External Funding Opportunities

Program: Fellowships and Grants

One of the world's largest sources of funding exclusively for graduate women, the AAUW Educational Foundation supports aspiring scholars around the globe, teachers and activists in local communities, women at critical stages of their careers, and those pursuing professions where women are underrepresented.

Program: Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program

Agency: US Department of Education

The program provides financial assistance to students who have demonstrated superior academic ability and achievement, exceptional promise, and financial need to undertake graduate study leading to a doctoral degree or a master's degree in which the master's degree is the terminal highest degree in the selected field of study.

American Indian Graduate Center

Offers fellowships to qualified Native American and Alaskan Native students to pursue graduate degrees in all fields.

Program: Grants for Nonresidential Scholars

Agency: Getty (J. Paul) Trust

Nonresidential grants allow scholars in art history, or directly allied fields the flexibility to pursue their research wherever necessary, not necessarily at the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

Program: Asian Art, Fellowships for Adv. Asian Language Study, and Refresher Grants

Agency: Blakemore Foundation

Asian Art Grants support programs, exhibits, or publications to improve understanding of Asian fine arts in the US. Limited to China, Japan, Korea, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Tibet, Philippines, and Mongolia. Fellowships for Advanced Asian Language Study are for those pursuing academic, professional, or business careers that involve a modern East or SE Asia language.

Program: ArtsLink Exchange Programs

Agency: CEC ArtsLink

Supports exchanges between artists and arts organizations in the U.S. and in Central/Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia through three programs.

Program: Research Fellowships at the Folger Library

Agency: Folger Shakespeare Library

Provides long-term (six- to nine-month) residential fellowships for research in fields appropriate to the Folger's collection (British and European literary, cultural, political, religious, and social history of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries).

Program: Grants for Residential Scholars

Agency: Getty (J. Paul) Trust

Support established researchers of all nationalities who are working on projects related to a specific theme in the arts, humanities, or social sciences.

Program: International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship Program

Agency: Social Science Research Council

Supports social scientists and humanists conducting dissertation field research in all areas and regions of the world. Applicants, regardless of citizenship, must be enrolled in a U.S. doctoral program and must have completed all coursework but the dissertation before the start of the fellowship.

Program: Visiting Scholar Fellowships on the Holocaust and Genocide

Agency: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Supports up to thirty visiting scholars for research on the Holocaust and genocide. Fields may include historiography and documentation, comparative genocide studies, and the impact of the Holocaust on contemporary society and culture. Disciplines may include history, political science, literature, philosophy, religion, sociology, psychology, and others.

Program: Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowships

Agency: Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Provides approximately twenty-eight fellowships of $18,000 each for one year of study on the ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences.

Program: Dissertation Fellowships in Women's Studies

Agency: Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Provides $3,000 for dissertation research in women's studies, including the evolution of women's role in society, women in history, psychology of women, and women as portrayed in literature.

Program: The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Supports fellows for up to two years of graduate study in any subject anywhere within the United States. Candidates for these fellowships must be either holders of Green Cards, naturalized citizens, or children of two naturalized citizen parents. This fellowship provides $20,000 maintenance and half tuition.

Program: Ruth Simms Hamilton Research Fellowship

Agency: TIAA-CREF Institute

This one-year fellowship will be award for graduate-level research related to the study of the African Diaspora by graduate students enrolled in an accredited U.S. college or university.

Program: Graduate and Post Graduate Fellowships for Research and Study in Yemen

Agency: American Institute for Yemeni Studies

Awards pre- and post-doctoral fellowships (up to $10,000). No disciplinary restrictions exist, but funds must support research costs incurred in Yemen. Emphasis on feasibility studies and/or research projects for individual or collaborative group projects. Fellowships for U.S-based scholars restricted to U.S. citizens. Applications for ten weeks of Arabic language study in Yemen must be related to a research interest in Yemen.

Program: Fellowships in the Humanities

Agency: The Newberry Library

Provides assistance to researchers who wish to use the library's collections, but who cannot finance a visit on their own. Most fellowships are restricted to doctoral candidates or post-doctoral researchers in the humanities.

Program: Dissertation-Level Fellowship

Agency: The Library Company of Philadelphia

A fellowship designed to promote scholarship in early American economy and society, from its colonial beginnings to roughly the 1850s. Carries a stipend of $18,000 tenable for nine consecutive months of residency.

Program: Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation

Agency: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Provides over two hundred fellowships averaging over $35,000 each to further the development of scholars and professionals in all fields (natural and social sciences, humanities, and creative arts), except the performing arts. Students are ineligible.

Program: Grants for Poetry-Related Projects

Agency: The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry

Organizations may apply for grant support from $1,000 to $10,000 for a maximum of three years for projects in the following areas: individual poets (selected by the poet laureate), developing the poetry audience, translation of poetry from languages not currently available to English readers, and the uses of poetry (dramatic, educational, therapeutic, etc.).

Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship Program

Offers substantial scholarships for the graduate education of young men and women of exceptional promise pursuing careers in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Brown University Fellowships

The John Carter Brown Library offers graduate fellowships for advanced research in history and the humanities.

Cross Cultural Institute

Offers future American educators graduate fellowships for one year of research and study in Japan.

German Academic Exchange Service

Offers fellowships to assist doctoral students and recent PhDs in their research on the cultural, social, communal, and intellectual history of German-speaking Jewry.

Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardens

Offers several different short-term and long-term graduate and postdoctoral fellowships.

U. S.-Ireland Alliance

Offers George J. Michell Scholarships to graduate students who want to study or conduct research at an Ireland university of their choice.

Agency: American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Offers both graduate students and scholars the opportunity to study Greek civilization first-hand in Greece.

Program: Africa: South of the Sahara

This site presents funding for students concerned with African Studies.

Program: Museums for America

Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Services

Encourages museums to use their collections, exhibits, and services to strengthen learning in the schools, in the home, and in partnership with community organizations.

Program: Mathematics and Science Education Research Grants

Agency: U.S. Department of Education

Supports research that will identify and support new and ongoing interventions in mathematics and science education that improve math achievement for all students and close the achievement gaps in these academic areas.

Program: Cognition and Student Learning Research

Agency: U.S. Department of Education

Supports research that uses recent advances in cognitive science to address significant educational problems in order to establish a scientific foundation for educational practice by supporting research on key processes of attention, memory, and reasoning that are essential for academic achievement.

Program: Mathematics and ScienceSpecial Education Research

Agency: U.S. Department of Education

Program seeks to identify curriculum and instructional practices that are potentially effective for improving mathematics or science outcomes; develop new interventions and approaches to mathematics and science education; establish the efficacy of existing interventions and approaches; provide evidence on the effectiveness of mathematics and science interventions implemented at scale; and develop and validate assessments for mathematics and science learning.

Program: Rehabilitation Long-Term Training Programs

Agency: U.S. Department of Education

Supports projects that provide training, courses, and/or programs leading to a degree or certificate in areas of personnel shortages in rehabilitation; or support for medical residents enrolled in residency training programs in the specialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation.

Program: Training of Interpreters for Deaf Individuals Program

Agency: U.S. Department of Education

Supports projects to train interpreters who provide services for the deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind. Absolute priorities for the national projects are for distance education as a medium for interpreter training (CFDA 84.160B).

Program: AERA Grants Program

Agency: American Educational Research Association

Supports the development of U.S. educational researchers using NCES and NSF data sets for basic, policy, and applied research. Programs include research grants, dissertation grants, and AERA Institute on Statistical Analysis for Education Policy. Awards vary, but include stipends, living/relocation expenses, and travel to meetings.

Program: Leadership Conference Education Fund

Offers a graduate summer fellowship program designed to place contemporary and future social justice struggles within a national and historical context.

Agency: American Society of Criminology

Offers financial assistance to minority students studying criminal justice. Applications are accepted from current college seniors and graduate students accepted into or enrolled in a program of doctoral studies in criminology.

Agency: The American Political Science Association

The American Political Science Association, founded in 1903, is the leading professional organization for the study of political science and serves more than 15,000 members in over eighty countries. With a range of programs and services for individuals, departments, and institutions, APSA brings together political scientists from all fields of inquiry, regions, and occupational endeavor.

Program:AHRQ Small Research Grant Program

Agency: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Supports small grants (R03) for focused research projects, developmental studies & high risk projects in the areas of health care services & access to services. AHRQ is interested in research involving collaborative efforts between researchers & medical & public health or healthcare providers, purchasers or payer organizations.

Program:Evelyn Hooker Awards Programs (Gay & Lesbian issues)

Agency: American Psychological Foundation

Supports three awards: Wayne F. Placek Award provides up to $40,000 to two doctoral-level investigators & multiple Small Grant Awards of $5,000 for empirical research in all fields of behavioral & social science to increase the general public's understanding of homosexuality & to alleviate the stress that gay men & lesbians experience.

Program:Small Research Grants

Agency: Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses

Designed for novice researchers who are AWHONN members, program provides seed money, pilot funding, or total funding for small projects that offer promising contributions to nursing knowledge in clinical practice.

Program:NIOSH Support for Conferences & Scientific Meetings

Agency: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Supports cooperative agreements (R13, U13) for non-federal conferences on the prevention of work-related illness, injury, disability, and death. Interests include disease (i.e., asthma, hearing loss, infectious diseases, injury) prevention & work environment & workforce issues.

Program:National Grant making Program (Infant & Young Child Nutrition)

Agency: Gerber Foundation

Supports specific nutrition-related interventions to improve infant health & development from 1st year before birth to age 3.

Program:Individual Predoc Kirschstein-NRSA Fellowships for Minority Students

Agency: National Institutes of Health

All NIH Institutes, & the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, provide fellowships (F31) of up to 5 years for minority graduate students from all types of institutions to conduct biomedical, behavioral, or health services research leading to a PhD or MD/PhD.

