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...
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...
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 &...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 (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...