The Office of the Provost’s Faculty Development Small Grants program supports professional development activities that enable faculty to work together to advance their research and academic careers as well as grow their professional networks.
The 2026 Call for Proposals will be announced in the 2025-2026 academic year.
Artists' Books Workshops
Christine Mehring, Mary L. Block Professor, Department of Art History
Building a Transpacific Studies Network among Faculty in Greater Chicago
Angie Heo, Associate Professor, Divinity School
Chicago Nonprofit Scholars Network
Jennifer Mosley, Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Fostering the Future of High-Energy Physics: a US Muon Collider Community Meeting at UChicago
Karri DiPetrillo, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Great Lakes Graphics Workshop
Rana Hanocka, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Health Equity Hub Strategic Planning Retreat
Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Marcia Tan, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Initiative on the Philosophy of AI
Malte Willer, Professor, Department of Philosophy
Junior Faculty Mentoring Workshops
Grant Ho, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Aloni Cohen, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Love / Music: Methodologies across Disciplinary and Practice-based Terrains, a Two-Day Workshop
Martha Feldman, Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Music
Mini Conference: Collaborations with Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study Data
Margaret Thomas, Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Mini Workshop on the Chinese Economy
Shaoda Wang, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Networking Event for Researchers and Clinicians Focusing on Pregnancy
Dakota McCoy, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolution
Panel and Networking Session on Integrating Academia and Policy
Jennifer Nou, Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Professor, Law School
Carolin Pflueger, Associate Professor, Harris School of Public Policy
Abigail Sussman, Professor of Marketing and Beatrice Foods Co. Faculty Scholar, Booth School of Business
Perinatal Health Working Group
Lauren Harriett, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Abigail Palmer Molina, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Two-day Conference for Immigration Scholars from the Chicago Area
René Flores, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Academic Consortium for Chicago Preservation
Emily Talen, Professor, Division of the Social Sciences
Chicago as a Hub for Emergent Technologies in Human Computer-Interaction
Pedro Lopes, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Chicago Housing Research Network
Robin Bartram, Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Philip Garboden, Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching Across Science and Humanities at the University of Chicago
Dario Maestripieri, Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development
Haun Saussy, University Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Creating Community among Junior Social Psychology Faculty in the Greater Chicago Area
Lydia Emery, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Early Career Scholars in Psychological Science Colloquium
Monica Rosenberg, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Yuan Chang Leong, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Establishment of a Community Advisory Board for the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Funded P30 Digestive Diseases Research Core Centers C-IID
Eugene Chang, Martin Boyer Professor of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology
Edwin McDonald, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology
Immigration Workshop External Speakers
Linda Zhao, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Manuscript Salon Series
Alexis Chema, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature
Benjamin Saltzman, Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature
SJ Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of English Language & Literature
Medieval/Modern: Using and Recycling the Medieval Catalan Archive
Noel Blanco Mourelle, Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Mario Santana, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Midway Meeting of the Memory Minds
Joel Voss, Professor, Department of Neurology
Mini Workshop: Using Gesture To Inform the Development of Accessible STEM Curricula
Susan Goldin-Meadow, Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Psychology
Pentasomnia Workshops
Julia Phillips, Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts
Poverty, Work, and Family Policy Working Group
Julia Henly, Samuel Deutsch Professor and Deputy Dean for Research and Faculty Development; Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Pre-Conference Workshop in Preparation for the Society of Linguistic Anthropology Conference 2025
E. Summerson Carr, Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Training Materials Development
David Miller, Associate Professor, Department of Physics
Transplant Immunology Chicago Area Networking Quarterly Event
Maria-Luisa Alegre, Professor of Medicine, Section of Rheumatology
UChicago-UIUC Joint Physics Workshop
Luca Delacrétaz, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
What Was Theatre in 1609? Reading the Harington Corpus
Ellen Mackay, Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature
Workshop on State Formation and Non-State Governance
Martin Castillo-Quintana, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy