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PROVOST'S COMMON FUND


The Provost’s Common Fund was established in 1998 to support interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary activities at Duke University by providing seed money (up to $50,000 per award) on a competitive basis for innovative scholarly research and artistic activity that clearly crosses the boundaries of departments, schools, and/or interdisciplinary units at Duke.  The Common Fund looks to support exciting projects that approach intellectual areas not presently addressed at the university or that foster new and even unique collaborations.  Proposals are due in February, and the one-year awards are given for the upcoming fiscal year.  See below for more information on the award process.

2008-2009 RFP

Budget Template

 

AWARDED PROPOSALS, 2004-2009 

 2008-2009

 >>The Duke University Program on History, Public Policy and Social Change, proposed by William Chafe, Robert Korstad

>>Race, Genetics and Health, proposed by William Darity Jr., Charmaine Royal, Keith Whitfield

>>Scenes of Secrecy: Interdisciplinary Inquiries on Suspicion, Intelligence, and Security, proposed by Elizabeth Anne Davis, Robin Kirk, Johanna McAuliffe, Thomas Rankin

>>Vision and Design: Bloomsbury Then and Now, proposed by Crauford D.W. Goodwin, Kimerly Rorschach, Donna Zapf

>>Understanding the Transformed and Transforming South: Perspectives on Race, Economics, Politics, and Public Policy, proposed by Kerry L. Haynie, William Chafe

>>Southern Africa's Place-on-the-Continent, Africa's Place-in-the-World (The Concilium on Southern Africa), proposed by Anne-Maria Makhulu, Paul Berliner, Louise Meintjes

>>Maternal and Child Pairs Working Group, proposed by Marie Lynn Miranda, Sarah C. Armstrong, Chrstina Gibson-Davis, Sherman James, Pamela Maxson, Jerome Reiter, Geeta Swamy, Kathryn Trotter, Redford Williams

>>A Center for Theoretical and Mathematical Science at Duke, proposed by Berndt Mueller, Harold Baranger, Steven Cummer, Stefano Curtarolo, Gabriel Katul, Jonathan Mattingly, Fred Nijhout, Dalia Patino-Echeverri, Robert Wolpert, Weitao Yang

>>Immigration and the Documentary Lens, proposed by Tom Rankin, John Biewen, Pedro Lasch, Clauidia Milian, Emilio Parrado, Gunther Peck, Jose David Saldivar, Charles Thompson, Tennessee Watson, Jenny Snead Williams

>>The Duke Center for Science Education, proposed by Rochelle D. Schwartz-Bloom, Harris Cooper

>>Manos Teatrales: An Experiment in Cyber-Paleography, proposed by Carlo Tomasi, Margaret Greer

>>Bioengineering Technologies and Therapies for Global Health, proposed by George Truskey, Robert Malkin, Michael Merson

2007-2008

>> Social Contexts of Romantic and Family Relationships: A Multi-Disciplinary, Multi-Site Study of Universities, The Military, and Poor Communities, proposed by Philip Morgan, Kenneth Dodge, Susan Alberts, Peter Arcidiacono, Linda Burton, Christina Gibson-Davis, Nancy Hill, Felicia Kornbluh, Suzanne Shanahan

>> Cognitive and Behavioral Genomics, Evolution, and Race - What Lies Ahead?, proposed by Robert Cook-Deegan, Priscilla Wald, Gregory Wray

>> Changing Institutional Cultures Intiative, proposed by Noah Pickus, Suzanne Shanahan

>> Duke Center for Science Education, proposed by Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom, Harris Cooper

>> Asylum: A Historical and Comparative Approach, proposed by Ranjana Khanna and Charles Piot

>> Visualizing Networks of Innovation, proposed by Timothy Lenoir, John Madden, Cathy Davidson

>> Understanding Emotion Regulation Using Immersive Virtual Environments, proposed by Zachary Rosenthal, Allison Ashley-Koch, Rachel Brady, Kevin LaBar, Thomas Lynch

