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Grants & Funding
From the NACS Grants Development Office
Beth Brittan-Powell
phone: 301.405.2978
The information presented below is updated as quickly as possible, BUT
please check with your Program Officer as well as the Program Announcement
for additional changes and updates.
New Announcements
Health Research Funding |
Do you have a promising biomedical research proposal that made its way through peer review but did not receive funding? Here is a new pathway for you that may lead to potential funding and help you bring your project to fruition. More information listed under Foundations below. http://healthresearchfunding.org/
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| BASIC SCIENCE AND ADDICTIONS TREATMENT |
BASIC SCIENCE AND ADDICTIONS TREATMENT
Pre-doctoral training program at the intersection of basic process research and clinical
intervention for substance use. The program offers a wide range of interdisciplinary research and
applied experiences at the University Of Maryland, College Park as well as with affiliated
faculty at institutions in the greater Washington DC area (e.g., NIH, University of Maryland
Medical School, Johns Hopkins University). In the context of a translational research project,
trainees will receive joint supervision from one mentor affiliated with the cross-disciplinary
Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences (NACS) Program and the other mentor affiliated with the
Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER). Professional development
will be a core feature of the program, including participation in an interactive speaker series,
training in ethical conduct across both research and applied domains, access to research and
clinical opportunities with underserved populations, and development of grant writing skills.
Project Directors: Carl W. Lejuez, Ph.D. (Clinical Core Director), clejuez@psyc.umd.edu; and
Cynthia Moss, Ph.D. (Basic Process Core Director), cmoss@psyc.umd.edu
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| C-CEBH |
The Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing announces availability of several predoctoral fellowships for students doing research that is related to the mission of the program and who are in any doctoral program at the University of Maryland. The one-year fellowships (renewal is possible), which include stipend, health insurance, tuition, and some funds for research, provide opportunities for students to do full-time research. Please note that by federal law, the fellowships can only be given to US citizens or permanent residents.
The fellowships start on July 1, 2011 and run for 12 months (no other starting date allowed). Due date is March 10, 2011. Download application
Please note that preference may be given to students working with CCEBH faculty or faculty affiliates of the program (see web site), but exceptions can be made. The nature of the research project, and its relationship the research of CCEBH (as illustrated by the research of the participating faculty), is of paramount importance in selection.
If you think you are interested in applying and want to determine whether your research is appropriate please see either of the co-directors, Dr. Arthur Popper (BIOLOGY) and Robert Dooling (Psychology). |
From NIH
xTRAIN |
Starting January 1, NIH will be requiring the use of eRA Commons xTrain systems to submit Statement of Appointment forms and Termination Notices for many of their Training Grants and Fellowships.
The notice regarding this change can be found here: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-11-026.html
NIH's Electronic Research Administration guide for Training grants can be found here: http://era.nih.gov/training_career/index.cfm
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From NSF
effective
January 18, 2011
Data
Management & Sharing
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All proposals
submitted on or after January 18th, 2011 must include a plan for data
management and sharing of the products of research, or assert the
absence of the need for such plans. The Data Management Plan will be
reviewed as an integral part of the proposal, coming under Intellectual
Merit or Broader Impacts or both, as appropriate for the scientific
community of relevance.
Data management requirements and plans specific to the Directorate,
Office, Division, Program, or other NSF unit, relevant to a proposal are
available at: http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp
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NCBI / eRA Commons
As of July 23, 2010 |
PD/PIs are no longer able to enter citations
manually into eRA Commons and must use My Bibliography to enter and
maintain any citations they wish to have available in Commons.****
How can I delegate someone to help with my references for NCBI?
PI needs to login to NCBI and go to my bibliography. On the right hand side - click on edit my bibliography setting. At the bottom of the page, click add delegate:
- Your delegate will receive an e-mail notifying them of access.
- Your delegate will click a link in the e-mail to activate access.
- If your delegate does not have a My NCBI account, they will be invited to register.
