The Gold Mine – A Resource for CC’s Research Grant Community (Block 1, 2022)

News for and about CC’s Thriving Research Grant Community

News for and about CC's Thriving Research Grant Community

Celebrating This Summer’s

Thriving Research Grant Community

Dear colleagues,

Between precious porch reading and long-planned family vacations, CC faculty also took advantage of summer’s spaciousness to make strategic progress toward their long-term scholarly and creative goals. While naturally faculty across the College engaged in their research and creative work this summer, many from the faculty chose to lean into this work in exciting ways. All told, this summer 44 individual faculty from 19 departments and programs were engaged in the external grant funding process.  

Since Commencement: 

  • eight faculty engaged in planning meetings for future external funding
  • 10 faculty participated in one of three “Small Group Grant Gatherings
  • 10 faculty submitted 11 new proposals for external funding
  • four faculty were awarded new external grants totaling $269,168 
  • three faculty and two staff are contemplating next steps after learning three grant proposals were not funded 
  • 13 faculty received a total of $141,253 in summer salary or stipends from their external grants, and 
  • 19 students received a total of $70,328 in research fellowship funding from external grants 
The high level of activity this summer illustrates an important trend: Over the last several years there has been a steady growth in the number of faculty who are incorporating the search for external funding into the ecosystem of their scholarly work. As of August 1, 2022, 21 CC faculty are principal investigators on 27 active grants and fellowships totaling ~$3.4 million in funding. By comparison, ten years ago, on August 1, 2012, 11 CC faculty were principal investigators on 15 active research grants totaling ~$1.6 million in funding.

If you are interested in joining CC’s vibrant grants community, please visit the Office of the Dean of the Faculty’s External Grants Overview page, where you can learn more about the resources that exist to support you in being successful and the benefits of grants work regardless of funding. The first step in the process is easy: Let’s meet at your convenience!

I send best wishes for a smooth start to the new academic year!

Tess Powers

Director of Faculty Research Support
tpowers@coloradocollege.edu

Help Us Recognize Our Community’s Accomplishments

CC Accolades

We are developing a new process for gathering and sharing the accomplishments of the CC community. Help us celebrate your faculty colleagues’ accomplishments! Use this anonymous form to share news of publications, creative work, grants and fellowships, and other accomplishments.

Focus on a Funder

Howard Foundation Fellowship


Summary: Highly flexible, non-residential fellowship that supports sabbatical time for artists and scholars.

Career Stage: “Early mid-career,” who have completed “at least one major project”

Annual Deadline: November 1

Award Amount: $40,000

Important: Five-year sequence of fields supported. Applicants should apply at the appropriate time based on field, and if awarded are able to postpone use until their sabbatical.

Fall 2022 deadline for Artists in the field of “Music for Performance” and Scholars in the field of “Musicology, Ethnomusicology and Sound Studies.” Future fields: “Emerging Arts,” “Science and Technology Studies,” “Object-based Arts and Installation Based Arts,” “Art History, Architecture and Visual Culture,” “Fiction and Poetry,” “Literary Studies,” “Playwriting and Choreography,” and “Theater and Performance Studies.”

Resource Reminder

Curated Lists in Pivot Grants Database


Regardless of when (or whether) you intend to apply for research funding, it’s wise to develop an understanding of the kinds of funding opportunities that are available to you. In an effort make this easier for CC faculty, we have developed about 40 “Curated Lists” in the College’s Pivot grants database. While these lists are not exhaustive, they attempt to capture the key funding opportunities that are available to particular disciplines and particular audiences.

There are also Curated Lists with funding ideas for undergraduates and recent graduates. Please share this information with students!


Save the Date

Summer Research and Internship Symposium: Thursday, October 6th, 3-5 p.m. Contact Lisa Schwartz with questions.

“NSF from the Inside” with Phoebe Lostroh, Vanessa Munoz and Mateo Munoz. Thursday, November 10th, lunchtime panel. Contact Tess Powers with questions. Contact Marcella Mills to RSVP for the lunch.

Photo by Fabio Bracht on Unsplash.

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