Internal Grants

Faculty Internal Support Grants (Fall and Spring)

The School of Architecture and Planning runs an internal competition for faculty to support their scholarly projects. Deadlines occur once in the Fall semester (October 15) and once in the Spring (March 1).

This fund is available to support planning grants for research proposals, sponsored projects, scholarly articles and books including open access fees, competition entries, field work, dissemination of unfunded scholarship, and more. Proposals will be evaluated based on the degree to which the proposal (in order of importance):

  • Initiates a new project in the built, natural, social, and cultural environments.
  • Leverages other resources and funds or enables future scholarship.
  • Directly aids production of scholarly work (i.e. journal articles, books, exhibits, creative work).
  • Includes a robust method for presenting the work to the SA+P community and/or a means of dissemination to a wider audience. Travel to a conference will not be supported.
  • Was externally submitted but declined, and the funds can help the project be externally funded.

Any given project can receive a maximum funding amount of $5,000. In certain circumstances, a project that draws substantially from a previous project can be funded. Please check InfoReady for the next upcoming opportunity and eligibility requirements.

Dean’s Research Award for Graduate Students (Fall)

The School of Architecture and Planning supports graduate student research in all graduate degree granting programs in the School of Architecture and Planning. The graduate research award is intended to support costs associated with conducting the research including travel expenses, archival documentation, small equipment, and materials. All types of research and scholarship are eligible. All recipients will present at the Fall SA+P Graduate Research Symposium.

Research topics may include but are not limited to:

  • Climate Change and the Built Environment
  • Historic Preservation
  • Indigenous Planning and Design
  • Innovative Research in Design, Art, and Visualization
  • Cultural Landscape
  • Affordable Housing
  • Community and Economic Development
  • Landscape Design and Ecology
  • Global Cities and Economy

Maximum funding amount: $1,500. Deadline is October 15, 2025. Please check InfoReady for the next upcoming opportunity and application requirements.

Previous Graduate Student Awardees:

Fall 2024

  • Jonathan Admire, Expanding the ABQ Greenspace Patchwork
  • Amanda Champion, Building Radiant Relations
  • Omid Shafigh Khatibi, Architecture, Preservation and Augmented Reality
  • Elisabetta Mackin, Pathways
  • Dylan Martin, Ecofeminist Approach to a High Desert Food Forest
  • Dani Mosher, data collection in the Kenai River watershed (Alaska)
  • Ferda Didar Unal, support for thesis project on interactive spaces that respond to users’ movements and emotions

Fall 2023

  • Amir Reza Maroofkhani, Exploring the Potential of 3D Printing Technologies with Earthen Materials in Landscape Design
  • Dylan Martin, Agroforestry of New Mexico: holistic Understanding for Landscape Architecture
  • Halle Sago, Heart Place: Storytelling as the Core of Architecture
  • Louise Bani Sarcar, Revitalizing Brownfields: Phyto-remediation of Petrochemical Abandoned-scapes in the Southwestern Arid Context
  • David Senk, Hidden Legacies of Route 66
  • Sunanda Sharmin, Ridgecrest Drive: Past, Present and Future
  • Thea Swift, Hydrosocial Landscape

Fall 2022

  • Aparna Banik, Water Management in the Colorado River by Treating Dam Ecohydrology
  • Jeffrey Coons, The Commodity of Night: Combatting the Loss of Western Dark Skies and Artificial Light
  • Alice Gomez, UAV Survey of an Abandoned Ancestral Tewa Village in the Río Chama Valley
  • Emma Heuert, Beyond Beauty: The Social and Ecological Importance of Wildflowers
  • Marisol Meyer, Building Capacity through the Praxis of Decolonized Methodology
  • Kristina Naber, Landscape Architecture Implementations to Alleviate the Stress of Public Health due to Urban Sprawl
  • Daniel Pingaro, Reimagining Working Waterfronts to Coastal Inclusion
  • Margaret Ramirez, From Safe Outdoor Spaces to Social Housing
  • Amara Szrom, The Lobo Community Garden Expansion