Faculty Research Support

Please contact the Office of Sponsored Research for more information.

Agnes Williams Career Development Awards

Agnes Williams Career Development Award Guidelines

This program supports faculty who are embracing significant new areas of scholarly and professional career development, within or across disciplines. 

Committee on Faculty Scholarship

Batchelor Ford Foundation Grant

Batchelor Ford Guidelines 

This fund makes available a limited number of summer faculty fellowships. Each award carries a stipend of $5,000 for the summer. All faculty on tenure or tenure-track appointments are eligible. 

Faculty Fellowship

Faculty Fellowship Guidelines

A limited number of faculty fellowships are awarded each year to provide an opportunity for tenured faculty members to pursue scholarly work or professional development. Awards are salaried leaves of absence for one semester or the academic year.

O'Leary Covid Support Award - LAST CALL

O'Leary Covid Support Guidelines

These funds are intended to jump-start research interrupted by the COVID epidemic and to facilitate scholarly activity that will ultimately enhance the case of Associate Professors applying towards promotion to the rank of Full Professor. 

Mary Louise Marfuggi Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship

This annual award was established to honor a member of the faculty for outstanding achievement in the creation of original work in the arts and sciences.  

McFarland Center Research Grants

McFarland Center Research Grant Guidelines

The McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture will fund up to four grants to support
research that advances its scholarly mission. Two of the grants will fund research that advances
our understanding of global Catholicism, either in contemporary or historic terms, since this is
now a major theme for the Center's work. Two grants will fund research on any ethical or
religious theme that fulfills the Center's mission