Dean Smith has announced the Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship, a targeted program that provides funding to FAS and SEAS ladder faculty, professors of the practice, and professors in residence. Funding is available in the following three categories:

1. Bridge funding, to allow faculty to continue work on very promising research that has not yet won external funding;
2. Seed funding, to encourage faculty to pursue exciting, original research directions that might not yet be ready to compete in traditional funding programs; and
3. Enabling subventions, to provide small funds in support of an external fellowship or to purchase (or upgrade) critical equipment.

Proposals are due on October 17^th, 2016. Please see the full announcement and FAQs for more information.