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.
The General Research Fund (GRF) is a competitive award program that provides funding for the advancement of the university's research program.
For several years, this internal grant program supported members of our research and creative community as they applied their expertise to profound and persistent challenges related to attaining the goal of racial equity.
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.
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.
This program is designed to help new tenure-track faculty members accelerate their individual scholarship and assist in building a sustainable research program.
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.
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.