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Grants and leaves to support research and creative work in all fields. Please consult research council guidelines, budget form, and sample proposals (sample 1, sample 2, sample 3). 
Chair: Ahmet Ali Ay

*Research Council Discretionary Grants: maximum $1,750 per year; $3,500 for tenure-stream assistant professors. Consult the guidelines for categories of support, which include research travel, non-student wages, and other research expenses. 

The Robert H. N. Ho Mind, Brain, and Behavior Initiative (MBBI) provides opportunities for 51³Ô¹ÏÍø faculty and staff whose research and/or teaching addresses topics related to mind, brain, and behavior to enhance their own work and their connections with colleagues from across campus. MBBI support is intended for faculty and staff from across departments, programs, and divisions at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø. Please see the Major and Discretionary Grant call as well as the call for New Connections, New Perspective Grants for more information. Please check out the fit guidelines about whether your project is a good fit for MBBI support.

Director:  Ben Lennertz

Grants for internal and external collaborations that bring expertise from different disciplines to bear on current and emerging scientific problems.
Director: Ahmet Ay
Web: Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute
 

Grants for research pertaining to the upstate New York region, and for scholarly symposia, conferences, or workshops that address issues related to the region.
Director: Catherine Cardelús
Web: Upstate Institute
 

Funds for projects that examine how political and economic developments affect international affairs, relationships, and outcomes. It supports analysis, freedom of inquiry, and evidence-based argumentation (but not activism) principally in two focus areas: How the world order is affected by developments in developing countries and, STEM.

Funding opportunities for faculty research and scholarship closely related to these areas of intellectual inquiry to support fieldwork, archival work, dataset purchases, or other types of research support necessary to advance scholarly projects.

For details, see Lampert Faculty Support web page.
Director: Chad Sparber
 

Grants expand faculty and student research in areas related to public policy and public affairs. Visit the Public Affairs and Public Research Initiative for more information.

Director: Sam Rosenfeld

Support for 51³Ô¹ÏÍø students to assist with research or creative projects chosen, designed, and proposed by faculty members. For details, see Faculty-Initiated Fellowships. Apply to department chair. 
 

Short-term funding to sustain research programs of faculty who have previously brought in external grants. The investigator must have applied for continued external funding. Limited to 12 months’ support, for tenure stream and Category I faculty only. No deadlines; apply to Dean/Provost by emailing Trish St. Leger. 

Types of support

• Equipment, supplies, student research stipends, publication costs, travel – to continue a research program.
• Matching funds for required University contributions to external grant proposals.
• If funds allow: support for developing a research program, for faculty who have not yet received external funding.

An allotment of up to $2,250 per year to attend or present at professional meetings. Up to $750 of this allotment may be used for research-related expenses, including books, membership in professional societies, and any other expenses directly associated with your scholarly or artistic work. Faculty participating in international conferences or meetings are eligible for $1,000 of funding over and above the usual annual allotment of $2,250; this incremental funding is available through the 2024-25 academic year. 

Eligibility: Full-time teaching faculty (regular or with an appointment of one year or more), Category I teaching faculty, Senior Lecturers and Senior Laboratory Instructors, post-doctoral fellows, and PERA faculty. (Note: Professional development for library faculty is administered by the University Librarian.) 

Reimbursable expenses: registration fees, transportation, accommodations, meals, and incidentals.

Follow 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's Travel Policy; submit receipts via Concur, accessible via the . Division contacts:

• AHUM: Beth MacKinnon
• NASC: Rene Beers
• SOSC: Erin Conway
• UNST: Laura Billings

Travel funds to develop scholarly humanities projects with colleagues at  universities (Cornell, Syracuse, Rochester) and New York Six colleges (51³Ô¹ÏÍø, Hamilton, Hobart & William Smith, Skidmore, St. Lawrence, Union); or to attend Humanities Corridor events. Apply to Yukari Hirata, Arts & Humanities Division Director.

Supplemental funding for conference travel and research expenses. Rolling deadline. For details, contact Beth MacKinnon, Arts & Humanities Academic Division Coordinator.

