Teaching assistantships are awarded through the individual departments. Teaching assistants are required to perform teaching and other instructional activities. As with any professional appointment, the amount of service may vary from week to week but the average is usually expected to be 20 hours per week.

Research assistantships are generally funded by research grants and contracts provided by external funding agencies. Research assistantships require twenty hours of service or research a week. The amount of service or research may vary from week to week but the average is usually expected to be 20 hours per week. Research assistants are expected to work on their assigned research projects during winter session and may be required to work during summer as well. The amount of each student's stipend will be calculated in accordance with the number of months that the student is employed.

Graduate assistantships are awarded by academic departments and other University offices to students in exchange for work. Graduate assistants are employed for twenty hours a week in a variety of capacities as administrative assistants to University faculty and administrators. These tasks may or may not be related to the student's program. The amount of service may vary from week to week but the average is usually expected to be 20 hours per week.

Tuition scholarships provide full tuition but do not pay a stipend. They are awarded according to the same rules that govern eligibility for University fellowships. There is no work requirement for the tuition scholarship. Tuition scholars can meet the requirement to maintain full-time status by enrolling in a minimum of six graduate credit hours per semester. Tuition scholars may accept remuneration for employment inside or outside of the University. Tuition scholars are covered by the University's graduate student Accident and Sickness Insurance Plan. (Coverage and student costs are subject to review each year by the insurance company and the University. Refer to "A Guide to Student Health Services" for current details.)

• None available at this time.

American Anthropological Association
Graduate fellowships, awards and resources for anthropology and the humanities. International resources are highlighted.

American Association of University Women, AAUW
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; includes the American Fellowship.

American Council of Learned Societies, ACLS
The ACLS offers fellowships and grants in more than a dozen programs for research in the humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels.

American Historical Association Prizes and Grants
The American Historical Association offers prizes and awards in historical research, study, preservation and scholarship.

American Institute of Physics
Grants-in-aid for the history of modern physics and allied fields.

American Musicology Society
The AMS advances learning and scholarship in musicology: includes dissertation fellowship and minority student graduate fellowship.

American Philosophical Society
The APS offers seven grant and fellowships programs to promote useful knowledge in the sciences and the humanities, including the John Hope Franklin Fellowship, Daland Fellowships, Phillip grants, Library Fellowships, Lewis & Clark Fund, and Sabbatical Fellowships.

The American Studies Association
Grants and prizes in the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history.

Beinecke Scholarship Program
Students out outstanding ability and a history of socioeconomic need who plan enter a master's or doctoral program in the arts, humanities or social sciences.

The College Art Association
The CAA offers a number of fellowships and grants, including the Professional Development Program for MFA and PhD candidates in art and art history to bridge the gap between their graduate study and professional careers. The program's purpose is to support outstanding students from socially and economically diverse backgrounds who may have been underrepresented in their fields.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

 

Council on Library and Information Resources
The CLIR offers Mellon Fellowships for dissertation research in the humanities in original sources

Folger Shakespeare Library
The Folger Shakespeare Library offers research fellowships to encourage access to its exceptional collections and to encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars of the early modern period. Each year, scholars may compete for a limited number of long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (one to three months) fellowships.

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Program
The Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships seek 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. To facilitate this goal the Fellowship grants awards at the Predoctoral, Dissertation and, Postdoctoral levels to students who demonstrate excellence, a commitment to diversity and a desire to enter the professoriate.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

Foundation for Jewish Culture
The Foundation for Jewish Culture (formerly the National Foundation for Jewish Culture) supports artists and scholars who explore the fabric of Jewish life, creating work that is both contemporary and profound..

Fulbright Program for U.S. Students
Fulbright Grants--U.S. Student Program are for graduate study or research abroad. Grants are awarded to seniors and graduate students in all academic fields and in the creative and performing arts who are citizens of the United States.

The Getty
Support for individuals and institutions to promote scholarship in the history of art.

Hagley Museum & Library
Hagley offers the Henry Belin du Pont fellowship and dissertation fellowship, as well as grants-in-aid.

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Fellows
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.

Horatio Alger Fellowship for the Study of American Popular Culture
The University Libraries, Northern Illinois University, invite applications for the Horatio Alger Fellowship for the Study of American Popular Culture. Funding is available to scholars who will be using materials from the Libraries' major holdings in American popular culture.

HNet Online: Humanities and Social Sciences
Listserv and funding announcements for the Humanities.

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program
This program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in selected fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences.

John F. Kennedy Library Research Foundation Grants and Fellowships
The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation invites scholars and students to apply for support of their research and use of the archival, manuscript, and audiovisual holdings of the Library under the following programs; for the humanities and the social sciences. Only one grant or fellowship application per person can be submitted in a given year.

Library of Congress Fellowships
Various fellowship and internship opportunities at the Library of Congress.

McNeil Center for Early American Studies, Dissertation Fellowships Program
Since 1978, more than 150 advanced graduate students from some 50 different universities in North America and Europe have received dissertation fellowships from the McNeil Center. Fellows receive office space in the Center’s magnificent building on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus and library, computer, and other privileges at the University. Limited travel funds for research are also available.

The National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, and other scholarly tools.