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Check out www.grantcentral.com - they have a grant workbook that is pretty good (cost ~ $66).
University of Maryland
ORAA @ UMD NIH registration Fastlane registration
Guide for New Faculty
This guide will help you put your proposal together. When in doubt, check the ORAA website.
Routing Form
Proposals must be accompanied by the University’s internal routing form. Approval of the proposal is demonstrated by signatures on the proposal cover page and the routing form.
Recovery Act Overview
Division of Research
Limited Submissions
Limited submissions refer to funding opportunities for which the sponsor limits or restricts the number of applications, proposals, pre-proposals, or nominations allowed from an eligible university or research institution.
Division of Research
DRIF incentives
TIER 1: Seed Grant/Proof of Concept Program. Program provides funds to support and
encourage individual faculty members and multidisciplinary teams of faculty to secure
proof of concept, with a goal of pursuing sponsored research or to support scholarship
leading to a significant publication or monograph. Funds are also available as seed grants
for faculty to develop new research directions. Strategy for securing external funding
must be outlined. Total support of up to $50,000 comes from Departments/Colleges and
VPR.
TIER 2: Federally Designated Centers and Major Programs Initiative. The VPR, Provost,
and Dean(s) will provide incentive support to faculty who are actively pursuing large,
multi-disciplinary Federal funding opportunities. Funding consists of proposal
development support to facilitate highly competitive proposals, up to $75,000; and/or
post-award annual operating support up to 10% of the budgeted IDC, or post-award cost
sharing support. Support comes from VPR, Provost, and Department(s)/College(s).
TIER 3: Campus-wide Research Initiatives Program (CRI). Program provides support
for development of broad, multidisciplinary research initiatives and centers that will
position the university to become a national leader in an emerging or sustained area of
research that responds to a national or societal need. Planning grants of up to $150,000
and post-CRI designation support of up to $150,000 comes from the VPR, Provost, and
Department(s)/College(s).
University of Maryland College Park & Baltimore Campuses SEED Grant Program -
Please visit UM Research for guidance and application materials.
ADVANCE Advancing women, transforming the University, investing in a culture of inclusive excellence
The ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence aims to transform the institutional culture of our University by facilitating networks, offering individual mentoring and support, and offering information and strategic opportunities for women faculty in all areas of academia. Through initiatives funded from a five year, multi-million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation, the ADVANCE Program aims to produce academic environments with assumptions, values and beliefs, policies and practices that support and generate professional growth and excellence for all faculty.
Primary Contact: Dr. Pam Lanford
Email: advance@umd.edu
Phone: 301-405-0413
Agencies
New Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide
January 2010 effective for proposals submitted on or after January 4, 2010.
New Investigator Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
Foundations / other funding sources
Health Research Funding:
The National Health Council (NHC) has announced a new site that will help unfunded NIH applicants find potential funders. Called “Health Research Funding.Org”, the database will allow unfunded NIH applicants to enter some basic information about their unfunded NIH grant applications in order to make that application information available to other potential funding organizations.
Initially, members of the NHC will have access to the database to be able to peruse ideas for potential funding. These members include over 40 patient advocacy organizations representing a diverse group of potential funders who are looking to take advantage of the tremendous rigor of the NIH peer review process to efficiently identify fundable proposals. Ultimately, the NHC plans to expand access to their database to include other types of funders as well.
The goal of the NHC database is to increase and expand medical research to improve the health of all people.
Their Objectives:
- To facilitate an exchange of information that may lead to alternative funding opportunities to the investigators whose proposals have been scored and deemed meritorious but are unfunded.
- To connect voluntary health agencies and eventually other foundations that fund medical research with investigators.
- To help nonprofit organizations that fund research avoid duplication of efforts as they seek to fund research by making use of the rigorous NIH peer review process.
- To help investigators who have developed specific research proposals obtain the broadest possible audience for their proposed research, without labor-intensive duplication of effort.
