External Awards

All of the following awards come from sources outside of the University. YOU MUST CONTACT THE SPONSORING ORGANIZATION, NOT UNO, FOR ANY FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO APPLY. Follow the links to view full descriptions of the awards, requirements, benefits and limitations. If you find a broken link, you can go to the main page for that site (for example, in the first award listed below, that would be www.aera.net) and search around the site for the award's new location. Some awards may no longer be offered, or may have changed. Similarly, the organizations may have posted new awards, and so it can be fruitful to browse around the websites for new opportunities. Awards are listed alphabetically under four recipient categories: Graduate Students - General, Under-Represented Students (includes women, particularly in the sciences) Post-Doctoral, and Faculty/Staff/Institution. It might be beneficial to look through all categories below for links that specifically relate to your discipline.

Graduate Students - General / Under-Represented Students / Post-Graduate / Faculty/Staff/Institution

GRADUATE STUDENTS - GENERAL

AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION - DISSERTATION GRANTS
http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/subweb/dgfly-fr.html
Purpose: To improve the infrastructure for conducting quantitative policy and practice-related education research.
Amount:Up to $15,000
Eligibility: Advanced graduate students who are ready for their dissertation.

AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION - RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS and POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/subweb/rffly-fr.html
Purpose: Provide experience in the design, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of policy research.
Amount: Commensurate with a beginning assistant professor salary for a 9-month fellowship plus $1,000 travel funds. Awards for postdoctoral fellows include stipend of $40,000 for 12 months and health insurance, plus 8% overhead to the host institution.
Eligibility: Beginning researchers, including advanced graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, assistant professors, and those who have received their doctorate within the past seven years. U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents. Minority researchers strongly encouraged to apply.

LLOYD G. BALFOUR FELLOWSHIPS
http://www.nif-inc.net/scholarships/lloyd_balfour/
Purpose: To provide financial assistance to professional/graduate students.
Amount: $1,000 and $5,000
Eligibility: Must be initiated member of an NIC, NPC, NPHC or PFA org in good standing and enrolled in an accredited program.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE - SCIENCE and ENGINEERING FELLOWSHIP
http://www.asee.org/resources/fellowships/ndseg/
Purpose: To support graduate students in fields important to national defense needs.
Eligibility: Science/engineering doctoral students.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - JACOB K. JAVITS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
http://www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html
Purpose: To provide financial assistance to students who have demonstrated superior academic ability and achievement, exceptional promise, financial need to undertake graduate study leading to a terminal degree.
Amount:The fellowship consists of an institutional payment and a stipend (based on financial need). In fiscal year 2004, the fellowship consisted of an institutional payment of $11,511 and a maximum stipend of $30,000.
Eligibility: Graduate students in selected fields of study of the arts, humanities and social sciences.

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY - SCIENCE TO ACHIEVE RESULTS and GREATER RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAMS
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/fellow/
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/grants/
Purpose: For master's and doctoral level students in environmentally related fields of study.
Amount: Up to $37,000/yr.
Eligibility: Must be enrolled in a relevant program and a US citizen or permanent resident.

DR. NANCY FOSTER SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
http://fosterscholars.noaa.gov/
Purpose: For graduate studies in oceanography, marine biology, or maritime archaeology.
Amount: Up to $32,000/yr.
Eligibility: Students in the above disciplines, esp. women and members of other underrepresented groups in the sciences.

HAYEK FUND FOR SCHOLARS
http://www.theihs.org/grants_and_contest/id.712/default.asp
Purpose: Help graduate students and untenured faculty present at conferences and travel to academic job interviews and participate in research/publication/career enhancing activities.
Amount: $1,000
Eligibility: Graduate student or untenured faculty.

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH GRANTS
http://www.hud.gov/progdesc/ddrg.cfm
Purpose: Support research that explores issues relevant to helping people create communities of opportunity. Recent grantees were in the fields of architecture, history, planning, economics, anthropology, government, sociology, and public policy.
Amount: $25,000
Eligibility: All but dissertation.

INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES - FILM AND FICTION SCHOLARSHIPS http://www.theihs.org/scholarships/id.783/default.asp
Purpose: Support promising young filmmakers and writers who share an appreciation for the potential and promise of a free society.
Amount: Up to $10,000.
Eligibility: M.F.A. grad students in filmmaking, fiction writing, or playwriting who have a demonstrated interest in classical liberal ideas.

INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES - GRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
http://www.theihs.org/scholarships/id.793/default.asp
Purpose: Opportunity for mentoring and networking through summer to aid in the completion of an individual writing project.
Amount: $3,000.
Eligibility: Graduate student.

INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES - HUMANE STUDIES FELLOWSHIP
http://www.theihs.org/scholarships/id.775/default.asp
Purpose: For graduate study in the humanities in the US or abroad.
Amount: $12,000.
Eligibility: Graduate students, law students, and professional students who are interested in the classical liberal tradition.

INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES - CHARLES G. KOCH SUMMER FELLOW PROGRAM
http://www.theihs.org/subcategory.php/17.html/
Purpose: Assist students in advancing careers while also advancing liberty through a D.C. public policy internship and career workshops.
Amount: $1,500 + housing and airfare.
Eligibility: Graduate student. See website.

INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES - JOURNALISM SUMMER INTERNSHIPS
http://www.theihs.org/subcategory.php/24.html/
Purpose: To give aspiring journalists experience doing real reporting for a newspaper.
Amount: $1,500 plus housing/travel.
Eligibility: Graduate student. See website.

INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES - PRODUCTION INTERNSHIPS
http://www.theihs.org/internship_programs/id.69/default.asp
Purpose: To help communications students gain hands-on experience, tackle an important issue, make valuable connections within the industry, and contribute to the production of a film or television program that can make a difference.
Amount: $2,000 plus for summer.
Eligibility: Communication students interested in documentaries/TV investigative journalism.

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH and EXCHANGES BOARD - INDIVIDUAL ADVANCED RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM
http://www.irex.org/programs/grants.asp
Purpose: To provide for individual long-term policy-relevant research opportunities in Europe and Eurasia for Masters, pre- and post-doctoral students.
Amount: Competitive stipends and benefits. $600- monthly stipend for graduate students. $50,000 annual salary for postdoctoral scholars and holders of professional degrees.
Eligibility: Masters, pre- or post-doctoral candidate must be a US citizen or permanent resident of the US for three consecutive years prior to application.

LINK FOUNDATION ENERGY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
http://www.linkenergy.org/guidelines.html
Purpose: To foster education and innovation in the area of societal production and utilization of energy. Amount: 2-year fellowships of $25,000/yr.
Eligibility: Student working toward PhD degree at US/Canadian universities (student may be of any nationality).

LOUISIANA OFFICE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - FEDERAL STUDENT TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM
http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/arc/programinfo.cfm?program_id=800
Purpose: To provide part-time temporary employment with Federal agencies in order to allow students to continue their education without interruptions caused by financial pressures. Students work during the school year while attending school and while on official school breaks.
Eligibility: Graduate (or undergrad) student

THE ANDREW W. MELLON FELLOWSHIP \endash HUMANISTIC STUDIES
http://www.woodrow.org/mellon/
Purpose:To support exceptionally promising students as they pursue advanced study in the disciplines of the humanities. For first-year doctoral students only.
Amount: Covers full graduate tuition and required fees and includes a stipend of $17,500.
Eligibility: You must be a college senior or graduate applying for a Ph.D. program in the humanities.

MILITARY EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIPS
http://www.vamortgagecenter.com/scholarships.html
VA Mortgage Center.com is proud to now offer five bi-yearly $1,500 scholarships in conjunction with our Military Education Scholarship Program. The process and purpose is simple - many college students currently struggle to meet the financial requirements of pursuing their education, even with the help of financial aid and other scholarship programs. Our scholarships are awarded each year in May and November.

FELIX MORLEY JOURNALISM COMPETITION
http://apply.theihs.org/applications/categoryid.7/faq_category.asp
Purpose: To Reward outstanding young writers whose work best demonstrates and communicates an appreciation of classical liberal principles.
Amount: $250-$2,500 (First Place = $2,500).
Eligibility: Young students who have at least 3-5 recent works published in student newspapers or other periodicals.

OTTO D. GROVE, JR MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
http://www.cefpi.org/pdf/grove_fund.pdf
Purpose: To support dissertation work on quality learning environments from the colleges and universities of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Amount: $2,500.
Eligibility: Graduate student in good standing in Architecture, Education or other related field, at a college or university within Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma.

NATIONAL ACADEMIES - CHRISTINE MIRZAYAN SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY POLICY GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/policyfellows/
Purpose: To engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, and law students in the analysis that informs the creation of science and technology policy and to familiarize them with the interactions of science, technology, and government.
Amount: Stipend for 12-week program is $5,700. $4,800 for 10-weeks. Those outside DC receive an additional $500 to help with travel.
Eligibility: Applications for the fellowships are invited from graduate students through post-doctoral scholars in any physical, biological, or social science field or any field of engineering, medicine/health, or veterinary medicine as well as business, law, education, and other graduate and professional programs. Applicants should currently be in a graduate program or within 5 years of receipt of their graduate or professional degree.

NATIONAL ACADEMIES - RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIP PROGRAMS
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/rap/
Purpose: To conduct research at a specific laboratory chosen by the applicant.
Amount: Contact organization.
Eligibility: Doctoral level scientists and engineers and Postdoctoral Associates (within 5 years of the doctorate) and Senior Associates (normally 5 years or more beyond the doctorate).

