About CARSCA
The mission of the College Academy of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity is to provide support for College faculty to achieve excellence in their research, scholarship and creative activity. Funding by the Academy is open to all permanent UA faculty and there will be no priority given to faculty on the basis of stage in their careers. Groups of faculty (including entire departments) may apply. Funding will be considered for anything (salary, travel, equipment, supplies, honoraria for outside speakers) that will meet the goal of enhanced faculty productivity (although salary for the principal investigator will only be considered under special circumstances). Proposed projects can vary widely, and may include conferences and faculty seminars, seed funding for pilot studies for larger grant applications, and individual scholarly work including books and creative activities. Proposals for spring 2013 will be due on February 25, 2013. Regardless of what is proposed for funding, all proposals must include a method for measuring the success of the proposal. During the 2011-2012 academic year, 51 CARSCA proposals were submitted by faculty (5 from Humanities and Fine Arts, 31 from Mathematics and Natural Sciences, 15 from Social Sciences), and 14 were approved for funding. When broken down by Division, funding occurred for 60% of HFA proposals, 27% of SS proposals, and 23% of MNS proposals. A total of $75,000 was dispersed to the funded projects. Funding levels ranged from $1,660 to $8,195 for specific projects. The 2012-2013 Committee which rates proposals and decides on funding levels consists of, besides Brian Evans (Art), the Chair:
College Academy of Research, Scholarship and
Creative Activity – Member Faculty
- Humanities/Fine Arts
- Sarah M. Barry (Theater & Dance)*
- Andrea M. Cevasco (Music)*
- Andrew Raffo Dewar (New College/Music)*
- Emily Wittman (English)*
- Social Sciences
- Douglas Gibler (Political Science)*
- Keith Jacobi (Anthropology)
- Kenny Lichstein (Psychology)
- Catherine Roach (New College)
- Math/Natural Sciences
- Margaret Johnson (Biology)*
- Jerry Busenitz (Physics and Astronomy)
- Tim Mewes (Physics and Astronomy)
- Robert Moore (Mathematics)
* New to the Committee for 2012-2013
Points the committee will consider during review, if applicable for the project:
- Potential to enhance scholarship or creative activity
- Clear plan for the work
- Guided by a compelling question or creative idea
- Lead to outside funding
- Involve students in a meaningful way, if appropriate for the project
- Intelligibly written for non-specialist
- Innovative, daring, novel
- Interdisciplinary, if appropriate for the project
- Could not be done without this funding
- Have an impact on the College broadly
- Enhance reputation of the College of Arts and Sciences beyond the college
- Especially encourage applications that lead to new directions in the faculty person’s research, scholarship or creative activity
- If the applicant has been previously funded by CARSCA, a report on the outcome of the prior funding should be included
Current CARSCA Information
Past CARSCA Information
Request for Proposals, Fall 2012
Request for Proposals, 2010-11
Request for Proposals, 2009-10 (Round 1: Nov. 2/09; Round 2: Feb. 15/10)
Funded Proposals
Fall 2010
Establishing a UA/University of Helsinki Collaboration to Demonstrate Electrochemical Chromatography
Effects of a Developmental Music Therapy Program on Premature Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at DCH: A Pilot Study
Evaluation of the DNA binding activity of the HSV-1 protein VP22
Improving School Readiness: Social, Cognitive, and Physiological Predictors in Preschool
Expanding knowledge about first language influences on second language learning: The cross-linguistic impact of attention to features of motion
Biomineraliztation in Extreme Environments: A new insight for Carbonate Bio-inspired Materials
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