In 2006 the Luso-American Development Foundation awarded a three-year grant to Faculty Fellow, Isabel Ferreira-Gould to support activities of the University’s Program in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and the Kellogg Institute.  The funding will be used to enrich undergraduate experience in Portuguese language classes, to support student research, to increase awareness in the broader community of Portuguese studies, and to nurture scholarly research on Portugal and the Lusophone world.  Included in the activities of the project are library acquisitions; speakers from Portugal, the US, and Lusophone countries, an artist-in-residence; faculty and graduate research grants; and prizes for undergraduate excellence in advanced courses.  

FLAD is a private, financially autonomous institution created by the Portuguese government in 1985.  FLAD has the mission of assisting Portugal in its development, especially through relations with civil institutions in the US.  Its initial endowment was over $100 million and it has sustained annual grant-making averaging $7 million.