Office Of Research

The CAS Office of Research uses InfoReady to manage applications for a variety of internal funding opportunities and awards. Faculty interested in applying should submit their applications through the InfoReady platform. For additional information about accessing and using InfoReady, please visit the ORETech InfoReady resource page: https://scholar.uncg.edu/internal-access/oretech/.

Important: Before applying for any funding opportunity, all faculty must update their InfoReady profile and select their department. Department information is used to determine eligibility for CAS funding opportunities, and faculty who have not selected a department in their profile will not be able to apply. Please refer to the department selection instructions here.

CAS Scholars Travel Fund (CAS STF)

Description: Provides up to $750 in supplemental travel funding for faculty presenting research, scholarship, or creative activity; serving as chairs or panelists; or otherwise contributing to scholarly meetings in the United States, Mexico, or Canada. A $375 match is required and may come from departmental contributions, external funding, or similar sources.

Eligibility: Full-time, tenured or tenure-track faculty. Faculty may apply once per fiscal year; eligibility is based on when the travel occurs.

Deadline: Ongoing, depending on availability of funds.

How to apply: Click here to apply though InfoReady

CAS International Travel Fund (CAS ITF)

Description: Provides up to $1,000 in matching funds for international research travel or conference presentations. Faculty on phased retirement may receive a reduced match of up to $500. External grants and personal funds cannot be used as matching funds. Faculty must obtain travel approval and comply with UNCG’s International Travel Policy, including registration with the UNCG Travel Registry.

Eligibility: Tenured or tenure-track faculty, including faculty on phased retirement. Faculty may apply once per fiscal year; eligibility is based on when the travel occurs.

Deadline: Ongoing, depending on availability of funds.

How to apply: Click here to apply though InfoReady.

CAS Supplemental Individual Research Fund (SIRF)

Description: Provides up to $800 to support research at any stage, including materials, participant compensation, data or sample analysis, publication costs, and research-related travel. Funds may supplement other internal awards, including P3 awards. Professional-track requests for domestic conference travel are generally the only professional-track travel requests that will be approved.

Eligibility: Tenure-track and professional-track faculty. One award per fiscal year, subject to available funds. The department or program head must sign the application to confirm that the expenses cannot be covered by faculty or departmental funds.

Deadline: Ongoing, depending on availability of funds.

How to apply: Click here to apply though InfoReady

Ignite Transdisciplinary Research Fund

Description: Supports new transdisciplinary research collaborations between CAS faculty and faculty in other UNCG units. Awards range from $10,000 to $25,000 for work conducted in AY 2026–2027. Funds may not be used for faculty salary or course buyouts, and projects may last up to 18 months. Priority is given to proposals likely to generate external funding or recognition.

Eligibility: Collaborations involving CAS faculty and faculty from other UNCG units.

Deadline: Coming soon. Please check back for updated submission information

How to apply: Coming soon. Learn more about the Ignite Transdisciplinary Research Fund..

Proposal Preparation Program (P3)

Description: Provides up to $3,000 to support preparation of external funding proposals. Funds may support pilot data collection, equipment purchases, archival travel, data analysis, and similar expenses. The program generally does not support fellowship proposals that provide only salary replacement.

Eligibility: Faculty preparing an external funding proposal.

Deadline: Ongoing; apply at least six months before the external proposal deadline.

How to apply: Click here to apply though InfoReady.

Colleague to Colleague Proposal Review (C2C)

Description: Supports proposal review by an experienced scholar in the applicant’s field. The reviewer may be from UNCG or another institution but cannot be a collaborator on the proposal. Reviewers receive a $500 honorarium.

Eligibility: Faculty seeking review assistance for a proposal. Applicants may identify their own reviewer or contact the office for assistance.

Deadline: Ongoing; apply at least three months before the proposal deadline.

How to apply: Complete the Microsoft Form.

Timothy Johnston Faculty Award

Description: Supports Arts & Sciences faculty research or creative work during the summer. Funds may support justifiable expenses, including travel, student research assistants, materials, and faculty summer salary.

Eligibility: Arts & Sciences faculty.

Deadline: Coming soon. Please check back for updated submission information

How to apply: Coming soon.

Arts & Sciences Faculty Award

Description: Supports professional development, with preference for research or creative-work travel and pre-publication expenses related to scholarly writing or creative activity. The College will make either one $5,000 award or two $2,500 awards, depending on the applications received.

Eligibility: Assistant and associate professors in the College of Arts & Sciences, with priority given to assistant professors.

