Find Faculty Research Grant Opportunities

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: David Robinson

*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 Colgate 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 Colgate. 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

The Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute fosters bold, collaborative scholarship that thrives within Colgate’s liberal arts environment. We bring together faculty and students from across disciplines, and often beyond Colgate, to tackle scientific challenges that are too complex for any single field. By uniting diverse perspectives, the Institute sparks discoveries that expand knowledge, strengthen teaching, and open new pathways for innovation. 

To support this work, the Picker ISI offers a portfolio of programs that span the full ecosystem of interdisciplinary science: research grants that enable ambitious faculty collaborations; training grants and workshops that build interdisciplinary skills; visiting-fellow programs that bring new expertise and perspectives to campus; and student-centered opportunities that cultivate the next generation of interdisciplinary scholars. Together, these programs support internal and external collaborations that address current and emerging scientific challenges and ensure that the impact of this work resonates across Colgate and beyond.
Director: Ahmet Ay
Web: Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute
For all Picker ISI Grants use this form

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 Policy Research Initiative for more information.

Director: Sam Rosenfeld

Support for Colgate 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/Associate Provost by emailing Martin Wong. 

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 2025-26 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.)

Lecturers and Laboratory Instructors with continuing instructional experience at Colgate may also access this funding. (“Continuing instructional experience” should be understood to mean teaching at least two courses per semester, or the equivalent, over four consecutive semesters). Funds are normally available once every three years. Lecturers or Laboratory Instructors interested in receiving this support should send an email to their Division Director with details of their travel plans, the expected professional benefits of their travel and research for their work at Colgate, and a budget prepared according to Colgate’s travel policy. No funds are available to support travel that has already been completed, and interested applicants are advised to apply for support well in advance of their intended travel.

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

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

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

Travel funds to develop scholarly humanities projects with colleagues at Humanities Corridor universities (Cornell, Syracuse, Rochester) and New York Six colleges (Colgate, 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 Colgate 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 online.

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 Colgate Arts Council (CAC) supports the arts at Colgate University, 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 Colgate community, or;
• facilitate campus engagement with local or regional artists or arts organizations in ways that support Colgate’s liberal arts curriculum.

More About 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)

• American Council of Learned Societies
• American Philosophical Society - Franklin Research Grants
• American Political Science Association
• Association for Asian Studies
• Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation - Philanthropic Arts Program
• Central New York Humanities Corridor
• Creative Capital - awards for artists
• Cultural Mobility Funding Guide - artist exchanges to and from the U.S.
• Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation - cultural heritage and performing arts
• FACE Foundation (French-American Cultural Exchange)
• Getty Foundation - visual arts
• Global Religion Research Initiative
• Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
• William T. Grant Foundation - research on youth
• George A. and Eliza Howard Foundation - arts and history topics change yearly
• Humanities New York
• Institute of Museum and Library Services
• Japan Foundation New York
• Jerome Foundation - travel/study for creative artists
• Samuel H. Kress Foundation - history of art
• R​uth Landes Memorial Research Fund - anthropology
• Loeb Classical Library Foundation
• Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
  • All NEH grant programs and deadlines
  • Collaborative Research Grants
  • Digital Humanities Advancement Grants
  • NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication
  • Humanities Connections (course development grants)
  • Public Scholar Program
  • Scholarly Editions and Translations Grants
  • Summer Stipends
  • Summer Seminars and Institutes (to organize / host)
  • Summer Seminars and Institutes (to attend)
  • Funded projects query form - search NEH awards 
  • NEH staff directory
  • Serve as an NEH panelist or peer reviewer
• New York Foundation for the Arts
• New York State Council on the Arts
• Spencer Foundation – education
• Wenner-Gren Foundation – anthropology

