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Since 1986 an outside foundation has supported research initiation awards
for newly hired Assistant Professors in the Arts & Sciences at
Dartmouth College. Named in honor of a former College Trustee, Walter Burke,
and his wife Constance Burke, these funds are meant to provide start-up support
in all disciplines during the first six years of an appointment.
Burke Awards of $25,000 are provided to junior faculty members on the basis
of a brief proposal describing research needs over the first six years of the
initial appointment at Dartmouth. Each proposal will be accompanied by a
commentary and recommendation from the Chair of the department or program, and
the appropriate Associate Dean will take final action on the proposal. You
should submit your proposal along with the application
and budget
form to your department chair who will forward it to the Dean of Faculty
Office. Click here for an example
Burke budget form.
Up to $12,500 of the Burke funds will be available during the first three
years in rank as assistant professor. The additional $12,500 will be available
following reappointment to that rank.
Individual awards may cover the cost of a computer package and may also
include travel, data collection, library research, salary for a research
assistant, books and access to original manuscripts, and laboratory equipment
for scientists and social scientists as appropriate. The funds cannot be used
to pay faculty salaries either in the form of release time during the academic
year or as extra salary in the free term, travel expenses of family members, or
office furniture.
Because the Burke Awards were created to help new faculty initiate their
research, faculty also should seek to identify appropriate external funding
sources. We expect each faculty member to submit at least one application for
external support of research activities during the first three years of
appointment unless, after consultation with the Dean of Faculty Office, no
appropriate sources of funds can be identified. The Dean of Faculty Office and
the Office of Sponsored
Projects provide assistance in identification of funding sources and
in preparation of applications. External funding can include travel awards,
grants in aid, and fellowships to provide leave term salary. Applications for
fellowships to support leave terms (i.e., release time from teaching) may be
coordinated with the one-term sabbatical leave for which every Assistant
Professor is eligible after nine terms of residence and reappointment to a
second three year contract.
After six years you must report on your use of the Walter and Constance
Burke Research Initiation grant and its contributions to your research
program.
The accounting for the Burke Award program is overseen by the Fiscal Office
of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. The contact person in this office for
Burke accounts is Erin L.
Bennett. You are responsible for the account that will be set up in your
name for your Burke Award. The account will be monitored centrally to ensure
that you do not overspend the amount awarded to you and to aid in
reporting.
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