National Gallery of Art Graduate Fellowship Programs
The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts offers a number of predoctoral fellowship programs in support of advanced graduate research in the history, theory, and criticism of art, architecture, and urbanism
Opportunities include the David E. Finley, Paul Mellon, Samuel H. Kress, Wyeth, Ittleson, Andrew W. Mellon, and Chester Dale fellowships

The Newberry Library
Fellowships at the Newberry Library are of two types: short-term fellowships with terms of one week to two months and long-term fellowships of six to eleven months. Short-term fellowships are generally restricted to individuals from outside the metropolitan Chicago area and are primarily intended to assist researchers with a need to examine specific items in the Library's collection. Long-term fellowships are generally available without regard to an applicant's place of residence and are intended to support significant works of scholarship that draw on the Library's strengths.

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The purpose of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The Program is established in recognition of the contributions New Americans have made to American life and in gratitude for the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors and their family. A Fellow may pursue a graduate degree in any professional field (e.g., engineering, medicine, law, social work, etc.) or scholarly discipline in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Fine and Performing Arts are included.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants
A compilation of resources on fellowships and funding in architecture, accounting, arts and humanities, interior design, liberal arts, planning, and religion, created by Francisco Alberto Tomei Torres, Ph.D.

Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center residency program assists scholars and professionals whose research on the black experience can benefit from extended access to the Center's resources.

Smithsonian Institute
The Office of Fellowships at the Smithsonian Institute.

Social Science Research Council
An array of fellowships primarily for the social sciences, but also for the humanities, natural sciences and relevant fields.

Spencer Fellowships
The Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. The Spencer Foundation also funds dissertation awards, a postdoctoral program, and the Spencer fellows program.

Winterthur
Winterthur offers short and long-term in-residence research fellowships for graduate students.

Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
The Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues of contemporary importance.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation offers national fellowships and dissertation fellowships in religion and ethics, women and gender, conservation, and foreign affairs.

American Association of Geographers, Grants and Awards
The Association of American Geographers (AAG) is a nonprofit scientific and educational society founded in 1904. For 100 years the AAG has contributed to the advancement of geography. Its members from more than 60 countries share interests in the theory, methods, and practice of geography. Dissertation research grants and graduate student awards.

American Association of University Women, AAUW
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; includes the American Fellowship.

American Council of Learned Societies, ACLS
The ACLS offers fellowships and grants in more than a dozen programs for research in the humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels.

American Philosophical Society
The APS offers seven grant and fellowships programs to promote useful knowledge in the sciences and the humanities, including the John Hope Franklin Fellowship, Daland Fellowships, Phillip grants, Library Fellowships, Lewis & Clark Fund, and Sabbatical Fellowships.

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 80 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 endeavors within and outside academe in order to expand awareness and understanding of politics.

American Psychological Program
Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With 150,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide.

American Sociological Association
A non-profit membership association based in Washington, DC., dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good.

Beinecke Scholarship Program
Students out outstanding ability and a history of socioeconomic need who plan enter a master's or doctoral program in the arts, humanities or social sciences.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
The primary source of news, information, jobs and funding for higher education.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

Environment Protection Agency Graduate Fellowships
Various graduate fellowship programs in the environmental disciplines, as well as social anthropology, urban and regional planning, decision sciences, science and technology, and public health. Includes the STAR Fellowship program; the AAAS Science and Engineering Fellow program; the Public Health Fellows program; and the Marshall Scholarship Program.      

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Fellows
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.

HNet Online: Humanities and Social Sciences
Listserv and funding announcements for the Humanities.

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program
This program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in selected fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences.

John F. Kennedy Library Research Foundation Grants and Fellowships
The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation invites scholars and students to apply for support of their research and use of the archival, manuscript, and audiovisual holdings of the Library under the following programs; for the humanities and the social sciences. Only one grant or fellowship application per person can be submitted in a given year.

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Research and Fellowships
Each year the Lincoln Institute sponsors a wide variety of research projects that are generally organized around a set of land policy topics. See especially the Lincoln Institute's Dissertation Fellowship Program, which assists Ph.D. students, primarily at U.S. universities, whose research complements the Institute's interests in land and tax policy.

Morris K. Udall Foundation
The Udall Foundation awards two one-year fellowships to doctoral candidates whose research concerns U.S. environmental public policy and/or environmental conflict resolution and who are entering their final year of writing the dissertation. Dissertation Fellowships are intended to cover both academic and living expenses.

National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation makes grants and awards for social, behavioral, and economic research that builds fundamental knowledge of human behavior, interaction, and social and economic systems, organizations and institutions.

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The purpose of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The Program is established in recognition of the contributions New Americans have made to American life and in gratitude for the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors and their family. A Fellow may pursue a graduate degree in any professional field (e.g., engineering, medicine, law, social work, etc.) or scholarly discipline in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Fine and Performing Arts are included.

Russell Sage Foundation
The Russell Sage Foundation is an operating foundation directly involved in the conduct and dissemination of social science research. Current programs include the future of work, immigration, cultural contact, social inequality and behavioral economics.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants
A compilation of resources on fellowships and funding in architecture, accounting, arts and humanities, interior design, liberal arts, planning, and religion, created by Francisco Alberto Tomei Torres, Ph.D.

