Seed Money Grants
Update March 2026: The Seed Money Awards are supported through indirect costs via returned overhead from extramural grants (Research and Training Revolving Funds (RTRF). Due to an uncertain and evolving situation in terms of federal grant money coming into UH, the program was paused in March 2025 and applications are not currently being accepted.
The UH Hilo Seed Money Grants Program supports selected scholarly and creative activities of faculty for projects that will enhance their ability to obtain extramural funding. Grants in this program are highly competitive and proposals must be persuasively presented. Details of this program change from year to year.
BOR rules now require all RTRF to be spent in the year it is allocated. In general, you will have access to grant funds from the end of July to mid-April of the following year. Please plan your research project accordingly.
Resources
Further details can be found by exploring the following links:
- Grant Guidelines
- Grant Further Instructions
- What to do once you have received an intramural grant
- Awarded Grants 2010/2011 to Present