NASA - VARIOUS OPPORTUNITIES
http://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION - GRANTS
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
Purpose: To strengthen scientific and engineering research potential, and education programs at all levels, and appraise the impact of research upon industrial development and the general welfare.
Amount: Varies.
Eligibility: Most funding goes to students in biology, computer science, education, engineering, geosciences, international studies, math, the physical sciences, polar research, statistics, the social/behavioral sciences, and interdisciplinary work.

RURAL POVERTY RESEARCH CENTER: DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP
http://www.rprconline.org/dissertation.htm
Purpose: To enable PhD candidates to complete dissertations on issues relating to rural poverty, especially on poverty-reduction and increased self-reliance.
Amount: $20,000
Eligibility: Current doctoral students from a range of disciplines.

THE SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/
Purpose: To target the spaces between disciplines, where new perspectives emerge and struggle for acceptance, thus ensuring the production of knowledge on key topics, regions, and social challenges.
Amount: Up to $15,000.
Eligibility: American citizen or permanent resident studying in the social sciences or humanities doing pre-dissertation or dissertation work.

THE SPENCER FOUNDATION
http://www.spencer.org/
Purpose: Support dissertation research that shows potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history/theory/practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world. Although the dissertation topic must concern education, graduate study may be in any academic discipline or professional field.
Eligibility:Candidate for a doctoral degree at a US school. Must provide a clear and specific plan for completing the dissertation within one to two-years.

USA FUNDS - ACCESS TO EDUCATION
http://www.usafunds.org/planning/access_to_education_scholarship/index.html
Purpose: To assist financially needy students in achieving their higher-education goals.
Amount: $1,500/yr.
Eligibility: Annual (adjusted) family income under $35,000. Students from Arizona, Indiana, Hawaii, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada and Wyoming get special consideration, and 50% of awards will be given to ethnic minorities.

WOODROW WILSON NATONAL FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION - DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS IN WOMENS STUDIES
http://www.woodrow.org/womens-studies/
Purpose: To encourage original and significant research about women that crosses disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries.
Amount: $3,000 for dissertation expenses.
Eligibility: All but dissertation in any field of study.

YOUNG COMMUNICATORS FELLOWSHIP
http://www.apsanet.org/content_28050.cfm
Purpose: To help graduate students or recent college grads take advantage of strategic opportunities that can enhance their abilities and credentials to pursue careers that involve the communication of ideas.
Amount: Up to $2,500 for 12 weeks, varies with circumstances.
Eligibility: A college grad or grad student in the communications fields who believes in promoting the classical liberal tradition, who has applied for a career-enhancing program.

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UNDER-REPRESENTED STUDENTS

ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA - MERIT OR FINANCIAL AID SCHOLARSHIPS
http://www.akaeaf.org/programsandinitiatives/
Purpose: To reward students who excel academically, and to assist financially needy students.
Amount: $750 to $1,500.
Eligibility: Varies for each type of award; see website.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN - CAREER DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/career_development.cfm
Purpose: To support women who hold a bachelor's degree and are preparing to advance their careers, change careers, or re-enter the work force. Grants provide support for course work beyond a bachelor's degree, including a master's degree, second bachelor's degree, or specialized training in technical or professional fields.
Amount: $2,000-$8,000
Eligibility: Women who hold a bachelor's degree. Special consideration is given to AAUW members, women of color, and women pursuing their first advanced degree or credentials in nontraditional fields.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN - INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS
http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/international.cfm
Purpose: For full-time study or research for graduate or post-graduate women.
Amount: $18,000-$30,000
Eligibility: Open to master's level, doctoral, or post-doctoral women who are NOT U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN - SELECTED PROFESSIONS FELLOWSHIPS
http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/selected.cfm
Purpose: To increase contributions by women in fields where their participation has traditionally been low.
Amount: $5,000 - $20,000
Eligibility: Women who intend to pursue full-time study in one of the degree programs where women's participation traditionally has been low (see list). Must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION - MINORITY FELLOWSHIP
http://www.aera.net/fellowships/
Purpose: To improve the quality and diversity of faculty and to encourage outstanding minority doctoral degree holders to pursue academic careers and careers in educational research.
Amount: $10,000. Fellowships may be supplemented by campus or department awards and tuition waivers.
Eligibility: US minorities (African Americans, American Indians, Alaskan Natives (Eskimo or Aleut), Native Pacific Islanders, Filipino Americans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans) who are full time students and have successfully defended their dissertation proposal.

AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION - MINORITY FELLOWS PROGRAM
http://www.apsanet.org/section_177.cfm
Purpose: To increase the number of minority Ph.D.s in political science and to encourage institutions to provide financial assistance to them.
Amount: $2,000 for 2 years
Eligibility: US minority students, in financial need, applying to enter a doctoral program in political science for the first time with an interest in teaching and potential for research.

