Overview
The Visiting Scholars Program (VSP) provides ISR faculty with funds to host scholars and introduce them to the ISR entrepreneurial and scientific environment as they collaborate on a project (e.g., an external funding proposal, a manuscript, a course, etc.). ISR will provide funding to cover travel, lodging, hosting (up to $500), and a $2000 stipend for a one-week visit at ISR. The faculty host will provide office space and necessary supplies as well as the staff support to arrange the visiting scholar’s travel and itinerary.
To apply for these funds, the faculty host needs to complete a brief application that includes the visiting scholar’s CV and a tentative itinerary of their visit. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Rationale
Many scholars, particularly those from groups that are underrepresented in the sciences, are primarily familiar with research in the context of conventional instructional departments. With this comes notions of ‘soft money’ as high risk and with limits on the scope and type of research that can be accomplished. With this program, we hope to address these issues, which are barriers both to rigorous science and ISR’s scholar network, by hosting scholars for one week. During this week, visiting scholars will work with their ISR faculty host and will meet with faculty, staff, and students throughout ISR to learn about our unique, multidisciplinary, entrepreneurial approach to science that includes all aspects of the research process such as the theory-driven development of scientific questions as well as the data collection, production, and analytic methods to address these questions.