Part of Rice's Creative Venture Funds, Rice University’s Faculty Initiatives Fund (FIF) is an internal funding mechanism that awards competitive grants of no more than $50,000 to Rice faculty. These grants are intended to help faculty members develop adventurous research and scholarly projects that lead to larger endeavors, research breakthroughs, external funding opportunities, or unusually creative works.

The Houston Solutions Lab is a vehicle to draw Rice researchers and City of Houston departments together for mutually beneficial research.

Rice University’s Inquiry-Based Learning Fund awards competitive grants of up to $30,000 to departments/units that oversee the curriculum of a major, area major, or interdisciplinary major/minor. Grants are intended to fund integration of experiential inquiry and research into the undergraduate curriculum of a major, area major, or interdisciplinary major/minor.

Rice University's Inquiry-Based Learning Fund awards competitive grants of up to $10,000 to departments/units that oversee the curriculum of a major, area major, or interdisciplinary major/minor. Grants are intended to fund integration of experiential inquiry and research into the undergraduate curriculum of a major, area major, or interdisciplinary major/minor.

Rice University’s Office of Technology Transfer is pleased to offer patent cost relief to startup companies founded by junior faculty who are new to entrepreneurship.

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 University and McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Neuro-Related Joint Seed Grant Program aims to promote excellent collaborative and interdisciplinary research programs among faculty members at Rice and researchers and clinicians from the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth.

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) and Rice University have identified each other as strategic partners to foster deep collaborations in research and education. The Rice-IITK 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 IITK, but particularly in the fields of Energy and Environment, Healthcare, Biomedical Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Data Science and Computer Science & Engineering.

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.

The Office of Research, in partnership with the Schools of Architecture, Humanities, and Music have recently established subvention funds. The Scholarly and Creative Works Subvention Fund fosters the production of scholarly and creative works that enhance the reputation and quality of scholarship across the University.