Provides “seed money” in three separate competitions in support of research and scholarship by faculty. All programs utilize the same guidelines and application.

• Junior Faculty Research Grants in Sciences
  • Applied Life Sciences
  • Basic Life Sciences
  • Physical & Mathematical Sciences
  • Professional & Applied Sciences
  • Social & Behavioral Sciences
• Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Junior and Senior Faculty Grants
• Poverty and the Economy Grant Awards
• Deadlines: Sciences and Humanities and Arts: First Tuesday in October
  Poverty and the Economy: Last Friday in September
• Eligibility: Available to instructors, tenure-track faculty, and research scientists; FRG are designed for early career faculty (assistant professors and assistant research scientists); Willson CHA grants fund both junior and senior faculty
• Amounts: No explicit limit, but average grants are in the $3,000 - $10,000 range
• Detailed Guidelines (UGARF guidelines for all three seed grant competitions)
• Supplemental Poverty and the Economy Grants Guidelines
• Application
• Tips for FRG Applicants
• Report Form
• Project Request Form
• Resulting External Funding Form

2008 Grant Winners
2009 Grant Winners

• Purpose: To support pilot studies focused on obtaining preliminary data that will lead to extramural funding in this area.
• Deadline: TBA
• Eligibility: Eligibility is restricted to B3I members or researchers who will become B3I members. Eligible applicants include tenure track and non-tenure track faculty with independent research programs. Postdoctoral Research Scholars or Research Scientists that are members of a larger lab structure are not eligible.
• Amounts: Anticipated funding range $5,000 - $20,000
• Detailed Guidelines
• Application
• Biofuels, Biopower, Biomaterials (B3I) Initiative site ›

For information about membership and other inquiries, contact B3I Director Joy Doran Peterson

• Purpose: To support pilot studies that will lead to major extramural funding in this area.
• Deadlines: September 10, January 10, May 10; in most cases funding decisions will be made within 30 days of each deadline.
• Eligibility: Eligibility is restricted to Full Members of the Faculty of Infectious Diseases at the University of Georgia, although Associate Members may partner with Full members to apply for seed grant funding.
• Amounts: $5,000-30,000
• Guidelines and Application 
• Membership Information

• Detailed Guidelines
• Application

For information about membership and other inquiries, contact Jessica Kissinger

Provides assistance in the form of round-trip airfare for travel to foreign destinations specifically to participate in conferences for faculty and graduate students through a competitive process.

• Deadlines: Second Tuesdays in January, March, June and October
• Eligibility: Faculty members, research professionals, postdoctoral associates, and graduate students are eligible. All Adjunct professors and Non-UGA paid employees are ineligible.
• Amount: The lowest round-trip airfare available
• Latest Funding Statistics - Faculty
• Latest Funding Statistics - Graduate
• Detailed Guidelines
• Application
  

Provides grant support to researchers in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences to promote the development of new plant cultivars.

• Deadline: First Wednesday in October
• Eligibility: Full and part-time faculty, USDA adjunct positions, and permanent research scientists in the University's "Research Professionals" classification system.  Visiting faculty and postdoctoral research associates are ineligible. 
• Amount: No upper limit, however funding proposals with large budgets (above $60,000) must have unusually strong justification.
• Contact: Technology Commercialization Office: shelleyf@uga.edu
• Guidelines
• Application