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Find Campus Funding Opportunities
Find Campus Funding Opportunities
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign supports innovative research in a number of ways. Campus funding helps faculty and research staff advance new ideas, complete important preliminary studies to attract external support, and supplement resources available from other sources.
Many of the programs listed below (in alphabetical order) have revolving deadlines. Check individual websites for specific requirements and application criteria.
Current Opportunities
Humanities Research Institute
2021-22 HRI Fellowships
HRI grants fellowships to Illinois faculty and graduate students, who spend the year engaged in research and writing.
Deadline: December 4, 2020
Ragdale Residential Creative Fellowship
Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, HRI and Ragdale are pleased to offer this summer fellowship opportunity at Ragdale for Illinois tenure-track and specialized faculty who hold full-time positions in Creative Writing, Art + Design, Music, Dance, Theatre, Architecture, and Landscape Architecture.
Deadline: October 16, 2020
Grainger College of Engineering | Health Care Engineering Systems Center
Jump Arches Request for Proposals Fall 2020
The Jump Applied Research for Community Health through Engineering and Simulation (Jump ARCHES) endowment offers this RFP to members of the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, health care providers of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, and/or OSF HealthCare clinicians.
Deadline: October 30, 2020
Humanities Without Walls
2021 HMW National Predoctoral Career Diversity Virtual Summer Workshop
Applications are invited from doctoral students pursuing a degree in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to participate in a three-week, virtual summer workshop. This is a limited-submission application.
Deadline: October 31, 2020
Recurring Opportunities
ACES Office of International Programs Seed Funding
Center for Global Studies Foreign Langauge and Area Studies Fellowships
Future Interdisciplinary Research Explorations (FIRE) Seed Grants
Illinois International Research Travel Grants and Conference Grants
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities
Illinois International Research Travel Grants and Conference Grants
Illinois Leadership Center Faculty Fellows
Illinois Proof of Concept Funding
Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies
Military Service Knowledge Collaborative Seed Funding
Moms Association—2019 Illini Spirit Award
Olga G. Nalbandov Lecture Funds
Research Park Funding Resources
Past Opportunities
Cancer Center at Illinois Seed Funding
Career Center: Grant Opportunity for Graduate Research in Career Development
Family Resiliency Center: Christopher Family Foundation Food & Family Program
Illinois Graduate College: Nominations for Graduate Student Leadership Award
Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program Large Research Grants
Illinois Sustainable Technology Center
Illinois Water Resources Center
The Research University at 150: Funding for Research Symposia
Illinois Sustainability Awards
Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) Seed Grants
IPRH–Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship in Legal Humanities
IPRH Faculty Fellowship Awards
IPRH—NEH Summer Stipends (Internal Limited Submissions)
IPRH New Horizons Summer Faculty Research Fellowship
IPRH—Prizes for Research in the Humanities
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center Summer Research Laboratory
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center Faculty Travel Grants
Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Initiative Small Grant Program
Student Sustainability Committee
Technology Innovation in Educational Research and Design Fellowships
Technology Innovation in Education Research and Design 2019-2020 Pilot Projects Program
Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Goodman Fellowship and WGGP Awards
We hope to develop a comprehensive listing of campus funding opportunities. Please send updates or additions to Melissa Edwards.