Social Science Research Council
The SSRC provides an array of fellowships primarily for the social sciences, but also for the humanities, natural sciences and relevant fields.

Sociology Program, National Science Foundation
This program supports basic dissertation or thesis research on all forms of human social organization - societies, institutions, groups, and demography - and processes of individual and institutional change. The program encourages theoretically focused empirical investigations aimed at improving the explanation of fundamental social processes. Included is research on organizations and organizational behavior, population dynamics, social movements, social groups, labor force participation, stratification and mobility.

Spencer Fellowships
The Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. The Spencer Foundation also funds dissertation awards, a postdoctoral program, and the Spencer fellows program.

WE Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Dissertation Award
The Institute supports and conducts policy-relevant research on employment, unemployment, and social insurance programs. The dissertation award further pursues this mission. The dissertation may come from any academic discipline, but it must have a substantial policy thrust.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation offers national fellowships and dissertation fellowships in religion and ethics, women and gender, conservation, and foreign affairs.

WREI Congressional Fellowships on Women and Public Policy
WREI awards annual fellowships to a select number of graduate students with a proven commitment to equity for women. WREI Fellows gain practical policymaking experience and graduate credit as they work from January to August as Congressional legislative aides in Washington, D.C. Fellows receive stipends for tuition and living expenses.

 

American Association for the Advancement of Science
AAAS works to help produce the necessary base of scientists and engineers who are key to maintaining the country's leadership role and sustaining the well-being of our people. Graduate and postdoctoral fellowships and awards in science, engineering and technology.

American Association of University Women, AAUW
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; includes the American Fellowship.

Association for Women in Science Educational Foundation
AWIS is a national advocacy organization championing the interests of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics across all disciplines and employment sectors. By breaking down barriers and creating opportunities, AWIS strives to ensure that women in these fields can achieve their full potential.

AT&T Labs Fellowships
An AT&T Labs Fellowship is the opportunity of a lifetime. Fellowships are available to outstanding under-represented minority and women students who are U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents and who are pursuing Ph.D. studies in computer and communications-related fields.

Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program within the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the National Academies is designed to engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, public policy, and law students in the analytical process that informs the creation of national policy-making with a science/technology element. As a result, students develop basic skills essential to working in the world of science policy.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
The primary source of news, information, jobs and funding for higher education.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

The Department of Energy/Krell Institute Fellowships
The Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (SSGF) Program; the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) is a program funded by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Office of Science; and th U.S. Department of Energy High-Performance Computer Science Fellowship (DOE HPCSF).

Department of Homeland Security Graduate Fellowships
You must be pursuing a doctoral or master's degree with a thesis requirement in a homeland security science, technology, engineering or mathematics (HS-STEM) field which is a STEM field with coursework and/or research relevant to a homeland security research area.

Environment Protection Agency Graduate Fellowships
Various graduate fellowship programs in the environmental disciplines, as well as social anthropology, urban and regional planning, decision sciences, science and technology, and public health. Includes the STAR Fellowship program; the AAAS Science and Engineering Fellow program; the Public Health Fellows program; and the Marshall Scholarship Program.

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Program
The Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships seek 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. To facilitate this goal the Fellowship grants awards at the Predoctoral, Dissertation and, Postdoctoral levels to students who demonstrate excellence, a commitment to diversity and a desire to enter the professoriate.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

IBM Ph.D. Awards
The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards is an intensely competitive program which honors exceptional Ph.D. students in many academic disciplines and areas of study, for example: computer science and engineering, electrical and mechanical engineering , physical sciences (including chemistry, material sciences, and physics), mathematical sciences (including optimization), business sciences (including financial services, communication, and learning/knowledge), and service sciences, management, and engineering.

Management Studies Award, National Society of Professional Engineers
This scholarship is designed for graduate students who are pursuing an MBA, a master's degree in engineering management, or a master's degree in public administration.

National Academies/National Research Council
The Research Associateship awards are open to doctoral level scientists and engineers (U.S and Foreign Nationals) who can apply their special knowledge and talents to research areas that are of interest to them and to the participating host laboratories and centers. Awards are available for Postdoctoral Associates (within 5 years of the doctorate) and Senior Associates (normally 5 years or more beyond the doctorate).

National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation supports basic research in the sciences, mathematics, computer sciences, social sciences, behavioral sciences and economics. NSF provides a large share of all federally-supported basic research at American universities and institutions.

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The purpose of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The Program is established in recognition of the contributions New Americans have made to American life and in gratitude for the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors and their family. A Fellow may pursue a graduate degree in any professional field (e.g., engineering, medicine, law, social work, etc.) or scholarly discipline in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Fine and Performing Arts are included.

Professional Research Experience Program (PREP), National Institutes of Standards and Technology
The goal of the Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) is to provide valuable laboratory experience and financial assistance to graduate students at eligible U.S. universities and colleges. Fellowships are awarded to assure the continued growth and progress of science and engineering in the United States.

SMART (Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation) Graduate Fellowships, Department of Defense
The Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program has been established by the Department of Defense (DoD) to support undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The program aims to increase the number of civilian scientists and engineers working at DoD laboratories.

