Tufts University
AC-10: Support for Research

Matriculated students at any of Tufts University's graduate programs and professional schools are eligible to apply for Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE) fellowships to conduct interdisciplinary environmental research projects. Selected students will be listed on the TIE website, invited to present final reports to the Tufts environmental community, and receive funding toward a research stipend and/or supplies (up to $6000 per graduate fellowship). For undergraduates and graduates, TIE offers two types of financial awards to offset travel costs, Conference Presentation Travel Grants, and Data Collection Travel Grants. Also, TIE offers a program that supports undergraduate students interested in pursuing environmentally focused research in the natural sciences, social sciences, or humanities. In addition to financial support, students are given mentoring opportunities and a space in our office to work throughout the summer. Tufts Institute of the Environment runs workshops for graduate students that promote student cohort formation, collaborative sustainability research, and skill development. Tufts summer scholars program gives research funding to two undergrads in the area of sustainability research every year. Additionally, Tufts has launched a new initiative to identify key areas of research priority that will be funded to increase Tufts' research enterprise. Specifically, the steering committee identifies 5 priority areas for research funding: Climate, Food, Water & Energy; Comparative Global Humanities; Equitable Society; Living Technology; and One Health. These topics represent an initiative aimed at increasing quality and impact of research in these priority areas to attract top notch faculty and students to grow the Tufts research community. Outcomes of this early initiative are preliminary, but 8 initiatives aligned with these priority areas have been identified and approved for funding as of July 2018: Phase I Funded Proposals Center for Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance (CIMAR) Culture, History, and Translation Healthy Aging Laboratory for Living Devices (LLD) Phase II Funded Proposals Climate and Energy Equity in Health, Wealth, and Politics Food and Water Nexus Global Obesity Collaborative https://viceprovost.tufts.edu/research-scholarship-strategic-plan/ The Feinstein Center is a research group at Tufts focused on promoting humanitarian action and human rights. http://fic.tufts.edu/ This center provides support for student research through a summer grant program: The Feinstein International Center annual summer grants program is designed to stimulate applied research in issues pertaining to complex emergencies, humanitarian assistance, refugees and other migrants, natural disasters, and food security. The grants are intended to support travel and living expenses. Grants are up to $3,000 for overseas positions and up to $2,000 for US-based positions.

The Tufts Institute for the Environment (TIE) provides funding for interdisciplinary environmental faculty research. In addition, the "Tufts Collaborates" and "Tufts Innovates" seed grant programs were designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty from different departments, and many of the projects funded through those grants have focused on sustainability and the environment. Tufts Institute of the Environment runs annual faculty workshops to encourage the formation of interdisciplinary environmental research networks in certain research areas related to sustainability. The research scholarship strategic plan mentioned above relates to faculty research goals, and preliminary outcomes are the funding of the 8 selected projects relating to the priority areas in sustainability topics.

Promotion-only within an interdisciplinary program is available for tenured associate professors with the following stipulations: 1. The interdisciplinary program for which promotion is being sought must offer a major; 2. Such promotion shall be reviewed by the Tenure and Promotion Committee according to the standards of scholarship, teaching, and service used in promotion cases within departments; 3. Individuals promoted under the above conditions shall receive the title "professor" of the appropriate program

The Tisch Library hosts a Digital Library where it stores Tufts' research and collections. The library staff agreed to upload the student sustainability project database into the Digital Library during fall 2018, so that these sustainability student projects could be found by all members of the Tufts community: https://dl.tufts.edu/. Tisch Library employs a full-time science librarian, who supports sustainability research and a librarian who supports the Urban and Environmental Planning program and the Sustainability Master’s program.

The Fletcher School also offers research fellowships in sustainability for graduate students. See: http://fletcher.tufts.edu/CIERP/Education/Internships for more information. Anne Moore, Program Specialist of Scholarship Development, Office-Dean Undergraduate Education, anne.moore@tufts.edu, (617) 627-5808, is the contact person for the Summer Scholars Program. Undergraduate research funding: http://sites.tufts.edu/rogue/ Graduate student research: https://environment.tufts.edu/funding/fellowships/cohorts/ http://ase.tufts.edu/igert/waterdiplomacy/education/fellowships.htm