Funding Opportunity Announcement: Dimensions Grant
Faculty-led interdisciplinary research or creative projects in humanities, arts, social sciences, or journalism seeking seed funding to develop collaborative work or preliminary data for future external grant applications.
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Get matched →- Deadline
- annual cycle, check dates
- Entry fee
- Free
- Award
- $8,000
About
Overview
Research & Innovation, the College of Liberal Arts, and the Reynolds School of Journalism offer competitive funding to support interdisciplinary research and creative activity of tenure/tenure-track faculty. Projects may involve early-stage development of collaborative scholarly or creative work that could lead to larger external grants.
Award & Funding
- Up to $8,000
- 12-month project period from date of award
Eligibility
- Projects must be led by tenure/tenure-track faculty in College of Liberal Arts or Reynolds School of Journalism
- Faculty from other units may serve as co-PIs or collaborators
- Dean approval required if collaborators from other institutions are included
Allowable & Unallowable Expenses
- Allowable: Equipment or materials purchases, participant support costs or graduate/undergraduate student assistance, travel-related expenses
- Unallowable: Course buyouts, summer salary, hosting
Application Requirements
- Project description (3-page limit): specific aims/objectives, background and significance, approach/methodology, project timeline, and future funding strategy
- Budget and budget justification (2-page limit) in table format with total requested amount and one-to-one cost share if applicable; budget narrative required
- CV or biosketch in field-customary format
- Letter from your chair positioning the project's importance to your field and career
- Optional: Letter indicating voluntary cost share source, signed by authorized individual
Cost Share
Cost share is not required. Voluntary cost share may be included with a letter detailing the source, signed by an authorized individual.
Key Dates
- Deadline: April 3, 2026 by 5 p.m. Pacific Time via InfoReady Review
- Award notifications within two weeks after review committee recommendation
Review Criteria
- Intellectual merit
- Clarity and presentation
- Feasibility
- Budget
- Potential for future external funding
- Potential for further interdisciplinary research
Contact
- Leadership: Mridul Gautam ([email protected]), Josh Baker ([email protected]), [email protected]
- Administrative: Carrie Bushá ([email protected]), [email protected]
- Award
- Up to $8,000
- Entry fee
- Free to enter
- Theme
- Interdisciplinary research and creative projects in the humanities, arts, social sciences, and journalism, with preference for collaborative work with potential for external funding.
- Eligibility
- All projects must be led by tenure/tenure-track faculty in either the College of Liberal Arts or Reynolds School of Journalism. Faculty from other units may be co-PIs or collaborators. Approval from the PI's dean required if collaborators from other institutions are included.
- Priority given to
- Collaborative and/or interdisciplinary projects
- Audience
- Tenure/tenure-track faculty in College of Liberal Arts and Reynolds School of Journalism
- Contact
- [email protected]
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