SBU is committed to providing support and investments to encourage faculty in the Creative Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences to actively apply for external research grants, pursue their research goals, and support collaboration in multidisciplinary research projects.

Progress

The Office of the Provost, in collaboration with OVPR, is announcing the following new initiatives: 

• Creation for a new OVPR seed grant program for research in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. At least three grants will be funded, with each grant providing up to $20,000 to support creative efforts targeting external grants and awards.
• Funding for three grants supporting the development of new mentoring mechanisms. This program targets senior faculty members interested in developing a mentoring program for early and mid-career faculty applying for Guggenheim, NEA, NEH and other programs. Each award will provide up to $10,000 in research funds to the mentor and $5,000 for the implementation of the mentoring program. 
• Two $25,000 grants will be awarded to promote, in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences, the development of new research teams to explore interdisciplinary areas of scholarly work and tackle grand challenge areas such as as Digital Futures/Ethical AI, Sustainability, Critical Health Studies/Health Disparities, Global Migration, Carceral Studies, etc. The request for proposals for the Provostial Seed Grants for Interdisciplinary Work in Creative Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities can be found here.

These initiatives, which add to the existing support mechanisms such as FAHSS, the Humanities Institute and other SBU organizations, are inspired by recommendations from a Stony Brook working group of artists, humanists and social scientists convened during summer 2021.
Each program will be launched during the Spring 22 semester. More details on each initiative will be provided at the time of roll out. 

Next Steps

• New PI support mechanisms, including workshops, MyResearch and Pivot training, and support identifying and submitting proposals
• Establishing new support structures for Principal Investigators and graduate students
• Expanding supports within the Office of the Vice President for Research
• Reinforcing existing supports within the Humanities Institute and other SBU organizations

If you have any questions or suggestions, please reach out to Provost_Research@stonybrook.edu.

We have established this new Council to more effectively collaborate and grow our research and to direct the university’s research mission into the future. Multi-disciplinary think tanks will develop relationships with funding agencies, governing bodies and industry, fund workshops to foster collaboration, and encourage a campus-wide culture of entrepreneurship and inclusiveness for research opportunities.

Progress

• Dr. Alfredo Fontanini is serving as the first Vice Provost for Research and Infrastructure
• Strategic Research Council has been created, including the Associate Deans of Research, the VP of Research and the Provost. The first meeting was held in October. 

Next Steps

• • Create a central point for intelligence gathering and dissemination to the community
  • Foster connections between the research community, Economic Development and Advancement
  • Identify key performance indicators (KPI) to measure progress
  • Propose a set of working group recommendations for implementation (team building, innovation, industry connections)