How this works:
- Grant applicants should visit the web site, register and create a password, and enter basic project information, such as abstract and score from the NIH peer review outcome.
- Potential funders will determine which projects are of interest to their organization and contact the investigators and pursue further information.The potential funder will work together with the prospective investigator to request verification and further detail on the information provided in the database.
McKnight Scholar Awards:
from website:
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience works to bring science closer to the day when diseases of the brain and behavior can be accurately diagnosed, prevented, and treated. To that end, the Endowment Fund supports innovative research through three competitive annual awards.
Whitehall Foundation
from website:
The Whitehall Foundation, through its program of grants and grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research in the life sciences. It is the Foundation's policy to assist those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not heavily supported by Federal Agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. In order to respond to the changing environment, the Whitehall Foundation periodically reassesses the need for financial support by the various fields of biological research.
WM Keck Foundation:
from website:
In recent years, the Foundation has focused on Science and Engineering Research; Medical Research; Undergraduate Education; and Southern California. Each of our grant programs invests in people and programs that are making a difference in the quality of life, now and for the future.
Microsoft Research Fellowship programs:
from website:
Microsoft Research is eager to recognize and support outstanding fellows, scholars, and researchers to advance the state of computer science and to strengthen collaborative relationships with academic institutions. We sponsor several programs in North America.
New Faculty Fellowship Program: A grant program for outstanding new faculty nominated by their universities. Microsoft Research seeks nominees who are advancing computing research in novel directions with the potential for high impact on the state of the art, and who demonstrate the likelihood of becoming thought leaders in the field. IMPORTANT: UM internal deadline 9/21/09
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
McDonnell Foundation:
from website: In 1950, James S. McDonnell established the McDonnell Foundation, incorporated as a private Foundation. The Foundation has pursued his goals by supporting scientific, educational, and charitable causes locally, nationally, and internationally. The organization was renamed the James S. McDonnell Foundation in 1984 in honor of its founder. In 2007 the Foundation awarded approximately $19.5 million in grants. Since its inception, the McDonnell Foundation has awarded over $347 million in grants. Fair market value of Foundation assets were about $609 million in 2007.
John Templeton Foundation:
from website:
The mission of the John Templeton Foundation is to serve as a philanthropic catalyst for discovery in areas engaging life’s biggest questions. These questions range from explorations into the laws of nature and the universe to questions on the nature of love, gratitude, forgiveness, and creativity.
Epilepsy Foundation:
from website:
The Epilepsy Foundation supports a series of grants to advance the understanding of epilepsy that will lead to better treatment, more effective prevention, and ultimately to a cure. Our grants fund a wide range of researchers including students, junior level and senior level investigators.
proposalCENTRAL:
e-grantmaking website shared by many government, non-profit, and private grant-making organizations.
MacArthur Foundation:
MacArthur is one of the nation’s largest independent foundations. Through the support it provides, the Foundation fosters the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, strengthens institutions, helps improve public policy, and provides information to the public, primarily through support for public interest media.
Postdoctoral Fellowships / Grant Opportunities
University of Maryland Health Center - Insurance Coverage for Fellows - information link
Costs:
Student, annual = $1,186 |
Student& All Children = $2,466 |
Student & Spouse = $3,900 |
Student, Spouse, kids = $5,180 |
For more information, call the University Health Center 301.314.8165
NRSA Individual Fellowship Funding (pre and post doctoral)
The purpose of this individual postdoctoral research training fellowship is to provide support to promising Fellowship Applicants with the potential to become productive, independent investigators in scientific health-related research fields relevant to the missions of participating NIH Institutes and Centers.
New announcement for 2010
NRSA for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows (Parent F32)
Instructions for NRSA - SF424b
NIH Small Grant Program (R03)
The R03 grant mechanism will support small research projects that can be carried out in a short period of time with limited resources. The NIH has standardized the Small Grant (R03) application characteristics, requirements, preparation, and review procedures in order to accommodate investigator-initiated (unsolicited) applications.
