Research Council Program Grants Announcement (Applications due on November 4, 2024)

September 26, 2024

Dear Colleagues,

The Office of University Academic Affairs 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 more than 80 consecutive years.

The RC awards program offers seed funding in support of faculty scholarship that tackles 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. Council members review and allocate research funding directly to their faculty peers. We are grateful to Dr. Antoinette Y. Farmer, Professor and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, School of Social Work, and Dr. Michael Palis, University Professor, Faculty of Arts and Science-Camden, who serve as co-chairs of the Research Council.

There are six separate funding mechanisms, which are described below. 

The Individual Fulcrum Award 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 program especially welcomes applications from Associate Professors.

The Social and Racial Justice Award 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 Climate Action Award Program, created in recognition of the university’s commitment to achieving carbon neutrality by 2040 and becoming carbon-negative no later than its 275th anniversary in 2041, supports faculty whose work addresses the global climate crisis and its solutions, at a variety of scales.

The Collaborative Multidisciplinary Award 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.

The Subvention Program for the Publication of Scholarly Books provides 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.

The Manuscript Review Award helps Assistant and Associate rank faculty members publish authoritative, thought-provoking, field-changing books. Awardees will receive a formal manuscript review plus a three-hour workshop/seminar led by an external senior scholar.

Applications are due on Monday, November 4, 2024, at 5:00 p.m., EST. Please visit the Research Council Awards page to access the application, read answers to frequently asked questions, and watch a detailed video information session.

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