College of Arts and Sciences
Awards and Honors
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CAS Annual Awards Banquet
Award Recipients
Recognizing distinguished faculty and staff for their accomplishments in creative and scholarly research, teaching, advising and mentoring, and service. In addition, we are pleased to highlight our Outstanding Alumnus of the Year.
Research and Travel Awards
Each year, CAS awards travel and research funding to a select number of faculty members.
The CAS Faculty Research Grant is a competitive funding opportunity open to all full-time, permanent faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. The CAS Faculty Research Grant may be used to support a wide range of research or creative activities, including stand-alone research endeavors and pilot projects whose purpose is to help secure future funding from external sources. The 2024 competition will award six (6) Faculty Research Grants of $2,000 each.
Application Deadline: Friday, May 3, 2024
To apply for this grant, to access the application.
The CAS Faculty Travel Award provides funding to faculty members and staff who present their research or creative/artistic work at conferences, meetings, and other professional events. For the 2024-2025 academic year, these events can be either virtual or face-to-face.
This award is open to all full-time faculty members and staff in the College, but priority will be given to applicants who have not received a CAS Faculty Travel Award since the fall semester of 2023.
Deadline: Friday, August 30, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. (This award will cover eligible travel from Sept. 1, 2024 to February 28, 2025)
To apply for this award, you'll need to:
- Fill out the application template. Click here to download the application template.
- When you download the template, save a copy to your computer. After filling out the application template, save it as a (.pdf) file.
- to submit your application.