Faculty Development Fund
A small "faculty development fund" to enable faculty to attend conferences or workshops in new, interdisciplinary fields and to provide seed money to embark on projects in new or high-risk areas.
Examples of funded projects have included:
- Participation in a Cold Spring Harbor workshop for bioinformatics
- Seed money for a laboratory to implement new molecular techniques into ongoing ecological-evolutionary projects
- Summer salary to engage in mathematical biology research
- Residency at the Santa Fe Institute to introduce dynamical systems/network theory into the undergraduate curriculum
The application typically consists of a written proposal (~5 pages) describing the nature of the project and how this funding will impact undergraduate teaching and research.
For further information, contact the Program Director, Margaret Saha (mssaha@wm.edu).