#  Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship 

 



The [Dean’s Competitive Fund for Promising Scholarship](https://research.fas.harvard.edu/deans-competitive-fund-promising-scholarship) is a targeted program that provides funding in the following three categories: (1) Seed Funding, to encourage faculty to pursue exciting, original research directions that might not yet be ready to compete in traditional funding programs; (2) Bridge Funding, to allow faculty to continue work on promising research that has not yet won external funding; and (3) Enabling Infrastructure, to provide small funds which allow for the purchase (or upgrade) of critical equipment, or to support needs such as the production of databases, organization of museum exhibits, or procurement of resources for community benefit.



 

 

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- [ Data Science ](/disciplines/data-science)
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- [ Environmental Sciences ](/disciplines/environmental-sciences)
- [ Life and Biomedical Sciences ](/disciplines/life-and-biomedical-sciences)
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- [ Social Sciences ](/disciplines/social-sciences)