NIH Pathway to Independence
The Pathway to Independence Award program is intended to facilitate the ability of a new investigator to complete their supervised research work, establish independence, publish results, obtain an independent research position, and to prepare an application for NIH Research Project (R01) grant support.
NSF
Specialized Information for
Postdoctoral Fellows
example:
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) - from website:
The Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) awards Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology to recent recipients of the doctoral degree for research and training in selected areas of biology supported by BIO and with special goals for human resource development in biology. The fellowships encourage independence at an early stage of the research career to permit Fellows to pursue their research and training goals in the most appropriate research locations regardless of the availability of funding for the Fellows at that site.
Life Sciences Research Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program:
Three-year fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis to graduates of medical and graduate schools in the biological sciences holding M.D., Ph.D., D.V.M. or D.D.S. degrees. Awards will be based solely on the quality of the individual applicant's previous accomplishments, and on the merit of the proposal for postdoctoral research. Persons doing a second postdoc are eligible only if they are transferring to a different supervisor's laboratory and embarking on a new project not connected to their previous research. All U.S. citizens are eligible to apply with no geographic restriction on the laboratory of their choice. Foreign applicants will be eligible for study in U.S. laboratories. LSRF fellows must carry out their research at nonprofit institutions. LSRF fellows can change projects, laboratories, and/or institutions during the fellowship as long as the eligibility rules listed here are not violated. A person holding a faculty appointment is not eligible to apply for an LSRF fellowship.
Ford Foundation
For Achieving Excellence in College and University Teaching
This year the program will award approximately18 postdoctoral fellowships. The postdoctoral fellowships provide one year of support for individuals engaged in postdoctoral study after the attainment of the Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree.
Postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded in a national competition administered by the National Research Council (NRC) on behalf of the Ford Foundation. The awards will be made to individuals who, in the judgment of the review panels, have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
Pre-doctoral and Dissertation Fellowships
University of Maryland Health Center - Insurance Coverage for Fellows - information link
Costs:
Student, annual = $1,186 |
Student& All Children = $2,466 |
Student & Spouse = $3,900 |
Student, Spouse, kids = $5,180 |
For more information, call the University Health Center 301.314.8165
Internal funding opportunities
NSF-IGERT Interdisciplinary Language
Science Program
For students interested in the interdisciplinary study of language, the
NSF-IGERT program on the UMD campus offers opportunities for funding and
academic development. For more information please visit Language at Maryland
www.languagescience.umd.edu.
The full program application can be viewed at http://www.languagescience.umd.edu/programs/igertapplication.php
Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing - T32
The Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing announces availability of several predoctoral fellowships for students doing research that is related to the mission of the program and who are in any doctoral program at the University of Maryland. The one-year fellowships (renewal is possible), which include stipend, health insurance, tuition, and some funds for research, provide opportunities for students to do full-time research. Please note that by federal law, the fellowships can only be given to US citizens or permanent residents.
The fellowships start on July 1, 2011 and run for 12 months (no other starting date allowed). Due date is March 10, 2011. Download application
Please note that preference may be given to students working with CCEBH faculty or faculty affiliates of the program (see web site), but exceptions can be made. The nature of the research project, and its relationship the research of CCEBH (as illustrated by the research of the participating faculty), is of paramount importance in selection. If you think you are interested in applying and want to determine whether your research is appropriate, please see either of the co-directors, Dr. Arthur Popper (BIOLOGY) and Robert Dooling (Psychology).
Basic Science and Addictions Treatment - T32
Pre-doctoral training program at the intersection of basic process research and clinical
intervention for substance use. The program offers a wide range of interdisciplinary research and
applied experiences at the University Of Maryland, College Park as well as with affiliated
faculty at institutions in the greater Washington DC area (e.g., NIH, University of Maryland
Medical School, Johns Hopkins University). In the context of a translational research project,
trainees will receive joint supervision from one mentor affiliated with the cross-disciplinary
Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences (NACS) Program and the other mentor affiliated with the
Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER). Professional development
will be a core feature of the program, including participation in an interactive speaker series,
training in ethical conduct across both research and applied domains, access to research and
clinical opportunities with underserved populations, and development of grant writing skills. Download guidelines.
