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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…
The Allergic Respiratory Diseases Research Award
Award Info:
The Allergic Respiratory Diseases Research Award is for $75,000 per year, for up to two years. No more than 75% of the requested budget may be used for an awardee’s salary and/or fringe benefits and no more than 30% of the total award budget may be used to fund the purchase of permanent equipment.
Description:
Award recipients will be selected by a review panel composed of American Lung Association and American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology representatives. Awards are administered by the American Lung Association but the funding of the awards is split equally by the associations.
American Lung Association Catalyst Award
Award Info:
The Catalyst Grant is for $50,000 per year, for up to two years
Description:
The American Lung Association Catalyst Award is a mentored award meant to support outstanding investigators on the path to independence for research into the mechanisms of lung disease and general lung biology. Preference is given to projects that are novel; innovative in design/approach; utilize…
Dalsemer Research Grant
Award Info:
The Dalsemer Research Grant is for $50,000 per year, for up to two years
Description:
The American Lung Association Dalsemer Research Grant is a mentored award meant to provide seed monies to junior investigators on the path to independence for researching the mechanisms and biology of interstitial lung disease.
The Dalsemer Research Grant is for $50,000 per year, for up to two…
Research Grants
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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…
The BARD International Workshop Grant
Award Info:
Award amount: Varies: $20,000 to $45,000
Description:
Purpose: The purpose of the BARD workshop is to identify research needs in areas of new development, to define directions and opportunities regarding contemporary agricultural needs and provide information needed to address policy issues. The workshop is intended to promote increased…