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Professional Development Fund Deadline Approaching

Written on October 8, 2013. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Opportunities.

The Professional Development Grant Committee urges all full-time faculty, part-time faculty who have completed two years of service, librarians and museum curators to submit applications for research and creative projects to be undertaken between January...

Funding Opportunities for Curricular and Professional Development

Written on September 24, 2013. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Current Initiatives, Opportunities, Updates from & for Faculty.

RISD is committed to providing support for curriculum development and faculty professional development to recognize and encourage excellence in teaching and research. In the last year, with funding from the strategic plan, and through the generosity...

Terry Work Filmed & Distributed

Written on August 27, 2013. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Fine Arts.

With support from a RISD faculty Professional Development Fund grant, John Terry (Professor, Film/Animation/Video) filmed new work in Venice, Italy this summer. The current working title for the film is “The Bridge of Thighs & Knees &...

Spring 2013 Professional Development Grant recipients

Written on April 22, 2013. Posted in Architecture and Design, Fine Arts, Foundation Studies, Liberal Arts, Updates from & for Faculty.

The Professional Development Fund Committee met mid-April to review project proposals submitted for its Spring 2013 funding cycle. The Committee received requests for over $68,000 in support. The Committee is pleased to announce the following awards...

Yeadon Wins Tri-State Open Science Challenge Prize

Written on December 21, 2012. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design.

Peter Yeadon (Associate Professor, Interior Architecture) has been awarded the DTRA Prize, sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The prize is one of three research awards that any Tri-State resident (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut) could...

Fall 2012 Professional Development Fund awards announced

Written on November 30, 2012. Posted in Updates from & for Faculty.

The Professional Development Fund Committee met in late November to review project proposals submitted for its Fall funding cycle. The Committee received 21 requests for over $78,000 in support. The Committee is delighted to report that as a result...

Professional Development Fund Fall 2012 cycle call for proposals

Written on October 10, 2012. Posted in Opportunities, Updates from & for Faculty.

The Professional Development Fund was established to foster excellence in the fields of art and design and the advancement of knowledge in related fields. The Fund provides financial support for the extraordinary costs of studio work, research projects...

Professional Development Fund Fall 2012 call for proposals

Written on October 1, 2012. Posted in Opportunities, Uncategorized, Updates from & for Faculty.

During the past year the Professional Development Fund has provided support for Yuriko Saito’s release time to work on her Oxford Press publication “Everyday Aesthetics and World-Making”, Peter yeadon’s research on the use of biological...

Placing Archaeological Exploration in Jerusalem in Socio-Political Context

Written on September 25, 2012. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

During the months of July and August, Katharina Galor (Lecturer, HAVC) conducted research in Jerusalem as a basis for a new book project dealing with archaeological exploration in the city and placing its discoveries and interpretations into the recent...

Christina Connett to speak on Qatari Collections

Written on April 30, 2012. Posted in Liberal Arts, Uncategorized, Updates from & for Faculty.

Christina Connett (Lecturer, History of Art and Visual Culture) will give a talk titled “Defining Doha: Qatari Collections and Resources for Scholars” on Wednesday, May 2 as part of the John Carter Brown Library Fellows Lunches. Brown...

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