Awards and funding

Current Opportunities

2019 Junior Faculty Development Awards
DEADLINE: 11/02/2018 - Are you an untenured assistant or associate professor looking for support for a research or scholarly project? Each year, the Provost’s Office hosts a competition for $10,000 Junior Faculty Development Awards with funds provided by IBM and R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. These awards are to be expended during the period beginning January 1, 2019, and ending December 31, 2019.
The Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship
DEADLINE: 11/16/2018 - The Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship promotes inter-institutional collaboration and the enhancement of intellectual life at both UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University by strengthening established or encouraging new collaborations.
Senior Faculty Research and Scholarly Leaves for Academic Year 2019-20
DEADLINE: 11/26/2018 - Proposals dealing with creative activity and study by artists, musicians, and writers will be considered together with proposals for scholarly research. These leaves will pay a full base salary for one semester up to a maximum amount of $60,000, or one-half of the base salary for the full academic year, up to a maximum amount of $60,000.
LGBTQ Funding
Applications accepted year-round - The Provost's Committee on LGBTQ Life offers financial support for speakers, colloquia, performances, and other professional activities and innovative programs.

University Teaching Awards
Each year, the University recognizes faculty, staff and students for outstanding teaching.
University Distinguished Professorships
These various professorships recognize exceptional faculty members with records of scholarly and educational distinction.
The Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professorship
This professorship seeks to fund proposals that allow UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University to work together to extend their capacity in specific areas.
Junior Faculty Development Awards & Senior Faculty Research and Scholarly Leaves
These competitive leaves are offered each fall to junior and senior faculty.
C. Felix Harvey Award
This award honors faculty whose proposals best embody the humanities and/or social sciences methods or approaches that directly and positively impact constituencies outside the University.
Performing Arts Special Activities Fund
The PASAF supports projects and activities that provide quality performing arts that enhance the creative and cultural environment of our University community and have significant impact on life and learning at UNC.

25 earn 2018 University Teaching Awards
The University Committee on Teaching Awards encourages students to nominate deserving faculty and graduate teaching assistants for the awards.
2017 Distinguished Professorships
Seven faculty members have been selected for distinguished professorships for 2017.
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