Campus Funding Programs

Encourages creativity and collaboration between ACES faculty and research partners.

Stimulates and promotes strong relationships between ACES faculty and international faculty that will develop and flourish into larger, sustainable, collaborative efforts.

Jointly established seed fund between U. of I. and the University of Birmingham to stimulate wider academic engagement between the two universities.

Established in 1932 to serve the campus as a conduit for the distribution of funding to support full-time tenured/tenure-track faculty members’ research projects and creative activities. 

These appointments provide tenured U. of I. faculty members with one semester of release time to pursue an individual scholarly or creative project.

These appointments provide untenured U. of I. faculty one semester of release time to pursue an individual scholarly or creative project.

Partial funding of visiting faculty appointments, offering a means for bringing outside experts to U. of I. to participate in scholarly, professional, or creative programs.

Partial funding of visiting speakers or performers and including them in this prestigious program of lectures and cultural events. 

Support innovative interdisciplinary research that advances our understanding of health and wellness, aging, and disability.

Brings together interdisciplinary research teams to develop ambitious research projects showing promise for external funding. 

The program enables fellows to develop research projects related to the year's theme and to participate in the yearlong interdisciplinary Fellows Seminar and other related programming.

Funding to researchers in Illinois and Indiana who are working on issues of importance to the southern Lake Michigan region.

Awards for full-time, tenure-track faculty for travel and related expenses for presenting at international conferences that takes place outside the U.S.

Support original research on leadership, interdisciplinary collaboration, research that will advance the mission of leadership at Illinois, and faculty engagement with the Illinois Leadership Center.

Provides direct access and competitive grants to engineers and physicians working to combat healthcare problems. 

Available to all U. of I. faculty members who are developing research about Brazil.

Fosters innovative research and sustainable partnerships with military/veteran communities.

An intense, 12-week, online-based program where participants learn strategies to increase their research productivity.

Opportunities for U. of I. faculty and researchers to catalyze and develop long-term research collaborations between Illinois departments, research units, and NCSA

Funding of up to $30,000 to sponsor public lectures or symposia on current topics of interest in the fields of biological and biochemical sciences that enrich the campus intellectual environment in the life sciences.

Offers specialized faculty up to $200 support for one virtual conference convening per year to present original scholarly research and/or creative work.

Allocates $1.47M annually toward the development and seed-funding of projects that have an environmental impact on the university community.