The following fellowships are generally offered on an annual basis, with varying deadlines (see also dissertation and postdoctoral fellowships).
- Alexia Foundation for World Peace is dedicated to helping student photographers produce photographs that promote world peace and cultural understanding by providing partial scholarships for students to study photojournalism at Syracuse University in London, England.
Awards: $1,600 to $9,000 scholarships and $500 to $1,000 grants
http://www.alexiafoundation.org/
- American Foundation for Aging Research is offering research awards to graduate students actively involved in, or planning active involvement in, a specific biomedical or biochemical research project with a faculty member in the field of aging.
Award: $1,000
www.ncsu.edu/project/afar/apply_online.html
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics awards 14 scholarships annually to graduate students in science or engineering programs related to AIAA's aerospace mission: to attract top science and engineering students to aerospace fields … to provide high-visibility recognition of these students and their work … to furnish financial assistance to aerospace students in need … and to assure the availability of talented professionals that the aerospace industry will require in the years ahead.
Awards: $5,000 and $10,000
www.aiaa.org
- American Meteorological Society (AMS)/Industry/Government Graduate Fellowships
are sponsored by industry leaders and government agencies and are designed to attract promising young scientists to prepare for careers in the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic fields.
Award: $22,000 stipend for a nine-month period, 2007-08 AY
www.ametsoc.org/amsstudentinfo/scholfeldocs/#5
- Anheuser-Busch (www.anheuser-busch.com in_the_community) and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (nfwf.org) 2007 Budweiser Conservation Scholarship Program are seeking applications for the 2007 Budweiser Conservation Scholarship Program provides scholarships to eligible graduate and undergraduate students who are poised to make a significant contribution to the field of conservation. Awards will be made based on merit and will take into consideration the student's academic achievements and their ability and commitment to develop innovative solutions that are designed to address real and pressing issues affecting the conservation of natural resources. Specific areas of interest in 2007 include innovative research or study addressing the conservation of fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats, water conservation and watershed management, and conservation of natural resources through waste minimization, recycling, and litter prevention.
To be eligible for consideration, a student must be a U.S. citizen at least 21 years of age and enrolled in an accredited institution of higher education in the U.S. pursuing a graduate or undergraduate degree (sophomores and juniors in the current academic year only) in environmental science, natural resource management, biology, public policy, geography, political science, or related disciplines. Recipients are eligible for one year of scholarship support.
Award: Ten Scholarships of up to $10,000 each will be awarded to cover students' expenses for tuition, fees, books, room and board, and other direct expenses related to their studies.
fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10006062/nfwf
- Annie's Environmental Studies Scholarship assists undergraduate and graduate students who share their advocacy for the Earth and are devoting their studies to environmentally-related fields.
Award: $1,000
http://www.annies.com/scholarshipapplication
- ASU Center for Latin American Studies Summer FLAS Awards
The summer FLAS Fellowships are open to the graduate students from any university interested in attending the ASU Andes and Amazon Field School in Ecuador (www.asu.edu/clas/latin/ecuador/Summer/sumflas.htm) to study the Quichua language. Preference is given to students who envision thesis research that would require or be strengthened by knowledge of the Quichua language.
Award: Tuition, program fees, and a stipend of $2,500 of which ASU retains $2,358 for room and board.
www.asu.edu/clas/latin/ecuador/progdes.htm
- Lance Armstrong Foundation Survivorship Fellows Program provides an opportunity to learn about and become involved in cancer survivorship and LAF programs. Fellows gain experience working in the cancer community, learn about the issues at the forefront of cancer survivorship, and work in the survivorship department to help improve current initiatives and develop new initiatives in four programmatic areas: advocacy, education, public health, and research. Specific project assignments will depend on the fellow's education and interests.
Award: Survivorship fellows are salaried positions with full benefits. Salary is based on a fellow's level of education and experience.
http://www.laf.org/
- BARD Senior Research Fellowship Program from The US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund is to promote joint agricultural research or other scientific activities of high quality between established scientists from the United States and their Israeli counterparts. PDF
www.bard-isus.com
- Biomedical Engineering Society: Graduate Students Awards are for up to five outstanding biomedical engineering research and/or design projects.