USDA, United States Department of Agriculture
USDA offers internships, fellowships, and scholarships to students to help them to excel in their chosen fields. Internship programs are geared toward combining academic studies with on-the-job training and experience. Scholarship programs are in place to support exemplar students with financial assistance.

American Association for the Advancement of Science
AAAS works to help produce the necessary base of scientists and engineers who are key to maintaining the country's leadership role and sustaining the well-being of our people. Graduate and postdoctoral fellowships and awards in science, engineering and technology.

American Association of Geographers, Grants and Awards
The Association of American Geographers (AAG) is a nonprofit scientific and educational society founded in 1904. For 100 years the AAG has contributed to the advancement of geography. Its members from more than 60 countries share interests in the theory, methods, and practice of geography. Dissertation research grants and graduate student awards.

American Association of University Women, AAUW
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; includes the American Fellowship.

American Astronomical Society
The American Astronomical Society (AAS), established 1899, is the major organization of professional astronomers in North America. The basic objective of the AAS is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of science. The membership also includes physicists, mathematicians, geologists, engineers and others whose research interests lie within the broad spectrum of subjects now comprising contemporary astronomy.

American Institute of Physics
Grants-in-aid for the history of modern physics and allied fields.

American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a leader in the education and training of young scientists in the natural history disciplines represented in this institution. Our fellowship programs provide training in the fields of anthropology, invertebrate zoology, paleontology (paleo-zoology), physical sciences (astrophysics and earth and planetary sciences), and vertebrate zoology. See especially the graduate fellowships.

American Physical Society Awards and Fellowships
Dissertation awards, fellowships and prizes in physics.

Aquatic Network
Grant and funding resources in the aquatic and marine sciences.

Association for Women in Science Educational Foundation
AWIS is a national advocacy organization championing the interests of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics across all disciplines and employment sectors. By breaking down barriers and creating opportunities, AWIS strives to ensure that women in these fields can achieve their full potential.

Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
More than 70 astronauts from the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle programs are helping the United States retain its world leadership in science and technology by providing scholarships for college students who exhibit motivation, imagination, and exceptional performance in the science or engineering field of their major; includes Master's students.

AT&T Labs Fellowships
An AT&T Labs Fellowship is the opportunity of a lifetime. Fellowships are available to outstanding under-represented minority and women students who are U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents and who are pursuing Ph.D. studies in computer and communications-related fields.

Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program within the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the National Academies is designed to engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, public policy, and law students in the analytical process that informs the creation of national policy-making with a science/technology element. As a result, students develop basic skills essential to working in the world of science policy.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
The primary source of news, information, jobs and funding for higher education.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

The Department of Energy/Krell Institute Fellowships
The Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (SSGF) Program; the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) is a program funded by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Office of Science; and th U.S. Department of Energy High-Performance Computer Science Fellowship (DOE HPCSF).

Department of Homeland Security Graduate Fellowships
You must be pursuing a doctoral or master's degree with a thesis requirement in a homeland security science, technology, engineering or mathematics (HS-STEM) field which is a STEM field with coursework and/or research relevant to a homeland security research area.

Environment Protection Agency Graduate Fellowships
Various graduate fellowship programs in the environmental disciplines, as well as social anthropology, urban and regional planning, decision sciences, science and technology, and public health. Includes the STAR Fellowship program; the AAAS Science and Engineering Fellow program; the Public Health Fellows program; and the Marshall Scholarship Program.

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Program
The Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships seek 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. To facilitate this goal the Fellowship grants awards at the Predoctoral, Dissertation and, Postdoctoral levels to students who demonstrate excellence, a commitment to diversity and a desire to enter the professoriate.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Fellows
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.

IBM Ph.D. Awards
The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards is an intensely competitive program which honors exceptional Ph.D. students in many academic disciplines and areas of study, for example: computer science and engineering, electrical and mechanical engineering , physical sciences (including chemistry, material sciences, and physics), mathematical sciences (including optimization), business sciences (including financial services, communication, and learning/knowledge), and service sciences, management, and engineering.

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program
This program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in selected fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Research and Fellowships
Each year the Lincoln Institute sponsors a wide variety of research projects that are generally organized around a set of land policy topics. See especially the Lincoln Institute's Dissertation Fellowship Program, which assists Ph.D. students, primarily at U.S. universities, whose research complements the Institute's interests in land and tax policy.

National Academies/National Research Council
The Research Associateship awards are open to doctoral level scientists and engineers (U.S and Foreign Nationals) who can apply their special knowledge and talents to research areas that are of interest to them and to the participating host laboratories and centers. Awards are available for Postdoctoral Associates (within 5 years of the doctorate) and Senior Associates (normally 5 years or more beyond the doctorate).

National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program recognizes outstanding scholarship and encourages independent graduate level research -- particularly by female and minority students -- in oceanography, marine biology and maritime archaeology.

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
As a means of increasing the number of U.S. citizens and nationals trained in science and engineering disciplines of military importance, the Department of Defense (DoD) plans to award approximately 200 new three-year graduate fellowships in April 2009, subject to the availability of funds.

National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation supports basic research in the sciences, mathematics, computer sciences, social sciences, behavioral sciences and economics. NSF provides a large share of all federally-supported basic research at American universities and institutions.

