Research Centers and Opportunities
The Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
Grant Dollars Awarded 1995-2005
External grant dollars awarded to the College have grown significantly in recent years. In 2004-2005 alone, Arts and Letters received over $14 million in external funding, an all-time high. The table above follows the growth of this funding in the College over the last decade. (Click the graph for the full detail PDF)
As the College of Arts and Letters continues to build upon what has been an expansive period of growth in research and scholarship, the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA) supports students and faculty who push past the boundaries of existing knowledge, who formulate insightful theories, and who create new expressions of emotions and ideas.
Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty are all eligible to receive grant funding from ISLA. In addition, ISLA is the Arts and Letters clearinghouse for information, advice, and assistance in finding and obtaining grant funds from public or private agencies for any academic purpose.
ISLA provides grants for:
- Faculty Research
- Undergraduate Research
- Graduate Research
- Travel to International Conferences
- Curriculum Development
- Lecture series
- Conferences
- Publication subventions
- Miscellaneous research expenses
Learn More >> http://www.nd.edu/~isla
NEH Fellowships to Leading Research Universities
From 1999 to 2006, Notre Dame faculty members were awarded 29 fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), more than any other faculty in the country. Overall, the University ranks sixth in the receipt of research fellowships in the humanities since 1999-2000.
| Notre Dame | 29 |
| University of Michigan | 26 |
| Harvard | 23 |
| UC Berkeley | 15 |
| University of Virginia | 15 |
| Princeton | 15 |
| University of Chicago | 12 |
| Georgetown | 12 |
| Columbia | 12 |
| Cornell | 12 |
| Dartmouth | 11 |
| Brown | 10 |
| Stanford | 9 |
| Duke | 8 |
| Northwestern | 8 |
| Rice University | 7 |
| Washington (St. Louis) | 7 |
| MIT | 7 |
| Vanderbilt | 6 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 |
| Yale | 5 |
| Emory | 4 |
| Johns Hopkins | 2 |
| Cal Tech | 1 |
| Carnegie Mellon | 1 |
* Top 25 Research Universities according to U.S. News and World Report, September 2003