Award: Certificate, $600 stipend, registration for the BMES Annual Fall Meeting, and travel expenses up to $400. If there is more than one author/winner, the award is to be shared amongst the winners.
www.bmes.org/awards_student.asp?CFID=513196&CFTOKEN=33842245
- Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) provides Fellowships and Awards to Canadian women for Master's and Ph.D. study. The application forms are available for downloading from the Federation's website at http://www.cfuw.org/.
- Center for Craft, Creativity and Design: Craft Research Fund Project and Research Grants seek to advance scholarship in the field of studio craft in the U.S. by supporting high-quality research undertaken by university faculty, graduate students, museum curators, artists, and independent scholars. The fund's goals are to support innovative research on artistic and critical issues in craft theory, practice, and history; to explore the inter-relationship among craft, art, design, and contemporary culture; to foster new cross-disciplinary approaches to scholarship in the craft field in America; and to advance investigation of neglected questions in U.S. craft history and criticism. The program is not about technical research into process (such as building kilns or testing glazes) or for the support for MFA exhibitions.
Awards: Up to $15,000 for project grants; up to $10,000 for research grants.
www.craftcreativitydesign.org/
- Department of Defense (DoD) Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship Program is for students near the end of their undergraduate/graduate studies in who have demonstrated ability and special aptitude for training and education in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) fields.
Award: Starting salary/stipend ranging from $22,500 for undergraduates to $38,000 for doctoral students; full tuition and related education fees; book allowance of $1,000; paid summer internships; career opportunities after graduation.
http://www.asee.org/fellowships/smart/index.cfm
- Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) is for exceptional undergraduate seniors or first or second year graduate students planning full-time study toward a PhD. in the physical, engineering, computer, mathematical, or life sciences with emphasis in high performance computing. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent resident aliens; departments must certify that fellows will not be required to perform services (e.g., TA, grading, etc.) during the tenure of their fellowships. Award: pays all tuition and required fees for up to 4 years of study at any US university, provides a $32,400 yearly stipend, matches university funds (up to $2500) to purchase a computer workstation for the fellow's exclusive use, and provides a yearly academic allowance of $1000 to the fellow for their professional development. Further details about the program are available at the program website and from the Program Coordinator, Ms. Rachel Huisman at csgf@krellinst.org, https://www2.krellinst.org/csgf/application/
- Department of Energy High Performance Computer Science Fellowship (DOE-HPCS) is for undergraduate seniors or first- or second-year graduate students planning full-time study toward a Ph.D. in computer science with an emphasis on high-performance computing. Applicants must be U.S. citizens.
Award: All tuition and required fees for up to 4 years of study, $28,800 yearly stipend, workstation allowance, yearly academic allowance of $1,000, and the opportunity to complete a practicum at a national DOE laboratory.
www.krellinst.org/DOE_HPCS/DOE_HPCS.html
- Department of Energy Graduate Research Environmental Fellowships (GREF) encourage interdisciplinary work among colleges, universities, and national laboratories involved in global change research efforts.
Award: $19,200 yearly stipend, plus tuition and fees
http://www.atmos.anl.gov/GCEP/GREF/index.html
- Department of Homeland Security Graduate Fellowship
is for students beginning their first or second year of a graduate program in Fall 2006, pursuing a research-based graduate degree in the physical, biological, social and behavioral sciences including science policy, engineering, mathematics, or computer science who have career and employment goals aligned with the mission and objectives of the U. S. Department of Homeland Security.
Award: $2,300/month for 12 months, plus tuition and fees
www.orau.gov/dhsed/Grad2006.htm
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection offers residential fellowships in three areas of study: Byzantine Studies (including related aspects of late Roman, early Christian, Western medieval, Slavic, and Near Eastern studies), Pre-Columbian Studies (of Mexico, Central America, and Andean South America), and Garden and Landscape Studies.
http://www.doaks.org/research/info_fellowships.html
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) GRO Graduate Fellowships
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Greater Research Opportunities (GRO) program, is offering graduate fellowships for master's and doctoral level students in environmental fields of study.
Award: Up to $37,000 per year of support per fellowship. Master's students may receive support for a maximum of two years. Doctoral students may be supported for a maximum of three years, usable over a period of four years.
