Faculty Research and Creative Activity Awards

Inaugurated in AY 2014-2015, the ERFA Faculty Research and Creative Activity Awards of $2500 each (increased to $3000 beginning AY 2025-26) have been granted to faculty members yearly in order to provide funding in support of their scholarly and creative activities.  

2025 - 2026 Award Recipients:

Dr. Edward Cohen - School of Social Work
Dr. Ismaila Diallo - Department of Meteorology and Climate Science
Dr. Scott Shaffer - Department of Biological Sciences

Faculty eligible to apply include tenure-track faculty, tenured faculty, FERP faculty, and senior lecturer faculty with more than 6 years of continuous service to ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø.  The annual call for proposals goes out in October with a December deadline.  In February awardees are notified and subsequently recognized at ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø's Research Celebration event.  For more information about these awards and a list of past winners you can download a brief fact sheet [pdf], or visit this Center for Faculty Excellence and Teaching Innovation web page.

These awards are made possible through donations to the ERFA Research and Creative Activity fund.  Please consider to support the work of our current faculty at ºÚ¹Ï³ÔÁÏÍø.