IU Vice President for Research Jorge José named 25 more faculty members to receive New Frontiers grants.
The New Frontiers grants provide up to $50,000 each in Creativity and Scholarship Awards to 19 faculty members and up to $15,000 in Experimental Fellowship Awards for six faculty members, according to a University press release.
New Frontiers is meant to show IU’s support for creativity and innovation, according to the release.
President Michael McRobbie announced the Bicentennial Strategic Plan provided continued funding for the program.
This is the program’s second extension made by McRobbie.
During the past 10 years, the New Frontiers program has given $9.3 million to 451 faculty members.
“New Frontiers has repeatedly fostered exciting new opportunities for our faculty by integrating the arts, scholarship and creativity and empowering that relationship with a strong commitment of support,” McRobbie said in the release.
The program allows faculty members to expand their research in a variety of fields.
Award winners are researching subjects such as the War on Terror, religion in Japanese children’s books, globalization, Ebola and Mohican music.
“This program has allowed our faculty to expand the breadth and depth of their research and creative activity and led to the development of innovative works across a wide range of disciplines,” McRobbie said in the release. “In doing so, it has guaranteed that IU’s longstanding tradition of excellence in the arts and humanities continues to thrive and enrich our quality ?of life.”
In addition to aiding research, New Frontiers helps faculty with travel for their research, according to the release.
“Beyond the practical benefits, New Frontiers funding has given me moral support and strong motivation. I want to justify the confidence Indiana University has expressed in me, thus I aim even higher than I would on my own,” Jean Robertson said in the release. “I don’t know of another university in the country that provides such generous financial support for faculty who specialize in arts and humanities disciplines, and the sheer volume of research that IU faculty members have been able to accomplish as the outcomes of New Frontiers grants is jaw dropping.”
Robertson is the Chancellor’s Professor of Art History at IU-Purdue University-Indianapolis’ Herron School of Art and Design.
She has received a New Frontiers grant and was also a member of the panel that reviews the applications for the grants, according to the press release.
“I don’t know of another university in the country that provides such generous financial support for faculty who specialize in arts and humanities disciplines, and the sheer volume of research that IU faculty members have been able to accomplish as the outcomes of New Frontiers grants is jaw dropping,” she said in the release.
Alison Graham
