Writing Studies

Provides connections to the University Research Foundation and for other submission opportunities.

View opportunities by award name and eligibility by faculty rank

Links to fellowships, conference support, and grant opportunities

Travel Grants support students who wish to present their research at scholarly meetings off campus and may be used to defray the cost of travel and/or conference registration fees to participate in an academic conference.

Funding opportunities for individuals, departments, and events from SASgov, a representative student government body for graduate students in all of the departments in Penn's School of Arts & Sciences

Individual and group funding from the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly

Fellowships, course development support, and project incubation.

A competitive grant program that seeds creative, cross-disciplinary projects that will further Penn’s global initiatives

A biennial research grant of up to $700 for researchers to pursue or continue feminist projects that require funding to conduct such activities.

Numerous annual grants and awards for travel, research, publications, programs, and service

The CPTSC Research Grant is designed to promote programs in technical, professional, and scientific communication; support research pertaining to programmatic issues within the field; and develop opportunities for the exchange of ideas, information, research, and career connections across technical, professional, and scientific communication communities.

ISHR Research Fellowships support individuals engaged in advanced research related to the theory and practice of rhetoric in all periods and languages

Supports quantitative, qualitative, theoretical, and applied projects associated with writing center research and application

A number of grants for research and travel, as well as prizes

Research and teaching grants and awards through NCTE.

Available through PennERA (Penn's Electronic Research Administration) portal. Includes the SPIN Searchable funding opportunities database, the GENIUS Global WWW network and database of investigator profiles of scientific and scholarly expertise, and the SMARTS Investigator Funding Alert System which matches investigator profile information with SPIN. To access SPIN Plus, go to PennERA and click on Logon to PennERA. Choose Find Funding from the top of page.

Federal grant funding opportunities.

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Funds research that contributes to improved academic achievement for all students, and particularly for those whose education prospects are hindered by inadequate education services and conditions associated with poverty, race/ethnicity, limited English proficiency, disability, and family circumstance.

Connects to the Mellon's grants database, policies, guidelines, and grantee portal.

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Despite its web 1.0 appearance, this resource links to grant opportunities and initiatives by discipline. NOTE: only available through Penn IP addresses.