FRAC Application Portal
Faculty Research Awards
The Faculty Research Awards Committee is pleased to announce grants to support faculty research in the School of Arts and Sciences during the 2022-2023 academic year. Below is a brief description of each award and its application deadlines. Additional details are included in the application forms. To view details and to apply, click the blue application buttons.
All applications and supporting documents must be submitted online. Proposals, CVs, and other supporting documents should be uploaded as directed in the Qualtrics applications. If you have questions please send an email to frac@tufts.edu.
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Grants-In-Aid (DEIJ GIA)
This award should be used as seed money or to cover extra expenses related to promoting and supporting faculty research and scholarship projects that focus on understanding and exploring racial inequities, the impacts of racial disparities, and/or promoting anti-racist interventions, in keeping with the University's commitment to evolving as an anti-racist institution.
Funding amount: Maximum $3,000
Eligibility: Tenure-track and tenured faculty members and full-time Professors of the Practice in Arts & Sciences.
Application deadline: Monday, March 27, 2023
DEIJ GIA application
Grants-In-Aid (GIA)
This award is typically used as seed money or to cover extra expenses related to disseminating research projects--for example, to help support book subventions and illustrations.
Funding amount: Maximum $2,000
Eligibility: Tenure-track and tenured faculty members and full-time Professors of the Practice in Arts & Sciences.
Application deadlines: Monday, September 19, 2022; Monday, November 21, 2022; Monday, January 9, 2023; Tuesday, February 21, 2023; Monday, May 8, 2023
GIA application
Faculty Research Fund (FRF)
This award is used for costs associated with faculty research projects, such as materials, salary for research assistants, and research-related travel.
Funding amount: $2,000 to $6,000
Eligibility: Tenure-track and tenured faculty members and full-time Professors of the Practice in Arts & Sciences.
Application deadlines: Monday, September 26, 2022 and Monday, January 23, 2023
FRF application
Senior Semester Leave (SSL)
This award provides tenured faculty members with a paid semester leave to engage in research on a major project and to prepare it for publication. This award may be combined with other sabbatical awards.
Funding amount: No direct research funds, instead the faculty receive a paid semester leave.
Eligibility: Full-time tenured faculty members in Arts & Sciences.
Application deadline: Monday, October 24, 2022
SSL application
Mellon Research Awards
This award provides research funds to be used while on junior leave.
Funding amount: Maximum $5,000
Eligibility: Junior faculty members (Assistant Professors) in Arts & Sciences.
Application deadline: Monday, November 7, 2022
Mellon application
Summer Faculty Fellowships
This award supports faculty summer research. Faculty may choose to receive this award as research funds, or as salary if they are not receiving other salary support for summer research.
Funding amount: $8,000 as salary or research funds
Eligibility: Tenure-track and tenured faculty members and full-time Professors of the Practice in Arts & Sciences.
Application deadline: Monday, November 7, 2022
Summer application
Open Access Publishing
This award is solely intended to support publication in truly open access journals, for the express purpose of promoting faculty research and visibility.
Funding amount: Maximum $3,000
Eligibility: Tenure-track and tenured faculty members and full-time Professors of the Practice in Arts & Sciences.
Application deadline: Applications accepted throughout the academic year until funds are expended.
Open Access Publishing application
A&S Distinguished Scholar Award
This award recognizes one faculty member annually for outstanding research and scholarship. Eligibility rotates among the following groupings of departments:
1) Arts and Humanities, 2) Social Sciences, and 3) Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
In 2022-2023, departments in Natural Sciences and Mathematics are eligible to nominate a senior faculty member for this award.
Nomination deadline: Nomination information will be sent to these departments in January 2023, and nominations are due Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
Eligibility: Tenured faculty and full-time Professors of the Practice in rotating department group.
To explore other sources of research funding within Tufts, please visit the Office of the Vice Provost for Research: Internal Funding Opportunities.