HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Provost Announces Interim Grants To Promote Interfaculty Collaboration

Provost Harvey V. Fineberg has awarded interim grants to the five faculty working groups from the new Provost's Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration. The fund supports faculty discussion and collaboration on topics of mutual intellectual interest to faculty members in several schools.

These interim grants constituted the second round of grants for the new fund. The first round of full grants was made in January 1998. To qualify, working groups had to include at least six faculty members from at least three different schools. The purpose of the seed grants is to support intellectual exchange across Faculties.

The next round of grants will be made in the spring of 1999, in order to bring the grant cycle in line with the academic year. "We were encouraged by the number of faculty interested in pursuing interfaculty work through these grants," said Fineberg. "And though we look forward to a more extensive process in the next full round, we are happy to be able to provide a limited number of interim grants to support ideas that have developed in the meantime."

More detailed information, both about the application process and the working groups funded, is available electronically on the Provost's Fund Web page at www.provost.harvard.edu/provost_fund.

The groups awarded interim grants are:

• Interfaculty Approaches to Latino Studies; Faculty Leader: John Coatsworth (Faculty of Arts and Sciences)
• Intercultural Professional and Occupational Ethics; Faculty Leader: Kenneth Winston (Kennedy School)
• Geographical Information Systems; Faculty Leader: Goran Ekstrom (FAS)
• Arsenic Problems in Developing Nations; Faculty Leader: David Christiani (School of Public Health)
• School-Based Programs to Support Students and Families; Faculty Leader: Robert Selman (Graduate School of Education)