External Funding
The UA provides access to database tools for use by University faculty and staff to search for external funding opportunities. These include federal, state, and local agencies in addition to private funding sources. More information can be found at the UA Research Gateway, located here.
Internal, UA Faculty Funding
Accelerate for Success grants are designed to catalyze medium to large-scale, Strategic Transdisciplinary Research Programs—by creating teams, broadening partnerships, and supporting a proposed plan resulting in proposal submission and successful funding.
Tech Launch Arizona's Asset Development funding helps advance inventions that aren’t yet ready to attract licensees or investors. In executing an Asset Development plan, we validate an invention's market potential and requirements and ready it for commercialization.
The Director’s Fund for Excellence awards are intended to provide critical support for short-term collaborative projects undertaken by UA faculty and graduate students in the Colleges of Fine Arts (CFA), Humanities (COH), or Social & Behavioral Sciences (SBS), especially projects that reflect an interdisciplinary orientation or a commitment to public outreach.
Faculty Collaboration Grants are seed grants intended to support creative, interdisciplinary projects that result in outcomes enabling researchers to apply for other external funding to continue and expand the project. Faculty from the Colleges of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Behavioral Sciences can apply for these grants if they have creative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research to pursue.
Core Facility Enhancement grants are available to augment scientific capacity through the acquisition of equipment for use by multiple investigators in university core facilities. Equipment with a total cost of $100,000 to $300,000 can be requested.
Faculty Seed Grants provide awards of up to $10,000 on a competitive basis for projects involving research or other creative scholarly activity. The program supports short-term, one-time support to "jump start" worthwhile projects that can be used to develop major proposals for submission to extramural funding agencies or private contributors. The program gives priority to early career faculty.
The Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute Faculty Small Grants provide seed money of up to $3,500 provide seed money for larger projects, including those leading to proposals to external funding agencies. These grants may also be used for full-scale but inexpensive projects or parts of projects.
The Fellowship supports promising tenure-track faculty members (in any field) in becoming more widely recognized for their work and more closely connected with colleagues, nationally and internationally. In particular, the fellowship defrays costs associated with invited participation in a national or international professional meeting, where the awardee will present research findings, scholarship, and/or creative activities.
These internal grants are designed to catalyze new, funded research between university researchers and industry, as well as augment competitiveness for mutual, collaborative university-industry teaming efforts to pursue external funding opportunities. “Industry” awards are intended to match a new UA industry sponsored agreement with a Graduate Research Assistantship to enable and prepare the graduate student to work in an industry environment, as well as to gain experience supervising and mentoring undergraduate students conducting the industry supported work.
The Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice (Haury Program) offers challenge grants, which are intended to fund work on “wicked” problems and can be up to $200,000 per year for up to three years.