Research Council Grants Announcement

February 24, 2021

Dear Colleagues,
 
The Office of the EVPAA is pleased to announce the next round of annual grant opportunities from the Rutgers University Research Council (RC) program, which has been providing internal grants to the Rutgers faculty for the past 78 consecutive years.
 
The Research Council grants program offers support for faculty research, but especially to encourage scholarship tackling challenging disciplinary problems in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and creative arts. The Council is constituted by faculty representing the many fields of active research found across all four Chancellor-led units of our university, who review and allocate research funding directly to their faculty peers.  I am grateful to Professors Kathleen J. Pottick and Antoinette Y. Farmer, who have agreed to serve as co-chairs of the Research Council.  This year we introduce a revised Research Council Awards process that will make funding available through three separate award programs: 
 
The Individual Fulcrum Awards Program is tailored to individual researchers and those in the creative arts who are testing out new ideas to accelerate their scientific inquiry, program of research and scholarship, or creative production.
 
The Social and Racial Justice Awards Program, inspired by President Holloway’s Equity Report and the University’s commitment to fostering excellence in and as a beloved community, supports academic research on racial and social justice in all domains of intellectual, social, artistic, and environmental life. 
 
The Collaborative Multidisciplinary Awards Program offers the opportunity for a group of faculty members across disciplines to work together on a new, shared problem or line of research. Since complex intellectual and social problems often require multiple perspectives and viewpoints to solve them, the program is designed to foster and reward creative and collaborative interdisciplinary work. 
 
Together with these three award programs, the RC will offer the Subvention Program for the Publication of Scholarly Books to provide partial subsidies to university and other highly regarded scholarly presses to cover a portion of the cost of publishing a scholarly book in order to make it more affordable.
 
Applications are due on Friday, April 16, 2021, 5 p.m. EST.  Please visit this website to access the award programs, eligibility criteria and subvention guidelines. For questions about the program, please contact rcg@oq.rutgers.edu.
 
Sincerely,
 
Prabhas V. Moghe, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Distinguished Professor