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Interfaculty Collaboration

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Short Term and Small Scale Collaborations

In response to growing faculty enthusiasm for initiating and participating in interfaculty collaborations, the Provost’s Office established in 1997 the Provost’s Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration (PFIC) to provide modest grants to cross-faculty working groups seeking to explore a single problem or question. Prospective working groups submit applications on a rolling basis throughout the year.

Process

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year. The proposal should contain a description of the activity (less than two pages), a detailed budget (including categories of expense and specific planned expenditures, e.g., travel, food, honoraria, facilities rentals, student assistance, etc.), and letters of commitment to the project (one from the designated faculty leader assuming fiscal, administrative, and intellectual responsibility for the program and one from each participating faculty specifying the level of involvement to which they are prepared to commit).

Eligibility

To be eligible for support, the designated leader and faculty involved with the proposal must hold primary Harvard faculty appointments at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. Additionally, the faculty involved must be from at least two different schools. Colleagues from outside Harvard may be included as well.

Funding

The fund provides one-year grants of up to $25,000 and typically does not cover salaries of any of the faculty involved. These one-year grants are seed money rather than continuing support, and should ordinarily be expended within a year of the award. It is possible to renew the grants for one additional year upon a showing of substantial progress.

Scope

Topics explored in these working groups have included: Islam in the West; Gender and Negotiation; Quantitative Social Science; Religion and Globalization; Personal Health Informatics; Linguistic Knowledge; Environmental Economics; Mathematical Biology; and Architectural History.

Supported by WDS