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The Distinguished Scholar awards are granted to three outstanding recently tenured and mid-career faculty who are making transformative contributions to their disciplines and to our University’s teaching, research, and outreach priorities. The Call for Nominations is issued annually in mid-September.

The University of Arizona Graduate College offers many funding opportunities for graduate students, including scholarships and fellowships, awards for dissertation research and travel, and others.

The Graduate and Professional Student Council awards travel grants for graduate and professional students who are attending or presenting research at academic or professional conferences.

Current graduate and professional students in good academic standing who have a project proposal and a principal investigator or project advisor may apply for Research and Project Grant funding.

The Regents' Professors, the highest of faculty ranks, is reserved for full professors with exceptional achievements that have brought them national or international recognition.

Each year, during Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week, the GPSC recognizes graduate and professional students, staff, and faculty that have made outstanding contributions to the campus and, in particular, to graduate education. Candidates for these awards are nominated by UA Faculty, staff or Graduate/Professional Students, unless otherwise specified. Winners and runners-up in each of the award categories are honored at the annual GPSC's Achievement Awards event.

Faculty who retire from the University, have served a minimum of fifteen years, and receive approval from the President are given the title of Emeritus. Approved documentation from the department head and dean must be forwarded to the Provost for review. The Provost submits the recommendation to the President for final approval.

Tech Launch Arizona's Asset Development Program funding helps advance inventions that aren't ready to attract licenses or investors.