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/fellow/
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) STAR Fellowships
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is offering graduate fellowships for master's and doctoral level students in environmental fields of study.
Award: Up to $37,000 per year of support per fellowship. Master's students may receive support for a maximum of two years. Doctoral students may be supported for a maximum of three years, usable over a period of four years.
es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2007/2007_star_fellow.html
- Ford Foundation Predoctoral Diversity Fellowships are designed to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Students may apply as undergraduates or as first- or second-year graduate students pursuing a Ph.D. or Sc.D.
Award: $20,000 annual stipend for three years and an award to institution in lieu of tuition and fees of $3,000
www7.nationalacademies.org/FORDfellowships/fordpredoc.html
- The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS), funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was established in 1999 in part to provide outstanding African American, American Indian/Alaska Natives, Asian Pacific Islander Americans, and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to complete graduate studies in mathematics, science, engineering, education, public health, or library science.
http://www.gmsp.org/
- Government Finance Officers Association of the U.S. and Canada (GFOA): 2007 Daniel B. Goldberg Scholarship
is for a graduate student enrolled in full-time master's study preparing for a career in state and local government finance and expecting to be enrolled in the spring 2007 semester (including spring 2007 graduate). Must be a citizen or permanent resident of the U.S. or Canada.
Award: $10,000
www.gfoa.org under "scholarships"
- Government Finance Officers Association of the U.S. and Canada (GFOA): 2007 Frank L. Greathouse Government Accounting Scholarship
is for graduate students enrolled in full-time study preparing for a career in state and local government finance. Must be a citizen or permanent resident of the U.S. or Canada.
Award: $3,500
www.gfoa.org under "scholarships"
- Government Finance Officers Association of the U.S. and Canada (GFOA): George A. Nielsen Public Investor Scholarship
is for a graduate student in public administration, finance, business administration, or a related field with a career interest in the efficient and productive investment of public funds. Must be employed at least one year by a state, local government, or other public entity and a citizen or permanent resident of the U.S. or Canada.
Award: $5,000 (may be awarded as two $2,500 scholarships)
www.gfoa.org under "scholarships"
- Government Finance Officers Association of the U.S. and Canada (GFOA): Public Employee Retirement Research and Administration Scholarship
is for a graduate student in public administration, finance, business administration, or social sciences preparing for a career in the field of public-sector retirement benefits. Must be a citizen or permanent resident of the U.S. or Canada.
Award: $4,000
www.gfoa.org under "scholarships"
- The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi 2008-2009 Fellowship program is for active members of Phi Kappa Phi or students who have accepted the invitation to join or will be initiated by June 30, 2008 and entering their first year of full-time (less than the equivalent of one semester of graduate credit) Graduate or Professional study.
Award: 60 fellowships of $5,000 and 40 Awards of Excellence of $2,000
- Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship Program
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation will award 35 scholarships nationwide to college seniors or recent graduates to attend graduate programs. Awards cover tuition, room and board, books, and other required fees for the length of the degree program, up to six years.
Award: the maximum award per student is $50,000 per year.
Deadline: Students must be nominated by their undergraduate institution. The ASU Lorraine W. Frank Office of National Scholarship Advisement (LWFONSA) deadline is early February. Further information.
- Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program is designed to assist students of superior ability to pursue studies leading to a doctoral and Master's of Fine Arts (MFA) in related fields of the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Award: $30,000 annual stipend based on a Fellow's need and a cost-of-living allowance of $11,511 per year.
http://www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html
- K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award provides financial support for graduate students to attend Association of American Colleges and Universities 2006 Meeting, "Demanding Excellence: Liberal Education in an Era of Global Competition, Anti-Intellectualism, and Disinvestment," to be held January 25-28 in Washington, DC.
Award: Travel, lodging, conference registration (up to $1,500 total), and a one-year affiliation with AAC&U, including subscriptions to all AAC&U periodicals
www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/AM06/CrossAward.cfm
- Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship Program: The Kauffman Foundation will award up to 15 Dissertation Fellowship grants to Ph.D., D.B.A. or other doctoral students for the support of dissertations in the area of entrepreneurship. This program is intended for students who are in the process of formulating their dissertation proposals as well as doctoral candidates with recently approved dissertation proposals. It is expected that applicants will complete their dissertation during the 2010-2011 academic year.