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• American Chemical Society – Petroleum Research Fund
• American Educational Research Association
• American Political Science Association​
• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation - chemical sciences
• Eppley Foundation for Research - chemistry, physics, biology
• Hudson River Foundation
• Calvin K. Kazanjian Economics Foundation
• Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation - technology and the environment
• James S. McDonnell Foundation - human cognition, ecology, climate, health, institutional management
• National Academy of Education
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Geographic Society - field research and exploration
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • NIH grants
  • Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) grants
  • NIH grant tutorials
  • NIH Institutes and Centers
  • Insider's Guide to Peer Review for Investigators
  • NIH grant review process
  • NIH RePORTER - search NIH awards
• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• National Science Foundation (NSF) NSF programs of interest:
  • NSF FastLane
  • NSF FastLane Help Page
  • NSF FastLane demonstration site
  • NSF Funding Opportunities
  • NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide
  • NSF Merit Review guidelines
  • NSF directory & staff search
  • NSF Updates (email alert service)
  • Search NSF awards
  • Serve as an NSF reviewer
  • NSF Grants Conference Webcasts
  • Major Research Instrumentation (MRI)
  • Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
  • Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) supplements and sites
  • International Research Experiences for Students (IRES)
• New York Sea Grant
• Research Corporation - astronomy, chemistry, physics
• Russell Sage Foundation - behavioral economics, immigration, and other social sciences
  • Proposal Development Summer Institute
• Simons Foundation - mathematics and physical sciences; life sciences; autism research
• Social Science Research Council
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowships - chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean science, physics
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• U.S. Department of Energy - Office of Science grants
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Whitehall Foundation - life sciences

• Carnegie Corporation of New York - democracy, education, international peace
• Dirksen Congressional Center - civic engagement
• Energy Foundation - clean energy (does not accept unsolicited proposals)
• Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation - causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation - children, families, communities
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation - global climate solutions, deer, nuclear risk, promoting local justice reform, the role of journalism in democracy, data science for social impact
• Rockefeller Foundation - health, food, power, economic opportunity, climate, innovation
• Russell Sage Foundation - social, economic, and behavioral sciences
• Smith Richardson Foundation - public policy
• Social Science Research Council
• Spencer Foundation - education research
• U.S. Department of Defense Minerva Research Initiative
• U.S. Department of Justice

• American Association of University Women - fellowships
• American Association of University Women - summer/short term research publication grants
• American Philosophical Society - Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
• Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation  - citizenship
• Nathan Cummings Foundation  - inequality, climate change
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - all fields, except performing arts
• J.M. Kaplan Fund - Furthermore Grants in Publishing
• National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
• National Geographic Society - field research
• John Templeton Foundation - "Science and the Big Questions"; Character Virtue Development; Individual Freedom and Free Markets; Exceptional Cognitive Talent and Genius; Genetics; Voluntary Family Planning
• VentureWell - STEM entrepreneurship

• American Academy in Berlin
• American Academy in Rome
• American Councils for International Education
• American Institute of Indian Studies
• Asian Cultural Council
• Association for Asian Studies
• Bogliasco Foundation - arts and humanities residencies in Italy
• Camargo Foundation - arts, humanities, and social sciences residencies in France
• Center for Chinese Studies
• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
• Council of American Overseas Research Centers
• Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program
• Fulbright Scholar Program (Council for International Exchange of Scholars
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - fellowships and research in Germany
• Japan Foundation
• Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission
• Korea Foundation
• National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
• Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center - academic writing, arts, literary arts, and practitioner residencies in Italy
• U.S. Dept. of Education international programs including Fulbright-Hays

• American Academy of Arts & Sciences Visiting Scholars Program (for junior faculty)
• American Antiquarian Society - American history and culture
• American Association for the Advancement of Science - fellowships
• John Carter Brown Library - early Americans
• Columbia U Society of Fellows in the Humanities
• Cornell Society for the Humanities
• Dumbarton Oaks - Byzantine, garden and landscape, and pre-Columbian studies
• Institute for Advanced Study - historical studies, mathematics, natural studies, and social sciences
• Folger Institute fellowships - Shakespeare Library
• Ford Foundation Fellowships for Minorities
• German Marshall Fund of the U.S. - transatlantic public policy
• Getty Foundation - visual arts
• The Huntington - humanities
• Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
• Library of Congress – Kluge Center - American self government
• Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
• MacDowell Colony - arts
• Millay Colony for the Arts
• NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes
• National Academies – Research Associateship Program - sciences, engineering, medicine
• National Humanities Center
• New York Public Library – Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
• New York Public Library short-term research fellowships
• Newberry Library fellowships in the humanities
• Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study
• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University - all disciplines, especially law, policy, social issues, women, gender; social, economic, and behavioral sciences
• Russell Sage Foundation visiting scholars program
• Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Smithsonian Institution fellowships
• Stanford Humanities Center
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - public policy
• Yaddo - arts

The Foundation Center Grantmaker Information

• Federal RePORTER - search awards by 17 federal agencies
• Grants.gov - find grant opportunities
• Grants.gov - how to apply
• Research.gov
• STAR METRICS: Search federally funded projects