Faculty Development Small Grants Program

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