Faculty members from ALL disciplines across ALL campuses are encouraged to apply. This program is designed to enhance the university’s mission of interdisciplinary excellence in sustainability research and education.
The goal of this program is to catalyze the formation of convergent research teams focused on sustainability and associated solutions.
This annual faculty fellowship from the Global Studies Center selects an outstanding University of Pittsburgh faculty member whose scholarship supports the Center’s mission. This award is designed to advance and showcase faculty research whose research aligns with the GSC’s research initiatives in Global Health, Migrations, Contested Cities, and Critical World Ecologies. Preference will be given to applicants who demonstrate that they have already made significant progress in planning or executing a project that promises to have a significant impact in their field. Faculty from all disciplines are encouraged to apply.
This program is designed to enhance the university’s mission of interdisciplinary excellence in sustainability research and education beyond the campus. Faculty members and professional staff from ALL disciplines across ALL campuses of the University of Pittsburgh are encouraged to apply. Each award will be one year in duration. The GES is a program to enable people to share, develop and expand their research, teaching or professional practice beyond the campus. The aim of the GES is to encourage engagement activities with partners beyond the general campus and region. These include national and international partners anywhere in the world, from either inside or outside of higher education, working in areas that strongly align the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The Martinson Applied Projects (MAPs), sponsored through the David C. Frederick Honors College (FHC), are designed to support undergraduate and faculty research, across disciplines, throughout the Pitt community. MAPs, formerly known as Research Hubs, are team-based projects designed to provide small groups of undergraduate students (3-10) an opportunity to work within an interdisciplinary team on an applied research project. These projects provide Pitt researchers (faculty or research staff) the opportunity to work with highly motivated honors students who gain experiential credit through the program. MAPs teams are often interdisciplinary, addressing research that can benefit from a cross-disciplinary approach, but can also be focused on discipline-specific projects.
The Pitt Momentum Fund’s Arts & Humanities Microgrants are $3,000, one-year awards which support smaller-scale projects for individual faculty or teams in the arts and humanities. To enhance and expand this internal funding opportunity, the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation is offering supplemental $2,000 awards to Microgrant applicants whose research, education, or outreach is linked to interdisciplinary sustainability programs.
The Center for Sustainable Business has research funding available for students and faculty interested in the following areas.
- Decarbonizing Middle America: Wicked problems impeding the just transition and clean & circular economies
- ESG Rosetta Stone: Raising sustainable business literacy across functions, levels, and industries
- Workforce 100%: Turning rhetoric into action for work forces 100% representative of their communities.
The University of Pittsburgh has active sustainability efforts and initiatives across disciplines, domains, and scales — including pursuing carbon neutrality by 2037. To help take our work to the next level, in 2023, the Pitt Sustainability Challenge awarded $300,000 to an integrated, impactful, durable, and feasible solution to advance carbon neutrality with lasting benefits for the Pitt community. Projects resulting from the Challenge are currently being implemented.
The John C. Mascaro Faculty Fellowships in Sustainability serve to enhance the University’s mission of interdisciplinary excellence in research and education. Faculty members from all schools & disciplines across the University of Pittsburgh are encouraged to apply. Fellows and Scholars receive support for research inside and outside of their fields — and may decide to renew their fellowship for one additional year. Learn more from the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation (MCSI). (Early Fall)
Internal funding supporting high-quality research, scholarship, and creative endeavors in 3 tiers, including significant innovative research; early stage planning and capacity building of large multidisciplinary projects; and scaling grants for detailed planning, proof of concept, and technical risk reduction projects. (Faculty)
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Competitive innovation funding to support making Pitt intellectual property ready for commercially-focused external funding and/or tech transfer events. Includes funding, education, mentoring, and networking, immersing awardees in ecosystem-level support for translational innovation.