Deadline: Coming soon.

How to apply: Coming soon.

Jerome Evenson Research Support Endowed Fund

Description: Supports new knowledge about Jewish history, health, migration, religion, and cultural production. Provides one $12,000 award annually, or multiple awards totaling up to $12,000. Funds may support research or creative-work expenses, including travel, materials, and student research assistants; faculty salary is not allowed.

Eligibility: Any full-time UNCG faculty member.

Deadline: Coming soon

How to apply: Coming soon. Learn more about the Jerome Evenson Research Support Endowed Fund.

Harriett Evenson Visiting Scholars Endowed Fund

Description: Supports one visiting scholar each academic year with an award of up to $20,000. Funds may cover travel, housing, meals, and an honorarium. The visiting scholar must be from outside UNCG and is expected to guest lecture, meet with faculty, and give a public lecture.

Eligibility: Any full-time UNCG faculty member may submit a proposal. Visiting scholars must be affiliated with institutions other than UNCG.

Deadline: Coming soon

How to apply: Coming soon. Learn more about the Harriett Evenson Visiting Scholars Endowed Fund.

Dorothy Levis Munroe Student Research Fund

Description: Provides awards of up to $1,000 for student research projects. Funds may be used for materials, supplies, research-related conference or fieldwork travel, and similar expenses; student stipends are not permitted.

Eligibility: Students working with faculty mentors in eligible CAS departments: Biology; Chemistry and Biochemistry; Computer Science; Geography, Environment, and Sustainability; Mathematics and Statistics; and Physics. Students must apply with a mentor, and each faculty member may sponsor up to two students.

Deadline: September 18, 2026, 5:00 pm

How to apply: Click here to apply through InfoReady.

CAS Support for Externally Funded Faculty Fellowships

Description: CAS may match an external fellowship stipend up to one-half of the faculty member’s base salary. This support is available once every three years and is subject to department head and Associate Dean of Research approval, as well as availability of funds.

Eligibility: Tenured or tenure-track faculty who receive an external fellowship.

Deadline: Varies by sponsor.

How to apply: Follow the Cayuse proposal process for external fellowships. See the CAS Policies on Research Assignments, Fellowships, and Off-Campus Assignments for full details.

Research Assignments

Description: Provides competitively awarded release time for tenured faculty with distinguished contributions to the University: either one semester at full salary or two semesters at half salary. The assignment is intended to support advancement or completion of scholarly work and may be combined with an externally funded fellowship.

Eligibility: Tenured faculty members who have demonstrated distinguished contributions to the University.

Deadline: September 4, 2026, 5:00 pm

How to apply: Click here to apply through InfoReady. Review the CAS policy document and the Provost’s Office guidelines for requirements.

Chancellor’s Initiative for Transformative Research
This initiative provides seed funding for promising projects that will lead to strong community impacts while attracting significant external funding. Proposals are expected to develop partnerships within and external to UNCG that establish cross-disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary projects and focus on advancing knowledge and building innovation, while exposing students to new experiences in these fields. Internal funding awards of up to $75,000 will support select proposals. Funded projects will be 18 months, starting September 1, 2025 and ending February 28, 2027. The number of awards will depend on the quality of submissions. Learn more about the Chancellor’s Initiative for Transformative Research.

Internal Research Award Program / Office of Research and Engagement (ORE)
Full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty, clinical faculty, research faculty, academic professional faculty, and EHRA non-faculty researchers are all eligible for ORE-sponsored Internal Research Awards. Three levels of awards are offered: $5,000 for individual, $10,000 for collaborative projects submitted by two or more UNCG applicants, and $25,000 for larger interdisciplinary projects submitted by UNCG applicants from different departments. The application opens in early September and closes in late October, for an 18-month project period that runs March – August. Learn more about the Internal Research Award Program.

ORE Faculty Fellows / ORE
Full-time UNCG faculty in professional and tenured appointments at the Associate and Full Professor ranks are eligible to apply and serve as the ORE Faculty Fellow. The fellowship aims to expand the fellow’s familiarity with ORE roles, structure, strategic and operational priorities, programs, initiatives, and activities; enhance the ORE administrative infrastructure, and develop the fellow’s research administration leadership capabilities. Learn more about ORE Faculty Fellows.

