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for grad students
Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship Awards
Award Info:
$10,000 Fellowship
The 2025 Amelia Earhart Fellowship application is now closed. The 2026 Amelia Earhart application will open in July 2025.
Description:
The Amelia Earhart Fellowship was established in 1938 in honor of famed pilot and Zontian, Amelia Earhart. The US$10,000 Fellowship is awarded annually to up to 35 women pursuing Ph.D./doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering and space sciences. It may be used at any university or college offering…
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellowships
Award Info:
American Fellowships: $8,000–$50,000
International Fellowships:
- Master’s/first professional degree: $20,000
- Doctoral: $25,000
- Postdoctoral: $50,000
Description:
For more than 130 years, AAUW has funded the educations of countless women so they could follow their dreams. From astronauts to zoologists, the recipients of AAUW’s fellowships, grants and awards represent nearly every imaginable field of endeavor.
AAUW American Fellowships support women…
Department of Defense (DoD) Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART)
Award Info:
Benefits include:
- Full tuition and education related educational expenses (meal plans, housing, and parking not included)
- Stipend paid at a rate of $30,000 - $46,000 a year depending on degree level (may be prorated depending on award length)
- Summer research…
Description:
The Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-service program, one of DOD’s STEM’s initiative, is funded by the Department of Defense. It is a combined educational and workforce development opportunity for bachelors, masters, and PH. D students to gain…
Young Investigator Award (YIA)
Award Info:
Predoctoral awards provide a flat rate of $32,000 of stipend support for each of TWO years (total two-year budget $64,000, including 10% Indirect costs).
Postdoctoral awards: From 2021, CTF started a pilot program to provide postdoctoral YIA salary support for up to THREE years. The third year…
Description:
The Young Investigator Award provides two-year salary support to early career NF researchers and helps them get established as independent NF investigators. The main function of the YIA program has been to serve as a ‘seeding mechanism’ for researchers to secure larger grants, such…
Research Grants
Award Info:
Eligibility:
Must be a full member of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses.
Award Amount:
Corporate funders and charitable contributions to Every Woman, Every Baby from AWHONN members have totaled more than $700,000, distributed to our…
Description:
AWHONN's commitment to nursing research and scholarship is reflected in our 28-year history of funding nursing research and promoting evidence-based nursing care. Our program is designed primarily for reearchers whose efforts are on the beginning stages of a program of research. Awards are granted…
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships
Award Info:
• Annual stipend: $27,000 for three years
• An invitation to attend the Conference of Ford Fellows
• Access to Ford Fellow Regional Liaisons, a network of former Ford Fellows
Description:
This competition year the program will award approximately 70 predoctoral fellowships. These fellowships provide three years of support for individuals engaged in graduate study leading to a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) or Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree.
Predoctoral fellowships will…
AMS-AAAS Mass Media Fellowship
Award Info:
Fellows receive a stipend of US$10,000 for the summer, plus travel expenses to and from AAAS and media outlets, to work for ten weeks during the summer months as reporters, researchers, and production assistants in media organizations.
Description:
This program is designed to improve public understanding of science and technology by placing advanced science, mathematics and engineering students in newsrooms nationwide. Fellows will observe and participate in the process by which events and ideas become news, improve their ability to communicate…
AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Felowship
Award Info:
Fellows are provided a stipend of $10,000 for the summer as well as travel expenses to and from AAAS and their sites. AAAS does not provide health care or employee benefits. AAAS does not provide housing or an additional housing stipend.
Description:
A 10-week summer program that places science, engineering, and mathematics students at media organizations nationwide. Fellows will use their academic training as they research, write, and report today’s headlines, sharpening their abilities to communicate complex scientific issues to the public.…
Center for the History of Political Economy
Award Info:
Research Fellows may come to the Center for either a semester, a full academic year (which runs from the end of August to the beginning of May), or a twelve month period.
The Center has funding available for support of Fellows. When possible, Fellows should attempt to bring their own funding through…
Description:
Each year the Center brings together a mix of scholars who are pursuing their own research projects in the history of political economy.
The Center provides the following sorts of fellowships:
· Senior Research Fellowships enable scholars at various stages of their careers…
NNSA Graduate Fellowship Program
Award Info:
A year-long, salaried fellowship that offers:
Real-world experience in national security and nonproliferation;
Leadership development, professional networking, and specialized training; and
Extensive interaction and collaboration with leading national security technology and policy…
Description:
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Graduate Fellowship Program (NGFP) identifies and develops the next generation of exceptional national security leaders to achieve the NNSA mission: Strengthening our nation through nuclear security.