Project Directors: Carl W. Lejuez, Ph.D. (Clinical Core Director), clejuez@psyc.umd.edu; and
Cynthia Moss, Ph.D. (Basic Process Core Director), cmoss@psyc.umd.edu
Graduate School Fellowships
Flagship Fellowships are intended to help graduate programs to recruit and retain truly exceptional students. Flagship Fellowships are multi-year enhancement awards to be added to fellowship/assistantship offers made by graduate programs. Flagship Fellowship enhancements may total $40,000 per student over the duration of the award. The goal is to award ten Flagship Fellowships per year, reaching a steady state of approximately forty Flagship Fellows.
Please click here for the 2011 Flagship Fellowship Guidelines and click here for the Nomination Cover Sheet. Nominations for the Flagship Fellowship are due by Friday, February 4, 2011 by 4pm. Annually after that.
Ronald E. McNair Graduate Fellowships The new McNair Fellowship program will enhance opportunities for our campus doctoral programs to recruit and retain outstanding alumni or alumnae of McNair undergraduate programs from institutions across the country. The McNair Graduate Fellowships will provide entering graduate students with a first-year support package that includes a fellowship stipend of $18,000, plus tuition remission, fees, and health insurance. Programs admitting McNair Fellows must commit to providing an additional three-year package of at least comparable annual GA and/or fellowship support.
Deadline is Tuesday, February 8, 2011 by noon. Annually after that.
Please click here for guidelines and here for the required cover sheet.
Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowships provide support to outstanding doctoral students at “mid-career,” that is, in the period approximately before, during, or after achievement of candidacy, and are intended to enable students to prepare for or complete a key benchmark in their program’s requirements. Summer Research Fellowships carry stipends of $5,000.
2011 Graduate Summer Research Fellowship are due by noon, on Monday, March 14th.
Please click HERE for guidelines.
Nomination Forms: Select either PDF or Word Document.
Recommendation Forms: Select either PDF or Word Document.
Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships are one-semester awards intended to support outstanding doctoral students who are in the final stages of writing their dissertation and whose primary source of support is unrelated to their dissertation. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships carry a stipend of $10,000 plus candidacy tuition remission and $800 toward the cost of health insurance. The Graduate School awards approximately 40 Wylie Dissertation Fellowships per year.
2011-2012 Wylie Fellowship are due by noon, on Monday, February 28th, 2011.
Nomination Forms: Select either PDF or Word Document
Advisor Recommendation Forms: Select either PDF or Word Document
DGS Recommendation Forms: Select either PDF or Word Document
University of Maryland Distinguished Dissertation Award
In AY 2010-11, the Graduate School is inaugurating an annual University of Maryland Distinguished Dissertation Award. The first competition will be for PhD dissertations defended and submitted to the Graduate School in calendar year 2010, with the first selection process to occur in Spring 2011.
The Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes original work that makes an unusually significant contribution to the discipline. Both methodological and substantive quality will be judged. Awards will be given each year in four broad disciplinary areas: 1) Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering; 2) Social Sciences; 3) Humanities and Fine Arts; and 4) Biological and Life Sciences.
The Council of Graduate Schools uses these categories for its annual
national dissertation awards. Recipients of the Distinguished Dissertation Award will receive an honorarium of $1000 and may be nominated by the University for the CGS national award.
Click here for guidelines for the 2011Distinguished Dissertation Award. Click here for the Nomination Cover Sheet.
Nomination packages from Colleges are due in the Graduate School on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, by 12 noon.
For more information, please contact Tita Chico or Robyn Kotzker .