NMFS/ Sea Grant Joint Graduate Fellowship Program in Marine Economics
The Graduate Fellowship Program generally awards two new Ph.D. fellowships each year to students who are interested in careers related to the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing the economics of the conservation and management of living marine resources. Fellows will work on thesis problems of public interest and relevance to NMFS under the guidance of NMFS mentors at participating NMFS Science Centers or Laboratories.

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The purpose of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The Program is established in recognition of the contributions New Americans have made to American life and in gratitude for the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors and their family. A Fellow may pursue a graduate degree in any professional field (e.g., engineering, medicine, law, social work, etc.) or scholarly discipline in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Fine and Performing Arts are included.

Professional Research Experience Program (PREP), National Institutes of Standards and Technology
The goal of the Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) is to provide valuable laboratory experience and financial assistance to graduate students at eligible U.S. universities and colleges. Fellowships are awarded to assure the continued growth and progress of science and engineering in the United States.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants
A complication of resources on fellowships and funding created by Francisco Alberto Tomei Torres, Ph.D.

SMART (Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation) Graduate Fellowships, Department of Defense
The Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program has been established by the Department of Defense (DoD) to support undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The program aims to increase the number of civilian scientists and engineers working at DoD laboratories.

Social Science Research Council
An array of fellowships primarily for the social sciences, but also for the humanities, natural sciences and relevant fields.

USDA, United States Department of Agriculture
USDA offers internships, fellowships, and scholarships to students to help them to excel in their chosen fields. Internship programs are geared toward combining academic studies with on-the-job training and experience. Scholarship programs are in place to support exemplar students with financial assistance.

USDA Public Leaders Scholarship Program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Public Service Leaders Scholarship Program provides combined scholarship and internship opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students leading to permanent employment upon completion of their degree. The program is designed to promote public service and create access to higher education.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation offers national fellowships and dissertation fellowships in religion and ethics, women and gender, conservation, and foreign affairs.

American Association of University Women, AAUW
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; includes the American Fellowship.

Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program within the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the National Academies is designed to engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, public policy, and law students in the analytical process that informs the creation of national policy-making with a science/technology element. As a result, students develop basic skills essential to working in the world of science policy.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
The primary source of news, information, jobs and funding for higher education.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

Directory of Fellowships and Grants in the Global Health Sciences, NIH Fogarty Center for International Study in the Health Sciences
Since 1988, the Fogarty International Center, part of the National Institutes of Health, has published the Directory of International Grants and Fellowships in the Health Sciences. You will find a comprehensive compilation of international funding opportunities in biomedical and behavioral research, separated by category.

Environment Protection Agency Graduate Fellowships
Various graduate fellowship programs in the environmental disciplines, as well as social anthropology, urban and regional planning, decision sciences, science and technology, and public health. Includes the STAR Fellowship program; the AAAS Science and Engineering Fellow program; the Public Health Fellows program; and the Marshall Scholarship Program.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

Michigan State University Library, Grants to Individuals, Food Science and Human Nutrition
Compilation of grant and fellowships resources for food science and human nutrition.

Michigan State University Library, Grants to Individuals, Athletics and Recreation
Compilation of grants and fellowship resources for athletics and recreation.

Michigan State University Library, Grants to Individuals, Nursing
Compilation of grant and fellowship resources for nursing students.

Michigan State University Library, Grants to Individuals, Physical Therapy
Compilation of grant and fellowship resources for physical therapy students.

National Health Services Core Scholarships
If you are enrolled or accepted for enrollment in an accredited training program, a U.S. citizen or national, and committed to practicing primary care at an approved site in one of the designated Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSA) that needs you most, you may apply for this generous scholarship.

National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation supports basic research in the sciences, mathematics, computer sciences, social sciences, behavioral sciences and economics. NSF provides a large share of all federally-supported basic research at American universities and institutions.

National Science Foundation, Nano and Bio Mechanics, Directorate for Engineering (ENG) Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Division
The NBM program supports fundamental research in biomechanics and nanomechanics. Research on biomechanics focuses on the mechanical properties and behavior of biological materials and structures, including cells, tissue, muscles, bones, and prosthetic implants. Research on nanomechanics focuses on the unique properties of nano-scale particles and microstructural features and their effects on the macroscopic mechanics and properties of materials, surfaces, and structures that contain them.

Professional Research Experience Program (PREP), National Institutes of Standards and Technology
The goal of the Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) is to provide valuable laboratory experience and financial assistance to graduate students at eligible U.S. universities and colleges. Fellowships are awarded to assure the continued growth and progress of science and engineering in the United States.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants
A compilation of resources on fellowships and funding created by Francisco Alberto Tomei Torres, Ph.D.

USDA, United States Department of Agriculture
USDA offers internships, fellowships, and scholarships to students to help them to excel in their chosen fields. Internship programs are geared toward combining academic studies with on-the-job training and experience. Scholarship programs are in place to support exemplar students with financial assistance.

American Association of University Women, AAUW
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; includes the American Fellowship.

American Council of Learned Societies, ACLS
The ACLS offers fellowships and grants in more than a dozen programs for research in the humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels.

American Educational Research Association Minority Doctoral Program
In 1991, the Council of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) established the AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research to provide support for doctoral dissertation research. The purposes of the program are to advance education research by outstanding minority graduate students and to improve the quality and diversity of university faculties.

Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program within the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the National Academies is designed to engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, public policy, and law students in the analytical process that informs the creation of national policy-making with a science/technology element. As a result, students develop basic skills essential to working in the world of science policy.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
The primary source of news, information, jobs and funding for higher education.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

Environment Protection Agency Graduate Fellowships
Various graduate fellowship programs in the environmental disciplines, as well as social anthropology, urban and regional planning, decision sciences, science and technology, and public health. Includes the STAR Fellowship program; the AAAS Science and Engineering Fellow program; the Public Health Fellows program; and the Marshall Scholarship Program.

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Program
The Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships seek 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. To facilitate this goal the Fellowship grants awards at the Predoctoral, Dissertation and, Postdoctoral levels to students who demonstrate excellence, a commitment to diversity and a desire to enter the professoriate.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

Grants for Social Work Students
Resources on grants for social work students, provided by the University of North Carolina

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Fellows
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression, and dominance in the modern world.

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Research and Fellowships
Each year the Lincoln Institute sponsors a wide variety of research projects that are generally organized around a set of land policy topics. See especially the Lincoln Institute's Dissertation Fellowship Program, which assists Ph.D. students, primarily at U.S. universities, whose research complements the Institute's interests in land and tax policy.

Management Studies Award, National Society of Professional Engineers
This scholarship is designed for graduate students who are pursuing an MBA, a master's degree in engineering management, or a master's degree in public administration.

Morris K. Udall Foundation
The Udall Foundation awards two one-year fellowships to doctoral candidates whose research concerns U.S. environmental public policy and/or environmental conflict resolution and who are entering their final year of writing the dissertation. Dissertation Fellowships are intended to cover both academic and living expenses.

Michigan State University Library, Grants to Individuals, Education
Compilation of grant and fellowships resources for studies in education.

Michigan State University Library, Grants to Individuals, Environmental Science
Compilation of grant and fellowships resources for studies in environmental science.

National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation supports basic research in the sciences, mathematics, computer sciences, social sciences, behavioral sciences and economics. NSF provides a large share of all federally-supported basic research at American universities and institutions.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants
A compilation of resources on fellowships and funding in architecture, accounting, arts and humanities, interior design, liberal arts, planning, and religion, created by Francisco Alberto Tomei Torres, Ph.D.

Social Science Research Council
An array of fellowships primarily for the social sciences, but also for the humanities, natural sciences and relevant fields.

Spencer Fellowships
The Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. The Spencer Foundation also funds dissertation awards, a postdoctoral program, and the Spencer fellows program.

USDA, United States Department of Agriculture
USDA offers internships, fellowships, and scholarships to students to help them to excel in their chosen fields. Internship programs are geared toward combining academic studies with on-the-job training and experience. Scholarship programs are in place to support exemplar students with financial assistance.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation offers national fellowships and dissertation fellowships in religion and ethics, women and gender, conservation, and foreign affairs.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
The Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship is funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The Department of State seeks a Foreign Service that represents America in world affairs with citizens who reflect the diversity and excellence of our society. The program seeks to recruit talented students in academic programs relevant to international affairs, political and economic analysis, administration, management, and political science.

American Council of Learned Societies, ACLS
The ACLS offers fellowships and grants in more than a dozen programs for research in the humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels.

American Economic Association AEAweb
The AEAweb provides information on funding for economists and the opportunity for organizations, institutions, and agencies to post information on grants available for economic research.

American Economic Association Minority Fellowships and Summer Training
Summer study program for graduate women and minorities in economics.

Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
The Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program within the Policy and Global Affairs Division of the National Academies is designed to engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, public policy, and law students in the analytical process that informs the creation of national policy-making with a science/technology element. As a result, students develop basic skills essential to working in the world of science policy.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
The primary source of news, information, jobs and funding for higher education.

Economic History Association, Dissertation Fellowships
The Economic History Association announces a dissertation awards program that is intended to foster graduate student research in economic history. The dissertation award is intended to be the equivalent of a fellowship and is designed for students whose thesis topic has been approved and who have made some progress towards writing their dissertation.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

Henry Belin Du Pont Dissertation Fellowship
Fellowship is designed for graduate students who have completed all course work for the doctoral degree and are conducting research on their dissertation. We invite applications from Ph.D. candidates whose research on important historical questions would benefit from use of Hagley's research collections in the history of business, technology and culture. Applications should demonstrate superior intellectual quality, present a persuasive methodology for the project, and show that there are significant research materials at Hagley pertinent to the dissertation.

IBM Ph.D. Awards The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards is an intensely competitive program which honors exceptional Ph.D. students in many academic disciplines and areas of study, for example: computer science and engineering, electrical and mechanical engineering , physical sciences (including chemistry, material sciences, and physics), mathematical sciences (including optimization), business sciences (including financial services, communication, and learning/knowledge), and service sciences, management, and engineering.

Management Studies Award, National Society of Professional Engineers
This scholarship is designed for graduate students who are pursuing an MBA, a master's degree in engineering management, or a master's degree in public administration.

Michigan State University Library, Grants to Individuals, Business
Compilation of grant and fellowships resources for studies in business.

