Ongoing Internal Opportunities

2023-2024 Internal Funding Opportunities

  • The Center for Social Science Scholarship Small Research Grant Fund: Awards of varying amounts support faculty, PhD students, masters students, and undergraduate students in the social sciences at UMBC who have already exhausted all other available departmental/university support.
  • BreakingGround grants program to support course-related and project-related civic innovations at UMBC.
  • RCA Strategic Award Supplement:  Sponsored by the Office of Research and Creative Achievement (ORCA), this program provides internal funding, up to $15,000 each, to supplement externally funded grants or fellowships from agencies and organizations of strategic importance to UMBC, in order to further support and propel the proposed research or creative achievement initiatives.For the FY24 funding cycle, this program is designated to supplement UMBC researchers with active Research Grant (R-series) awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
  • August 25, 2023: Deadline for applications for the Supplement for Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE) program, to support faculty in hiring undergraduate research assistants.
  • September 30, 2023:  Deadline for the fall semester CAHSS Dean’s Student Research Assistance for Faculty Research and Creative Achievement. This fund supports the inclusion of UMBC graduate and undergraduate students in faculty-led research and creative achievement.  Award Size: between $1,500 to $2,000.
  • October 15, 2023:  Deadline for the fall semester CAHSS Dean’s Research Fund (CDRF).  Awards of up to $5,000 support the research endeavors of CAHSS tenured and tenure-track faculty and lecturers.
  • October 15, 2023:  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.
  • October 27, 2023:  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 10, 2023:  Accelerated Translational Incubator Pilot (ATIP) with UMB-ICTR.  Awards of up to $50,000 support projects specifically focused on innovative, translational research that involve faculty from the UMB Schools, UMBC, and collaborative partners.
  • November 10, 2023: Community Engaged Research (CEnR) Pilot Grant Program with UMBC-ICTR.  Awards of up to $50,000 support projects specifically focused on innovative Community-Engaged Research (CEnR).
  • November 2023:  The 2024 Center for Social Science Scholarship Summer Fellowship application opens.  Applications are due in February 2024.
  • December 1, 2023:  Community Engaged Research (CEnR) Voucher Award.  Awards of up to $10,000 For developing successful and sustainable community partnerships in the Maryland and/or D.C. area which enable recipients to prepare for a future, competitive ICTR CEnR proposal or other extramural CEnR-type grant applications.
  • January 29, 2024:  The Sherman Center Faculty Research Award:  Supports research about policies and practices that enhance the learning of young children, ages three through eight, in urban communities like Baltimore.
  • February 15, 2024:  Deadline for the Center for Social Science Scholarship Summer Fellowship.  Provides a summer stipend to tenure-track and tenured faculty doing social science research.  2024 Summer Fellowship application will open in November 2023.
  • February 15, 2024:  Deadline for the 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.
  • February 15, 2024:  Deadline for the 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.
  • March 1, 2024:  Deadline for the spring semester CAHSS Dean’s Student Research Assistance for Faculty Research and Creative Achievement. This fund supports the inclusion of UMBC graduate and undergraduate students in faculty-led research and creative achievement.  Award Size: between $1,500 to $2,000.
  • March 1, 2024:  Annual deadline for the The Eileen and Jerry Carroll Faculty Research Fund  Awards of up to $2,000 support faculty in cross-disciplinary research and creative achievement that encourages civic engagement and interdisciplinary collaboration.
  • March 29, 2024:  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 1, 2024: The CENTRE funding program is an initiative of the Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship at UMBC and provides awards of up to $15,000 for research that leads to potential commercialization of a product or service. Any UMBC faculty member (full-time or adjunct) conducting research either in technical fields (technical entrepreneurship) or in social/behavioral/policy/humanities fields (social entrepreneurship) is encouraged to apply.
  • May 31, 2024:  Deadline for CS3 Faculty Working Groups:  The Center for Social Science Scholarship invites applications for new Fall 2023 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.  Call for new Faculty Working Groups will go out in April 2024.

The programs listed below currently do not have open calls for proposals, but some may be repeated again in the future.

On-Campus Grants Assistance

The Creative Achievement and Research Administation Team (CARAT) assists faculty members and departments by providing pre-award and post-grant management assistance.  Click here to request assistance.

View external funding opportunities here.