Internal Grant Programs
Managed through the Office of Research Development Services (ORDS), the Office of Research offers grant programs to support research and creative activities and the dissemination of results.
The internal grant programs aim to strengthen and reinforce best practices in grant writing and submission, thus applications are expected to follow the published program guidelines and proposal requirements. Proposals that do not meet these expectations will not be reviewed. Deadlines are enforced. ORDS staff, who are not part of the review process, are available for consultation about your application.
- Inquiries: or-osp-propdev@uwm.edu
Internal Grant Programs
The RAF and Finish Line programs are open. Other programs are still in revision and development.
Discovery and Innovation Grant (DIG)
Supports initial stages of research with the intent of making projects more competitive for completion or expansion through external funding. Applicants must demonstrate that the work is not just an incremental extension of their current or past projects or the field in general. Recipients are expected to submit external grant proposals within three years of the start of funding for at least three times the DIG budget.
Advancing Research and Creativity (ARC)
Supports meritorious research and creative projects across all disciplines at UWM. Projects may be at various stages of development. Awards are expected to result in scholarly, scientific, and artistic products that will increase the national and international recognition of the awardees, their programs, and the institution. Proposals are reviewed externally.
Finish Line
Supports work that is needed to address review comments in high scoring but unfunded proposals upon resubmission. Proposals are reviewed internally.
Research Assistance Fund (RAF)
Supports a wide variety of activities, including conference travel for presenting your research. Awards are intended for faculty and career academic staff with immediate research needs that cannot be supported through other campus funding. Proposals are reviewed internally.
Advancing Research and Creativity Grant Recipients
FY26
| Benjamin Balcom Assistant Professor, Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres External Co-Investigator: Assistant Professor Magdalena Bermudez, Department of Cinema, Binghamton University Architecture of Mountains Film Restoration |
| Derek Counts Distinguished Professor, Department of Art History External Co-Investigators: Erin Averett, Professor of Art History & Archaeology, Creighton University Brad Johnson, Professor of Environmental Studies, Davidson College Fire & Earth: Geoarchaeological Approaches to Ritual and Landscape in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus |
| Madhusudan Dey Professor, Department of Biological Sciences External Co-Investigator: Associate Professor Nicholas Reiter, Department of Chemistry, Marquette University Translational Control in HAC1 mRNA by its Cytosolic Intron |
| Pamela Harris Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences Language analysis via discrete statistics |
| Xin Huang Associate Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies Russian Translation of The Gender Legacy of the Mao Era |
| Karolina May-Chu Assistant Professor, Department of Ancient and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures The Baltic Sea as Borderland in German and Polish Literature and Film |
| Rafael Rodriguez Sevilla Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Does mate choice select for courteous mating partners? |
| Natasha Sugiyama Professor, Department of Political Science External Co-Investigator: Professor Wendy Hunter, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin Twin Transformations: Expansion of the Welfare State and Religiosity in Contemporary Brazil |
| Adam Thibodeaux Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture Ghost Lab: Considering Layered Histories of Architectural Use in Milwaukee |
| Tanya Tiffany Professor, Department of Art History Painting the Sacred: Diego Velázquez and the Catholic Reformation in Spain |
| Kay Wells Associate Professor, Department of Art History Uncanny Revivals: The Politics of Designing Early America |
| Anika Wilson Associate Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies Indigenous Spiritual Oasis: Struggles to Save a Traditional Rain Shrine in Malawi to Ensure Spiritual and Environmental Sustainability |
Discovery and Innovation Grant Recipients
FY26
| Gordon Gauchat Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Institutional Literacy: Measuring Public Understanding of Science |
| Brandon Gerig Assistant Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences Assessing the movement, habitat use, and trophic ecology of juvenile Lake Sturgeon prior to large scale habitat improvements in the Milwaukee River estuary |
| Elizabeth Liedhegner Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences UWM Co-Investigator: Professor Nicholas Silvaggi, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Understanding the role of Sterol Carrier Protein 2 (SCP-2) in lipid metabolism: toward structure-based design of SCP-2 inhibitors as tools to investigate function |
| Angela Matijczak Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work Development and Validation of the Gender Identity and Family Attitudes Scale |
| Gabriela Nagy Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology Scaling the Cultivating Resilience Program: Transitioning from Expert-Delivery to Community-Based Lay Provider-Delivery for Broader Impact |
| Benjamin Peterson Assistant Professor, Freshwater Sciences Microbial physiology of mercury methylation |
| Jerald Thomas Jr Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Measuring Short-Term Translation Gain Adaptation as an Effect of Stimulus Duratio |
| Lynne Woehrle Associate Professor, School of Nursing UWM Co-Investigator: Professor Julia Snethen, School of Nursing Innovating Health Care Education and Newcomer Integration Strategies Through Shared Video Tools and Training |
| Xiaoxiao Zhang Scientist I, Department of Mechanical Engineering UWM Co-Investigator: Professor Deyang Qu, Mechanical Engineering A Pilot Roll-to-Roll Scale-Up Demonstration of UWM Patented Prealkaliation Technology |