2021–2022 Rutgers University Research Council Program Awardees

June 23, 2021

Dear Members of the Rutgers Community,

We are delighted to announce the awardees for the 78th cohort of the Rutgers University Research Council Program. Established in 1943, the Research Council provides internal seed funding for faculty research, especially to encourage scholarship tackling challenging disciplinary problems in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and creative arts. 

The 2021 Request for Proposals led to over 75 applications, and the Council reviewed and awarded over 50 faculty scholars across three new signature funding programs: the Individual Fulcrum Awards, for faculty who are undertaking a new direction of research at a critical stage in their careers; the Social and Racial Justice Awards, for faculty pursuing research on race and equity in any domain of intellectual, social, artistic, or scientific life; and the Collaborative Multidisciplinary Awards, which allow faculty members across disciplines to work together on a new, shared problem that requires multiple perspectives and viewpoints. We also continued our longstanding Subvention Program for the Publication of Scholarly Books. 

This year’s awardees represent faculty across multiple disciplines and Chancellor-led units of our university: from the humanities to the sciences to professional fields. Awardees are affiliated with diverse programs in History, Art History, Dance, Geography, Sociology, Law, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering, among many others. 

Over the next year, I am sure that you will be hearing more about these wonderful projects and their impacts. Please join President Holloway and me in congratulating this year’s awardees.

Sincerely,

Prabhas V. Moghe, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Distinguished Professor