Rice University’s Arts Initiatives Fund (AIF) supports experimentation and collaboration in creativity and the arts across the entire campus.

The University Committee on Teaching administers a grant from the Brown Foundation for the purpose of fostering excellence in undergraduate teaching at Rice.

Too many graphic examples of a long history of injustice demand a sustained response using the resources available to us. CERCL is accepting proposals for grants up to $3,000 to assist with Rice’s continuing effort to counter anti-black racism and push for a more just society as central elements of its teaching, research, and leadership strategies.

Collaborative Research Grant - to encourage collaboration of Rice Social Sciences faculty across disciplines to develop larger projects leading to research grant proposals to outside funding agencies.

Rice University’s Conference and Workshop Development Fund fosters the development of conferences and workshops that enhance the reputation, interdisciplinary activity, global engagement and quality of scholarship across the University.

Pre-proposals are solicited for the next De Lange Conference, to be held in academic year 2025-2026. De Lange Conferences spotlight timely, significant themes of wide interest. A budget of up to $150,000 is available for a multi-disciplinary conference capable of attracting a broad audience within the university, as well as wider participation at the local, regional, and/or national levels.

The purpose of the Doerr Institute's Leader Development Innovation Awards is to encourage and support faculty contributions to the development of students' capacity to lead across the University, through innovative teaching, curricular innovations, and relevant research.

The University of Edinburgh and Rice University have identified each other as strategic partners to foster deep collaborations in research and education. The Rice- Edinburgh Strategic Collaboration Awards (SCA) have been established to facilitate and support joint initiatives that will strengthen the two universities’ strategic priorities as well as develop multi-disciplinary cutting-edge research to create academic and societal impact. We invite proposals from researchers in all disciplines at Rice and Edinburgh.

In this round of the SCA, applicants are encouraged to submit funding proposals for innovative and sustainable programs built around collaborative research linking Edinburgh and Rice. Proposals should be sustainable in the long-term with a plan for engagement that includes leveraging external funding and publication outputs.

The Provost’s TMC Collaborator Fund is a competitive fund for Rice faculty in all disciplines that awards seed grants for new collaborative research projects with faculty of TMC health-related institutions.

The Rice Space Institute (RSI) aims to expand our understanding of the Universe and our presence within
it through fundamental research in space exploration and discovery. RSI is pleased to offer funding
opportunities to advance this vision, promote space-related research, and stimulate the growth of external
funding.