Faculty Awards
The award opportunities listed are provided as a service to the UC San Diego academic community. Typically, awards are given to faculty by foundations in recognition of their contributions to the field. They are provided by the university or following a nomination process. Please click on the opportunity for more information.
| Organization/Grant Opportunity | Deadline | Tag | ||
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| American Academy in Rome Rome Prize For over a century, the American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Each year, the prize is awarded to about thirty artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence and who are in the early or middle stages of their careers. Each Rome Prize winner is provided with a stipend, meals, a bedroom with private bath, and a private workspace. Those with children under eighteen live in partially subsidized apartments nearby. Winners of half- and full-term fellowships receive stipends of $16,000 and $28,000, respectively. |
11/01/2024 | Arts & Humanities | ||
| Association of American Colleges & Universities K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education and who are committed to academic innovation in the areas of equity, community engagement, and teaching and learning. The award honors the work of K. Patricia Cross, Professor Emerita of Higher Education at the University of California–Berkeley. Throughout her career, Dr. Cross advanced higher education’s understanding of student learning, the potential of all students to succeed, and the need to measure progress through meaningful assessment. |
Look for updated guidelines in the summer | Higher Education | ||
| Berggruen Institute Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture An annual $1 million award for major achievements in advancing ideas that shape the world. |
Look for updated guidelines in the winter | Arts & Humanities | ||
| Blavatnik Family Foundation Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists Limited Submission (Nomination) The Blavatnik National Awards honor America’s most innovative young faculty-rank scientists and engineers. These awards celebrate the past accomplishments and future potential of young faculty members working in the three disciplinary categories of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry. Every year, one Blavatnik National Awards Laureate in each disciplinary category will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds, and additional nominees will be recognized as Finalists. |
Look for updated guidelines in the summer | Young Investigator, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, Chemistry | ||
| Breakthrough Prize Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Insights from fundamental physics have overturned our assumptions about the world around us. Last century, general relativity reshaped our picture of space and time, and quantum mechanics replaced the march of cause and effect with a dance of probabilities. Recently scientists have discovered that dark matter and dark energy account for most of the contents of the Universe. |
Look for updated guidelines in the winter | Physics | ||
| Breakthrough Prize Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences In the fifty years between the discovery of the double helix and the decoding of the human genome, we have undergone a revolution in our understanding of life. Since then the rate of discoveries has accelerated, and this rapid progress looks set to continue. Armed with new knowledge and new technologies, fields like genetics, molecular biology, oncology and neurology are now making real strides. Not just in describing how cells and organs function but in fighting some of the most deadly diseases. |
Look for updated guidelines in the winter | Neuroscience | ||
| Breakthrough Prize Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics “All is number,” taught Pythagoras. Though modern mathematics encompasses far more than numbers alone, the principle remains true. Mathematics is the universal language of nature. |
Look for updated guidelines in the winter | Mathematics | ||
| Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation Dreyfus Prize in Chemical Sciences The Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences is awarded to an individual in a selected area of chemistry to recognize exceptional and original research that has advanced the field in a major way. The prize is awarded biennially and consists of a monetary award of $250,000, a medal, and a certificate. |
12/05/2024 | Chemical Science | ||
| Dan David Foundation Dan David Prize The Dan David Prize recognizes and encourages innovative and interdisciplinary research that cuts across traditional boundaries and paradigms. It aims to foster universal values of excellence, creativity, justice, democracy, and progress and to promote the scientific, technological and humanistic achievements that advance and improve our world. The Dan David Prize covers three time dimensions - Past, Present and Future - that represent realms of human achievement. Each year the International Board chooses one field within each time dimension. The Past refers to fields that expand knowledge of former times. The Present recognizes achievements that shape and enrich society today. The Future focuses on breakthroughs that hold great promise for improvement of our world. Three prizes of one million US dollars each are granted annually in the fields chosen for the three time dimensions. The prizes are granted to individuals or institutions with proven, exceptional, distinct excellence in the sciences, arts, humanities, public service, and business, that have made and continue to make an outstanding contribution to humanity on the basis of merit, without discrimination of gender, race, religion, nationality, or political affiliation. |
Look for updated guidelines in the summer | Science, Arts & Humanities, Public Service, Business | ||
| James Irvine Foundation James Irvine Foundation Leaderships Awards The Leadership Awards recognize individuals advancing breakthrough solutions to critical issues facing California. Each Award recipient’s organization receives $250,000 and help sharing their solutions with policymakers and other leaders in their communities. |
Look for updated guidelines in the winter | Leadership | ||
| Japan Foundation Japan Foundation Awards Every year since 1973, the Japan Foundation has presented the Japan Foundation Awards to individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to promoting international mutual understanding and friendship between Japan and other countries through academic, artistic and other cultural pursuits. Fiscal year 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Japan Foundation Awards. |
Look for updated guidelines in the fall | Social Sciences | ||
| Princess Grace Foundation Production Grants and Scholarships The Princess Grace Foundation-USA is dedicated to upholding the legacy of Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco, (née Grace Kelly). Her commitment to advance the arts in the United States is sustained by the Princess Grace Awards which supports and elevates extraordinary early career artists in theater, dance and film through game-changing grants; and nurtures and supports Princess Grace Award winners throughout their careers. |
Look for updated guidelines in the fall | Arts & Humanities | ||
| Society for Neuroscience Jacob P. Waletzky Memorial Award The Jacob P. Waletzky Memorial Award is given to a young scientist (within 15 years of his/her Ph.D. or MD degree) whose independent research has led to significant conceptual and empirical contributions to the understanding of drug addiction. Both basic and clinical researchers are eligible for the award. Future plans to continue to make significant contributions to addiction research and treatment is one of the selection criteria. This award is endowed by the Waletzky Award Prize Fund and the Waletzky Family. Recipients receive a $30,000 prize and complimentary registration, transportation (economy air or ground), and two nights hotel accommodations for the SfN annual meeting. The SfN president presents the prize at a lecture at the meeting. |
Look for updated guidelines in the winter | Young Investigator, Biomedical | ||
| Society for Neuroscience Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation International Research Award The Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award, supported by The Gruber Foundation, recognizes two young neuroscientists for outstanding research and educational pursuit in an international setting. Recipients receive a $25,000 prize and complimentary registration, transportation (economy air or ground), and two nights hotel accommodations for the SfN annual meeting. The SfN president presents the prize at a lecture at the meeting. The SfN president presents the prize at a lecture at the meeting. |
Look for updated guidelines in the winter | Young Investigator, Neuroscience | ||
| Society for Neuroscience Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience The Swartz Prize, endowed by the Swartz Foundation, honors an individual whose activities have produced a significant cumulative contribution to theoretical models or computational methods in neuroscience or who has made a particularly noteworthy recent advance in theoretical or computational neuroscience. Recipients receive a $30,000 prize and complimentary registration, transportation (economy air or ground), and two nights hotel accommodations for the SfN annual meeting. The SfN president presents the prize at a lecture at the SfN annual meeting. |
Look for updated guidelines in the winter | Neuroscience | ||
| Tau Consortium Rainwater Prize for Innovative Early-Career Scientists This prize is intended to reward outstanding achievements of a scientist either as a first author or senior author on published neurodegenerative disease research findings. This prize aims to support exceptionally productive scientists who are in the early formative stages of their academic career (within 5 years of PI appointment) and who plan to make a long-term career commitment to research aligned with the mission areas of the Rainwater Charitable Foundation. Nominees will be considered through a non-self-nomination process for published, peer-reviewed neurodegenerative disease research. Awardees will be chosen by a committee of international scientific leaders from a wide range of fields and backgrounds. The awardee will be chosen based on their scientific contributions, leadership, mentorship, and overall contributions to the scientific community. |
Look for updated guidelines in the spring | Young Investigator, Biomedical | ||
| Tau Consortium Rainwater Prize for Outstanding Innovation in Neurodegenerative Research This prize recognizes investigator(s) whose work is considered a significant contribution to our understanding of Tau-related diseases. Nominees will be considered through a non-self-nomination process for published, peer-reviewed tau-related research. The nominations are open for all researchers, from all countries, and research institutional affiliations. Awardees will be chosen by a committee of international scientific leaders from a wide range of fields and backgrounds. The awardee will be chosen based on their scientific contributions, leadership, mentorship, and overall contributions to the scientific community. |
Look for updated guidelines in the spring | Biomedical | ||
| Vilcek Foundation Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise The Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise were established in 2009 as a complement to the Vilcek Prizes, to encourage and support emerging to mid-career immigrant artists and scientists who have demonstrated exceptional achievements early in their careers. As with the Vilcek Prizes, the Creative Promise Prizes are awarded annually in biomedical science and in a rotating category of the arts. |
Look for updated guidelines in the spring | Young Investigator, Arts & Humanities, Biomedical |