Research AND Funding Opportunities
The Office of University Research Services can help you identify appropriate funding opportunities and conduct funding searches. Our weekly newsletter, Alive Line, archived on our site, includes announcements of upcoming funding opportunities of broad interest, arranged by discipline. Other sites of interest are listed below
Many resources are available to faculty, staff and students who seek research and funding opportunities. Towson University subscribes to three Web-based search engines--the Grant Resource Center (GRC), Community of Science (COS), and Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS). Each engine is accessible online from faculty and staff desktops and can be searched by multiple criteria, including keywords, sponsor and deadline. While they are very similar, they complement each other. A list of federal, state and private funding websites for research and other scholarly projects is also listed below.
Targeted funding opportunities listed by college:
Through various intramural programs offered annually, Towson University can provide support to Towson faculty in the form of monetary research awards, summer fellowships, teaching innovation grants, and research scholarship awards.
Research Fellowships (Next Deadline: September 3, 2009)
The College of Graduates Studies and Research, in collaboration with the deans of the academic colleges, is making available up to 15 Research Fellowships. These fellowships provide funding and other support for an individually designed program focused on a research mentorship model. Selected faculty members will be provided with up to two years of support of $3,000 each per year.
Faculty Development and Research Committee (FDRC) Monetary Award & Teaching Innovation Grants
Grants provide support to Towson faculty to pursue scholarly activities such as a proposal to an external funding source, or a publication, presentation, invention, composition, performance, or exhibition through the Research Monetary award and Summer Fellowships . Teaching Innovation grants are also available. There are three annual deadlines a year, October 1, March 1, and May 1. Announcements are made through the Alive Line and proposal development workshops are offered prior to each deadline.
Towson Academy of Scholars
The purpose of the Academy is to gather senior-mentors with junior faculty in a seminar setting that will give the latter an opportunity to share their research projects, reflective thinking essays, or portions of their dissertations under revision. All full-time faculty up to the rank of Assistant Professor or Librarian I and II who have been at Towson three years or less are eligible to apply.
Office of University Research Services
7800 York Road, Rooms 225-220
Phone: 410-704-2236
Fax: 410-704-4494
E-mail: healy@towson.edu
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