August 31

The Charlotte Urban Institute is now accepting applications for the 2026-27 Gambrell Faculty Fellowship program.

With generous support from the Gambrell Foundation, the Institute will provide grants up to $25,000 each for six research projects related to quality of life in the Charlotte region. The fellowship is open to diverse methods including:

• Original qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods research
• Original art or performance
• New and innovative uses of existing data, including administrative data held in the Charlotte Regional Data Trust and publicly available data
• Thought work that develops theory or synthesizes research and thinking at new intersections and could lead to research, a book or art/performance

Fellows will join a growing group of faculty who contribute to finding solutions to our community’s most pressing challenges. The results of this work could contribute to a Charlotte region that works for everyone. Learn more and apply.

Are you looking to engage undergraduates on a research, scholarly, or creative project? Have you thought about how an undergraduate student can help your scholarly research program? Have you had students asking you questions that would be interesting to further investigate?  Are you looking to test a new question or try something new?  Do you have a need for a student, but not the means? Yes? Yes. or Yes! The Office of Undergraduate Research can help!  The OUR Scholars program can help you find and employ students in collaborative learning through undergraduate research, scholarly and creative activities. The OUR Scholars program is an open application program and mentors should be committed to considering all student applicants carefully. The program works best, and mentors have the highest likelihood of matching, when there is broad recruitment of students. If you already have identified a single student, one already involved in research with prior experience, that you would like to work with this year, the SURG program might be a better fit. Student authored SURG applications are due September 8.

We are pleased to announce that the Office of Undergraduate Research is now accepting submissions for faculty project descriptions for the Spring of 2027 OUR Scholars Program. Learn more about the program. If you have questions about the expectations, the application, the process, or how to attract students, reach out to OUR’s Director or the Associate Director. If you are ready to prepare a proposal, view the template and visit the competitions portal to apply.  The deadline for submission is September 10. This is step one, so please encourage your students to apply for the program starting September 14. The program is FWS eligible, but not required.