The Institute for International Business funds Faculty Supplementary Research and Travel Awards annually.  The awardees are expected to report on their work at a meeting of the Fellows of the Institute, give appropriate credit for the assistance of the Institute, move the papers to full publication stage in a refereed journal within two academic from the awarding of the grant, to cooperate in posting research on the International Business Working Paper Series.

For the 2008-2009 academic year, a total of $27,500 was awarded as follows;

• Professor Abdallah $2,000.00;
  
• Professor Alexander $1,700.00;
  
• Professor Amar $3,000.00;
  
• Professor Hunter $2,700.00;
• Professor Kritz $3,000.00;
  
• Professor Lozada $2,600.00;
  
• Professor Murtuza $3,000.00;
  
• Professor Shim $3,000.00;
  
• Professor Xu $2,000.00;
  
• Professor Yin $1,600.00;
• Professor Yoon $2,900.00.