A key goal of Together Duke is to invest in faculty as scholars and leaders of the university’s intellectual communities. To foster collaboration around new and emerging areas of interest, Intellectual Community Planning Grants (ICPG) are available to groups of faculty.
These grants cover the cost of food, meeting venues, external speakers or other meeting costs, and exploratory research into potential collaborators at Duke and elsewhere. The offices of the Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and the Executive Vice Provost oversee this seed grant program.
For the 2019 calendar year, eight groups received Intellectual Community Planning Grants ranging from $1,000 to $5,000.
An emerging community of theoretical chemists at Duke is spread across schools and departments. This group has begun to organize a Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Theoretical Chemistry, which will help strengthen the pool of graduate student applicants from North America. The Intellectual Community Planning Grant will enable the participation of more faculty (those who could not fully fund a student on their own) and support team-building excursions. All faculty will present multiple seminars and mentor the summer undergraduate researchers.
- Lead: David Beratan, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, School of Medicine, Duke University Energy Initiative, CBB Faculty
- Hashim Al-Hashimi, School of Medicine, CBB faculty
- Volker Blum, Pratt School of Engineering, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University Energy Initiative
- Patrick Charbonneau, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, CBB Faculty
- Stephen Craig, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University Energy Initiative
- Bruce Randall Donald, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, School of Medicine, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, GCB
- Jianfeng Lu, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
- Michael Rubinstein, Pratt School of Engineering, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
- Warren S. Warren, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, School of Medicine
- Weitao Yang, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University Energy Initiative, CBB faculty