Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairs

Lisa Pratt, professor of geological sciences, has been named Provost's Professor for 2009.

Grants and Fellowships

Fran Snygg Endowment Fund

(Deadline: 10/30/2009)
This Fund will be used to support and promote modern dance and movement in the arts, including but not limited to support for visiting artists, student scholarships and/or travel, dance production support, supplies and equipment for dance programs and/or facilities, and creative projects in modern dance and movement.

List of Past Award Winners

Fran Snygg Grant for Artistic Collaboration

(Deadline: 10/30/2009)
This award is to encourage artistic collaboration in conjunction with Arts Week and which illuminate the theme in some way. At least two different arts must be represented from two different schools or departments or between faculty members and professional artists in the Bloomington area.

List of Past Award Winners

Multidisciplinary Ventures and Seminars Fund

(Deadline: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 and Tuesday, February 16, 2010)
This fund is designed to provide support for new projects of full-time faculty and librarians from at least two different disciplines. Its purpose is to furnish seed money to help collaborative projects get underway and thereby to encourage interdisciplinary exchange, intellectual growth into new and multidisciplinary areas of inquiry, and external grant funding emanating from such activities.

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List of Past Award Winners

Sustainability Course Development Fellowship

(Deadline: 11/24/2009) NOTE: Extended Deadline - 2/1/2010
This award program supports faculty members' efforts to enhance teaching of topics related to sustainability and environmental literacy at the IU Bloomington campus. It will support innovative approaches to instruction of complex, interdisciplinary topics at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Service-learning courses and those that involve application of principles of sustainability to the IU Bloomington campus are of particular interest. Faculty applying for the Sustainability and Environmental Literacy Leadership Award will not be excluded from applying for this award.

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Recommendation Forms PDF

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Summer Instructional Development Fellowships

(Deadline: 1/29/2010)
This award program supports faculty members' efforts to improve teaching by encouraging new and/or improved approaches to instruction. Projects funded will include, but are not limited to: development of new, pace-setting courses; extensive innovation in the organization and style of existing courses; or development of new modes of instruction.

List of Past Award Winners

Horizons of Knowledge Lecture Funds

The Horizons of Knowledge Lecture Fund provides limited financial assistance in sponsoring lectures which are of interest to a large and diversified audience, particularly undergraduate students. Lectures should cross departmental and disciplinary lines and must be co-sponsored by at least two academic departments or units in addition to the sponsor.

Please review the guidelines carefully for the funding distribution update.