Award: $20,000
Deadline for 2010 awards: Sept. 23, 2009 at 7 PM Central Time.
www.kauffman.org/research-and-policy/kauffman-dissertation-fellowship-program.aspx
- Lupus Foundation of America, Inc. Gina Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowship Program is to foster an interest among young researchers in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) through support of basic, clinical, or psychosocial research under the supervision of an established investigator. Undergraduate, graduate and medical students are eligible to apply, however, preference is given to students with a college degree.
Award: $2,000
http://www.lupus.org/finzifellowships
- National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science, Inc. (GEM) is for underrepresented ethnic minority students pursuing master's degrees in engineering. PhD programs in science and engineering are also available.
Award: $10,000 stipend over 3 semesters, full tuition and fees at GEM Member University tuition waiver
was.nd.edu/gem/gemwebapp/public/gem_04_300.htm
- NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) attempts to reach a culturally diverse group of promising graduate students whose research interests are compatible with NASA's programs in space science and aerospace technology.
Award: $16,000 student stipend; $3,000 student allowance; $3,000 university allowance
www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Education/Students/Research/gsrp.html
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships
are awarded by the Department of Defense (DoD) to individuals pursuing a doctoral degree demonstrating ability and special aptitude for advanced training in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering; Biosciences; Chemical Engineering; Chemistry; Civil Engineering; Cognitive, Neural, and Behavioral Sciences; Computer and Computational Sciences; Electrical Engineering; Geosciences; Materials Science and Engineering; Mathematics; Mechanical Engineering; Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering; Oceanography; Physics.
Award: Full tuition and required fees (not to include room and board) and stipends for 12-month tenures as follows: First Year: $30,500; Second Year: $31,000; Third Year: $31,500. The NDSEG Fellowship will pay for the minimum health insurance coverage offered through the institution, up to a total value of $1,000.
www.asee.org/resources/fellowships/ndseg
- National Inventors Hall of Fame: The Collegiate Inventors Competition (Graduate) is sponsored by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Abbott Fund, the Collegiate Inventors Competition and is the world's leading program designed solely to recognize and honor student inventors at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Since its inception in 1990, the Competition has awarded over $1 million to young innovators, working alone or in teams, for their outstanding contributions to society and for their innovative work in solving engineering and scientific challenges.
Award: Up to 15 finalists will win an all-expenses paid trip to Washington, DC in October 2006 to participate in a final round of judging and in the awards dinner and presentation. One Graduate winner/team will receive $15,000. One Grand Prize winner/team will receive $25,000. Academic advisors of winning entries will receive $3,000 each.
http://www.invent.org/collegiate/?CFID=513196&CFTOKEN=33842245
- National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC) Doctoral Fellowship Program
Though the fields supported can vary annually depending on employer needs, in general the NPSC covers the following: Astronomy, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geology, Materials Science, Mathematical Sciences, Physics, and their subdisciplines, and related engineering fields: Chemical, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, Mechanical.
Award: Two or three years of graduate school, depending on the employer who sponsors the fellowship, with the possibility of continuation for several more years providing all the conditions of the fellowship continue to be met. The maximum total duration is six years. The charge to the employer for each student supported is $21,000, of which $16,000 is the stipend to the student and $5,000 goes to NPSC to support its operations.
www.npsc.org/students/info.html
- National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships enable U.S. graduate students to pursue specialization in area and language study or to add an international dimension to their education by providing support for overseas or domestic study, or a combination of both.
Award for overseas study: $12,000 per semester for up to two semesters
Award for domestic study: $12,000
Award for combined overseas and domestic program: $30,000
http://www.iie.org/programs/nsep/graduate/
Questions about the application process: contact Dr. Janet Burke, janet.burke@asu.edu, or (480) 965-5894.
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships are for students beginning their graduate study in science, mathematics, or engineering.
