Internal Funding

Award: Workshop
Award Amount: $15,000
Description: Travel and Lodging Funds to hold exploratory workshops on ideas around the broad areas of information, complexity, or cognition.

Award: Diversity Research and Small Grants
Award Amount: $1,000
Description: Funding for trainees and assistant professors who wish to engage in basic, clinical, and translational health disparities research and present their work nationally and internationally.

Award: Faculty Diversity Career Advancement Grant
Award Amount: Up to $2,000
Description: Support the scholarship endeavors of BSD faculty from diverse backgrounds.

Award: Seed Grant Program
Award Amount: $30,000
Description: Supports promising health services and policy research projects at UChicago that impact vulnerable or disadvantaged populations.

Award: Center for Children Joint Research Fund
Award Amount: $200,000
Description: Fosters research between the University and Chapin Hall that has a meaningful impact on policies and practices that affect vulnerable child populations, their families, and their communities.

Award: Community Programs Accelerator Faculty Support Program
Award Amount: $50,000
Description: Support selected initiatives that have a significant community engagement component for a one-year period, whether the aim is to establish a 501c3 organization or continue as a University program.

Award: FAACTS
Award Amount: $7,000 – 20,000
Description: The France And Chicago Collaborating in The Sciences (FACCTS) program offers seed funding in support of new and developing projects that: 1) promote meaningful intellectual and scientific exchange between UChicago, ANL, and Fermilab researchers and research teams in France, and 2) show promise of leading to fruitful and sustainable collaboration. There are 8-12 such grants awarded each year, with award amounts typically ranging from $7,000/year to $20,000/year. All supported projects are either one year or two years in duration.

Award: Center in Beijing
Award Amount: $3,000 – $15,000
Description: Support for innovative ideas, whether nascent or fully elaborated, for how we might foster global initiatives and facilitate collaboration with scholars and institutions in the region.

Award: Center in Hong Kong
Award Amount:
Description: Support for innovative ideas, whether nascent or fully elaborated, for how we might foster global initiatives and facilitate collaboration with scholars and institutions in the region.

Award: UChicago-HKU Global Partnership Fund
Award Amount: $5,000 – $25,000
Description: Support collaborative teaching, training and research that further enhance the relationship between the University of Chicago and the University of Hong Kong. For academic years 2016-2018, the fund would focus on developing the relationship between UChicago’s Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) and HKU’s Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS).

Award: Center in Delhi
Award Amount: $30,000
Description: Expand opportunities for collaboration with Indian scholars and universities, research institutes, and cultural organizations, to serve as a focal point for engaging alumni in India and South Asia, and to contribute to cooperation among the several international centers of the University.

Award: Pilot Awards
Award Amount: $60,000
Description: ITM funding and resource support for study design, ethics and community consults, networking with potential local and national collaborators, and more. Includes video production and communications support to share research findings and impact.

Award: Community Benefit Grant Awards
Award Amount: $50,000
Description: Collaborative projects between a local community organization and UChicago researcher to impact community health.

Award: Core Subsidy Awards
Award Amount: $5,000
Description: Offset costs for using one of the dozens of UChicago core facilities that offer high-tech equipment, data processing, and other resources for researchers.

Award: Career Development (K) Awards
Award Amount: Up to $100,000
Description: Up to $100,000 in salary support, 75% protected time for research of your choice, exclusive mentoring from senior faculty, and travel funds for junior investigators pursuing clinical, translational, and/or oncology research. Training also includes communications support, video production, and more.

Award: Short Term Pilot Awards
Award Amount: $5,000
Description: Funding for postdoctoral clinician-scientists in training at the University of Chicago Medical Center, such as residents, fellows and other trainees whose mentors do not have financial support for the specific projects the applicants are trying to undertake.

Award: TL1 Trainee Awards
Award Amount: $21,000
Description: Stipend (tuition, living expenses) and research training for predoctoral students in clinical and translational science.

Award: Seed
Award Amount: $10,000 – $25,000/yr
Description: Financial, strategic, and administrative support for research projects that enable University of Chicago faculty to pursue complex questions that require collaboration and are informed by a humanistic perspective.

Award: Large-Scale
Award Amount: $100,000/yr
Description: Financial, strategic, and administrative support for research projects that enable University of Chicago faculty to pursue complex questions that require collaboration and are informed by a humanistic perspective.

Award: Faculty Research Project Awards
Award Amount: $5,000 – $30,000
Description: The Pozen Family Center for Human Rights supports research projects that allow University of Chicago faculty to explore critical dimensions of human rights thought and practice.

Award: Faculty Seed Grants
Award Amount: $5,000
Description: Funds to support a first step into an area of research that may or may not lead to an application for the larger faculty research grant the following year

Award: Tata Centre for Development Request for Proposals
Award Amount: $300,000 (full research), $50,000 (pilot projects)
Description: The TCD is seeking applications for research on economics and growth, broadly defined, with policy implications. Projects in the energy, environment, health, water and sanitation, and development economics domains are encouraged. Proposals must involve work in India or analysis of data describing India, although we welcome research producing widely applicable insights.

Award: UChicago Arts Grants
Award Amount: $1,500 – $5,000
Description: Seed funding for new artistic ventures, especially collaborative projects; should not be considered a source of continued funding

Award: Grants Fund
Award Amount: $25,000 – $60,000
Description: Catalyst, sustaining, and capacity-building funding is awarded to high-impact projects that would likely otherwise not go forward without Women’s Board support. Funding is distributed to projects in the areas of faculty research and support, the arts and cultural institutions, quality of student life, and community outreach