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Research and Creative Activity Support
Deadline: October 1, 2024, at 3 p.m.
Funding: $8,000 paid as a taxable stipend
The Office of Academic Affairs offers summer research grants for tenured and tenure-track faculty through two programs: Summer Faculty Grants and Senior Summer Faculty Grants.
Objective
To enable successful applicants to continue full-time scholarly work during the summer.
Eligibility
Varies with program; please see the appropriate Call for Proposals for detailed information.
Award
Grant amount is $8,000, paid as a taxable stipend.
The grant period is 40 consecutive working days (eight weeks) between the end of the spring semester and the beginning of the fall semester. Teaching is not permitted during the grant period.
Application Guidelines
The Call for Proposals for each program is available through InfoReady. All applications must be submitted through InfoReady. For detailed instructions on accessing InfoReady, please see the InfoReady Internal Funding Application System Access Instructions [PDF].
Deadline: 2025–26 internal faculty grants are not offered this year
Applicants may request a copy of one or two previous Successful Summer Grants Available for Review (PDF)
Current and Former Summer Faculty Grant recipients
- 2025 [PDF]
- 2024 [PDF]
- 2023 [PDF]
- 2022 [PDF]
- 2021 [PDF]
- 2020 [PDF]
- 2019 [PDF]
- 2018 [PDF]
- 2017 [PDF]
- 2016 [PDF]
- 2015 [PDF]
- 2014 [PDF]
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Deadline: Currently closed
Funding: Up to $1,000
Objective
To support faculty research and scholarship; to initiate new faculty research and creative activities; to supply modest support at unusually critical times.
Eligibility
All tenured and tenure-track faculty are eligible to apply. Only one application per faculty member per year. A faculty member may not have more than two awards in any four-year period.
Award
Funding may be awarded up to $1,000. The applicant's department and/or school/college must provide an equal amount.
Funds can be used for expenses not eligible for funding through other resources. Funds may not be used for wages, salary, or conference attendance/participation. Travel requests of any nature are not accepted.
Application Guidelines
Applications are closed for 2022-23.
Applicants must submit the following information:
- Description of the research
- How this award will facilitate the larger scope of the project
- Previous financial support (internal and external) for this project
- Description and estimated cost of activities for which this grant is being sought
All applications must be submitted through InfoReady. For detailed instructions on accessing the InfoReady portal, please see the InfoReady Internal Funding Application System Access Instructions [PDF].
Requests are considered as received; notification within 30 days of application receipt.
Contact
Deadline: Currently closed
Funding: $8,000 paid as a taxable stipend
Objective
To support research by faculty members engaged in mutually beneficial partnerships with the community (broadly defined).
Eligibility
All tenure-track and tenured faculty are eligible to apply, except faculty with 12-month appointments.
Award
Grant amount is $8,000, paid as a taxable stipend. The grant period is the summer following award notification. Faculty cannot teach during the summer.
Application Guidelines
Applications are closed for 2022-23.
Requirements
Within two years of receiving the award, you must participate in a future Research and Sponsored Programs event and do at least one of the following and report doing so to the director of Research and Sponsored Programs:
- Submit an article to a Research and Sponsored Programs magazine or research journal
- Work with Research and Sponsored Programs to arrive at an agreed upon community engaged way of sharing the research proposed
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Deadline: February 5, 2025, at 3 p.m.
Funding: Up to $15,000
Objective
To facilitate NEW cross-disciplinary research collaborations on campus that lead to future external funding.
Eligibility
All tenure-track and tenured faculty are eligible.
Exclusion Criteria
Recipients of past Collaborative grant funding are excluded from future competitions unless they have secured external funding.
Award
Grant amount is up to $15,000. The grant period is the Summer following the award notification.
Note: If academic year faculty request a salary stipend, they cannot teach during the Summer. Any budgeted salaries or stipends must be used in the Summer. However, funds can be budgeted for the academic year to cover project-related expenses (e.g., student workers, consultants). The bulk of the faculty’s project must be conducted during the Summer.
Application Guidelines
The Call for Proposals is available through the InfoReady portal. All applications must be submitted through InfoReady.
For detailed instructions on accessing the InfoReady portal, please see the InfoReady Internal Funding Application System Access Instructions.
Please note that a letter of support from each collaborator’s department chair is required for the application.
Also, please note that confirmation of completion of Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training, both General and Field-Specific, is required.
Deadline: 2025–26 internal faculty grants are not offered this year
Requirements
Within two years of receiving the award, successful applicants must:
- Submit an article to a peer-reviewed journal on the research and report doing so to University Research and Innovation; and
- Present research findings to PFW stakeholders through an outlet or event approved by University Research and Innovation.
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Research Travel
Explore travel support options.
Tenure-track faculty can apply for funding to travel to Purdue West Lafayette or Purdue Northwest to attend research training sessions or utilize equipment not available on the Fort Wayne campus through the Purdue West Lafayette Research Cores or PNW Research Centers.
Outstanding Research Award
The Outstanding Research award recipient must be a tenured full-time faculty member at Purdue University Fort Wayne. There are no restrictions on the number of applications or nominations from any college, school, or department. The recipient will receive $2,500 and be honored at an on-campus reception following a presentation to the campus community.
The call for nominations is available through InfoReady. The nominator will complete the nomination package in InfoReady. For detailed instructions on accessing InfoReady, please see the InfoReady Internal Funding Application System Access Instructions [PDF].
Nominations are due by 3 p.m. on Wednesday, September 3, 2025.
Contact
Connie Kracher
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
[email protected]
Outstanding Research Award Recipients
- 2024–25: Zesheng Chen, Associate Professor of Computer Science
- 2023–24: Shannon Bischoff, Professor of Linguistics
- 2022–23: Nodir Adilov, Professor of Economics
- 2021–22: Ahmed Mustafa, Professor of Biology
- 2020–21: Mary Ann Cain, Professor of English
- 2019–20: David Cochran, Professor of Systems Engineering
- 2018–19: Dong Chen, Professor of Civil Engineering
- 2017–18: Bruce Kingsbury, Professor of Biology
- 2016–17: Zhuming Bi, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
- 2015–16: Peter Dragnev, Professor of Mathematics
- 2014: Steven Stevenson, Associate Professor of Chemistry
- 2013: Abdullah Eroglu, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
- 2012: Richard Sutter, Professor of Anthropology
- 2011: Bernd Fischer, Professor of History
- 2010: William DeMott, Professor of Biology
- 2009: George Kalamaras, Professor of English
- 2008: Anson Shupe, Professor of Sociology
- 2007: James M. Lutz, Professor of Political Science
- 2006: Peter Hamburger, Professor of Mathematics
- 2005: Clark Butler, Professor of Philosophy
- 2004: David A. Dilts, Professor of Economics
- 2003: William E. Cooper Jr., Professor of Biology
- 2002: James O. Farlow Jr., Professor of Geology
- 2001: Alan R. Sandstrom, Professor of Anthropology
- 2000: Mary Helen Thuente, Professor of English
- 1999: Lowell W. Beineke, Jack S. Schrey Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Grant Management / Post Award Services
Once you’ve received your grant, Purdue University West Lafayette’s Post Award Services will help you manage it and your project. Part of Purdue University’s Sponsored Programs Services, Post Award Services can help with guidance on regulations, invoicing sponsors, securing documentation, working with other university staff, reviewing budgets and other documentation, and much more.