Overview
If you are a University of North Texas College of Engineering faculty member, we will search for funding for your project if you send an abstract or paragraph describing your project to leyla.yagdyyeva@unt.edu.
Knowledgeable staff can answer your questions about specific deadlines and details related to grants and funding opportunities. Or call: 940-565-2916.
- Proposal Development Process
- Pre-Award Timeline
- Pre-Award Process
- The UNT Faculty Research Grant Program
- RIG - The Research Initiation Grant
is primarily intended to stimulate and aid the initiation of research for
junior faculty in their first three years at UNT.
October Deadline - ROP - The Research Opportunity
Program grants seed money to develop pilot-data and/or conduct preliminary
research that shows a high potential for attracting and maintaining
support from external funding agencies
February Deadline - REG - The
Research Enabling Grant funds high quality research and scholarly
activities for which extramural funding is not available
February Deadline
- RIG - The Research Initiation Grant
is primarily intended to stimulate and aid the initiation of research for
junior faculty in their first three years at UNT.
- Additional UNT funding opportunities
- RCE
– The Research and Creativity Enhancement award supports selected tenured
faculty in the liberal arts and fine arts to enhance their research, scholarly,
and/or creative endeavors.
October Deadline
- UAEM-UNT Research Seed Funding program
Recipients of the UAEM-UNT Research Seed Funding Program - Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship — The Fellowship gives partial
summer salary support for faculty early in their academic careers to
enable them to concentrate on research activities during summer months.
February Deadline - PEST — The Pursuit of Extramural Support Travel program
assists researchers with travel to funding agencies and provides funds to
bring program officers or other funding agency personnel to UNT.
Applications Taken Year-round - Small Grant — This grant program provides stop-gap funding for
unexpected and emergency needs outside of regular funding cycles.
Applications Taken Year-round - Special Funding — Funding supports research-related activities, but
it is not associated with a grant proposal and does not fall within one of
the normal funding mechanisms.
Applications Taken Year-round - Initiative for Research Infrastructure program
- UNT-UNTHSC Joint Institutional Seed Research program
Periodically, special programs are announced for internal funding competitions. Examples of past programs include:
- RCE
– The Research and Creativity Enhancement award supports selected tenured
faculty in the liberal arts and fine arts to enhance their research, scholarly,
and/or creative endeavors.
- Additional resources to search
for funding-related information
- FedBizOpps - federal business opportunities
- Federal Acquisition Jumpstation - links to federal procurement information
- Foundation Center - the most authoritative source of information on private philanthropy in the U.S. Access to the subscription-based Foundation Directory Online is provided on a limited basis.
- Grants for Individuals - from Michigan State University Libraries. Subject categories make searching easy.
- GuideStar: the National Database of Private Organizations - information on U.S. foundations based on data from IRS Forms 990-PF from private foundations.
- Texas eGrants Search - competitive funding announcements available through dozens of Texas state agencies.
- Philanthropy News Digest - from Foundation Center. Click “RFPs” in the upper banner. Search by keyword or browse by subject
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