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Zumberge Awards Call for Proposals
December 2, 2009 9:35 AM
A call for proposals for USC’s annual faculty research grant programs has been announced by the Office of the Provost.
These university-wide programs are the Zumberge Interdisciplinary Awards, the Zumberge Individual Awards and the Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences initiative.
Zumberge Interdisciplinary Awards support teams led by senior faculty from multiple schools at USC. The program assists collaborative groups targeting major external grants and funds the pilot studies and planning activities that are needed to compete for those grants.
An award from last year’s cycle of Zumberge Interdisciplinary grants went to Carl Kesselman, a professor at USC’s Information Sciences Institute, and his colleagues, who used funds to prepare a major grant proposal to the National Institutes of Health.
In January, they learned that the National Institutes of Health approved $22.2 million to fund the project, the Biomedical Informatics Research Network Coordinating Center, which collects biomedical imaging data from institutions across the country and provides researchers and doctors access to the enormous volume of information in this field.
“The bioinformatics network is a good example of the role Zumberge Interdisciplinary awards are intended to play,” said Randolph Hall, vice provost for research advancement. “The awards are an investment in the research of some of USC’s most productive faculty. These awardees are able to leverage the funds into a large-scale external grant in order to build broad collaborations that make an impact in addressing pressing societal issues,” he said.
C. L. Max Nikias, USC executive vice president and provost, created the Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences initiative in 2006. The program has given more than 100 awards in its initial three years, supporting individual faculty research in the humanities, arts and social sciences with grants of up to $25,000.
The primary focus of the Zumberge Individual awards is to help launch the scholarly careers of junior faculty.
Each year, roughly a dozen awards of up to $25,000 are made to new faculty to assist them in developing sustained research programs or to provide a steppingstone to securing outside funding for their projects. A few additional awards go to faculty in fields with limited external funding opportunities.
The proposal deadline for Zumberge Individual awards and for Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences is Jan. 20. Letters of intent for Zumberge Interdisciplinary awards are due in mid-February.
For more information, visit www.usc.edu/zumberge for Zumberge Award programs and www.usc.edu/hssrfp for the Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences initiative.
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