Ongoing Internal Opportunities

2024-2025 Internal Funding Opportunities

  • August 25, 2024: Deadline for applications for the Supplement for Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE) program, to support faculty in hiring undergraduate research assistants.
  • September 30, 2024:  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, 2024:  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, 2024:  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 15, 2024:   Deadline for the Center and Institute Departmentally-Engaged Research (CIDER) Grant Program.  This pilot funding program is primarily aimed to increase inter-unit collaboration, particularly between [1] researchers whose primary appointments are in units which do not grant degrees (e.g., Hilltop, CSST, JCET/GESTAR, GPHI/PHaSER, CADVC, IRC, CAS) and [2] researchers in degree-granting units (most departments, SSW, Erickson, etc.).  Award size is up to $50,000.  Contact Dr. Don Engel <donengel@umbc.edu> with any questions.
  • October 25, 2024:  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 8, 2024:  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 8, 2024: 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).
  • December 2024:  The 2025 Center for Social Science Scholarship Summer Fellowship application opens.  Applications are due on February 15, 2024.
  • February 13, 2025:  UMBC Summer Research Faculty Fellowship (SURFF). Awards of up to $8,000 support non-tenured, tenure-track UMBC faculty pursuing research and scholarly projects during the summer, including projects in all departments. 
  • February 13, 2025: 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 15, 2025:  Center for Social Science Scholarship Summer Fellowship. Awards of up to $6000 to support significant social science research by tenure-track or tenured faculty in the UMBC College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences.
  • March 1, 2024: 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.
  • March 1, 2025:  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, 2025:  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 28, 2025:  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, 2025: 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.
  • *tentative* May 31, 2025:  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 may go out in April 2025.

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

  • 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.

Visit the Division of Research and Creative Achievement’s website for a list of UMBC funding programs with open calls.

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.