Faculty Research Grants

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Find support for your research, creative or scholarly activities, or high quality projects not likely to receive external funding.

Are you eligible?

Only tenured or tenure-track faculty members (i.e., assistant professor, associate professor, professor, distinguished professor) are eligible for awards.

 

Eligibility: Have you previously received a grant?

If so, please note the following rules and conditions:

If you have previously received a faculty research grant and have questions about your eligibility to submit a new grant application, please contact the Graduate College.

This restriction applies to all authors of a multiple-authored proposal.

Research grants for those who are eligible

How and when to apply

Application deadlines: 
  • The spring deadline for submission of proposals is February 1st.
  • The fall deadline for submission of proposals is October 1st.
Note: If the deadline falls on a weekend or holiday, applications will be accepted the following working day.

To apply:
  • Submit all applications and attachments through Dynamic Forms.
  • Convert all attachments as a PDF (Word documents or JPG/PNG files must be converted to PDF).
  • Limit your proposal to the space allotted in the Dynamic Forms Faculty Research Grant application.
  • Submit your vitae as an attachment. Limit it to no more than 5 pages (12 point font, 1 inch margin) with emphasis on recent activity that support the proposal.
  • Upload references as an attachment to the application. 

All questions/fields are required and incomplete applications will not be reviewed by the committee. If a question/field is "not applicable" please mark as "N/A".

Please see FRG Application Dynamic Forms 2021 for screenshots and helpful hints for completing the application.

Specific instructions for preparing proposals for consideration for faculty research grants are available below.

Policies and procedures: Grant requests

Find out the details for completing, submitting, tracking and fullfilling grant requests.