Funding for Faculty

Funding Opportunities

Faculty Travel Grants

Eligible faculty may receive as much as $1,400 per academic year for travel expenses to present original papers at scholarly and professional meetings. This program is offered through the EVPP’s team for Faculty Affairs.

Faculty Development Leave

The Faculty Research Assignment (FRA) program has been replaced with the new Faculty Development Leave (FDL) to support tenured faculty with paid leave from teaching and service responsibilities to dedicate their time to research, scholarship, and creative endeavors. This new program is offered through the EVPP’s team for Faculty Affairs.

Faculty Development Awards

A new Faculty Development Awards (FDA) program has been created to support mid-career and senior professional-track faculty meeting eligibility criteria to recognize excellence and to provide up to $10,000 to support professional development. This new program is offered through the EVPP’s team for Faculty Affairs.

Fund for Academic Enrichment

The Academic Enrichment Fund will not be awarded for the 2023-24 academic year.

The fund supports workshops, graduate courses, seminars, exhibitions and academic conferences that enhance the graduate educational experience at UT Austin.

Pivot

Pivot is an external funding opportunity database that complies more than 10,000 federal and private funding opportunities.

Research Funding

Research Grants

See a listing of awards, fellowships and grants available to researchers.

Robert W. Hamilton Book Awards Program

Learn about awards available to faculty and staff publishing book-length works.

Find Funding

Read news of research honors, awards, programs and deadlines; find out about researchers quoted in news media; and see listings of funding opportunities.