For links to many grant programs visit the Vice Chancellor for Research website. Grant programs that may be of particular interest to new faculty are summarized below.

The Academic Senate Committee on Research (COR) has several programs to assist full- and part-time faculty members of the Academic Senate in their research programs or creative pursuits. For current information on COR grant programs contact your department business office, the COR administrator (3-5461), or visit the Committee on Research website.

The primary grant cycle occurs in the Spring semester with a supplemental grant cycle held each Fall for faculty appointed effective July 1, or faculty who were away from campus the previous Spring semester.

Grant programs include:

• Research Enabling Grants (non-competitive awards) are basic awards ($1,000 maximum) supporting the scholarly and creative activities of Senate faculty members.

• Faculty Research, Junior Faculty Research, and Research Assistantships in the Humanities grants are competitive, and range up to $10,000.

• Conference Travel Grants are made to Academic Senate members to cover travel expenditures to attend scholarly meetings at which they will be presenting original research or creative work at one of the following: a major meeting of a recognized learned society, an organized panel discussion, or an organized symposium. Travel awards are also available for poster presentations, discussants, panelists, commentators, and conference/panel organizers.

• Intercampus travel grants are available for travel to other UC campuses to collaborate with colleagues or to use research resources; to invite a faculty member from another UC campus to present a seminar at Berkeley; and to use specialized research facilities such as the Huntington Library or Getty Museum. The maximum grant is $250. Applications are accepted year round, but before departure.

• The Mary Elizabeth Rennie Endowment for Epilepsy Research supports epilepsy and epilepsy-related research. The Committee awards, on a competitive basis, a limited number of two-year grants up to $25,000.

The Humanities Research Fellowship Program offers a limited number of research fellowships to faculty members in the regular professorial ranks who wish to do scholarly or creative work in the humanities. Awards supplement the recipients’ sabbatical salary or augment the sabbatical leave period. In general, applicants must have completed at least one year of service and priority is given to applicants who have not had an HRF award in the previous five years. Application forms are distributed through the Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities, and the deadline is usually in the middle of October. The maximum award is $50,000.

The Faculty Research Fund for the Biological Sciences was created by a five million dollar gift from anonymous donors to maintain and enhance the quality of biological research on campus by providing short-term support for feasibility studies and equipment needs.

The Hellman Family Faculty Fund, established by F. Warren Hellman in 1995, supports substantially the research of promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research. At least two-thirds of the funds allocated each year support assistant professors in the physical and life sciences and engineering; up to one-third can support assistant professors in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The maximum award is $50,000.

The Consortium for the Arts makes grants to support collaborative, interdisciplinary arts projects. The Consortium seeks to support projects that enhance the vitality of the arts on campus and provoke intellectual conversation about the arts. Each fall the Consortium solicits major project proposals for the following year; smaller requests are reviewed throughout the year.

last updated on 3/21/07