ConTex programs provide Mexican Ph.D. students educational opportunities at University of Texas System institutions, allow for the exchange of postdoctoral and faculty fellows and enable visiting students to participate in research projects. 

The ConTex office was established by the UT System to support a program of cooperation with Mexico’s National Council of Humanities, Sciences and Technologies (CONAHCYT). This program expands current collaboration with CONACYT and many other first-rate academic institutions in Mexico. 

ConTex connects Texas with one of the most important trade partners of the United States. It supports bilateral efforts to enhance academic and research cooperation between Texas and Mexico. Programs are available for Doctoral Fellowships, Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Collaborative Research Grants.

HornRaiser is UT’s official crowdfunding platform. Students, faculty and staff can use HornRaiser as a tool to raise money for everything from research projects and class trips to uniforms and competitions. 

Explore Faculty Research Assignments, Summer Research Assignments and Travel Grants provided by the Graduate School in support of faculty research.

Through this program, associate professors pursuing promotion to full professor who are engaged in the development and publication of scholarly books will have financial and programmatic support to focus on their work, regardless of their field of study or academic discipline.

Texas Global Faculty Research Seed Grant provides financial support to faculty across all disciplines to develop and strengthen new or existing partnerships with leading higher education institutions and organizations around the world.

Sponsored by Dell Medical School, this health product innovation program supports therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health. Open to all UT researchers and students throughout the year until ten projects have been awarded.

The Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) program is administered by the School of Undergraduate Studies and provides up to $1,000 in support for specific scholarly research projects conducted by full-time UT undergraduate students enrolled in any department. These fellowships are intended to cover costs associated with academic research projects proposed and written by student applicants and undertaken with the supervision of a university tenured or tenure-track faculty member, lecturer, senior lecturer or full-time research scientist/engineer. Some restrictions apply.

The Texas Global Publication Fund encourages the development and dissemination of linguistically diverse knowledge to a global audience. By broadening exposure to international politics and histories, languages, literature, global arts and culture, it aims to equip the UT community with the skills and intercultural understanding needed to make a positive impact and address the world’s most pressing challenges.

The College of Liberal Arts has limited funds for one-time grants that provide subventions for College faculty who are unable to obtain funding from the University Subvention Grant Program or other sources. Priority will be given to tenure-track faculty.

These awards, administered by Discovery to Impact, provide competitive funding for faculty members or permanent researchers with principal investigator (PI) status to demonstrate the feasibility of their innovations to accelerate the process towards commercialization.