Framework Announces First Grants

The JHU Gazette (John Hopkins University)
By Greg Rienzi
The Gazette

Provost's committee selects 11 proposals for funding

The Office of the Provost is planting 11 hybrid seeds that it hopes will bloom into areas of cross-disciplinary excellence at the university, and possibly positions of world leadership.

Among those that could come to fruition are a Johns Hopkins Space Science Institute, a Johns Hopkins Individualized Medicine Program and a Discover East Asia Program.

These initiatives and eight others are the inaugural grant winners out of 74 submitted to the Framework for the Future's Discovery Working Group. They will receive start-up funding in the form of planning/seed grants of up to $200,000 per year for three years. The university hopes these grants will ignite new areas and strengthen existing ones where cross-disciplinary interactions make a major difference.

Six initiatives were funded for three-year grants and five selected for one-year grants. The initiatives, which will involve all 10 divisions of the university, cover a range of disciplines, including stem cell research, computing, bioinformatics, bioenergy and global water. (For a list of the funded proposals and their primary faculty and staff members, see below.)

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