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Center Grants
Addressing challenges of global scale, scope, concern, perspective, and impact.
Calling for 2024 Proposals
The Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation is calling for proposals for the Fall 2024 grant cycles.
DEADLINES IN OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 2024
Featured Projects
Deeply engaged in emerging global research
We support and fund research in all fields, expanding possibilities and promoting collaboration within and outside UVA.
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2024 • Global Programs of Distinction
Institution Building to Support Equitable Research between Communities and Universities
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2024 • Faculty Global Research with Undergraduates
Exploring the Origins of Table Salt in Space
By The Numbers
Collaborating across boundaries
By looking beyond traditional disciplinary divides, CGII encourages uncommon research partnerships around UVA, the nation, and the world.
$3M+
awarded in grants since 2014
449
research projects funded
100+
Countries represented in research
Podcasts
The latest from the Center
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What We Can Learn from Latin American Reproductive Rights Activism: Global Research Bytes with Katy Quissell
Katy Quissell, professor of public health in the School of Medicine and the Global Studies program, discusses her research project on moral social movements and policy change in Latin America, funded by a CGII grant. The project, co-designed with students, explores how activism in Latin America has led to policy changes in reproductive rights, contrasting with the U.S. context.
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Global Research Bytes: Judicial Diplomacy and Comparativism in Latin American Legal Systems
Doctor of Juridical Science Candidate Jeronimo Lau Alberdi discusses the sharing of global legal knowledge and techniques among in Latin American legal systems, including the roles of Supreme and cons.
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Global Research Bytes: Re-envisioning the Black Sea
Professor of Slavic Languages & Literatures Edith Clowes speaks about the Black Sea Symposium, her own research in the Black Sea region, and about re-envisioning its productive futures.
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What We Can Learn from Latin American Reproductive Rights Activism: Global Research Bytes with Katy Quissell
Katy Quissell, professor of public health in the School of Medicine and the Global Studies program, discusses her research project on moral social movements and policy change in Latin America, funded by a CGII grant. The project, co-designed with students, explores how activism in Latin America has led to policy changes in reproductive rights, contrasting with the U.S. context.
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UVA Team Launches Critical Labor Migration Study
Migrant labor is essential to supporting the nation’s agricultural industry. To better understand how federal policies are shaping the future health of that work force, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reached out to UVA for help.
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Occultation of Pluto Brings UVA Researchers to South Africa
On August 4, 2024, the shadow of Pluto swept across the Earth cast by a star 500 times fainter than the eye can detect. As it happened, UVA Astronomy professor Michael Skrutskie staffed a brand new a new 0.5-meter Hubble Optics telescope in the middle of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa. Skrutskie was part of a six-person team, which also included four UWC faculty and students and fellow UVA Professor Anne Verbiscer. The team had spent about a week in Cape Town setting up the telescope, donated by UVA to UWC, before heading 500 miles north to view the occultation. In the approximately one-second-long event, they gained invaluable information about Pluto and its atmosphere.