University Funding

Beyond the SBS grants, if you are looking for general information on internal funding, start at the University's Office of Research and Engagement. Additional UMass funding opportunities include:

Faculty Research Grant/Healey Endowment Grant (FRG/HEG)
Institute for Social Science Research Scholars Program
Public Service Endowment Grant
Book Publication Subvention Program
Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship Awards
MSP Research Support Fund
Creative Economy Initiatives Fund Program (for more information, contact Loren Walker, 413.577.3725)
Family Research Scholars Program
Interdisciplinary Studies Institute Faculty Fellowship
Seed Grants from the Institute of Diversity Science

Grants for Teaching

The Center for Teaching and Faculty Development provides a number of grants to aid in improved teaching. These grants are awarded to individual faculty members as well as groups to support professional development, provide mentoring, enhance the use of technology in teaching, and strengthen writing skills.

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Social media. Big data. Autonomous robots. Deep learning. Virtual agents. The Internet-of-things. Genetic mapping. Artificial intelligence. These are the tools of today whose possibilities both excite and terrify. Discoveries of the past, from the printing press to germ theory, have radically transformed the world we live in. Today’s cutting-edge technologies transform the way we work, communicate, learn, travel, diagnose and cure diseases, and how we use free time. How do these cascading innovations in an ever-globalized world relate to social change? And what do the tools we invent say about us as a society? More >

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University Funding

Grants for Teaching