Award: One award of $75,000 will be given to support a project of up to 15 months that may commence as early as, February 2nd, 2023, and no later than June 1st, 2023.

Eligibility: Any UNC-Chapel Hill full or part-time faculty (excluding adjuncts) whose proposed project applies humanities and/or social sciences methods or approaches to directly and positively impact constituencies outside the University.

Restrictions: Award funds cannot be used to support research that is solely academic in nature, curriculum development, special events or speaker series, or surveys.

– Criteria –

Proposed projects in this year’s award cycle will be judged primarily on five factors that define the award’s objective of supporting applied innovation of scholarly expertise:

Applicability to Real-World Challenges: the degree to which the project addresses present-day challenges facing constituencies outside of the University.

Collaboration: the degree to which the project involves faculty and students across disciplines within the University and with community stakeholders outside the University.

Creativity: the degree to which the project exhibits the inventive application of scholarship beyond the traditional boundaries of its discipline.

Project Evaluation: how the project’s impact can be evaluated and measured using both quantitative and qualitative metrics.

Sustainability and/or Degree of Adoption: the likelihood that the engaged scholarship will have a continued presence or impact outside of the University.

–  Award Timeline –