Research & Policy Teams are comprised of a team of researchers and practitioners of policy, journalism, art, and advocacy who will exhaustively study a critical racial inequity or injustice, ascertain the policies leading to the inequity, develop policy correctives, narrate the problems and solutions through journalism and art, and organize a campaign for change to work with policymakers to test the policy correctives.
Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy & Research
CEID Pilot Grant, funding grants in the amount of $25,000. CEID’s mission is to share knowledge and training opportunities that improve societal resilience against emerging and epidemic infectious diseases threats worldwide.
Center for Systems Neuroscience
Center for Systems Neuroscience Fellowships: Funding — for salary (around $40K per year depending on experience) for a postdoctoral fellow (plus benefits) for up to two years — is available for candidates at the post-doctoral level to work for two years as Center for Systems Neuroscience fellows with Center for Systems Neuroscience faculty from neuroscience departments and colleges at Boston University.
Global Development Policy Center
The GDPC’s Summer in the Field Program provides summer stipends to a select group of qualified Boston University Masters and/or PhD students to participate in unpaid internships or PhD students to conduct field research for a dissertation project.
Hariri Institute for Computing
Focused Research Programs support intensive, faculty-driven efforts in large, multi-disciplinary teams. Their goal is to evolve and advance Boston University’s research in computing and data science around areas of strategic importance and emerging opportunity.
Initiative on Cities
Early Stage Urban Research Awards support research conducted by faculty or graduate students addressing urban challenges and urban populations in the US and abroad.
Institute for Global Sustainability
Sustainability Research Grant brings together a community of BU researchers from across disciplines, changing focus each year to support varied sustainability themes in partnership with different BU schools and colleges.
Campus Climate Lab supports research projects conducted by student-faculty teams to generate new knowledge on the impacts, adaptation, and/or mitigation of climate change that can be implemented at BU. Awards vary by project scope, but typically fall between $1,000 and $10,000.
Impact Measurement & Allocation Program (IMAP) funds research that looks at ESG (environmental, social, governance) metrics within the financial industry. New sources of data for metrics, the development of new metrics, and analysis of the use of metrics, are all topics of interest to IMAP.
Other BU Centers, Schools, and Programs
Alzheimer's Disease Center
Pilot Grant Program w/ NIH, two NIH-funded proposals for $25k in direct costs for one-year non-renewable studies