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Outside Funding Opportunity Chart

Foundation/Organization

Applicable Field

Eligibility

Application Deadline

Funding Type

Application through University

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

General

Mostly for postdocs

No

Grants, Fellowships

No

American Association of University Women

General

Graduate Women, must be U.S citizens or permanent residents. Also offer International fellowship

Various, check with the website

Grants, Fellowships, Awards

No

American Council of Learned Societies

Humanities and humanities-related social sciences

Doctoral student, postdocs, must be US citizens or permanent residents

Various, check with the website

Fellowships, grants

No

American Indian Graduate Center

General

Native American and Alaskan Native students

June or July, check with the website

Fellowships

No

American Institute for Economic Research

Economics or affiliated programs

Graduating college senior who will be entering a doctoral program or who have been enrolled in such programs for no more than two years, postdocs

March 31 of each year, check with the website

Fellowships

No

American Meteorological Society Fellowships

Atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic fields

Graduate student, must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents

February, check with the website

Fellowships

No

American Nurses Foundation

Nursing

Minority Graduate student (Predoctoral and Postdoctoral), must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents

Various, Check with the website

Fellowships, grants

No

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association

Related to Lateral Sclerosis

postdocs, should not have been in the laboratory longer than one year when applying.

Call for Abstract on December 1 of each year, Deadlines for submissions on January 2 of each year. Check with the website

Fellowship

No

Argonne National Laboratory

Energy research

Graduate students, may require U.S. citizen or permanent resident status depends on the specific grant applied

Check with the website

Internship, Coop opportunities

No

Academia Resource Management (formerly Associated Western Universities)

General

Graduate, Postgraduates, U.S. citizenship required (Permanent Resident Alien status will also be considered by some labs)

Various, check with the website

Fellowship, Internship, Coop opportunities

No

Foundation/Organization

Applicable Field

Eligibility

Application Deadline

Funding Type

Application through University

Association for Women in Science

Science

Female students enrolled in a behavioral, life, physical, or social science or engineering program leading to a Ph.D. degree may apply

Check with the website

Fellowship, Internship

No

Department of Education

General

Graduate students

Check with website

Various

Yes

Department of Energy Global Change Education Program

Environmental studies

Graduate students

Check with the website

Fellowship

No

Department of Health and Human Services

Medical and behavioral research

Various

Various, check with the website

Grants

No

Fermilab

Science

Graduate students, postgraduate

Various, check with the website

Internships, Fellowship

No

Ford Foundation

General, check with the website for the foundation's interest

Graduate students

Check with the website

Grants

No

Foundation Center

General

Check with different funding sources

Various, check with the website

Grants, fellowships

No

Guggenheim Foundation

violence, aggression, and dominance in related topics

Doctoral Candidate in the final year of Ph.D. work, postdocs

Check with the website

Fellowship,

Grants

No

Hertz Foundation

Applied physical and engineering sciences, as well as fields which apply the physical sciences intensively

Ph.D. Graduate Student or College seniors wishing to pursue the Ph.D. degree

Check with the website

Fellowship

No

Hispanic Scholarship Fund

General

Hispanic American graduate students

Various, check with the website

Scholarships

No

Foundation/Organization

Applicable Field

Eligibility

Application Deadline

Funding Type

Application through University

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Medical and dental study

medical and dental students seeking research training

Check with the website

Grants, fellowship

No

Institution of Electrical Engineers

Science, engineering

Postgraduate, must be Members of the IEE

Various, check with website

Scholarships, Fellowship

No

International Council for Canadian Studies

social sciences or humanities

Graduate students who are in the process of preparing a graduate thesis or doctoral dissertation on Canada

December 31st of each year

Scholarship

No

International Research and Exchange Board

Education, independent media, Internet development, and civil society programs

Graduate Student, postdocs

Various, check with the website

Grants, Fellowships

No

James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation

Graduate study that focuses on the United States Constitutionóits history and contemporary relevance to the practices and policies of democratic government.

Master Graduate Student, must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. national and plan to become a teacher, of American history, American government, or social studies at the secondary school level (grades 7-12).

March 1 of each year, check with the website

Fellowships

No

NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program

Space-related research, education, and public service projects

Graduate student, must be U.S. citizen

Check with the Website or direct requests for information and applications to the local Space Grant offices

Fellowship

No

National Academy of Sciences

General

Doctoral Students, postdocs, may require U.S. citizen status

Various, check with the website

Fellowships

No

National Endowment for the Humanities

Humanities

Individual or institute

Various, check with the website

Grants, Fellowships

No

National Institutes of Health

Health

Predoctoral students, postdocs, more eligibility information please click here

Various, check with the website

Grants, Fellowships

No

National Physical Science Consortium

Physical sciences and related engineering fields. more please check here

Ph.D. Student, It is open to all U. S. Citizens, but with emphasis on recruitment of applications from historically underrepresented minorities and women.

November 5 of each year

Fellowships

No

Foundation/Organization

Applicable Field

Eligibility

Application Deadline

Funding Type

Application through University

National Science Foundation

Graduate Student, postdocs, must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents

Various, check with the website

Grants, Fellowships

No

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

General

Graduate Student, postdocs, may require U.S. citizen status.

Various, check with the website

Grants, Fellowships

No

Office of Naval Research

science and technology programs related to meteorological studies

Graduate Students, postdocs, must be citizens or nationals of the United States

Various, check with the website

Grants, Fellowships

No

Population Fellows Programs

Family planning and related reproductive health services

Graduate students,

Postgraduate, must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents

Various, check with the website

Fellowships, Internships

No

Rockefeller Foundation

Food Security, Health Equity, Creativity & Culture, and Working Communities

Various

Various, check with the website

Grants, Fellowships

No

SAE International

Engineering

Graduate students

Various, check with the website

Awards, Scholarships, Loan

No

Smithsonian Institution

General

Graduate students, postdocs

Various, check with the website

Awards, Fellowships, Internships

No

Social Science Research Council

social sciences or humanities

Graduate students, postdocs, may require U.S. Citizen or permanent residents status

Various, check with the website

Fellowships

No

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

General

Graduate students, postdocs, may require U.S. Citizen or permanent residents status

Various, check with the website

Fellowships, Grants

No

United Negro College Fund

General

African Americans postdoctoral, predoctoral students

Various, check with the website

Scholarships, Fellowships

No

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

atmospheric and related sciences

Graduate students, Postgraduate

Various, check with the website

Grants, Fellowships

No

Also you can find:

Other Funding Opportunities at American Indian Graduate Center

Other forms of funding that are not associated with AWIS at Association for Women in Science

List of graduate fellowship opportunities at Council of Graduate Schools

Funding Study in the United States at Association of International Educators

Other Fellowship, Scholarship, and Grants Programs at National Academy of Sciences

 

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