September 25: Deadline for initial draft proposals for the Technology Catalyst Fund, with final proposals due October 16, to advance innovations originating from UMBC research to more commercially viable technologies.
October 15: Deadline for the fall semester CAHSS Grants for Pedagogy and Teaching. Grants are available to all faculty—tenured/tenure-track, lecturers, adjunct, and graduate teaching assistants (excepting visiting faculty)—who teach courses in CAHSS.
October 25: Deadline for the fall semester Hrabowski Innovation Fund Grants program. Types of awards include Seed awards, Adaptation awards, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning awards, and Implementation and Research awards.
November 4: Deadline for the CAHSS Research Fellows Program. Permits one semester of release time to support outstanding research and creative activity and to advance the careers of CAHSS faculty members. Only tenured Associate Professors and full Professors are eligible to apply.
January 24: Deadline for the Sherman Center Faculty Research Award. Awards of up to $100,000 support research on policies and practices that enhance the learning of children in urban communities like Baltimore.
February 14: Deadline for UMBC Strategic Awards for Research Transitions (START). Awards of up to $25,000 support UMBC faculty to advance their scholarly and research endeavors, to compete more effectively for external support and to pursue new areas of inquiry.
February 21: Deadline for UMBC Summer Research Faculty Fellowship (SURFF). Awards of up to $6,000 support non-tenured, tenure-track UMBC faculty pursuing research and scholarly projects during the summer, including projects in all departments.
March 27: Deadline for the spring semester Hrabowski Innovation Fund Grants program. Types of awards include Seed awards, Adaptation awards, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning awards, and Implementation and Research awards.
April TBD: Deadline for the spring semester CAHSS Grants for Pedagogy and Teaching. Grants are available to all faculty—tenured/tenure-track, lecturers, adjunct, and graduate teaching assistants (excepting visiting faculty)—who teach courses in CAHSS.
May TBD: Deadline for Social Science Undergraduate Research Award. The Center for Social Science Scholarship is sponsoring four Social Science URAs, which provide up to $1,500 to undergraduate student researchers whose work, in collaboration with a faculty mentor, uses social science to explore the world or address socially relevant concerns.
May TBD: Deadline for Faculty Working Groups. The Center for Social Science Scholarship invites applications for Faculty Working Groups to promote intellectual exchange in the social sciences and across campus. These collaborative scholarly learning communities will meet regularly to work on research projects, read key literature, explore new methodological approaches, and/or engage in matters of public interest related to the social sciences.
Ongoing: The Center for Social Science Scholarship Small Research Grant Fund: Awards up to $1,000 per year to UMBC full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty, lecturers, and Ph.D. students in the social sciences who have already exhausted all other available university support.
Join our myUMBC group, where the Center for Social Science Scholarship posts a monthly curated list of current funding opportunities for social science faculty and graduate students.
Various funding opportunities are also compiled by UMBC’s Office of the Vice Provost for Research, and staff in UMBC’s Office of Sponsored Programs are available to meet with faculty to provide an overview of how to search for funding opportunities.