2010 Competition

All tenured and tenure-track faculty members in the college are invited to apply for Summer Research Fellowships. Awards are for up to ($4,000) and may be used as funds to support travel, equipment, materials, graduate research assistants, or other research and development needs, but not faculty salary nor laptops.  Fellowships will be awarded for the summer of 2010.Generally, faculty who have significant amount of research funding or start-up funding will receive lower priority.

Application Procedures

Proposals should be limited to three pages and must be accompanied by a letter of support from your department chair. Please also attach an abbreviated (2-3 page long) curriculum vitae. If the applicant has received Summer Research Fellowship or Major Research Project support from the College of Arts & Sciences in prior years, a one-page progress report outlining the research accomplishments and specific results disseminated should be included in the application.  Faculty who plan to apply for a Major Research Project cannot apply for a Summer Research Fellowship in the same year. Application and Budget forms are to be submitted by February 23, 2010 to Roxie Hanson, 275 POT.  For questions, please contact Betty Lorch, Interim Associate Dean for Research, asresearch@uky.edu

Criteria for selection

1.   Scholarly or creative merit of the activities proposed.

• Value of the project, including its originality and potential contribution to scholarship.
• Clarity and completeness of the proposal. While the substance of the proposal may prove to be technical, the scope and significance of the project should be understood by a scholarly layperson.  Please include references to relevant scholarship.
• Project's potential for contributing to the professional development of the participants.
• Potential for disseminating and/or applying anticipated achievements through publications, grant proposals, presentations, and development of curricular and instructional activities.

2.   Scholarly or creative productivity of the project director and participants.

• Quality and quantity of professional products, in relation to field and years of academic service.
• Consistency of professional productivity, in relation to years of academic service.
• Other academic achievements and contributions, appropriate to the applicant’s discipline (e.g., awards, national offices, editorial assignments).