Koelln Research Fund
This fund was established in 1972 by John A. Gibbons, Jr., to honor Fritz C. A. Koelln, George Taylor Files Professor of Modern Languages Emeritus. A one-semester grant consisting of a stipend of $700 and an expense budget of up to $500 may be awarded annually to a faculty/student research team to support exploration of a topic that surmounts traditional disciplinary boundaries. The purpose of the fund is to encourage broad, essentially humanistic inquiry, and will be awarded with preference given to worthy projects founded at least in part in the humanities. Applications to the Koelln Research Fund must be made early in the Fall semester of the academic year the money is to be used. Each student awarded a Koelln grant will be invited to submit an expense budget request. Such a request must be detailed, specific, and of clear relevance to the proposed research project.