The Graduate School Endowed Awards
The Graduate School currently offers four prestigious endowed awards: the Dr. Mabel S. Spencer Award for Excellence in Graduate Achievement; the Dr. James W. Longest Memorial Award for Social Science Research; the Michael J. Pelczar Award for Excellence in Graduate Study; and the Phi Delta Gamma Graduate Fellowship.
Please click HERE to review the 2011 Endowed Awards Guidelines.
Nominees should use the following coversheet for their awards submission packet.
Please select: Coversheet PDF or Coversheet Word Document.
The deadline for Endowed Awards nominations is noon on Wednesday, February 16th, 2011.
The Spencer Award, established by the daughters of Dr. Mabel S. Spencer, honors the memory and outstanding professional achievements of Dr. Spencer. It carries a stipend of $15,000 and candidacy tuition remission (if not covered by other tuition remission).
The Longest Award, established by Mary Jack Wintle (Mrs. James W. Longest), honors the memory and outstanding personal and professional achievements of Dr. James W. Longest. It provides $2,000 to support doctoral dissertation research in the social sciences with potential benefits for small and/or disadvantaged communities. Candidacy tuition remission also will be granted for each of two semesters (if not covered by other tuition remission).
The Michael J. Pelczar Award for Excellence in Graduate Study offers $1,000 to an outstanding doctoral candidate who has demonstrated excellence beyond his or her course work, and who has served at least one academic year as a teaching assistant with a commendable performance.
The Phi Delta Gamma Graduate Fellowship offers $1,000 to a student who “best exemplifies interdisciplinary scholarship achievement.”
External funding opportunities
Early Graduate Program opportunities
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.
Great Resources for GRFP:
NSFGRFP.org
Examples of essays found on the web.
Univ of Missouri - tips for GRFP (site also has a fellowship writer's guide and reference letter guide)
Advice for Applicants to the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Reference letters - what can you provide to help your references with their letter?
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships
The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship is a highly competitive, portable fellowship that is awarded to U.S. citizens and nationals who intend to pursue a doctoral degree in one of fifteen supported disciplines. NDSEG confers high honors upon its recipients, and allows them to attend whichever U.S. institution they choose. NDSEG Fellowships last for three years and pay for full tuition and all mandatory fees, a monthly stipend, and up to $1,000 a year in medical insurance.
Eligibility
The Hertz Foundation
The Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship empowers outstanding young people pursuing a PhD degree in the applied physical, biological, and engineering sciences with the freedom to innovate and explore their genius in collaboration with leading professors in the field.
Advanced Graduate Program opportunities
NRSA Individual Fellowship Funding (pre and postdoctoral)
The purpose of this individual predoctoral research training fellowship is to provide support for promising doctoral candidates who will be performing dissertation research and training in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers.
NRSA for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (Parent F31)
Instructions for NRSA - SF424b
NSF SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SBE DDRIG)
Synopsis of Program: The National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCS), Division of Social and Economic Sciences (SES), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), and the SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (SMA) award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student's university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field research in settings away from their campus that would not otherwise be possible. Proposals are judged on the basis of their scientific merit, including the theoretical importance of the research question and the appropriateness of the proposed data and methodology to be used in addressing the question.
In an effort to improve the quality of dissertation research, many programs in both BCS and SES, the Research on Science and Technology Surveys and Statistics program within NCSES, and the Science of Science and Innovation Policy program in SMA accept doctoral dissertation improvement grant proposals. Requirements vary across programs, so proposers are advised to consult the relevant program's webpage for specific information and contact the program director if necessary.
The student must be enrolled at a U.S. academic institution, but need not be a U.S. citizen. Proposals from women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged.
PI Limit: The proposal must be submitted by the dissertation advisor(s) on behalf of the graduate student who is at the point of initiating or already conducting dissertation research.
The Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
Educational Committee offers awards to help women complete their education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Undergraduate and Graduate awards available.
