General Information

EEB Fellowships

Grad School and Other U

NSF Fellowships

EPA Star

Federal

Behavioral Sciences

For Women

Language Training

Other

Other Fellowships and Scholarships

The EPA Star Fellowship

This is a federally-funded graduate fellowship dedicated to environmental research. A request for applications will be published in summer of 2004 for fellowships starting in Fall 2005. Information can be found on the EPA web page.

Other Federal Funding Opportunities

The NSF maintains links to a number of funding opportunities. Below is a list of federal funding opportunities that are listed on the NSF Web page:

NASA's Graduate Student Researchers Program

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships

Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (Department of Education)

Jacob Javits Fellowships (Department of Education)

Department of Energy/Oak Ridge Institute for Science & Education Graduate Programs

National Institutes of Health Educational Programs (National Research Service Awards), and (Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Predoctoral Fellowships)

Funding Opportunities in the Behavioral Sciences

The Leakey Foundation provides up to $12,000 for research in Primates/Anthropology. (Deadline: August 15 or January 5)

The Wenner-Gren Foundation provides up to $15,000 for research in Primates/Anthropology. (Deadline: May 1 and November 1)

The Animal Behavior Society provides up to $1,000 for research in animal behavior. (Deadline: January 25, 2002)

Grants and Fellowships for Women

The Association for Women in Science provides small grants of $1,000 for any aspect of graduate education.

The Minnesota Women’s Center offers scholarships to women 28 years of age and older who are seeking a degree from the University of Minnesota after a five year or longer break in their education.

The Louise T. Dosdall Fellowship, mentioned above, provides one year tuition and stipend for a female graduate student at the University of Minnesota in the sciences. (Deadline: December 1)

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) provides $20,000 of support for the final year of write-up of the thesis (deadline: November 15, 2002).

Grants for Language Training

Foreign Language Area Studies provides summer or academic support study of lesser studied languages. This is an especially good source of summer funding for someone who does research abroad and wants to study the language. (Deadline: February 17, 2003

Other Funding Opportunities

The American Museum of Natural History offers a number of fellowships

The Mary Haga and Agnes Hansen women's travel fellowship. See under Resources > Fellowships/Grants/Other Funding > Annual Travel Awards 2001-02 (deadlines: October 29, 2001 and February 11, 2002 for Agnes Hansen Award; May 13, 2002 for Mary Haga Award)

Sigma Xi (up to $1000 for scientific research)

Wildlife Conservation Society (up to $25,000 for conservation based field research)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute DOE Graduate Research Education Fellowship

Land Institute Natural Systems Agriculture Fellowship

The Geological Society of America offers graduate student fellowships for master's and doctoral thesis research in earth science. Applicants must be members of the Geological Society of America.