Bloomington faculty gets $1 million boost

The IU Office of the Vice Provost for Research is now assisting IU faculty and faculty teams seeking large grants with a $1 million boost in funding.

The Faculty Research Support Program helps faculty conduct research that will allow bigger research projects to begin.

“Because (Office of the Vice Provost for Research) especially aims to encourage collaborative programs, we are particularly pleased that nearly half of these awarded projects feature multidisciplinary collaborations,” said Sarita Soni, IU vice provost for research, in a press release. “I’m confident that these promising projects will lead to proposals that will be reviewed well by the major national funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy and others.”

The last recipients of the award used the grant to study the role of developmental changes in how children learn about physical objects.

“We are so pleased that this toddler object-recognition study was recently funded by NIH,” said Jeffrey White, associate vice provost for research and chair of the Faculty Research Support Program awards committee. “This is just the outcome we hope for when we award support through the FRSP program.”