Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Humboldt Research Fellowship
Program
enables young, highly-qualified scholars resident outside Germany
who hold doctorates to carry out research projects of their
own choice in Germany (age limit: 40 years).
www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/programme/stip_aus/stp.htm
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research in Southeast European
Studies support postdoctoral research and writing in Southeast European studies in all disciplines of the
humanities and social sciences.
Award: $25,000 maximum
www.acls.org/seguide.htm#postdoc
- American Diabetes Association Mentor-Based Postdoctoral Fellowship is granted to an
established diabetes investigator to support a postdoctoral fellow.
Award: $45,000 a year for up to four years
www.diabetes.org/diabetes-research/research-grant-application-forms/training-awards.jsp
- The American Educational Research Association (AERA)/ETS Postdoctoral Program
provides intensive research and training opportunities in such areas as
educational measurement, assessment design, psychometrics, statistical
analyses, large-scale evaluations, and others. The AEPF aims to
increase the number of underrepresented minority professionals
conducting advanced research or technical assistance.
Award: stipend of $50,000
www.aera.net/fellowships/?id=702
- Canary Foundation/American Cancer Society
Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards in the Early Detection of Cancer
focus on studies in the tools and technologies for developing
strategies for the early detection of cancer. Research should be
directed at new approaches to improve clinical methods for the
screening of primary tumors and/or metastases.
Award: 3 years in duration with progressive stipends
of $42,000, $44,000, and $46,000 per year, plus $4,000 per year for
institutional allowance
www.cancer.org/research
- Dewitt Stetten Jr Memorial Fellowship in the History of Biomedical Sciences and Technology supports historical research and writing about the biomedical sciences and technology by providing a postdoctoral student, usually at the beginning stages of the professional career, with a year's research experience in residence at museum offices on the NIH campus.
Award: Stipend varies
www.history.nih.gov/01Docs/grants/StettenFellowshipInformation.htm
- Ford
Foundation Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowships
are for individuals engaged in postdoctoral study after
the attainment of the Ph.D. or Sc.D. and 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.
Award: One-year stipends of $40,000
www7.national-academies.org/FORDfellowships/fordpost.html
- L'Oréal USA for Women in Science Fellowship
Program
is for women postdoctoral fellows affiliated with a U.S.-based
academic or research institution involved in the life and physical
sciences including math, engineering and computer science.
Award: $20,000
www2.lorealusa.com
- Marshall Sherfield Fellowships enable an
American scientist or engineer to undertake post-doctoral research for a
period of one to two academic years at a British university or research
institute.
The aim of the fellowships is to introduce American
scientists and engineers to the cutting edge of UK science and
engineering and thus build longer term
contacts and international links between the United Kingdom and the
U.S. in key scientific areas.
Award: laboratory fee/research support grant;
approved airfare to/from the UK; allowance to cover residence and cost
of living expenses; up to £200 for approved travel; payment of
necessary daily expenses in excess of £10 per month for travel between
place of residence and place of study.
www.marshallscholarship.org/sherfield.html
- Michigan Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowships
sponsor four three-year terms to begin September 1, 2005 at
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to promote academic and
creative excellence in the humanities and the arts; in the social,
physical, and life sciences; and in the professions. Candidates
should be near the beginning of their professional careers and
must have received the PhD degree or comparable artistic or
professional degree between June 1, 2003 and September 1, 2006.
Award: $47,271
www.rackham.umich.edu/Faculty/society.html
- National Academies of Sciences (NAS) Postdoctoral Fellowship/Research Associateship Program
The NAS/NRC postdoctoral research fellowship can extend up to three
years with a generous annual stipend. Applicants will be judged on the
merit and feasibility of their proposals.
Deadlines: Feb 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1 (of any given year) -
with the focus on the November 1 deadline for the majority of
selections.
www4.nationalacademies.org/pga/rap.nsf
- National Institute of Health (NIH): Ruth L. Kirschstein
National Reseach Service Awards for Individual Postdoctoral
Fellows (F32)
is for applicants with the potential to become productive, independent
investigators in fields related to the mission of the NIH constituent
institutes and centers. Individuals may receive up to 3 years
of aggregate Kirschstein-NRSA support at the postdoctoral level,
including any combination of support from institutional training
grants (T32) and individual fellowship awards (F32).
Award: The NIH
will offset the combined cost of tuition and fees at the following
rate: 100% of all costs up to $3,000 and 60% of costs above
$3,000. There is also an institutional allowance of $5,500 per
12-month period (nonfederal, nonprofit, or foreign sponsoring
institutions) or up to $4,400 (Federal laboratories or for-profit
institutions).
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-03-067.html
- National
Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
This site includes information and applications to the following
programs: East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate
Students (EAPSI), International Research Fellowship Program,
Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Supporting Activities,
Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships, MPS
Distinguished International Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
(MPS-DRF), NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships,
NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholar Program, Postdoctoral Fellowships
in Microbial Biology, Postdoctoral Fellowships in Polar Regions
Research, Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biological Informatics,
and Science and Technology Studies (STS). www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/fastlane.pdoc.DisplayProgramType
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Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
encourages women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of California.
Award:
$33,800-$35,300 which will increase upon renewal, health, vision and
dental benefits and up to $4,000 for research-related expenses. Awards
in mathematics, engineering and physical sciences will range from
$35,300-$44,000.
www.ucop.edu/acadadv/ppfp
- Sandia National Laboratories: President Harry S. Truman Fellowship in National Security Science and Engineering
provides the opportunity for recipients to pursue independent research
of their own choosing that supports the national security mission of
Sandia National Laboratories. The appointee is expected to foster
creativity and to stimulate exploration of forefront science and
technology and high-risk, potentially high-value R&D.
Award: 3-year appointment with a salary of $96,100
www.sandia.gov/employment/special-prog/truman/
- Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Eurasia Postdoctoral Research
Fellowship Program aims to provide junior faculty and independent
scholars with support to focus on significantly revising and re-writing
an existing project or on designing a new research project. The awards
are to be used to promote research and/or publication records and
to further the recipient's academic career.
Award: Up to $20,000
www.ssrc.org/programs/eurasia/fellowships
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development (ORD) CROSS-ORD INTERDISCIPLINARY POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH PROGRAM offers several Federal, four-year, post-doctoral positions. Mentors will be assigned from appropriate ORD Labs and Centers based upon the nature of the cross-ORD interdisciplinary research.
AWARD: Salary range of $54,494 - $84,913
http://www.epa.gov/ord/htm/jobs_ord.htm
- Wenner-Gren Foundation Post-Ph.D. Research Grants are available
for individual scholars without regard to nationality or institutional
affiliation holding a doctorate or equivalent in anthropology.
Grants are made to seed innovative approaches and ideas, to
cover specific expenses or phases of a project, and/or to encourage
aid from other funding agencies.
Award: up to $25,000
www.wennergren.org/programs//programs_show.htm?doc_id=368389&attrib_id=13233
- Wenner-Gren Foundation Richard Carley Hunt Postdoctoral
Fellowships are available for scholars without regard to
nationality or institutional affiliation within ten years of
receipt of the Ph.D. to aid the write-up of research results
for publication.
Award: up to $40,000
www.wennergren.org/programs/programs_show.htm?doc_id=368531&attrib_id=13233
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Postdoctoral
Fellowship Program
awards fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project
proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on
national and/or international issues, particularly those that help
provide the essential background against which current issues can be
more thoroughly understood. Most fellows serve for nine months, from
September to May, although a few fellowships are occasionally awarded
for shorter periods.
Award: $26,200 to $85,000
wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=Fellowships.welcome
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