UCSB
Funding
Many funding opportunities exist
right here on the UCSB campus.
Fellowships and small grants are
available through the Academic
Senate, Academic Personnel, and
other campus units. Funding categories
range from doctoral support to
faculty seed funding, from career
development to instructional improvement
grants.
The UCSB
Funding Resources newsletter is a partial compilation
of awards available to UCSB faculty
and their graduate students.
Those interested should
contact the indicated campus
units directly.
Below you will find links to various
departments and research units
on campus that provide funding
to researchers. This is a resource only and information may be out of date. Please contact the campus unit directly for more detailed information about requirements and applications.
Please contact funding@research.ucsb.edu with
program updates or with recommendations
of programs that should be represented
on the campus funding list.
|
| Title |
Eligibility |
Amount |
Deadline |
| Faculty Travel Grant |
Academic Senate member |
Based on destination |
21 days in advance of travel |
| Faculty Research Grant |
Academic Senate member |
up to $5,000 |
Feb. 26, 2010 |
| Pearl Chase Research Grant |
Academic Senate member conducting local research projects relating to Santa Barbara community development,
conservation, or historic preservation |
$3,000 to $25,000 |
Jan. 29, 2010 |
|
| Title |
Eligibility |
Amount |
Deadline |
| Facility Research Equipment Matching Funds Program |
CNSI-UCSB Faculty Member purchasing equipment for CNSI's multi-user facilities that will be available to the UCSB Community |
up to 50%
of the equipment purchase and installation costs |
|
| Research Seed Funding Program |
CNSI-UCSB Faculty Member conducting
innovative, high risk/high reward research projects
|
up to $50,000 |
December; April
(anticipated)
|
|
| Title |
Eligibility |
Amount |
Deadline |
| Faculty Research Awards |
UCSB faculty member or professional researcher examining any aspect of Chicano studies |
up to $2,000 |
|
| Graduate Research Awards |
UCSB graduate
students engaged in research on topics pertaining to Chicana/o or Latina/o populations in
the United States |
up to $1,500 |
|
| Undergraduate Research Awards |
UCSB undergraduate students engaged in research on topics pertaining to Chicana/o or Latina/o populations in the United States |
up to $1,500 |
|
| UCSB Conference Awards |
UCSB faculty member, graduate student or
professional researcher hosting conferences at UCSB and examining any aspect of Chicana/o studies |
up to $1,500 |
Nov. 16, 2009 |
| |
| Title |
Eligibility |
Amount |
Deadline |
Collaborative Research Initiative Grant Program
(C-RIG)
|
Lead investigator must be ladder faculty in the Social Science Division of the College of Letters and Science; for
collaborative research in the social sciences
|
up to $3,000 |
|
| Social Science Research Grants Program (SSRGP) |
Lead investigator must be ladder faculty in the Social Science Division within the College of Letters and Science; for research in the social sciences |
up to $8,000 |
|
| Graduate Research Award for Social Science Surveys (GRASSS) |
Graduate students in Departments and Programs in the Division of Social Sciences and the Division of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences of the College of Letters and Science, and the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education; for
survey research in the social sciences
|
varies: typical awards from $500 to $2,000 |
|
| Central Coast Survey |
Lead investigator must be ladder faculty in the Social Science Division of the College of Letters and Science; for developing a survey
assessment of community opinions about various substantive topics |
$50,000 |
|
|
| Title |
Eligibility |
Amount |
Deadline |
| Faculty Awards |
UCSB faculty working in the Humanities, Fine Arts, and Humanistic Social Sciences |
Release time: up to $5,000;
Collaborative projects: up to $3,000;
Individual research assistance:
up to $1,000 |
Nov. 15;
April 15
(anticipated)
|
| Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Awards |
Faculty and graduate students conducting
innovative projects in the visual, performing and media arts that engage creatively with issues of interdisciplinary concern
|
up to $3,000 |
|
| Senior Fellows Program |
Recent
UCSB Ph.D.'s
in the
Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences
|
no stipend |
|
| Pre-doctoral Fellowships |
UCSB Doctoral candidates and advanced MFA students whose research facilitates dialogue across the traditional disciplinary boundaries |
$4,500 |
|
| Graduate Project Collaborative Award |
Groups of graduate students from at least two departments and academic programs |
up to $3,000 |
|
|
| Title |
Eligibility |
Amount |
Deadline |
| International Research Fellowships |
Graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty affiliated with US institutions looking to conduct
research visits to non-US laboratories |
up to $5,000
|
|
| UCSB-MPG Program for International Exchange in Materials Science |
UCSB faculty members with new or existing MPG collaborations can use this funding to send a researcher/postdoc/graduate student from their lab to a Max Planck Institute. |
Travel expenses and local expenses in Germany |
Ongoing |
|
| Title |
Eligibility |
Amount |
Deadline |
| New Research Themes (NRTs) |
Small scientific projects involving one or more UCSB faculty that explore the potential, by explicit realization or by gathering peripheral evidence, of a novel idea with relevance to MC-CAM |
$50,000 to $100,000 |
|
| Large scientific Integrated Research Projects (IRPs) |
Interdisciplinary groups of 3-5 UCSB faculty and one or more MC-CAM collaborators conducting research with high potential for producing valuable scientific and technological innovations |
$150,000 to $500,000 |
|
|
| Title |
Eligibility |
Amount |
Deadline |
| Working Groups |
Groups of up to 20 scientists work at NCEAS for a few days to a few weeks concentrating on specific issues that require in-depth analysis of data and synthesis of ideas |
Reimbursement for actual travel, lodging and per diem expenses |
Jan. 11, 2010;
July 2010 |
| Distributed Graduate Seminars |
Allows 6-8 universities from any country to simultaneously conduct graduate seminar courses on the same topic; 25% of the participating institutions are expected to be institutions serving high proportions of groups underrepresented in science |
Travel, lodging and per diem expenses for organizational meeting and final synthetic meeting; up to $1,000 per institution in discretionary funds |
Jan. 11, 2010;
July 2010 |
| Sabbatical Fellows Program |
Individuals of any nationality who hold a position in an academic institution, freestanding
research institution, scientific society, governmental or policy agency, non-governmental organization, or a
consortium of such institutions |
Housing allowance and up to 50% salary support for every month in residence |
Jan. 11, 2010;
July 2010 |
| Postdoctoral Associates |
Postdoctoral scholars |
$45,000, plus benefits, a discretionary fund, and mentoring funds for one to three years |
Jan. 11, 2010;
July 2010 |
Updated: November 9, 2009 |