Research Excellence Awards / ORE
Established in 1988 to recognize outstanding junior and senior faculty researchers. Awards are made on the basis of the nominee’s research career, with particular emphasis placed on work done in the last five years. Each award carries a cash honorarium. Nominations are typically due in early December. Learn more about Research Excellence Awards.

Community Engaged Pathways & Partnerships (P2): A Collective Scholarship Fellows Program / ORE and the Institute for Community & Economic Engagement
The P2 Fellows program supports community-engaged scholarship among UNCG scholars and community partners, providing funding and professional development to teams who are working in a context of reciprocity and mutual benefit to advance knowledge about, and accelerate activities to address, community-identified priorities. Teams are eligible for three consecutive years of funding up to $16,000. Learn more about P2.

CFRN Summer Seed Grants / Child & Family Research Network
This program supports on-campus interdisciplinary faculty research that advances understanding of children and families, and the contexts in which they live. Funding (up to $5000) is awarded to teams of researchers and may be used for faculty salary, graduate student support, or research supplies. Apply in May and June. Learn more about CFRN Summer Seed Grants.

Subsidies to Support Publication, Media Development, and Exhibitions / ORE
Faculty can apply for up to $1,000 per academic year to assist with publication and exhibition expenses incurred within the last 12 months while serving in a UNCG faculty appointment. Learn more about subsidies to support publication, media development, and exhibitions.

Open Access Publishing Support Fund / University Libraries
Provides up to $1,500 per author, per year to full-time faculty, full-time EHRA employees, and enrolled graduate students to support publication of an article in a peer-reviewed, open access journals. Learn more about the Open Access Publishing Support Fund.

Digital Partners Grant / University Libraries
An opportunity for faculty to create and make broadly available a digital scholarly product to be hosted by the Library. Provides up to $22,500 worth of resources (most likely from the Library IT department, depending on the needs of the applicant). The Library will provide its appropriate, existing hardware and software at no cost (but will not make expensive new purchases on behalf of the faculty). Learn more about the Digital Partners Grant.

Kohler Awards / Global Engagement Office (GEO)
Faculty may apply for support in several categories: Research with additional internal/external funding, Special projects (such as symposia or community dialogues), Course and curriculum development (to create new or modify existing courses), Student Programs, Teaching, and Institutional linkages. Awards in most categories are capped at $1,000, but some have no set dollar limit. Learn more about the Kohler Awards.

GEO International Travel Fund (ITF)
Up to $600 for full-time faculty to attend professional conferences outside of North America. Faculty may receive only 1 ITF grant per academic year and may not receive GEO ITF grants in consecutive years. Learn more about the International Travel Fund.

Linda Arnold Carlisle Faculty Research Grant / Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Provides a stipend of $1500 to support research or creative activity related to women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. All full-time faculty who have not received the Carlisle Grant within the past three years are eligible to apply. Applications are due in mid-Spring. Learn more about the Linda Arnold Carlisle Faculty Research Grant.

Undergraduate Research and Creativity Awards (URCA) / Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creativity Office (URSCO)
Designed to help faculty and students partner in meaningful projects that advance understanding within their discipline/field of study. Award funding may defray the cost of material expenses and/or related travel, or can be used to provide a stipend for the students. Students can earn up to $3,000 (annually) for their work. Faculty can request up to $500 in support of the project’s cost. Learn more about the Undergraduate Research and Creativity Awards.

Green Fund / UNCG Office of Sustainability
Campus-based grant program that offers education, research, and professional development opportunities for students and employees by investing in campus infrastructure and programming to help meet the goals of the UNCG’s sustainability mission. Proposals for $1000 or less may be submitted on the first day of the month of September, October, November, February, March, and April. Proposals for more than $1000 should be submitted by October 1, March, 1, or April 1. Learn more about the Green Fund.

The best place to start your search for external funding is the UNCG Scholar Funding Opportunities page. You may also wish to contact the Office of Strategic Initiatives and Research Development (OSIRD) or sign-up for their “Funding Friday” email.

For the benefit of CAS faculty in the humanities, selected funders of humanities research (including fellowships) are listed and linked below.

American Council of Learned Societies
American Philosophical Society
Dumbarton Oaks
Henry Luce Foundation
Institute for Citizens and Scholars
John Templeton Foundation
Kress Foundation
Mellon Foundation
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
National Humanities Center
North Carolina Humanities
RTI University Scholars Program

UNC-Chapel Hill has a grant support program called the Arts & Humanities Grant Studio whose website includes funder profiles and other resources.
For more external funding resources, visit UNCG Scholar: Find Funding.