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Futures interdisciplinary research grants provide seed funding to Futures Conference research participants, on a competitive basis, to enable further pursuit of important new ideas and connections stimulated by the national conference, bringing people together in a variety of new ways and sparking new interdisciplinary research. The grants provide researchers an opportunity to explore new research areas, learn new skills, and/or collaborate across disciplines, in cases where this would not otherwise be possible. These grants will help researchers move towards the interfaces between disciplines.
Early May 2011, the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative announced the recipients of this year's Futures grants: Thirteen projects were chosen, each representing a wide range of approaches to imaging science, the subject of the eighth annual Futures conference. A summary of the conference, “Seeing the Future With Imaging Science,” will be available online early June 2011.
"We received far more high-quality proposals than funds available," said Farouk El-Baz, research professor and director of the Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, and the 2010 conference chair. "We scored the grants based on their interdisciplinarity, relevance to imaging science, riskiness/boldness, and the importance and potential impact if the grant is funded. We believe that the group of collaborations selected will result in the most 'generative' findings."
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