National Black M.B.A. Association's Scholarship Program
The National Black M.B.A. Association's (NBMBAA's) mission is to identify and increase the pool of talent for business, public, private, and nonprofit sectors. The NBMBAA M.B.A. Scholarship Program identifies students who have demonstrated potential to make significant contributions in the field of business in the public and private sectors.

National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation supports basic research in the sciences, mathematics, computer sciences, social sciences, behavioral sciences and economics. NSF provides a large share of all federally-supported basic research at American universities and institutions.

National Society of Hispanic M.B.A.'s Scholarship Program
The National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) seeks to increase the representation of Hispanics in graduate business schools, corporations, and leadership roles. Scholarships are offered each year for full- and part-time study at an accredited institution of the student's choice.

NMFS/ Sea Grant Joint Graduate Fellowship Program in Marine Economics
The Graduate Fellowship Program generally awards two new Ph.D. fellowships each year to students who are interested in careers related to the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing the economics of the conservation and management of living marine resources. Fellows will work on thesis problems of public interest and relevance to NMFS under the guidance of NMFS mentors at participating NMFS Science Centers or Laboratories.

Russell Sage Foundation
The Russell Sage Foundation is an operating foundation directly involved in the conduct and dissemination of social science research. Current programs include the future of work, immigration, cultural contact, social inequality and behavioral economics.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants
A compilation of resources on fellowships and funding in architecture, accounting, arts and humanities, interior design, liberal arts, planning, and religion, created by Francisco Alberto Tomei Torres, Ph.D.

Tribal Business Management Scholarships
The Tribal Business Management program (TBM) is for students in business, finance, management, economics, banking, hotel management, and related fields who plan to work in economic development for tribes.

United States Department of Energy (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Graduate Internship Opportunities
Applications are invited for the Financial Analyst Graduate Research Assistantship Program. The Graduate Research Assistant (GRA) Program provides students placed in CFO with relevant business experience while pursuing a graduate degree.

WE Upjohn Institute for Employment Research Dissertation Award
The Institute supports and conducts policy-relevant research on employment, unemployment, and social insurance programs. The dissertation award further pursues this mission. The dissertation may come from any academic discipline, but it must have a substantial policy thrust.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
The Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship is funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. The Department of State seeks a Foreign Service that represents America in world affairs with citizens who reflect the diversity and excellence of our society. The program seeks to recruit talented students in academic programs relevant to international affairs, political and economic analysis, administration, management, and political science.

American Association of University Women, AAUW
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; includes the American Fellowship.

American Economic Association Minority Fellowships and Summer Training
Summer study program for graduate women and minorities in economics.

American Society of Safety Engineers
Graduate scholarships for women in safety engineering.

Association of Women Geoscientists Foundation
The mission of the AWG Foundation is to achieve equality of opportunity in the geosciences for women. We fund high impact programs working towards that equality, from precollege through graduate levels.

Association for Women in Science Educational Foundation
AWIS is a national advocacy organization championing the interests of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics across all disciplines and employment sectors. By breaking down barriers and creating opportunities, AWIS strives to ensure that women in these fields can achieve their full potential.

AT&T Labs Fellowships
An AT&T Labs Fellowship is the opportunity of a lifetime. Fellowships are available to outstanding under-represented minority and women students who are U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents and who are pursuing Ph.D. studies in computer and communications-related fields.

Brookhaven Women in Science
For women returning to school after a break in their education, and pursuing formal education in the natural sciences, engineering or mathematics, at the junior or senior undergraduate level or first-year graduate level at any accredited institution.

Claire Boothe Luce Graduate Fellowships in Science and Engineering
Since its first grants in 1989 the Clare Boothe Luce Program (CBL) has become the single most significant source of private support for women in science, mathematics and engineering. Clare Boothe Luce, the widow of Henry R. Luce, was a playwright, journalist, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, and the first woman elected to Congress from Connecticut. In her bequest establishing this program, she sought “to encourage women to enter, study, graduate, and teach” in science, mathematics and engineering.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

Coordinating Council for Women in History Catherine Prelinger Award
This award, named for Catherine Prelinger, a former CCWH president and nontraditional scholar, is intended to enhance the work of a contemporary scholar whose academic path has not followed the traditional path of uninterrupted study, moving from completed secondary, to undergraduate, then graduate degrees, followed by a tenure-track faculty position.

ELA Foundation, Inc.
The student must be a woman with a physical disability. The student must be currently accepted to a graduate program working towards a Masters degree or above in an accredited college or university in the United States. The student must be active in a local, state, or national disability organization - either in person or electronically - which is providing services and/or advocacy for people with disabilities.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

L’Oreal-Unesco Women in Science
Each year since 2000, as part of the L'ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women in Science partnership, 15 international UNESCO-L'ORÉAL International Fellowships are allocated to young women researchers in the Life Sciences, at the doctoral or post-doctoral level, whose promising projects have been accepted by a reputable institution outside their home country.

L’Oreal USA Fellowship for Women in Science Program
As part of its commitment to further help women scientists achieve their goals, L’Oréal USA awards each recipient $40,000 to apply toward their postdoctoral research. The L’ORÉAL USA Fellowships for Women in Science are awarded to women engaged in basic research in the life and physical/material sciences, technology (including computer science), engineering and mathematics.

