Faculty Development Fund

The Duquesne University Faculty Development Fund (FDF) is administered as a competitive grants program.  FDF awards are seed money, designed to help faculty begin their scholarly work, initiate work in a new direction, or continue a research project using the award as “bridging funds” between grants.  Preference will be given to junior faculty and to multidisciplinary projects.  The intention is not to provide ongoing, long-term support for a project.  Ideally, FDF grants will help advance a project to a point where the faculty member can apply successfully for external support to continue the work.  Submissions are limited to one proposal per principal investigator (or co-principal investigator) per competition.  Funding of eligible projects of up to $10,000 may be requested.  Budgets may be readjusted at the discretion of the review committee, if deemed necessary.  Please see the full guidelines and application forms.