Summer Faculty Fellowships (SFF)
Summer Faculty Fellowships are offered each summer on a competitive basis to standing full-time faculty at Penn State Abington. Preference is given to the following full-time faculty, although others may also apply: (1) currently untenured faculty in the tenure process; (2) faculty who can demonstrate that they are actively pursuing external funding for the project under review and/or for related projects; (3) faculty who have successfully completed an FDG-funded research project, with resulting publication, conference presentations, or external funding; 4) faculty who propose a project that will result in interdisciplinary research collaborations or interdisciplinary curricular innovations with faculty in other programs, departments, or divisions.
Terms of the Fellowship: The fellowship will be awarded for a period of 6 weeks of full-time summer work on a given project. The fellow is expected to submit a report within two months of completion of the fellowship period, and no later than November 1 of the fellowship year. Documentation of submission of the research to refereed journals, publishers, and/or external funding agencies is expected as part of this report.
Fellowship Award: Each Summer Faculty Fellowship carries a stipend of $4,000, and up to three awards will be distributed each year. In the case of an interdisciplinary research or curriculum award shared by more than one individual, each awardee will receive $2000, and those awardees are eligible to apply for an SFF in subsequent years. For other cases, individuals may apply for Summer Faculty Fellowships only once every 3 years, such that an individual awardee may not apply again for a period of two years after receiving an SFF, apart from exceptional cases as determined by the Chancellor, Associate Dean, and the Faculty Review Committee.
Application Deadline: Proposals must be submitted to the Office of Academic Affairs by February 15.