Award: 3-year $30,000 stipend and a cost-of-education allowance of $10,500 per tenure year
www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201 and http://www.nsfgradfellows.org/
- National Water Research Institute Fellowship Program supports master's or doctoral graduate research related to water resources. Research areas include, but are not limited to, engineering sciences, physical and chemical sciences, biological sciences, health sciences, political sciences, and planning and public policy. There is no citizenship requirement but the bulk of the research must be conducted in the U.S.
Award: Up to $10,000
www.nwri-usa.org
- NISH National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation & Design was established to create technological solutions to barriers that prevent people with severe disabilities from entering or advancing in the workplace.
Award: $3,000 to $10,000
http://www.nish.org/
- Phi Beta Kappa Society: 2007 Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship for French/Greek Studies supports a scholar over the course of one year, alternately in the fields of Greek and French.
Award: $20,000
staging.pbk.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Sibley_Fellowship&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=1809
- Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation (SMART) After graduation, participants work as a civilian scientist/researcher in one of the Department of Defense (DoD) laboratories. The service commitment is 1:1. Upon award, each participant is assigned a mentor in one of the DoD laboratories. This relationship offers unique opportunities to develop new research partnerships between universities and the DoD laboratories.
Award: pays full tuition (including associated educational fees), a generous annual stipend, annual book allowance, and health insurance www.asee.org/smart/
- Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research Program provides undergraduate and graduate students (there are no citizenship restrictions; international students and non-U.S. citizens are encouraged to apply) currently enrolled in degree-seeking programs with valuable educational experiences to promote scientific excellence and achievement through hands-on learning with funding to pay for travel expenses to and from a research site, or for purchase of non-standard laboratory equipment necessary to complete a specific research project.
Award: up to $1,000 for all areas sciences and engineering; up to $5,000 for astronomy research; up to $2,500 vision-related research
www.sigmaxi.org/programs/giar/index.shtml
- Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (www.ssrc.org), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (www.mellon.org) is a strategic fellowship program designed to help graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate doctoral dissertation proposals that are intellectually pointed, amenable to completion in a reasonable time frame, and competitive in fellowship competitions.
The program is organized around distinct "research fields" - sub-disciplinary and interdisciplinary domains with common intellectual questions and styles of research. Each year, an SSRC faculty committee selects five fields proposed by pairs of research directors who are tenured professors at different U.S. universities. Research directors receive a stipend of $7,500. Graduate students in the early phase of their research, generally second and third years, apply to one of five research fields led by the two directors; each group is made up of ten to twelve graduate students. Graduate student fellows participate in two workshops, one in the late spring that helps prepare them to undertake pre-dissertation research on their topics, and one in the early fall designed to help them synthesize their summer research and to draft proposals for dissertation funding. DPDF Fellows are eligible to apply for up to $5,000 from SSRC to support pre-dissertation research during the summer.
Award: up to $7,500
fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10006054/ssrc
- Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Eurasia Predissertation Training Fellowship awards invite graduate students in the early stages of their graduate careers (preference is given to those in their first or second years) to enhance their research skills for projects on the New States of Eurasia, the Soviet Union and/or the Russian Empire.
Award: up to $7,000
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/eurasia/fellowships/predissertation_training_fellowships/
- The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans are awarded for up to two years of graduate study in the U.S. for applicants who are New Americans or a resident aliens, naturalized U.S. citizens, or the child of two parents who are both U.S. citizens.
Award: $20,000 plus half the tuition fees
http://www.pdsoros.org/index.html
- U.S. Student Fulbright Grants provide full travel and living expenses for six to nine months abroad to students interested in conducting research outside the United States.
Further information.
- TIAA-CREF Ruth Simms Hamilton Research Fellowship is being offered to graduate students whose cutting-edge, graduate-level research furthers the study of the African Diaspora. The fellowship is renewable and is intended to provide research support.
Award: $30,000 for one year
www.tiaa-crefinstitute.org/awards/hamilton
- Women's Research and Education Institute (WREI):
2007 Congressional Fellowships on Women and Public Policy
are annual fellowships awarded to current and recent graduate students with a proven commitment to equity for women. WREI Fellows gain practical policymaking experience and graduate credit as they work from January to August as Congressional legislative aides in Washington, DC.
Award: Stipends for tuition and living expenses
http://www.wrei.org/index.htm
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