What Funding Do You Need?

Travel to Professional Conferences:

Other travel:

Research expenses:

  • FPDF (travel, library fees, supplies)
  • UCRF (see below; the fund covers some research expenses as well as student wages)

Student research assistants:

1. FRAF (Faculty Research Assistant Fund): for individuals or departments during the academic year):
a. Departmental FRAF (if several faculty members will draw on one or two students)
b. Individual FRAF (if a student will be working for one faculty member) FRAF Application form
2. UCRF (Undergraduate Collaborative Research Fund): collaborative projects in fields outside the sciences UCRF application form
3. Summer research fellowships (in the sciences)

Course development:


Memberships in professional organizations

  • FPDF (up to $150 of the fiscal year maximum FPDF may be applied to memberships)

Publication subvention: SPSF (Scholarly Publication Subvention Fund):

  • Articles: offprints, page charges, permissions
  • Books: subvention to press, permissions, indexing, copy editing ($2000 maximum for a book, including all expenses).
  • SPSF application form

Funding for larger projects for teaching and research:

  • LPDF (Long Range Faculty Professional Development Program): tenured faculty only, 3-5 years; LPDF application form
  • Mellon career initiative grants: one-year projects for Inter-institutional initiatives (with 2 or more other Cluster schools)