Program:Predoctoral Fellowships for Students with Disabilities (F31)

Agency: National Institutes of Health

All NIH Institutes, along with the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, provide fellowships (F31) to students with disabilities for research training leading to the PhD or MD/PhD in the biomedical or behavioral sciences.

Program:Basic & Preclinical Research on Complimentary & Alt. Med. (CAM)

Agency: National Institutes of Health

NCCAM, NCI, & the Office of Dietary Supplements support research (R01, R15, R21) on CAM to provide a stronger foundation for ongoing & planned clinical studies.

Program:Research Grants and Fellowships

Agency: Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation

Three programs support research on Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI): Michael Geisman Research Fellowships provide up to $50,000/year for one or two years ($35,000 toward the investigator's salary & up to $15,000 per year for supplies); Seed Grants provide up to $60,000 for one year; and Clinical Seed Grants provide up to $120,000 for two years and support research at institutions as well as at OI Foundation's National Conference.

Agency:American Psychological Association

Offers many funding prospects for graduate students in the field of psychology.

Program: Grants Program (Advanced Graduate Students and Recent PhDs)

Agency: American Museum of Natural History

Provides two hundred short-term awards that average $1,400 in support of advanced graduate students, recent PhDs, and established investigators in zoology, paleontology, anthropology, astrophysics, and earth and planetary sciences.

Program: Visiting Scientists Fellowship Program

Agency: Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)

Provides opportunities to work with JILA university staff at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder for periods of four months to one year. Research at JILA involves collaboration between experimentalists and theorists and spans six areas: Atomic Physics, Chemical Physics, Materials Physics and Chemistry, Optical Physics, Precision Measurement, and Astrophysics.

Program: Plant Genome Research Program

Agency: National Science Foundation

Supports basic research in plant genomics, and to accelerate acquisition and utilization of new knowledge and innovative approaches to elucidate fundamental biological processes in plants. Focus on plants of economic importance and plant processes of economic value.

Program: Division of Astronomical Sciences

Agency: National Science Foundation

Program areas in the Division of Astronomical Sciences, supported primarily through individual investigator awards, include planetary astronomy, stellar astronomy and astrophysics, galactic astronomy, extragalactic astronomy, and cosmology.

Program: Materials Research and Education

Agency: National Science Foundation

Supports innovative experiments in materials-related education, such as inquiry-based learning, integration of research and education, and early workplace exposure.

Program: Statistics Program

Agency: National Science Foundation

Supports research to develop or improve statistical theory and methods (with applications to any area of science and engineering).

Program: Tropical Research Institute Fellowships (Various Academic Levels)

Agency: Smithsonian Institution

Supports programs in residence at the Tropical Research Institute in Panama in tropical biology, ecology, behavior and evolution of terrestrial and marine organisms, archeology, paleontology, and human ecology.

Program: National Ocean ServiceFellowship and Scholarship Programs

Agency: U.S. Department of Commerce

NOS supports two programs: Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship ProgramFinancial Assistance for Grad Students; National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The Foster program will offer approximately $160,000 for up to five awards.

Program: Developing Global Scientists and Engineers

Agency: National Science Foundation

Provides U.S. institutions with support for international research experiences and education for early career stages of scientists and engineers. Focus: support for International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) at the undergraduate and graduate levels and Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Projects (DDEP).

Program: Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program

Agency: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Provides a weekly stipend of $450 plus travel expenses for up to thirty Mass Media Fellows to work for ten weeks each summer as reporters, researchers, and production assistants in mass media organizations nationwide. Fellows attend a session at AAAS at the beginning and end of the program. Eligibility is limited to college students in their senior year or in any graduate or post-graduate program in the natural, physical, health, engineering, computer, social sciences, or mathematics fields.

Agency: Association of American Geographers

Offers three different dissertation and research grant programs to support doctoral dissertation research in geography.

Agency: National Science Foundation

The purpose of the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program is to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and to reinforce its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in the relevant science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees, including women in engineering and computer and information science.

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Foundation Center

This contains databases that provide the latest information on foundations and grants as well as workshops for orientations concerning the funding research process.

Council of Graduate Schools

This is an organization of institutions of higher education in the United States, Canada, and across the globe engaged in graduate education, research scholarship, and the preparation of candidates for advanced degrees.

FinAid

A web page that lists many books which are full of fellowships for graduate students.

IUP Financial Aid

Here, graduate students can find numerous sources of scholarships and fellowships from IUP, state and federal governments, foundations, clubs and organizations, religious groups, and other entities.

Rotary Foundation

Offers the Ambassadorial Scholarships program to further international understanding and friendly relations among people of different countries. There are several types of scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students as well as for qualified professionals pursuing vocational studies.

Colleges, College Scholarships, and Financial Aid Page

This database is searchable by state and locates information on colleges (address, phone number, web address, and financial aid information).

U.S. Government

Grants.gov provides grant opportunities offered by the U.S. government.