The College-Funded Faculty Research Program was established with the purpose of assisting in the advancement of faculty scholarship.
Below is a brief overview of the types of funding supported by the College. Program details are provided in FAR’s Research Manual, which can be found at Research Forms and Deadlines · Research Support · Lafayette College. Online application forms are also available on the Research Support website. Questions about College-funded faculty research can be directed to Ingrid Furniss, Dean of the Faculty.
Individuals preparing proposals for external grants should contact Mary Ellen Jackson, Director of Sponsored Research, for information and assistance.
Information on the College’s Faculty Travel Program can be found on the Provost’s Information, Forms, and Lists Page.
Research Grants may cover equipment, supplies, specialized library materials (including microfilm and database search costs), travel for research, and specialized personnel.
Advanced Study Grants are awarded to assist faculty members in developing enhanced research expertise in their own field or a related area of advanced study. Awards may cover travel and tuition expenses for a faculty member who attends an institute, special topics conference, short course or program of summer study.
FAR grant support may be requested for unusual costs associated with the preparation of long manuscripts, illustrations, professional indexing, performance works, etc. Grants also can be requested for the publication or production of other (such as production costs for digital media, recording of performance works) scholarly works, when charges are routinely requested by a referred journal/publisher/production company/distributor or when such charges are a condition for acceptance of a scholarly work for publication or production. These grants typically cover costs for plates, excess pages, or page charges of printed works and CD, digital, or other media production of performance works.
In 1963, the Richard King Mellon Foundation provided partial support for a Summer Research Fellowship program. This program provides $5000 in professional development funds for tenured or tenure-track members of the faculty, to be used over a period of two fiscal years. The Richard King Mellon Research Awards are intended to promote original scholarship that will result in scholarly publications or other intellectual products.