NYU Funding News:
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 funding may be accessed on this page, and additional faculty funding can be found at the Office of Sponsored Programs and individual school sites.
Community Service Project Grants
help to encourage community service on the Lower East Side and Greenwich Village and in the neighborhoods adjacent to the many NYU schools and divisions.
Creative Collaboration Support Grants
support innovative projects involving collaboration among faculty and/or students and between at least two different schools from New York University.
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.
Faculty Fellowships and Award Programs
includes a summary of national competitions for named faculty fellowships and 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. For additional information, click here
The Global Fellowship Program
is designed to support teaching, academic research, artistic endeavors and other scholarly activities related to, or involving a residency at any of the NYU Global sites.
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.
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
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.
The Humanities Initiative Research Fellowships
are year long awards available for full-time faculty and graduate students in the humanities and arts disciplines.
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.
The International Visitors Program
provides grants to departments and schools to invite distinguished scholars from abroad.
Learn and Serve Grants
provide support to faculty as they incorporate service-learning into new and existing courses.
The Office of Sponsored Programs
publishes a Deadline Calendar of upcoming funded opportunities for researchers throughout the university.
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.
Research Challenge Fund Emergency Support Program
is available to those holding Principal Investigator status who have experienced an unexpected special situation arising in the course of research projects or proposal development.
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 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.
Summer Stipends for Team-Taught Courses
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.
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
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 for Junior Faculty in Biomedical and Biological Sciences
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.