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Pitt Momentum Funds | Pitt Research Awards are made across the breadth of interdisciplinary scholarship at the University, and all eligible faculty are encouraged to propose new, innovative ideas that can contribute meaningful insight, understanding or solutions to societal challenges.
Arts & Humanities Microgrants 1-year term of $3,000 (an additional $2,000 is available from the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation for projects involving sustainability research). Microgrants provide smaller grants to faculty in the Arts and Humanities. They support and transform existing projects, works-in-progress, or test the feasibility of a larger idea.
2-year term for up to $5,000. Regional catalyst grants are designed to support projects that clearly strengthen regional campuses’ research ecosystem. We are seeking high-quality projects that integrate research, scholarship, and creative endeavors at regional campuses from individuals or teams.
1-year term for up to $25,000. Priming grants support the early stages of new projects for individuals or groups of faculty. 1-year term for up to $60,000.
Teaming grants support the formation of new multi-disciplinary collaborations to successfully pursue large-scale external funding. 2-year term for up to $400,000. Scaling grants enable multi-disciplinary teams to competitively scale their research efforts in targeted pursuit of large-scale external funding.
Applicants must be full-time faculty members at the University of Pittsburgh. Eligible appointment stream faculty must have research as their core responsibility. Please note that only faculty or eligible community partners may be listed as co-investigators on PMF applications.
Undergraduate, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, staff, research associates, or visiting (non-permanent) faculty members may not be listed as investigators, but they may participate in PMF projects. Awardees from the immediate previous funding cycle may not apply to the same grant-type they were awarded funds for previously (i.e., Teaming grant awardees from FY25 cannot apply for a Teaming grant in FY26).
This applies to all PMF award types. Please refer to the individual Award Guidelines to see eligibility restrictions for specific award types: Regional Catalyst Grant Guidelines Frequently Asked Questions View frequently asked questions about the Pitt Momentum Funds . See the slide deck from past Pitt Momentum Funds info sessions.
The table below outlines the timeline for the 2025-26 cycle. September 30, 2025 InfoReady Application Portal Opens October 3, 2025, 2 p. m.
PMF Info Session 1 ( Click here to join ) October 6, 2025, 1:30 p. m. PMF Info Session 2 ( Click here to join ) October 24, 2025, 5 p.
m. Deadline to submit EOIs (Teaming Grants only) December 3, 2025, 5 p. m.
Deadline to submit full applications (all grants) March 2026 Grant awardees announced Find your school's RD contact » Request OSVCR letters of support » 710 Cathedral of Learning Email: researchdev@pitt. edu Awards are made across the breadth of interdisciplinary scholarship at the University to contribute meaningful insight, understanding or solutions to societal challenges.
Teaming grants support the formation of new multi-disciplinary collaborations to successfully pursue large-scale external funding. Arts & Humanities Microgrants Arts and Humanities Microgrants are specific for faculty in the Arts and Humanities to support existing projects, works-in-progress or test the feasibility of a larger grant idea.
Regional catalyst grants are designed to support projects that clearly strengthen regional campuses’ research ecosystem. We are seeking high-quality projects that integrate research, scholarship and/or creative endeavors at regional campuses from individuals or teams.
Explore Regional Catalyst 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. Scaling grants have enabled multi-disciplinary teams to competitively scale their research efforts in targeted pursuit of large-scale external funding.
2026 Pitt Momentum Funds Awardees Explore the faculty research projects that have been awarded Pitt Momentum Funds for the 2026 cycle. These projects cover topics across science, the arts and everything in between. View previous awardees and their work on interdisciplinary research projects of varying scope.
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