The Pitt Momentum Funds has been a large-scale research development fund that enhances and streamlines internal funding opportunities for faculty research and support high-quality research and creative endeavors. The fund has provided allocations for research projects based on field of study and scope of the project team.
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Types of Grants
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Awards have been made across the breadth of interdisciplinary scholarship at the University to contribute meaningful insight, understanding, or solutions to societal challenge.
Arts & Humanities Microgrants
- A&H Microgrants have been specific for faculty in the Arts and Humanities to support existing projects, works-in-progress, or test the feasibility of a larger grant idea. Through collaborative joint funding with the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, some Microgrant projects, focused on university-wide interdisciplinary sustainability programs, received additional funding.
Priming Grants
- Priming grants have supported significant and innovative scholarship by individual or groups of faculty at all ranks at the University of Pittsburgh, with a particular focus on early career faculty and areas where external funding is extremely limited.
Teaming Grants
- Teaming grants have supported the formation of new multi-disciplinary collaborations to successfully pursue large-scale external funding.
Scaling Grants
- Scaling grants have enabled multi-disciplinary teams to competitively scale their research efforts in targeted pursuit of large-scale external funding.
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Pitt Momentum Funds Awardees Archive
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The Pitt Momentum Funds provides internal funding for researchers at Pitt to work on interdisciplinary research projects of varying scope.
2023 Awardees
2022 Awardees
2021 Awardees
2020 Awardees