FORD FOUNDATION - DIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPS
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/fordpredoc.html
Purpose: 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.
Amount: $21, 000
Eligibility: US Citizen PhD candidates of any demographic committed to teaching and research at the university level.

FORD FOUNDATION - PRE-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fordfellowships/fordpredoc.html
Purpose: 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.
Amount: $17,000/yr for 3 years.
Eligibility: Any US citizen committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, enrolled in or planning to enroll in an eligible research-based program leading to a Ph.D.

DR. NANCY FOSTER SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
http://fosterscholars.noaa.gov
Purpose: For graduate-level studies in oceanography, marine biology, or maritime archaeology.
Amount: Up to $32,000/yr.
Eligibility: Students in the above disciplines, especially women and members of other groups underrepresented in the sciences.

WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST - ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FOR MINORITIES
http://www.distinguishedscholarships.unc.edu/scholarships/hearstmin.htm
Purpose: To introduce a diverse group of students to issues relating to philanthropy, voluntarism, and nonprofit organizations.
Amount: $2,500-$5,000.
Eligibility: A social science or humanities graduate student in financial need, from an underrepresented group, who has achieved academic excellence.

NATIONAL CONSORTIUM FOR GRADUATE DEGREES FOR MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING, INC. GRADUATE ENGINEERING FOR MINORITIES (GEM)
http://www.gemfellowship.org
Amount: All tuition and fees. The funding for the MS Award is for three semesters or four quarters with a minimum $10,000/yr stipend. The funding for the Ph.D. programs is for 5 years with a minimum $14,000/yr stipend.
Eligibility:American Indian, African American, Latino, Puerto Rican, and other Hispanic American masters and doctoral students in the engineering fields and doctoral students in the sciences.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR THE PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT OF BLACK CHEMISTS AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERS - FELLOWSHIP AWARDS
http://www.nobcche.org/index.cfm?PageID=50174597-757C-432E-BA8C253625586175
Purpose: To promote the work of African-American students in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.
Amount: Varies with award.
Eligibility: PhD candidate in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Life Sciences.

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
http://www.nsf.gov/funding
Various NSF grants for students, faculty, institutions. Offers some grants specifically for underrepresented groups. Offerings change yearly.

PAUL AND DAISY SOROS FELLOWSHIPS FOR NEW AMERICANS
http://www.pdsoros.org/requirements.html
Purpose: To support new Americans in any professional field who can contribute significantly to society.
Amount: $20,000 and one-half of your tuition.
Eligibility: New Americans (who intend to stay in the US) with a bachelor's or who are in their final undergraduate year. No award for grad students who are in their third year or beyond. You must not be older than thirty when applying.

PHILANTHROPIC AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN, PEACE SCHOLARSHIP FUND
http://www.peointernational.org/about/
Purpose: To support international women graduate students.
Amount: Up to $6,000, based upon need.
Eligibility: International students only.

THE SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL - MELLON MAYS PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH GRANT
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/
Purpose: To support the development and training of minority scholars.
Eligibility: Only those students recognized as Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows, and currently enrolled in Mellon designated fields in participating colleges and universities, are eligible to apply.

UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND
http://www.uncf.org/scholarships/index.asp
http://www.uncf.org/internships/index.asp< index.asp?
Purpose: To aid promising, financially needy African-American scholars in achieving their academic goals.
Amount: Varies. Some funds are only applicable at Member HBCUs.
Eligibility: African-American students through doctoral level (research funded through post-doctoral).

USA FUNDS - ACCESS TO EDUCATION
http://www.usafunds.org/planning/access_to_education_scholarship/index.html
Purpose: To assist financially needy students in achieving their higher-education goals.
Amount: $1,500/yr.
Eligibility: Annual (adjusted) family income under $35,000. Students from Arizona, Indiana, Hawaii, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada and Wyoming get special consideration, and 50% of awards will be given to ethnic minorities.

WOODROW WILSON NATONAL FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION - DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS IN WOMENS STUDIES
http://www.woodrow.org/womens-studies/
Purpose: To encourage original and significant research about women that crosses disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries.
Amount: $3,000 to be used for expenses connected with the dissertation.
Eligibility: Doctoral students who have completed all pre-dissertation requirements in any field of study.

XEROX TECHNICAL MINORITY SCHOLARSHIP
http://www.xerox.com/downloads/usa/en/s/scholar.doc
Purpose: To provide funding to minority students enrolled in one of the technical sciences or engineering disciplines.
Amount: $1,000.
Eligibility: Black, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Alaskan, or Hispanic full-time students working toward a BS, MS or PhD in technical science or engineering.

