External Awards, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities
Opportunities for students nationwide.
- External Fellowships Frequently Awarded to IU Students
Includes Ford Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowship, Graduate Assistance in Areas of Academic Need (GAANN), Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (www.krieger.jhu.edu)
The Mellon Postdoctoral Program encourages innovative teaching, enriches educational and research opportunities in the humanities, and fosters the career development of a select group of promising young scholars.
Applications must be postmarked by Nov. 14, 2008
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Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships (The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation) (www.woodrow.org/newcombe)
The Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all areas of human endeavor.
Applications and all supporting documents must be received by Nov. 14, 2008
- Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program (national-academies.org/policyfellows)
The fellowship program is designed to engage graduate and postdoctoral students in science and technology policy and to familiarize them with the interactions among science, technology, and government.
The application material must be received by Nov. 1 for the January program
March 1 for the summer program, and June 1 for the September program
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The Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship (www.foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/liebmann/)
Tuition plus stipend; must demonstrate financial need; some restrictions apply; must be nominated by school.
- Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities (www.newberry.org/research/felshp/fellowshome.html)
The Newberry fellowships support humanities research in our collections. Those Collections which document the civilizations of Western Europe and the
Americas-are wide-ranging, rich, and sometimes a little eccentric.
Short-term applications are due March 2, 2009
Long-term applications are due Jan. 12, 2009
- The John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowships (www.JCBL.org)
Sponsorship of research at the John Carter Brown Library is reserved exclusively for scholars whose work is centered on the colonial history of the Americas, North and South, including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American involvement.
Application must be postmarked by (date not posted yet, usually January)
- The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women’s Studies (www.woodrow.org/womens-studies)
This fellowship encourages original and significant research about women that crosses disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries.
Applications must be filed electronically. All material must be received by
Oct. 13, 2008
- UNCF-Merck Science Initiative Research Scholarships and Fellowships (www.uncf.org/merck)
Ten year initiative that provides scholarships, internships, and fellowships to outstanding African American Students at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels.
Applications can be submitted online between Sept. 15, 2008-Dec. 17, 2008.
- Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement (McNair) Program
The purpose of the McNair Program is to award grants to institutions of higher education for projects designed to provide disadvantaged college students with effective preparation for doctoral study. $42 million to fund 180 awards.
- Hispanic-Serving Institutions Education Grants Program
This competitive grants program is intended to promote and strengthen the ability of Hispanic-Serving Institutions to carry out higher education programs in the food and agricultural sciences. Programs aim to attract outstanding students and produce graduates capable of enhancing the Nation's food and agricultural scientific and professional work force.
- Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
The Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) is designed to increase access to scientific and engineering equipment for research and research training in our Nation's organizations of higher education, research museums and non-profit research organizations.
- Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering
The Division of Research, Evaluation and Communication (REC) in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports basic and applied research and evaluation that enhances science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning and teaching. This solicitation calls for two types of proposals—synthesis and empirical.
- Josephine De Karman Fellowship Trust - Graduate Fellowships
The Josephine De Kármán Fellowship Trust was established in 1954 by the late Dr. Theodore von Kármán, world renowned aeronautics expert and teacher and first director of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, in memory of his sister, Josephine, who passed away in 1951. The purpose of this Fellowship program is to recognize and assist students whose scholastic achievements reflect Professor von Kármán's high standards. Deadline: Jan. 31, 2009. Students in any discipline entering Senior Undergraduate year or a candidate for a PhD who will defend his/her dissertation by June, 2010. Post-doctoral and Masters students are not eligible for consideration. Applicants should have manifested exceptional ability and serious purpose. Special consideration will be given to applicants in the Humanities. A minimum of ten (10) fellowships, $20,000 for graduate students or $14,000 for undergraduate students.
- NASA Harriett G. Jenkins Pre-doctoral Fellowship for Underrepresented STEM Graduate
The Harriett G. Jenkins Pre-doctoral Fellowship Program provides full-time underrepresented graduate students in science, technology and education with financial support for their education in NASA-related disciplines. Students are selected for fellowships that include financial support and a 6-week, hands-on research experience at a NASA Center or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Fellowship tenure is three years for candidates seeking either a master's or Ph.D. degree in the NASA-related fields. The mission of the JPFP is to increase the number of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities participating in mathematics, science, engineering, technology disciplines. Up to 20 Fellows will be selected annually to receive support for graduate education in NASA-related disciplines. The program serves underrepresented students who are matriculating at any accredited U.S. university or college, and engaging in the science, mathematics, engineering and technology (STEM) fields. With stipends, travel allowances and tuition offsets included, JPFP award packages currently start at $24,500 per year.
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation - Dissertation Fellowships
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.
- Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Pre-doctoral Fellowships
The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research will provide up to five years of support for research training leading to the Ph.D. or equivalent research degree, the combined M.D./Ph.D. degree; or another formally combined professional degree and research doctoral degree in biomedical, behavioral, health services, or clinical sciences. These fellowships will enhance the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral, health services, and clinical research labor force in the U.S. by providing opportunities for academic institutions to identify and recruit students from diverse population groups to seek graduate degrees in health-related research and apply for this fellowship. The overall goal of this program is to increase the number of scientists from diverse population groups who are prepared to pursue careers in biomedical, behavioral, social, clinical, or health services research.
- Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). Mentoring Travel Grants for Women (NSF-AWM Mentoring Travel Grants)
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) offers the Mentoring Travel Grants for Women to help junior women to develop a long-term working and mentoring relationship with a senior mathematician in research in any field that is funded by the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Science Foundation (NSF). This mentoring relationship should help the junior mathematician to establish her research program and eventually receive tenure. Each grant would fund travel, accommodations, and other required expenses for an untenured woman mathematician to travel to an institute or a department to do research with a specified individual for one month.
- NIDDK Education Program Grants (R25)
This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits Research Education (R25) grant applications from applicant organizations that propose to create educational opportunities to attract undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows to careers in areas of biomedical or behavioral research of particular interest to the NIDDK while fostering the career development of these students and fellows.
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards
The Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards provide seed money for research by junior faculty at Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) member institutions. These awards are intended to enrich the research and professional growth of young faculty and result in new funding opportunities. In 2008, ORAU received 107 applications and awarded 30 grants.
- Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD)(R25)
The Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Program was created in response to a legislative mandate to “increase the numbers of underrepresented minority faculty, investigators and students engaged in biomedical and behavioral research, and to broaden the opportunities for underrepresented minority faculty and students for participation in biomedical and behavioral research.” To accomplish this goal, the Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD) program provides, at research institutions, institutional grants for students from groups underrepresented in biomedical and behavioral research with well integrated developmental activities that will increase their preparation and skills as they advance academically in the pursuit and successful completion of the Ph.D. degree.
- Humanities Initiatives for Faculty at Hispanic-Serving Colleges and Universities
Humanities Initiatives for Faculty are intended to strengthen and enrich humanities education and scholarship at Hispanic-serving institutions. These grants may be used to enhance the humanities content of existing programs, develop new programs, or lay the foundation for more extensive endeavors in the future. Each project must be organized around a core topic or set of themes.
- Council of Graduate Schools
The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) offers various awards each year. Please visit their website (http://www.cgsnet.org) to find out what awards are available, award amounts, eligibility criteria, number of nominations allowed per institution, and application deadlines.
