Internal Grant Opportunities

Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP)

The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) oversees the following internal grant opportunities:

• The Butler Awards Committee (BAC) provides research, instructional development, and travel-to-present grants for faculty within the fine arts, humanities, and social sciences (qualitative research methods).
• The Holcomb Awards Committee (HAC) funds faculty research, instructional development, and travel-to-present grants in all disciplines within the natural sciences (“hard” sciences) and quantitative social sciences and encourages faculty members to engage students in the research process.
• The Matching Fund provides financial support where cash match or cost sharing is required or needed to strengthen grant proposals.
• Through the generous support of the Lilly Endowment, OSP established the Equipment Fund to provide a university-wide support system to prevent the obsolescence of equipment and offset the costs incurred by the colleges/school for such purchases supporting research, scholarship, creative activity, and faculty-student collaborations.

Additional Opportunities

The Center for Global Education (CGE) offers global initiative grants for curricular program development.

The Core Curriculum offers course enhancement grants to fund co-curricular experiences relevant to Core courses.

DEISA offers grant opportunities for faculty and staff to provide investments in University-wide, unit-specific, and student-led initiatives.

The Muslim Studies Endowment (MSE) offers research grant opportunities to faculty conducting significant research projects relevant to Islam and Muslims.

Center for High Achievement and Scholarly Engagement

The Center for High Achievement and Scholarly Engagement (CHASE) within the Engaged Learning Center offers the following funding opportunities for students:

• The Butler Summer Institute allows rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors enrolled full time at Butler University to pursue a significant research question, contribute to a scholarly conversation, or produce creative work while being mentored by a faculty member and supported by a peer community comprised of equally enthusiastic student researchers, scholars, and artists.
• In support of research, scholarship, and creative endeavor of our undergraduate students, travel-to-present and thesis grants help offset the cost of conducting research/creative endeavors and travel to a conference to share the outcomes of student research or creative endeavor with others.