ZONTA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION - AMELIA EARHART FELLOWSHIP AWARDS
http://www.zonta.org/site/PageServer
Purpose: To promote research by women in fields related to aerospace science and engineering. (There are awards at this link also for young women in public affairs and in business.
Amount: $6,000 toward tuition and related expenses, renewable once.
Eligibility: Women of any nationality who hold an aerospace-related bachelor's degree in science or engineering and have completed a year of graduate work (see link for requirements for public affairs and business students). Applicants must be engaged in well-defined research.

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POST-GRADUATE

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES - VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM
http://www.amacad.org/visiting.aspx
Purpose: To stimulate and support research conducted by scholars and practitioners who show promise of becoming leaders in their field, especially those who work on multidisciplinary topics. Interest in broadening public understanding of important intellectual trends and contemporary policy choices, especially the exploration of the impact of scientific and technological advances over the past two centuries on American institutions, humanities and culture in America, American foreign policy, and global security.
Amount: $35,000/yr for post-docs. Faculty can receive up to $50,000 (depending on current salary).
Eligibility: US citizens and permanent residents. Terminal degree should have been completed within the last 10 years (although exceptional circumstances will be taken into consideration).

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN - AMERICAN FELLOWSHIPS
http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/american.cfm
Purpose: To support women doctoral candidates completing dissertations and scholars seeking funds for postdoctoral research leave or for preparing completed research for publication.
Amount: $6,000-$30,000
Eligibility: Doctoral candidates who are U.S citizens or permanent residents.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN - SELECTED PROFESSIONS FELLOWSHIPS
http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/selected.cfm
Purpose: To increase representation and productivity of women and especially minority women in fields in which they are underrepresented.
Amount: $5,000-$20,000
Eligibility: Women who intend to pursue a full-time course of study at accredited institutions during the fellowship year in one of the designated degree programs where women's participation traditionally has been low (see list on website). Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - VARIOUS
http://www.acor.org/ped-onc/scholarships/index.html

AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION - RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS and POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/subweb/rffly-fr.html
Purpose: Provide valuable experience in the design, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of policy research.
Amount: Stipends commensurate with a beginning assistant professor salary for a 9-month fellowship plus $1,000 in travel funds. Awards for postdoctoral fellowships include a stipend of $40,000 for 12 months and health insurance, plus 8% overhead to the host institution.
Eligibility: Beginning researchers, including advanced graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, assistant professors, and those who have received their doctorate within the past seven years. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents. Minority researchers strongly encouraged to apply.

AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION - RESEARCH GRANTS
http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/subweb/rgfly-fr.html
Purpose: To stimulate quantitative policy- and practice-related research on U.S. education using large-scale, nationally- representative NCES and NSF data sets.
Amount: Up to $20,000 for 1-year projects, or up to $35,000 for 2-year projects.
Eligibility: Faculty at institutions of higher education, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral-level researchers. Applicants must have received the doctoral degree by the start date of the grant.

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION - VARIOUS
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3018378

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - VARIOUS
http://fedgrants.gov/applicants/aid/activity_1.html

COMMITTEE ON SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION WITH CHINA PROGRAMS
http://www.acls.org/csccguid.htm
Purpose: For scholars in the humanities who have done significant study and preparation in America and are now ready to do in-depth research in the People's Republic of China.
Amount: Living allowance, health insurance, and international airfare.
Eligibility: Individuals with the Ph.D. or equivalent. US citizens and permanent residents who have lived in the US continuously for at least three years.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - VARIOUS
http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/apply/grantapps/index.html

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY - VARIOUS
http://www.energy.gov/scholarships&internships.htm

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - VARIOUS
http://www.doi.gov/oia/Firstpginfo/scholarship.html

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY - VARIOUS
http://fedgrants.gov/applicants/epa/activity_1.html

FORD FOUNDATION - POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fellowships/fordpost.html
Purpose: To increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties, 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.
Amount: $40,000
Eligibility: Any US citizen with a PhD committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level.

ALEXANDER VAN HUMBOLT FOUNDATION - HUMBOLT RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/programme/stip_aus/stp.htm
Purpose: To carry out research projects of the student's choice in Germany.
Amount: See website.
Eligibility: Young highly qualified PhDs who are not residents of Germany (age limit: 40 years).

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH and EXCHANGES BOARD - INDIVIDUAL ADVANCED RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM
http://www.irex.org/programs/grants.asp
Purpose: To provide for individual long-term policy-relevant research opportunities in Europe and Eurasia for Masters, pre-doctorial and postdoctoral students. Limited funding for pre-doctoral humanities scholars.
Amount: Competitive stipends and benefits offered to all fellows. $600- monthly stipend for graduate students. $50,000 annual salary for postdoctoral scholars and holders of professional degrees.
Eligibility: A Masters, pre-doctoral and postdoctoral candidate must be a US citizen or permanent resident (green card holder) of the US for three consecutive years prior to application.

