Internal funding
Provides up to $750 annually in support of off-campus travel by eligible faculty or staff for face-to-face meetings with potential funding agency officials. Such meetings can lead to future success in obtaining grants.
It is currently paused as the Office of Research evaluates its internal funding programs to align with KU’s strategic research priorities.
The General Research Fund (GRF) is a competitive award program that provides funding for the advancement of the university's research program.
The KU Research Grant Opportunity (KU Research GO) program is a KU Office of Research-funded program dedicated to providing strategic research investment at the University of Kansas.
It is currently paused as the Office of Research evaluates its internal funding programs to align with KU’s strategic research priorities.
The Major Project Planning Grant has been paused as the Office of Research evaluates its internal funding programs to align with KU’s strategic research priorities.
The New Faculty Research Development Awards are designed to begin building a sustainable program of research, scholarship and/or creative activity for applicants.
The One KU Collaborative Research Awards provide seed funding to launch or strengthen innovative, interdisciplinary research partnerships between KU Lawrence and KU Medical Center. These awards support projects in key research growth areas with strong potential for external funding.
The One KU Research Pivot Awards are designed to help KU researchers explore and align novel ideas with new opportunities and build internal capacity to maintain research momentum when their usual sources of external funding in a given topic area have become unavailable. The proposed research is expected to generate preliminary data or investigations to support competitive proposals for extramural research grant opportunities.
Open to all principal investigators in every field of study, this program aims to help researchers obtain quality feedback on their grant applications prior to submission to an external funding agency, to strengthen the merits of the proposal and to improve the likelihood of acceptance for funding.
PEER is currently paused as the Office of Research evaluates its internal funding programs to align with KU’s strategic research priorities.
This fund supports principal investigators and other key personnel for whom 100% effort is grant supported and who do not have other sources of non-grant funding to support proposal preparation.