Educational Development Grant Award
Deadline: February 2, 2007

As defined by the WSU/AAUP Agreement, awards under this provision are intended to aid in the improvement of teaching, the development of new departmental and inter-departmental courses, the development of new approaches to existing courses, and the employment of new materials in courses. Projects in such areas as advising, counseling and library usage are also considered. The awards may be used for summer salary, release time during the academic year, student assistants or necessary supplies and equipment.

Click on http://www.wayne.edu/provost/programs/EducDevApplication07.doc to download the application form. Please deliver completed application to Associate Vice President Howard Shapiro (hshapiro@wayne.edu) at 4092 F/AB.

Minority/Women Summer Grant Program
Deadline: February 9, 2007
Maximum Award: $10,000

The Minority/Women Summer Grant Program was established under contract with the AAUP. The program provides $50,000 annually for the purpose of allowing release-time from teaching for minority faculty bargaining unit members and women faculty bargaining unit members in units where females and minorities have been underrepresented. Untenured, tenure-track women faculty from such units and minority faculty members are eligible.

The application form and details on how to apply for this award will be available in the near future on the Office of the Provost’s website: http://www.wayne.edu/provost/.

Detroit Medical Center (DMC) Faculty Scholar Award (summer)
Notify CHR of intent to submit: February 1, 2007
Deadline: March 1, 2007
Maximum Award: $15,000

The 2007 DMC Faculty Scholar Award Program will fund studies that focus on translating WSU faculty research into studies of clinical practice at the DMC. Both need-based and hypothesis-testing proposals are of interest. Three faculty teams, each of which is composed of one Research Faculty Scholar and one Clinical Faculty Scholar, will be funded each calendar year. The Clinical Faculty Scholar must be a CON faculty. The Research Faculty Scholar may be from a WSU Department other than Nursing. Faculty Scholar teams will be assisted in finding a required co-investigator from the DMC Department of Nursing. Proposals will be judged on a number of factors in addition to scientific merit including (a) innovativeness, (b) impact on DMC nursing practice, and (c) likelihood of research leading to major external funding.

Click on http://www.research.wayne.edu/internaldocs/DMC_2007.pdf to download the application. Applications must be submitted by November 1, 2006 for a January 1, 2007 start, March 1, 2007 for a May 1, 2007 start, or July 1, 2007 for a September 1, 2007 start. Submit to the Center for Health Research, 317 Cohn Bldg. If you need additional information, please e-mail judith.floyd@wayne.edu or call 577-4135.

Humanities Center Faculty Fellowships
Deadline: March 23, 2007
Theme: “Sovereignty, Justice and the Law Across Disciplines”
Maximum Award: Range from $6,000 - $14,000. Average 2004-2005 award: $8000

The Humanities Center was established to foster, promote, and fund research and creative activity by faculty and students in the humanities. The Center sponsors an annual competition for faculty fellowships, for which tenured and tenure-track faculty in the humanities may apply. Proposals for the 2005-2006 competition should address the theme “Sovereignty, Justice and the Law Across Disciplines”

Click on http://www.research.wayne.edu/hum/ and follow link for Faculty Fellowships to download application form. Deliver or mail 14 copies of the completed applications to the Humanities Center’s office at 2226 Faculty Administration Building or fax to 577-2843, or e-mail to walter.edwards@wayne.edu. If you need additional information, please call 577-5471 or 577-5488. For explication of this year’s theme, contact the Center or visit the website at http://www.research.wayne.edu/hum/faculty_funding/faculty_fellowship/index.html).