The Office of the Provost provides competitive internal research grants to support faculty research, scholarship, professional and creative activities.
The Office of the Provost provides competitive internal research grants to support faculty research, scholarship, professional and creative activities. All full-time tenured or tenure earning faculty and all term faculty are eligible to submit proposals. The Washington College of Law faculty are not eligible for this particular funding opportunity, unless they are part of a group of faculty from other academic units at AU.
The awards are intended to provide financial support for the direct costs of pilot research studies, demonstration projects, feasibility studies or other forms of proof of concept, to enable faculty members to leverage the results and apply for external funds to support their research, scholarship or creative activities.
For more information regarding this funding opportunity, please contact Anita Brown abrown@american.edu
College of Arts & Sciences
John Bracht
Project Title: Investigating the Epigenetic Control of Fat Differentiation
Elizabeth Cotter
Project Title: Mindfulness, Cognitive Function, and Obesity Risk
Lindsey Green-Simms
Project Title: LGBT African Cinema and the Art of Resistance
Mark Laubach
Project Title: Reward Signaling by the Prefrontal Cortex
Walter G. Park
Project Title: Patent Valuation: A New Method Using International Patent Families
Alexander Zestos
Project Title: Novel Electrode Materials for Neurotransmitter Metabolite Detection
Kogod School of Business
Maria Figueroa-Armijos
Project Title: Corporate Reputation in the Sharing Economy
School of Education
Alida Anderson
Project Title: Dispelling the Dyslexia Neuromyth with an Interactive Science Learning Module
Emily Peterson
Project Title: Development of a Classroom Observation Tool to Evaluate Spatial Learning Environments
School of International Service
Lauren Carruth
Project Title: Diabetes in Humanitarian Emergencies: Experiences and Challenges of Type 2 Diabetes in the Somali Region of Ethiopia
Agustina Giraudy
Project Title: Who Gets Help? Poverty and the Allocation of Federal Green Aid
School of Public Affairs
Seth Gershenson
Project Title: What's in a Name? An Empirical Analysis of School Names in the U.S. South
Jennifer Lawless
Project Title: Reinvigorating Interest in Local News: An Experiment
Thomas Zeitzoff
Project Title: Primed for Fighting: The Effect of Leader Rhetoric Endorsing Violence
College of Arts and Sciences
Vikki Connaughton
Terry Davidson
Project Title: Linking Cognitive Dysfunction to Vascular Deterioration in Diabetes
Katie DeCicco-Skinner
Dave Carlini
Project Title: Identification of Genetic Mutations that Drive Skin Cancer
Tim Doud
Zoe Charlton
Project Title: "sindikit": Creative, Collaborative and Coworking Models
Matthew Hartings
Project Title: 3D Printed Cellulose Composites
Mark Laubach
Project Title: Optogenetic and Chemogenetic Studies on the Rodent Frontal Cortex
Gabriel Mathy
Project Title: Quantifying the Effect of Huey Long's Stimulus Program
Jessica Young
Project Title: Health Behaviors, Risks, and Outcomes in Economically Distressed Communities
Kogod School of Business
Michael Mowchan
Project Title: Remediating Audit Partner Disclosure in Negligence Cases
School of Communication
Ericka Menchen-Trevino
Project Title: Web Historian
Benjamin Stokes
Project Title: Empowering Neighborhoods to Design their Own Games
School of Professional and Extended Studies
Jeffrey Crouch
Project Title: The Unitary Executive: Myth and Presidential Power
School of Public Affairs
Todd Eisenstadt
Jie Lu
Matthew Wright
Project Title: The Politics of Climate Change-Induced Migration in Bangladesh and Beyond
Erdal Tekin
Project Title: The Impact of Exposure to Stress in Utero on Birth Outcomes
The Center for Teaching, Research & Learning offers faculty awards and grants to support teaching and research. For more information, please go HERE.
The Awards for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring: these competitive awards recognize excellence in the mentoring of master's and doctoral students. Each award will include a stipend of $1,000.00. Applications may be submitted by faculty in all of American University's academic units (CAS, KSB, Library, SIS, SOC, SOE, SPA, SPExS and WCL). All full-time faculty members (tenure earning, tenured, and term) are eligible to apply for consideration for either award.
For the Award for Excellence in Doctoral Student Mentoring, preference will be given to a faculty member who emphasizes research-related mentoring. For the Award for Excellence in Master's Student Mentoring, applicants may emphasize either research mentoring or professional mentoring activities.
Applicants are eligible to apply for one or both awards.
2018 Award For Excellence In Doctoral Student Mentoring:
Rhonda Zaharna
Professor
Director, Global Media
School of Communication
2018 Award for Excellence in Master's Student Mentoring:
Meg Bentley
Professorial Lecturer
Director in Residence of Laboratories
Department of Biology
College of Arts and Science
Dr. Ralph Pollack (a grant writing consultant) and Louise DeCosta Wides (a writing consultant and editor)have assisted numerous faculty with preparing grant proposals. For more information on their services or to schedule an appointment, please go HERE.