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
from website: ACLS invites applications for the fourth annual competition for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships. These fellowships are to assist graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences (1) in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. This program aims to encourage timely completion of the Ph.D. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2011.
ACLS will award 65 Fellowships in this competition for a one-year term beginning between June and September 2010 for the 2010-2011 academic year. The Fellowship tenure may be carried out in residence at the Fellow's home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the research. The total award of up to $33,000 includes a stipend plus additional funds for university fees and research support. These Fellowships may not be held concurrently with any other fellowship or grant.
Ford Foundation
Through its program of Diversity Fellowships, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
Eligibility to apply for a Ford fellowship is limited to:
- All citizens or nationals of the United States regardless of race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation, Individuals with evidence of superior academic achievement (such as grade point average, class rank, honors or other designations),
- Individuals committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level.
For information regarding level-specific eligibility requirements, stipends, and other program information for each of the three levels of the Fellowship program, please access the fact sheet for the program level of your interest, predoctoral, dissertation or postdoctoral.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, and particularly to help Ph.D. candidates in these fields complete their dissertation work in a timely manner. In addition to topics in religious studies or in ethics (philosophical or religious), dissertations appropriate to the Newcombe Fellowship competition might explore the ethical implications of foreign policy, the values influencing political decisions, the moral codes of other cultures, and religious or ethical issues reflected in history or literature.
Microsoft Research Fellowship programs
Microsoft Research is eager to recognize and support outstanding fellows, scholars, and researchers to advance the state of computer science and to strengthen collaborative relationships with academic institutions. We sponsor several programs in North America.
Application processes for specific programs:
Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship: A two-year fellowship program for outstanding Ph.D. students nominated by their universities.
Microsoft Research Graduate Women's Scholarships: A one-year scholarship program for outstanding female graduate students.
Acoustical Society of America Fellowships, Scholarships, Prizes, Grants and Student Awards
The following fellowships, scholarships, prizes, grants and student awards are available from the Acoustical Society of America:
- The Frederick V. Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Acoustics
- Minority Fellowship
- Raymond H. Stetson Scholarship in Phonetics and Speech Science
- Medwin Prize in Acoustical Oceanography
- Rossing Prize in Acoustics Education
- Robert W. Young Award for Undergraduate Student Research in Acoustics
- The Robert Bradford Newman Student Award Fund- Newman Medals and Schultz Grants
- The American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation awards a Research Grant in Speech Science, supported by the Dennis Klatt memorial fund.
Fellowships for Non-US Students
Student Travel Awards
AMS – American Mathematical Society
The AMS, with funding from a private gift, is accepting applications for partial travel support for graduate students attending the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco, CA, January 13 - 16, 2010.
Acoustical Society of America
A student transportation subsidies fund has been established to provide limited funds to students to partially defray transportation expenses to meetings.
The Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO)
Applications for ARO Graduate student/ Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Awards now being accepted.
APA Student Travel Award
The Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association sponsors an annual competition for graduate student travel awards. The purpose of the Travel Award program is to help psychology graduate students travel to the annual APA Convention to present their research.
International Society for Neuroethology
Heiligenberg Student Travel Awards are awarded annually to qualified students who wish to present work in the field of neuroethology at selected national and international scientific meetings. Six awards or more (depending on the availability of funds) are available each year. The awards may cover expenses such as travel to and from the conference site, conference registration fee, and/or housing costs up to a total of $700.
SFN – Society for Neuroscience
SFN's Chapters Graduate Student Travel Award honors outstanding graduate students nominated by their local SFN chapter. The award provides a stipend to help defray travel expenses and provide complimentary meeting registration fees. Awardees are chosen based on the scientific merit of the abstract, evidence of outreach activities, and letters of nomination from the principal investigator or mentor and the local nominating chapter.
SPSP Student Travel Awards
The Society for Personality and Social Psychology offers Student Travel Awards. Around 80 stipends in the amount of $500 were be awarded to graduate students for travel to the 11th annual SPSP conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2010.
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