JILA
http://jilawww.colorado.edu/
Purpose: To provide advanced research experience in the years immediately after the PhD degree.
Amount: Salaries range from $28,00-$36,000 depending on experience, qualifications and funding source.
Eligibility: Recent PhD recipients in the physical sciences.

THE LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH FOUNDATION
http://www.lsrf.org/geninfo.htm
Purpose: To support postdoctoral activities in all areas of the life sciences.
Amount: The fellowship award is $51,000 per year and is meant to be a mini grant. LSRF keeps $1000 for administrative expenses and passes the rest to the fellow. The salary scale begins at $36,000 for a first-year postdoctoral, $38,000 for a second year, and $40,000 thereafter.
Eligibility: Three-year fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis to graduates of medical and graduate schools in the biological sciences holding M.D., Ph.D., D.V.M. or D.D.S. degrees.

MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION - VARIOUS
http://fedgrants.gov/applicants/mmc/activity_1.html

NATIONAL ACADEMIES \endash CHRISTINE MIRZAYAN SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY POLICY GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/policyfellows/
Purpose: To engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, and law students (or recent post-grads) in the analysis that informs the creation of science and technology policy and to familiarize them with the interactions of science, technology, and government.
Amount: The stipend for a 12-week program is $5,700. The stipend for a 10-week program is $4,800. Those outside DC receive $500 to help with travel.
Eligibility: Graduate students through post-doctoral scholars in any physical, biological, or social science field or any field of engineering, medicine/health, or veterinary medicine as well as business, law, education, and other graduate and professional programs. Applicants should currently be in a graduate program or within 5 years of receipt of their graduate or professional degree.

NATIONAL ACADEMIES - RESEARCH ASSOCIATESHIP PROGRAMS
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/pga/rap.nsf
Purpose: To conduct research at a specific laboratory chosen by the applicant.
Amount: Contact organization.
Eligibility: Doctoral level scientists and engineers and Postdoctoral Associates (within 5 years of the doctorate) and Senior Associates (normally 5 years or more beyond the doctorate).

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
http://fedgrants.gov/applicants/nsf/activity_1.html
Various NSF grants for students, faculty, institutions. Offerings change yearly.

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/
Purpose: To promote research and/or publication records and to further the recent PhDs academic career. Support for significantly revising and re-writing an existing project or on designing a new research project.
Amount: Up to $20,000.
Eligibility: Junior faculty and independent scholars, from a relevant field in a social science or humanities discipline, either at an accredited university or working as an independent scholar in the US, who are within the first five years of having received their PhD who require release time.

THE SPENCER FOUNDATION
http://www.spencer.org/
Purpose: For investigations that promise to yield new knowledge about education in the US or abroad. Supports researchers from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields.
Amount: Small grants = $1,000 - $40,000. Large grants = $40,000+.
Eligibility: Ordinarily, must be affiliated with a school district, a college or university, a research facility, or a cultural institution. Researchers must also have a doctorate in an academic discipline or professional field or appropriate experience in the teaching profession.

THE VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES
http://www.virginiafoundation.org/fellowships/index.html
http://www.virginiafoundation.org/grants/index.html
Purpose: To offer time, space, and resources to scholars bringing the humanities to visibility, applying the tools of history, philosophy, ethics, cultural studies, and literary criticism to matters of public concern.
Amount: Up to $15,000 per semester; summer Fellows receive less. Fellowships are awarded for one semester, a full year, or for the summer session only. All Fellows have University of Virginia faculty status while in residence.
Eligibility: Independent and affiliated scholars, professionals, and others working on projects in the humanities. Applicants need not have advanced degrees, but the VFH generally does not support work toward a degree.

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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES - VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM
http://www.amacad.org/visiting.aspx
Purpose: To support research by promising scholastic leaders, especially those who work on multidisciplinary topics and in broadening public understanding of important intellectual trends and contemporary policy choices. They especially welcome proposals that explore the impact of scientific and technological advances over the past two centuries on American institutions, humanities and culture in America, American foreign policy, and global security.
Amount: The annual stipend provided by the VSP will be $35,000 for postdocs. Faculty can receive up to $50,000 (depending on current salary).
Eligibility: Fellowships are open to US citizens and permanent residents. Terminal degree should have been completed within the last 10 years (exceptions possible).

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN - COMMUNITY ACTION GRANTS
http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/community_action.cfm
Purpose: Provide seed money for new projects. Topic areas are unrestricted, but should include a clearly defined activity that promotes education and equity for women and girls and/or to provide start-up funds for longer-term programs that address the particular needs of the community and develop girls' sense of efficacy through leadership or advocacy opportunities. Two-year grants are restricted to projects focused on K-14 (including 2-year colleges) girls' achievement in math, science, and/or technology.
Amount: $2,000-$10,000.
Eligibility: Applicants must be women who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Grant projects must have direct public impact, be nonpartisan, and take place within the US or its territories.

