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Maxwell Dean's Office
Appleby-Mosher Fund for Faculty Research
Funding: Up to $5,000
Deadline: December
The Appleby-Mosher Fund provides grants to tenure-track and tenured faculty for research-related expenses such as project initiation (particularly acquisition of materials including data sets) and travel to perform research. Call for Proposals
Summer Project Assistantship Program
Funding: $2,000
Deadline: April
Each spring, the Dean’s Office solicits applications from Maxwell faculty members for funds to support a graduate assistant for the purpose of developing a research proposal during the following summer session. Successful faculty applicants will receive funding for the graduate assistant of their choice, must provide a progress report describing work accomplished, and should subsequently submit a related proposal to an external funder. Call for Proposals
Tenth Decade Project
Funding: $5,000 - $25,000Varies by call
Deadline: RollingVaries by call
Launched in 2014, the Tenth Decade Project is an a ten-year initiative that aims to focus attention on and celebrate the centennial of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs in 2024. A central theme Grant funding associated with the Tenth Decade Project operationalizes a defined goal of the Maxwell Academic Strategic Plan is multidisciplinary discovery. Thus, the funds associated with this Call for Proposals will support research projects on themes identified in the strategic plan: (1) democracy, citizenship and governance in a changing world; (2) health, environment and a sustainable future; and (3) policy, governance, and law in emerging technologies. In addition, we are interested in projects that will help illuminate the rapid change coming to Syracuse with the infrastructure changes to Route 81 and the coming of Micron to the Central New York Areas on its own or as a case study to understand broader macro trends.to “promote research involving faculty on innovative, high impact projects, applying social science methods and data analysis to address grand, global challenges such as democracy and civic engagement, inequality, urban poverty and development, governance and security, environmental change, and health policy.” Call for Proposals
Office of Research
University-wide internal funding competitions include both Internal Grant Programs and externally funded Limited Submissions.
Please note that the CUSE Grant and Small Equipment Grant programs are being sunset; new RFPs will not be released.
Faculty Creative Activities and Research (FCAR) Grant Program
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Andrew Berlin Family National Security Research Fund
Funding: Up to $5,000
Deadline: Rolling
The Institute for Security Policy and Law (SPL)—a collaboration between Maxwell and the SU College of Law—awards grants through the Berlin Fund to faculty and student teams that promote research on salient topics in security studies, including national security, homeland security, and human security. Funds can be used to cover the costs of conducting and disseminating research. Applications consisting of a project description, a timeline for the activities covered, and a simple budget are accepted on a rolling basis. Contact Keli Perrin (kaperrin@law.syr.edu) with questions or to submit an application.
Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
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The mission of the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) is to advance research on conflict and collaboration, including theory, practice, and education. The PARCC Mini-Grant Program supports research activities in PARCC's areas of focus: International and Interstate Conflicts, Environmental Collaboration, Collaborative Governance, and Advocacy and Activism. The awards selection is based on potential contribution to scholarship, possibility of future funding, consistency with the goals of PARCC, and cost-effectiveness. Funds are used for such activities as data acquisition, survey design, the hosting of research conferences at Maxwell, and research assistance. Faculty who are awarded a mini-grant then present their research at one of PARCC's weekly Conversations in Conflict Studies speaker series.
PARCC John Burdick Mini-Grant Award for Research on Social Movements and Social Change
Funding: $500 to $2,500
Deadline: April
Honoring the life and legacy of Professor John Burdick (1959-2020), this grant program supports faculty and graduate students conducting research projects on social movements and social change. This program will also consider projects that employ community-based research methods (e.g. ethnography, intensive fieldwork, action research) in partnership with social movement organizations. Researchers may use these awards for research activities such as but not limited to data acquisition, fieldwork, survey design, or research assistance. The selection committee will choose project proposals based on their consistency with program goals, potential contribution to scholarship and activism, possibility of future funding, and cost-effectiveness.
Other Research Centers and Institutes
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