Emory University
ER-18: Sustainability Research Incentives

The Office of Sustainability Initiatives provides an Incentives Fund to support research, campus-based projects, and the development of new rituals to promote sustainability on Emory’s campuses. All faculty, staff and students, including Emory Healthcare and Oxford College members, are eligible to apply. Funds may be used for supplies, materials, publicity, and travel costs (excluding equipment). Proposals are welcome in all areas, with priority given to proposals in the areas of recycling, sustainable food systems, energy reduction, alternative transportation, and connection to ‘place’. Research and rituals must be carried out on campus. In addition to the Initiatives Fund, Emory has had two Sustainability Scholars-in-Residence funded through generous gifts by the R. Howard Dobbs, Jr. Foundation and the Turner Foundation. These Sustainability Scholars-in-Residence work on specific research issues related to sustainability. The Office of University and Community Partnerships also sponsors a Graduate Fellowship for Engaged Research, which seeks applicants experienced and interested in one or more of the following topic areas: community building and social change; equitable development and neighborhoods (especially topics related to gentrification, neighborhood revitalization, and displacement); social policy (especially public education, welfare, and workforce development); community-based health concerns; the environment and sustainability; immigrant and refugee communities; communications and media production (audio, video, print and/or web); and engaged learning or service learning pedagogy. We have a Sustainability Fellow funded by this OUCP program who is a graduate student in theology. The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry provides a variety of grants to faculty and students for various projects in the humanities, including issues of social justice, equity, and diversity. The Global Health Institute Individual Field Scholars Program promotes student learning by linking academic study with practical experience in the field. Individual scholars conduct short-term global health projects focusing on under-served and/or vulnerable populations around the world. Applicants can conduct projects either abroad or within the United States, however, they must demonstrate a significant need in the population with whom they propose to work. Scholarship recipients receive up to $3,000 to conduct their projects. The Sustainability Minor requires all students in the program to carry out a capstone research or outreach activity on sustainability issues for which they receive two credits. This research project may be part of Honors Research, study abroad, an internship, or other academic course.

The Office of Sustainability Initiatives provides an Incentives Fund to support research, campus-based projects, and the development of new rituals to promote sustainability on Emory’s campuses. All faculty, staff and students, including Emory Healthcare and Oxford College members are eligible to apply. Funds may be used for supplies, materials, publicity, and travel costs (excluding equipment). Proposals are welcome in all areas, with priority given to proposals in the areas of recycling, sustainable food systems, energy reduction, alternative transportation, and connection to ‘place’. Research and rituals must be carried out on campus. The Office of University and Community Partnerships sponsors a mini-grant for faculty, which provides financial, technical, and personnel support to faculty and staff for pilot research projects that provide a direct and tangible benefit to communities in the greater Atlanta area. While this grant does not directly specify sustainability-research, a number of grant recipients conduct research in areas of social justice, equity, and the environment. The research must be sought by one or more community organizations, government agencies, or nonprofit organizations and must have a direct and tangible benefit for or application in the community. Grants of up to $5,500 are available and awards are made three times a year. The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry provides a variety of grants to faculty and students for various projects in the humanities, including issues of social justice, equity, and diversity. The Institute of Critical International Studies helps promote Emory College's goal of global citizenship in a plural world. This goal entails scholarship and outreach to understand societies and cultures and to help reduce inequality and injustice, both across the world and in our international community at home. This mission entails recognition of and interchange with foreign scholars, students and immigrants, as well as the promotion of international scholarship and foreign experience among Emory faculty and students.