>> Frameworks for Complex Environmental Health Decision Making, proposed by Randall Kramer, Richard Anderson, Clifford Mutero, Marie Lynn Miranda, Vance Fowler, Jonathan Wiener

>> States of Mind: Dan and Lia Perjovschi, proposed by Kristine Stiles, Julie Tetel, Adrian Bejan, Kimberly Rorschach, James H. Semens

2006-2007

>> Race, Space, Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World and Beyond, proposed by Michaeline A. Crichlow, Thavolia Glymph, Sean Metzger

>> The Neurobiology of Sleep and Hibernation, proposed by Peter Klopfer, Andrew Krystal, and Anne Yoder

>> Frameworks for Complex Environmental Health Decision Making, proposed by Randall Kramer, Richard Anderson, Vance Fowler, Marie Miranda, and Jonathan Wiener

>> A Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences, proposed by Paula McClain, Kerry Haynie, and Sherman James

>> Changing Institutional Cultures, proposed by Noah Pickus

>> Constructing a Health Consumption Database: An Interdisciplinary Resource for Duke, proposed by Barak Richman, John Dement, Yvonne Wasilewski, Truls Ostbye, Frank Sloan, Phil Costanzo

>> Ethical Issues in Maternal Birth Trauma in the Developing World, proposed by Jeffrey Wilkinson, Anne Drapkin Lyerly, Kathryn Whetten, Nikki Vangsnes

>> Interdisciplinary Studies of Healthy Aging, proposed by Zeng Yi, Harvey Cohen, Linda George, Dan Blazer, Ken Land, Philip Morgan, Angela O'Rand, James W. Vaupel, Charles Becker, and Chee-Ruey Hsieh

2005-2006

>> Cognitive Brain Function, proposed by Roberto Cabeza, David Goldstein, Kevin LaBar, and Gregory McCarthy.

>> Duke Human Rights Initiative (Renewal), proposed by Catherine Admay, Lee Baker, Bob Byrd, Erwin Chemerinsky, Ariel Dorfman, Claudia Koonz, Ebrahim Moosa, Charles Piot, Orin Starn.

>> Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences, proposed by Paula D. McClain, Kerry L. Haynie, Sherman A. James.

>> Initiative on Geospatial Medicine (Renewal), proposed by Maria Miranda, Jonathan Freedman, Alan Gelfand, Christina Gibson-Davis, Marcy Speer, Geeta Swamy, & Redford Williams.

>> Duke Center for Hydrology and Environmental Fluid Dynamics, proposed by John Albertson and Gabriel Katul.

>> Transforming the Ethical Cultures of Institutions, proposed by Ed Balleisen, Peter Euben, Noah Pickus, & Sim Sitkin.

>> Dancing the Legacy: An Initiative to Promote Interdisciplinary Discussion on Three Themes (Renewal), proposed by Keval Khalsa, and Tyler Walters.

2004-2005

>> Third Reconstruction Institute, proposed by Romand Coles and Mary McClintock Fulkerson.

>> Dancing the Legacy: An Initiative to Promote Interdisciplinary Discussion on Three Themes, proposed by Barbara Dickinson, Keval Kalur Khalsa, Clay Taliaferro, and Tyler Walters.

>> New Media / Arts, proposed by Scott Lindroth and Anya Belkina.

>> Neuroeconomics of Decision-Making, proposed by Michael Platt, Scott Huettel, and Jill Stowe.

>> Initiative on Geospatial Medicine, proposed by Maria Miranda, Jonathan Freeman, Gelfand, Gibson-Davis, Marcy Speer, Redford Williams.

>> Profiling and Understanding Medical Malpractice, proposed by Neil Vidmar, Paul Lee.

>> Beyond Measure: Accounting for Suffering in the Context of Illness, proposed by David Markham, Francis Neelon, Deborah Pope, Nikki Vangsnes.

>> Nanoarchitecture: Balancing Regularity, Complexity and Defect Tolerance using DNA for Nanoelectronic Integration, proposed by Alvin Lebeck.