The Dean of the Faculty’s office maintains funds to provide limited salary support for faculty who receive prestigious academic-year fellowships or grants when the award requires a faculty member to take a leave without pay at a salary below regular 51³Ô¹ÏÍø salary. Faculty who plan to apply for a fellowship/grant that falls in this category are encouraged to contact the Grants office and Dean’s office in advance of applying. Details of the policy are available from the Dean of Faculty’s office.

Brief descriptions and contacts are below; consult guidelines for details.
 

Community-Based Research (Upstate Institute) – Funding to develop or revise a course to include a significant community-based research component. Contacts: Catherine Cardelús  and Julie Dudrick.

Service Learning (COVE) – Funding to develop or revise a course to offer students immediate opportunities to apply classroom learning to support the work of community agencies.

Grants for Collaborative Global Teaching (Lampert Institute) – Funding to enable faculty to invite colleagues to provide guest lectures (or co-teach courses) from abroad. $100-$1,000. Contact: Chad Sparber, Director of the Lampert Institute.

Travel grants for preparatory travel for an individual faculty member in advance of directing a study group or extended study. Deadline: November 30, 2024. Contact: Joanna Holvey Bowles. Apply .

Kallgren faculty travel grants for interdisciplinary groups of faculty; travel related to course development or scholarly development, or to explore a new study group or extended study site. Deadline: November 1, 2024. Visit the Kallgren Travel Grants site for details.

The 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Arts Council (CAC) supports the arts at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, including music, theater and dance, creative writing, visual art and film. The CAC welcomes proposals from faculty in all divisions initiating public art events taking place during the academic year.

• connect to a specific course and/or department/program curriculum and can be made accessible to the larger 51³Ô¹ÏÍø community, or;
• facilitate campus engagement with local or regional artists or arts organizations in ways that support 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s liberal arts curriculum.

More 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Proposals to the CAC

Chair: Seth Coluzzi

Endowed chair holders are provided a fund that can be used for expenses in support of the teaching, research, and service of the chair holder or his/her department.

• Endowed Chair Fund Spending Guidelines (PDF)

•  - Franklin Research Grants
•  - Philanthropic Arts Program
•  - awards for artists
•  - artist exchanges to and from the U.S.
•  - cultural heritage and performing arts
•  - visual arts
•  - research on youth
•  - arts and history topics change yearly
•  - travel/study for creative artists
•  - history of art
•  - anthropology
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•  - chemical sciences
•  - chemistry, physics, biology
•  - technology and the environment
•  - human cognition, ecology, climate, health, institutional management
•  - field research and exploration
• NSF programs of interest:
•  - astronomy, chemistry, physics
•  - behavioral economics, immigration, and other social sciences
•  - mathematics and physical sciences; life sciences; autism research
•  - chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean science, physics
•  - life sciences

•  - democracy, education, international peace
• - civic engagement
•  - clean energy (does not accept unsolicited proposals)
•  - causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression
•  - children, families, communities
•  - global climate solutions, deer, nuclear risk, promoting local justice reform, the role of journalism in democracy, data science for social impact
•  - health, food, power, economic opportunity, climate, innovation
•  - social, economic, and behavioral sciences
•  - public policy
•  - education research

•  - fellowships
• - summer/short term research publication grants
•  - citizenship
•  - inequality, climate change
•  - all fields, except performing arts
•  - field research
•  - "Science and the Big Questions"; Character Virtue Development; Individual Freedom and Free Markets; Exceptional Cognitive Talent and Genius; Genetics; Voluntary Family Planning
•  - STEM entrepreneurship

•  - arts and humanities residencies in Italy
•  - arts, humanities, and social sciences residencies in France
•  - fellowships and research in Germany
•  - academic writing, arts, literary arts, and practitioner residencies in Italy

•  - American history and culture
•  - early Americans
•  - Byzantine, garden and landscape, and pre-Columbian studies
•  - historical studies, mathematics, natural studies, and social sciences
•  - Shakespeare Library
•  - transatlantic public policy
•  - visual arts
•  - humanities
•  - American self government
•  - arts
•  - sciences, engineering, medicine
• - all disciplines, especially law, policy, social issues, women, gender; social, economic, and behavioral sciences
•  - public policy
•  - arts

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