Graduate Collaboration Grants

From 2010 through Spring 2025, the Arts, Science + Culture Initiative supported the Graduate Collaboration Grants to encourage independent trans-disciplinary research between students in the arts and the sciences. Graduate students from areas such as Art History, English, Music, Cinema and Media Studies, Theater and Performance, or Visual Arts paired up with graduate students from Astronomy and Astrophysics, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geophysical Sciences, Math, Physics, Psychology, Anthropology, Statistics, or Social Science areas for joint research projects.

Beginning in 2014, the Arts, Science + Culture Graduate Collaboration Grant program initiated a partnership with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and yearly supported 2-3 teams that brought together MFA candidates from SAIC with graduate students in the sciences or social sciences at UChicago.

The Arts, Science, + Culture Initiative will not be supporting
Collaboration Grants in the 2025-26 academic year.

Please visit our new website, where you can learn about ASCI’s transition to the
Co-Laboratory for Arts and Sciences at the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.