Grants and Funding Sources

U.S. Department of Education
The department has several grants covering a range of topics and interests including school readiness, educational opportunities for those serving children with disabilities, Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad, school violence prevention and school physical education projects. Please call or email the ORSP for additional information.

U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
The IES usually has research grant deadlines in August for research proposals in the following areas: reading and writing, math and science education, cognition and student learning, teacher quality–reading and writing, teacher quality–math and science education, education leadership, and social and behavioral context for academic learning. These grants fund research projects that involve experimental and quasi-experimental designs only.

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
The NEA supports projects in arts education, dance, music, media arts, theatre, and more. Depending on the type of program, deadlines vary but are usually twice per year—February and July.

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
The NEH funds fellowships, summer institutes, summer stipends, digital projects and preservation projects, as well as other projects. Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences or both. Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of six to 12 months.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
NIH’s format and submission requirements have changed. The research design section is now limited to six pages if the previous version was under 25 pages, e.g., R21, and 12 pages if the previous application was limited to 25 pages, e.g., R01. This new research strategy section is subdivided into three parts: significance, innovation and approach. The biographical sketch is now five pages, continues to incorporate a personal statement and now has a contribution to science section where you describe five of your most recent contributions to science.

National Science Foundation (NSF)
NSF has numerous programs and deadlines, like Law and Social Sciences, Documenting Endangered Languages and Informed Science Education. If you would like more information, please contact the office.

Adelphi’s Dr. Matthew J. Wright, physics, shares his tips to a successful NSF grant application.

Additional External Funding Opportunities
Adelphi offers you access totheSPIN database, the world’s largest database of sponsored funding opportunities.

Faculty Development Grants

Each year, the University conducts an internal grant competition: theFaculty Development Grantsfor full-time tenure-track and tenured faculty. These grants are intended tofoster excellence in the scholarship of discovery (research), pedagogy, application (service), and creative works, be a source of seed money to enhance opportunities for extramural funding and advance the mission of the University

Deadline: November 16, 2020

Application and Proposal Details:You must email a complete proposal tocortina@adelphi.eduno later than the stated deadline. A complete proposal consists of theproposal face page, abstract in lay language, yourproposal narrative(no longer than three double-spaced pages), adetailed budgetand budget justification (not included in the three-page limit) and a three-page CV.

Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Grants Program

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, this program supplements the existing faculty development grants with an award opportunity for collaboration.

Criteria:Projects must be interdisciplinary in nature Projects must be submitted by two or more faculty members who have not collaborated on grants or publications/scholarly works before

申请及建议书详情:见上文。

Deadline:November 16, 2020

Social Justice research, pedagogy and scholarship- the university acknowledges and supports our faculty’s engagement in social justice initiatives and supports your work through an application for funding through the Provost’s internal faculty grants program.For the due date and related information like links, see the above faculty development grants section.

TheCenter for International Education, with generous support from the provost’s office, hasfunding availableeach year to support full-time faculty members who aim to contribute to the following campus internationalization efforts:

• International research and creative work
• Efforts that increase Adelphi student participation in study abroad (semester-long or faculty-led)
• Develop a course (or adjust an existing course) that is global in nature
• Develop an international institutional partnership to further bilateral student exchange

Deadline is typically each October 1.

For more information, FAQs or to see past awardees, visit theGlobal Engagement website.