“The General Research Board was created in 1957 to provide summer salaries, equipment and even publication costs for men engaged in independent research. Designed largely to promote research in the humanities and social sciences — which did not share proportionately in the vast research contracts from government and industry — the board sought to encourage promising young faculty members as well as established scholars.”

From: A History of the University of Maryland
George H. Callcott, 1966
The Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore MD

The University of Maryland General Research Board (GRB) will be inviting applications by full-time tenured & tenure-track faculty members at the rank of Assistant Professor or higher at the University of Maryland College Park, for financial support of their research and scholarly activities during Summer and Fall 2005, and Spring 2006.