No one knows what will happen to the more than $100,000 in grant money allotted to University professor Stephen M. Shellman, who recently resigned.

Shellman, who is under investigation for claims of sexual harassment, resigned from the University on March 7, but the resignation will not take effect until April.

“I just lost my job, and I have no income and nowhere to take it,” Shellman said Tuesday about the grant money in a phone interview with The Red & Black. “I just don’t know what I’m going to do.”

Shellman was the principal investigator for a number of federal grants, including a $177,408 grant from the National Science Foundation to study domestic terrorism and political violence. The principal investigator is the lead researcher who has the ability to allocate the funds to graduate students or take the money with him if he leaves the University, said Regina Smith, the associate vice president of research.

The future of the grant money Shellman accumulated “has not yet been determined,” Dean Thomas Lauth of the School of Public and International Affairs said. “We’re in the process of working through this matter. It would be premature to comment.”

Shellman was “very successful” with grant funding, Smith said.

Grant money is given to the University first, which then typically gives control to the researcher, she said.

If the principal investigator decides to move to a different school, he most likely will be able to take the money with him.

The University also may appoint a new sponsor-approved researcher to complete the work, Smith said.