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The Office of Research Development coordinates funding opportunities sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. These funding opportunities support faculty’s foundational research, creative practice, publication expenditures, and offset travel costs related to visiting extramural sponsors.

UNC Idea Grant

$10,000-$20,000 to de-risk an idea

The UNC Idea Grant is a pilot funding program that encourages researchers to develop novel ideas that address important problems or roadblocks to a current line of inquiry. This competition is open to any field of research and/or scholarship conducted by UNC-CH researchers.

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Creativity Hubs

$5,000 for Stage 1 winners, $500,000 over 2 yrs for finalist(s)

Creativity Hubs are evolving virtual research networks that concentrate talent and resources on bold ideas for defined periods of time.

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Arts & Humanities Research Grants

$2,500-$7,500 for research activities

The Arts & Humanities Research Grant promotes research, scholarly, creative, and artistic pursuits in the fine arts and humanities.

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ORD Publication Grants

$500-$2000 to offset publication costs

ORD Publication Grants help pay the costs of publishing scientific, scholarly, or artistic work in any discipline in cases where publication costs are unusually high due to artwork, maps, photographs, and other special production elements.

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