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Provost’s Graduate Research Award

Effective Fall 2024, this funding mechanism morphed into the PVSA.

The PGRA is no longer running. This page remains live for historical purposes.

Visit the new Provost Visiting Scholar Award

The Provost’s Graduate Research Award seeks to maximize our impact. We envision that the PGRA will be a steppingstone to larger external funding awards.

Since its inception in 2009, this graduate research award has supported multidisciplinary scholarship to expose students to varied research and creative fields. The award mechanism has naturally evolved into a way for students early in their studies to develop new research directions for their PhD dissertations or terminal degree thesis/capstone project and has been used by graduate programs as a way for students to practice writing research proposals. Starting with the Fall 2016 competition, funding in the sum of $5,000 is available for pilot grants (or preliminary research) so that students can then have stronger applications for funding from external sources. We anticipate funding 15-18 projects. Awards will be $5,000 paid out over five months: February 16-June 16, 2023.

(NB: They are processed as awards to the student, not grants; no tuition waiver is attached.)

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The PGRA is changing names and timelines.