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Internal funding helps to support faculty and student research while fostering innovation and collaboration.

Key funding programs:

Additional opportunities funded by the Office of Research and Office of Undergraduate Research are listed below as well.

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Internal Grants

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Grand Challenges

The Grand Challenges seed grant application is closed. This seed funding program is intended to support high-impact, interdisciplinary projects that create and advance large-scale, competitive research programs. 
  
Projects must involve one of the following topics: 

  • Resilient infrastructure
  • Cybersecurity
  • Collaborative intelligence and decision-making
  • Health technologies
  • Spatial computing and immersive technologies 

Required letters of intent (LOI) are due on December 18, 2025. Full proposals, by invitation only, are due on February 26, 2026. 

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Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Grants

The Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity grant application is closed. This funding program is intended to help develop projects that enhance Kennesaw State University's national prominence in all areas of research, scholarship, and creative activity. 
  
Tenured/tenure-track faculty at all levels are encouraged to apply. Other full-time faculty with at least 10% of their workload in research may also be considered. Applicants from Bagwell, Architecture and Construction Management, Coles, Geer, and Radow colleges will receive highest priority for funding. Anyone receiving more than $50,000 of start-up or participating as PI or co-PI on an Initiatives or Grand Challenges project is ineligible. 
  
Applications are due on January 8, 2026. Submissions will be reviewed beginning December 15, 2025, so consider applying early. 

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Initiatives

The Initiatives seed grant program supports interdisciplinary research teams among KSU’s researchers in all areas of research, scholarship and creative activity. This one-year support is given for collaborative proposals with the anticipation of a major grant submission upon its conclusion. 

The Office of Research is currently funding the final round of Initiatives seed grant projects. We have pivoted to different funding mechanisms in the 2025-2026 academic year.

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