In October 2006, The Institute, along with the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, launched the sisters fund, an innovative program to support vital projects that address global health issues related to women and gender. It is the first time in U-M's history that a research fund, primarily financed by women, is being dedicated to increase our understanding of women's health and related gender concerns. Grants, varying in size from $500 to $10,000, will be awarded to University of Michigan researchers engaged in projects focused on these challenges.
The Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Gender and Global Health Program (GGH) is pleased to announce its fall 2008 call for applications to provide faculty seed funds to UM faculty of $2000-$5000 with the aim of facilitating innovative, collaborative, and high-quality research in the field of gender and global health. Criteria for funding will include importance and relevance of the proposed research to advancing global health, having an interdisciplinary research team involving multiple schools or disciplines, inclusion of foreign scholars from one or more collaborating institutions, and likelihood the project will lead to a successful grant proposal.
PDF with complete information.
Faculty Seed Grant application.
The Program of Faculty Support for Scholarly Activities on Women and Gender supports a range of scholarly activities on women or gender with grants ranging from $500 to $10,000. Its goal is to enhance disciplinary and interdisciplinary scholarship on women and gender at the University of Michigan. Support may be requested for individual scholarly activities (e.g., travel to research sites, purchase of research materials such as books, microfilms, or other items, research assistance) and for collaborative projects (e.g., pilot or initial research efforts, study groups, conference planning and implementation).
The following criteria play some role in the award process.
This program was initiated in 1996.
Application Guidelines are now
available.