In addition to today's Homewood campus information session on the Framework for the Future strategic planning requests for proposal (noon to 1:15 p.m. in 213 Hodson Hall), Provost Kristina Johnson has scheduled a session on the East Baltimore campus. It will be held from noon to 1:15 p.m. on Thursday, May 29, in the Anna Baetjer Room of the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Proposals are being sought for initiatives in research, scholarship, creativity, teaching and practice that cut across disciplines and divisions of the university. The aim is to identify areas of and build on existing excellence and strength that have the capacity to make major breakthroughs at the boundaries and frontiers of disciplinary knowledge.

Proposals will be prioritized on the basis of their innovation to deepen the university's selective excellence and further differentiate Johns Hopkins from its peers. The Provost's Office will provide start-up funding in the form of planning/seed grants of up to $200,000 per year for three years to ignite new areas and strengthen existing ones where cross-disciplinary interactions make a major difference.

For more information, go to: www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2008/12may08/12future.html.

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