Carson Graduate Scholarships support outstanding University of Arizona graduate students and their research. The scholarships are awarded through a competitive process to current UA students who are committed to interdisciplinary research on environment and society and science communication.

Since 1987 the Center has offered a paid internship to qualified University of Arizona graduate students. This opportunity allows students to experience a wide variety of museum and archive activities and to gain experience working at the Center for Creative Photography.

Certificates awarded to two outstanding graduate students annually (by faculty nomination).

Awards up to $5,000 to support research at the Center for Creative Photography by curators, writers, and researchers investigating the life and work of Kenneth J. Botto; photographers working to incorporate set-up, collage, or constructed imagery; or photographers whose work is a critical comment on political, social, and/or art historical issues in society.

The KASI-Arizona Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship is a collaboration between Steward Observatory and the Korea Astronomy and Space Institute (KASI). This fellowship provides an opportunity for an exceptional recent Ph.D. recipient to pursue a program of research in any area of theoretical or observational astronomy or astrophysics. Recipients will receive support for four years beginning with two years at Steward Observatory, followed by two years at KASI in Daejeon, Korea. The Fellow will move to KASI at the beginning of third year in the Program, with relocation support covered by the program, subject to KASI rules.

Awards up to $5,000 to support research into the art and career of Josef Breitenbach (1896-1984) and as his work and archive relates to other works and archives in the Center's collections.

An annual cash award for outstanding work by a Classics graduate student in Latin courses (by faculty nomination).

An annual cash award for outstanding work by a Classics graduate student in Greek courses (by faculty nomination).

The UA Water, Environmental, and Energy Solutions (WEES) Initiative is offering competitive grants for the purchase of instrumentation, equipment, infrastructure or major software licenses needed to enable UA researchers to be more competitive in applying for major grants and to facilitate cross-disciplinary collaborations. This could include investment needed to generate data, conduct pilot projects, and increase computing capabilities through software or hardware acquisition, or other related expenditures.

Awards up to $2,500 to encourage research by curators, historians, social scientists, writers, artists, and critics, on photographers whose archives are at the Center.