Pitt Momentum Funds

The Pitt Momentum Funds has been a large-scale research development fund that enhances and streamlines internal funding opportunities for faculty research and supports 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.

Types of Grants

Awards have been made across the breadth of interdisciplinary scholarship at the University to contribute meaningful insight, understanding, or solutions to societal challenge.

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.

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.

2024 Pitt Momentum Funds Awardees

Explore the faculty research projects that have been awarded Pitt Momentum Funds for the 2024 cycle. These projects cover topics across science, the arts and everything in between.

See Current Awardees

Previous Awardees

View previous awardees and their work on interdisciplinary research projects of varying scope.

2023 Awardees
2022 Awardees
2021 Awardees
2020 Awardees