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - VARIOUS
http://fedgrants.gov/applicants/acs/activity_1.html

AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION - FELLOWS PROGRAM
http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/subweb/affly-fr.html
Purpose: To provide opportunities for senior education researchers at various professional levels (tenured or at least 7 years past the doctorate) to focus on policy-related research while in residence at either NCES or NSF.
Amount: The nature of the commitment and the amount of the award will be negotiated with AERA.
Eligibility: Experienced researchers who are tenured or have held their doctoral degree for at least seven years. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents. Minority researchers strongly encouraged to apply.

AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION - RESEARCH GRANTS
http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/subweb/rgfly-fr.html
Purpose: To stimulate quantitative policy- and practice-related research on U.S. education using large-scale, nationally- representative NCES and NSF data sets.
Amount: Up to $20,000 for 1-year projects, or up to $35,000 for 2-year projects.
Eligibility: Faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral-level researchers. Applicants must have received the doctoral degree by the start date of the grant.

AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION - VARIOUS
http://fedgrants.gov/applicants/aha/activity_1.html

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT - VARIOUS
http://fedgrants.gov/applicants/aid/activity_1.html

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE - SEA GRANT FELLOWSHIP
http://fedgrants.gov/applicants/doc/noaa/gmc/417nmfssgrant%26%23032%3b06-30-04/grant.html
Purpose: To provide dissertation support for math/science students who are interested in careers related to 1) the population dynamics of living marine resources, and 2) the economics of the conservation and management of them.
Amount: $31,677.
Eligibility: Public and State institutions of higher ed.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - VARIOUS
http://fedgrants.gov/applicants/ed/activity_1.html

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - GRADUATE ASSISTANCE IN AREAS OF NATIONAL NEED
http://www.ed.gov/programs/gaann/index.html
Purpose: For graduate science departments to create fellowships for students in biology, chemistry, computer and information science, engineering, geological science, mathematics, and physics.
Amount: $30,000 stipend plus $11,000 for tuition and fees.
Eligibility: Graduate DEPARTMENTS may apply; students are not eligible.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - RESEARCH ON EDUCATION FINANCE, LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
http://www.ed.gov/programs/edresearch/index.html
Purpose: To create education research programs that concentrate on areas of demonstrated national need.
Amount: Up to $750,000.
Eligibility: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY - VARIOUS
http://fedgrants.gov/applicants/doe/activity_1.html

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - VARIOUS
http://fedgrants.gov/applicants/doi/activity_1.html

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY - VARIOUS
http://fedgrants.gov/applicants/epa/activity_1.html

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY - ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION GRANT PROGRAM
http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/grants.html
Purpose: To support environmental education projects that promote environmental stewardship.
Amount: Up to $150,000
Eligibility: Public and State institutions of higher education.

FREDERICK BURKHARDT RESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR RECENTLY TENURED SCHOLARS
http://www.acls.org/burkguide.htm
Purpose: To support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences. To encourage more adventurous, more wide-ranging, and longer term patterns of research than are current in these disciplines.
Amount: $75,000
Eligibility: Recently tenured humanists.

FOUNDATION GRADUATE TEACHING FELLOWS IN K-12 EDUCATION
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04533/nsf04533.htm
Purpose: To supports fellowships and associated training that enable graduate students and advanced undergraduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to serve in K-12 schools as resources knowledgeable about both the content and applications of these disciplines. Academic institutions apply for awards to support fellowship activities.
Eligibility: Proposals may be submitted only by academic institutions in the US and its territories that grant masters or doctoral degrees in STEM disciplines supported by the National Science Foundation.

WILLIAM T. GRANT FOUNDATION
http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/info-url_nocat3042/info-url_nocat_show.htm?doc_id=76879&attrib_id=4398
Purpose: To further the understanding of human behavior and to improve the lives of young people through research.
Amount: $60,000/yr for 5 years.
Eligibility: Researchers within 7 years of having received a terminal degree.

HAYEK FUND FOR SCHOLARS
http://www.theihs.org/grants_and_contest/id.712/default.asp
Purpose: To help graduate students and untenured faculty present at conferences and travel to academic job interviews and participate in research/publication/career enhancing activities.
Amount: $1,000.
Eligibility: Graduate student or untenured faculty.

HEWLETT PACKARD - TECHNOLOGY FOR TEACHING GRANT
http://grants.hp.com/us/programs/tech_teaching/higher_ed_main.html
Purpose: For educators to develop and share effective educational approaches and experiences for applying mobile technology into learning environments with other professors on campus and beyond.
Amount: 21 laptops and a digital projector (w/related equipment), Officejet, digital camera, $15,000 cash.
Eligibility: Educators in the U.S. and Puerto Rico in the areas of math, science (life sciences, physical sciences, earth sciences, computer sciences), engineering, or business.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: GRANTS TO COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ON CAMPUSES
http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/arc/programinfo.cfm?program_id=1573&pagename=Search.cfm&keyword
Purpose: This discretionary grant program is intended to assist institutions of higher education to develop comprehensive, multidisciplinary responses to domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking on campuses. Funds are also authorized for developing and strengthening victim services.
Eligibility: Institutions of higher education that are in compliance with the campus crime reporting requirements set forth in 20 U.S.C. 1092 (f).

MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION - VARIOUS
http://mmc.gov/research/

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
http://fedgrants.gov/applicants/nea/nea/nea/
Links to a variety of NEA grant opportunities (change yearly).

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES - CHALLENGE GRANTS
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/challenge.html
Purpose: Support ongoing humanities activities in education, public programming, scholarly research, and preservation. Examples include faculty and staff positions, fellowships, lecture or exhibition series, visiting scholars, publishing subventions, consultants, maintenance of facilities, faculty development, acquisitions, and preservation/conservation programs.
Amount: Have ranged in recent years from $30,000 to $700,000. Although up to $1 million may be requested, final awards larger than $500,000 are unusual. Recipients must raise three times the amount of federal funds offered; recipients of subsequent NEH challenge grants must raise four times the amount of federal funds offered.
Eligibility: Universities and other nonprofit entities. Challenge grants are offered only when NEH funds will help institutions carry out long-term plans and enhance their financial stability.
See http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/wtpchallenge.htmlfor NEH funds specifically for topics in American History.

NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/fellowships/fellshipapinfo.htm
Purpose: To provide residential research opportunities in the Research Triangle Park of North Carolina to scholars from all fields of the humanities, as well as the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life, who are engaged in humanistic projects.
Amount: Fellowships up to $50,000 are individually determined.
Eligibility: Applicants must hold doctorate or have equivalent scholarly credentials, and a record of publication is expected. Senior and younger scholars are eligible, though the latter should be engaged in research beyond the revision of a doctoral dissertation. Scholars from any nation may apply.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR THE PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT OF BLACK CHEMISTS AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERS - OUTSTANDING TEACHERS, MENTORS, AND RESEARCHERS
http://www.nobcche.org/index.cfm?PageID=50174597-757C-432E-BA8C253625586175
Purpose: Recognize outstanding scientists, engineers and science teachers who have made significant contributions in their fields.
Eligibility: Varies

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
Various NSF grants for students, faculty, institutions. Offerings change yearly.

CHARLES A. RYSKAMP RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
http://www.acls.org/rysguide.htm
Purpose: Provide time and resources for faculty members to conduct research. Proposals in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies welcome, as are proposals focused on any geographic region or on any cultural or linguistic group.
Amount: $60,000, plus $2,500 for research and travel, and the possibility of an additional summer's support.
Eligibility: Advanced assistant professors and untenured associate professors in the humanities and related social sciences who have advanced their fields and who have well designed plans for new research.

ALFRED P. SLOAN RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
http://www.sloan.org/programs/scitech_fellowships.shtml
Purpose: Assist new scholars in making fundamental contributions to new knowledge.
Amount: $40,000 over 2 years.
Eligibility: Faculty members w/in 6 years of PhD (unless out for things like child rearing, military etc) in chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, economics, neuroscience, biological sciences, or in a related interdisciplinary field with independent research accomplishments. Women/minorities strongly encouraged.

WOODROW WILSON NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION - JOHNSON & JOHNSON DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS IN WOMEN'S HEALTH
http://vivo.cornell.edu/entity?home=2&id=7912
Purpose: Encourage research about women that crosses disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries.
Amount: $6,000 for dissertation-related expenses.
Eligibility: Doctoral student writing on Women's Health who has completed all pre-doc requirements.

WOODROW WILSON NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION - PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS
http://www.woodrow.org/phd/practicum/index.php
Purpose: To promote contributions by humanists and artists. Rewards faculty who are engaged in public scholarship, and particularly public scholarship that expands access to creative opportunity in communities where poverty has diminished such access.
Amount: Up to $10,000.
Eligibility: University-based humanists and artists with full-time appointments. Co-investigators should be teachers, artists, or other community leaders.

WOODROW WILSON NATIONAL FELLOWSHIP FOUNDATION - TEACHERS AS SCHOLARS
http://www.woodrow.org/tas/
Purpose: To promote collaboration b/t college and university faculty and public school teachers. University faculty become more fully involved in the ongoing efforts of the schools.
Amount: Phase I: $15,000 for a 6 month planning period and one program year.
Phase II: $10,000 for the second program year (pending satisfactory program report and evidence of secured future funding). Grants may not exceed 1/3 of the total program budget (not including in-kind contributions).
Eligibility: Any dedicated university and public grade school. Sites that include under-resourced school districts, where the project is likely to make the most difference, will be given additional weight.

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