ADVANCE Leadership Award Grants for Mid-Career Women Faculty supports the development of mentoring relationships and a mentoring network for women faculty at Montana State University.  Activities are planned for women faculty at all career stages, and in a variety of disciplines.
- http://www.montana.edu/wwwvr/midcareerRFP.doc

The Buyout for Enhancing Scholarship & Teaching (BEST) Program is to assist tenured or tenurable faculty who want to enhance their scholarship. This is a buy-out program, whereby faculty will be able to request a reduction in their teaching load or other primary responsibilities for spring semester.
- http://www.montana.edu/wwwvr/Awards/Best.html (in Awards)

Scholarship and Creativity Grants for the Advancement of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences supports seed grants to full-time tenure-track faculty in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
- http://www.montana.edu/wwwvr/Awards/S_C.html

Instructional Innovation Grants provide funds for enhancing undergraduate teaching and learning. Contact Jeff Adams, Provost's Office, at 994-7835 or adams@physics.montana.edu for more information.

The Montana Network for Biomedical Research Opportunities (the BRIN Grant) offers faculty, undergraduate and graduate students throughout Montana enhanced research opportunities in the biomedical sciences.
- http://brin.montana.edu/

The Undergraduate Scholars Program offers undergraduate students up to $1500 in support of their research projects during the academic year. Funds are provided by the Provost's office, VP for Research office, NSF-EPSCoR office, and the Montana Space Grant Consortium.
- http://www.montana.edu/usp/

The Montana Space Grant Consortium program offers full-time engineering and science educators at U.S colleges and universities the opportunity to participate in NASA on-going research efforts. Graduate fellowships and undergraduate scholarships are also awarded to students enrolled in fields of study relevant to the aerospace sciences and engineering.
- http://spacegrant.montana.edu/

The Center for Invasive Plant Management funds small projects in the areas of restoration of invasive plant infested lands, collection and analysis of ecological data, application of scientific research to field-level situations, research in ecological invasive plant management, and weed management. (Note: The CIPM will NOT offer Cooperative Weed Management Area grants in 2007.)
- http://weedcenter.org/weed_mgmt_areas/wma_grants.htm

International Programs can coordinate research activities abroad for MSU Faculty.
- http://www.montana.edu/international/

The Montana Campus Compact awards funds to faculty to create service learning programs.
- http://www.umt.edu/mtcompact/

The Montana University System Water Center provides seed grants for Montana water researchers, and competitive grant opportunities for fish health researchers. There are occasional funding opportunities to investigate drinking water treatment technologies.
- http://watercenter.montana.edu/research/