003: Student Research Assistant Grants [first deadline]
January 27, 2004: Student Research Assistant Grants [second deadline]
February 3, 2004: One-Year Research Expense Grants  Please note change in deadline

Other Programs of the Faculty Research Committee

Faculty Research Lecture Series

• 2003 - 2004  
• 2002 - 2003  
• 2001 - 2002 
• 2000 - 2001 

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Awards Lists

Grants are listed by the year in which the award was made. Unless otherwise noted, the grant period is the academic year following the award.

Research Leaves

Three-Year Research Expense Grants

One-Year Research Expense Grants

Student Research Assistants Grants

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Texts of Past Successful Proposals

Research Leaves

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Three-Year Research Expense Grants

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One-Year Research Expense Grants

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Student Research Assistant Awards

  August 22, 2003: Updated information will be posted in early September. 

Proposals to support Research Assistants (2000)

• Kent Dunlap, Biology, Electrocommunication in Fish:
  Student 1
  Student 2
  
• Diana Evans, Political Science, The Use of Pork Barrel Projects by Congressional Committee Leaders
  
• Sarah Raskin, Psychology, Use of Transcranial Doppler to Measure Cerebral Artery Blood Flow Velocity
  
• Martha Risser, Classics, Excavations at the Sanctuary of Poseidon and of the West Cemetery at Isthmia, Greece
  
• Craig Schneider, Biology, The Effect of Repeated Freezing and Thawing on Vaucheria Propagules
  

Archives

Program Information from Previous Years

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Updated: January 13, 2004
Contact:  Cynthia Merritt, Director of Faculty Grants (860/297-5347)