Funding Opportunities

Funding for research is crucial in order to keep up-to-date with the rapid changes that enable revolutionary discoveries to be made. New York University is among the nation's premier institutions for research. Opportunities for internal University funding may be accessed on this page, and additional faculty funding can be found at the Office of Sponsored Programs and individual school sites.

Curricular Development

Curricular Development Challenge Fund helps schools, departments, and individual faculty members create new academic programs and courses, update and expand existing courses, or undertake special projects that will promote curricular development.

External Funding Resources

Community of Science is a global resource for hard-to-find information critical to scientific research and other projects across all disciplines, including a searchable, editorially controlled database of more than 2 million published scholars in a variety of disciplines and a current awareness service that monitors over 9,000 resources and alerts you as soon as a new paper, article or other reference matching your criteria is published.

Faculty Fellowships and Awards

Faculty Fellowships and Award Programs includes a summary of national competitions for named faculty fellowships and awards.

Fulbright Awards

Fulbright Scholar Program Lecturing and Research Awards are available as an opportunity for professional development in over 150 countries. Grants are awarded to faculty of all academic ranks and come from all areas of the humanities, social sciences, the natural and physical sciences, as well as from applied fields such as business, journalism, and the law. 

NYU Global Public Health Research Challenge Fund

The Global Public Health Research Challenge Fund (GPHRCF) supports faculty-initiated research on a competitive basis and is administered by the Executive Vice President for Health and a GPHRCF Selection Committee, composed of senior faculty representing a cross-section of disciplines at the University.

Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowships

The Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowships support tenure-track faculty who have passed their third-year review with a one semester leave including full pay during their fourth year of instruction.

Green Grants

NYU Green Grants fund projects that spark the imagination of the NYU community and advance our future as a sustainable university. Projects should reduce adverse environmental impacts, educate and engage the community, demonstrate the viability of best practices, and/or advance applied research goals.

Humanities Initiative Grants-in-Aid

Humanities Initiative Grants-in-Aid are available to augment the funds of schools and departments to assist with special class activities, faculty research projects, and special events such as conferences, lectures, and seminars.

Humanities Initiative Research Fellowships

Faculty Research Fellowships The Humanities Initiative offers Research Fellowships to full-time faculty in the humanities and art disciplines, including but not limited to history, art history, music, philosophy, cultural studies, literary and language studies, religious studies, drama and performance studies, cinema studies, and gender studies.

Humanities Initiative Working Research Group Grant

The Humanities Initiative Working Research Group Grant unites NYU faculty and graduate students in a humanities-focused interdisciplinary series of meetings to promote new curricular offerings, publications, conferences, or collaborative faculty projects.

Postdoctoral and Transition for Academic Diversity

NYU Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity (PTP-AD) supports promising scholars and educators from different backgrounds, races, ethnic groups, and other diverse groups whose life experience, research experience, and employment background will contribute significantly to academic excellence at NYU.

Scholars at Risk/Global Scholars

NYU Scholars at Risk/Vivian G. Prins Global Scholars Fellowships are available to support temporary visits to NYU of up to one year by professors, lecturers, researchers and other intellectuals who have shown potential as important contributors to their discipline and community, and who suffer intimidation or persecution in their home country or country of current residence.

Service Learning

Community Service Project Grants provide support to faculty, students, and staff wishing to create or enhance community service initiatives on the Lower East Side and Greenwich Village and in neighborhoods adjacent to the many NYU schools and divisions.

Service Learning Course Development Grants may be used to develop or enhance undergraduate or graduate courses that include volunteer experience either organized by the instructor or developed by students as an integral part of the course.

Team-Taught Courses

Team-Teaching Stipends are awarded to pairs of full-time faculty in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences to develop team-taught courses for both undergraduate and graduate students to encourage new interdisciplinary directions, directing attention to the close relationship between teaching and humanities research.

The University Research Challenge Fund

The University Research Challenge Fund (URCF) supports faculty-initiated research on a competitive basis and is administered by the URCF Advisory Committee, composed of senior faculty reflecting a cross-section of disciplines at the University.

Visual Arts

Visual Arts Initiative Awards support innovative projects involving collaboration among faculty and at least two different departments or schools from New York University.

Vladeck Fellowships

Vladeck Fellowships enable selected junior faculty to launch or complete substantial research in social justice, health care, labor law, labor history and individual rights, with a concentration on urban problems.

Whitehead Fellowships

Whitehead Fellowships for Junior Faculty in Biomedical and Biological Sciences (PDF) assist faculty in their early years of independent research to conduct focused research projects in the biomedical and biological sciences and enhance their ability to compete successfully for external funds.