Minority Resources for Graduate Students at the University of Delware
A list of resources compiled by the Office of Graduate and Professional Education

National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program recognizes outstanding scholarship and encourages independent graduate level research -- particularly by female and minority students -- in oceanography, marine biology and maritime archaeology.

National Physical Sciences Consortium
Graduate fellowships for women and minorities in the physical sciences. The Dissertation Support Program covers the period of dissertation research and defense, up to a maximum of four years.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants
A compilation of resources on fellowships and funding in architecture, accounting, arts and humanities, interior design, liberal arts, planning, and religion, created by Francisco Alberto Tomei Torres, Ph.D.

Semiconductor Research Corp. Master's Scholarship Program in Microelectronics
The Master's Scholarship Program was created in 1997 for the purpose of attracting qualified students who are also in under-represented minority categories to graduate study in areas of interest to the semiconductor industry. In 1999, the program was opened to women as a category and has since been opened to under-represented students holding refugee or political asylum status in the U.S.

Society of Women Engineers
Graduate awards and fellowships for women in engineering and computer sciences.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation offers national fellowships and dissertation fellowships in religion and ethics, women and gender, conservation, and foreign affairs.

WREI Congressional Fellowships on Women and Public Policy
WREI awards annual fellowships to a select number of graduate students with a proven commitment to equity for women. WREI Fellows gain practical policymaking experience and graduate credit as they work from January to August as Congressional legislative aides in Washington, D.C. Fellows receive stipends for tuition and living expenses.

Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowships
Fellowships are awarded on an annual basis to women pursuing PhD/doctoral degrees in aerospace-related sciences and engineering. The financial support provided by the Fellowships means these talented women can invest in state-of-the-art computers to conduct their research, purchase expensive books and resource materials, participate in specialized studies around the globe, and ultimately achieve their educational goals. 

American Anthropological Association
AAA Minority Dissertation Writing Fellowship.

American Economic Association Minority Fellowships and Summer Training
Summer study program for graduate women and minorities in economics.

American Educational Research Association Minority Doctoral Program
In 1991, the Council of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) established the AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research to provide support for doctoral dissertation research. The purposes of the program are to advance education research by outstanding minority graduate students and to improve the quality and diversity of university faculties.

American Geological Institute
Since 1972, the American Geological Institute has administered the Minority Participation Program Geoscience Student Scholarships. The goal for this program is to develop the professional corps of underrepresented ethnic-minority students in the geosciences. Recipients of AGI Geoscience Student Scholarships are provided with small financial awards and matched with a mentor from the geoscience community to foster whole professional development of the awardee.

American Musicology Society
The AMS advances learning and scholarship in musicology: includes dissertation fellowship and minority student graduate fellowship.

American Political Science Association Minority Fellows Program
The APSA MFP was established in 1969 as an effort to increase the number of minority scholars in the discipline, has designated more than 400 fellows and contributed to the successful completion of doctoral political science programs for over 100 individuals. The Association has refocused and increased its efforts to assist minority students in completing their doctorates by concentrating not only on the recruitment of minorities, but also on the retention of these groups within the profession.

American Society of Criminology Graduate Fellowships for Ethnic Minorities
The fellowships are designed to encourage African American, Asian American, Latino, and Native American students to enter the field of criminology and criminal justice. Applicants need not be members of the American Society of Criminology. Individuals studying criminology or criminal justice issues are encouraged to apply. The recipients of the fellowships must be accepted into a program of doctoral studies.

AT&T Labs Fellowships
An AT&T Labs Fellowship is the opportunity of a lifetime. Fellowships are available to outstanding under-represented minority and women students who are U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents and who are pursuing Ph.D. studies in computer and communications-related fields.

Beinecke Scholarship Program
Students out outstanding ability and a history of socioeconomic need who plan enter a master's or doctoral program in the arts, humanities or social sciences. 

The Consortium for Graduate Study in Management
Minority graduate fellowships.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Program
The Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships seek 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. To facilitate this goal the Fellowship grants awards at the Predoctoral, Dissertation and, Postdoctoral levels to students who demonstrate excellence, a commitment to diversity and a desire to enter the professoriate.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

Harriet G. Jenkins Predoctoral Fellowships Program, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the United Negro College Fund Special Programs
The Harriett G. Jenkins Predoctoral Fellowship Program (JPFP) increases the number of graduate degrees awarded to underrepresented persons (women, minorities, and/or persons with disabilities) participating in the STEM workforce, thereby eliminating the shortage of skilled workers.

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship Program
One of the largest and most competitive scholarship programs in the nation, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship provides awards of up to $50,000 per year for up to six years of study to deserving low-income college seniors and recent college graduates (who graduated within the past five years).

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program
This program provides fellowships to students of superior academic ability selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and exceptional promise to undertake study at the doctoral and Master of Fine Arts level in selected fields of arts, humanities, and social sciences.

MAS Family Fellowships for Cuban-American Students
The objective of the Mas Family Scholarship Award is to further the education of talented Cuban-American young men and women with leadership potential who, as future leaders in their professional fields, will advance the cause of a free society of responsible individuals, based on the principles and ideals of a democratic, free enterprise society. Undergraduate and graduate scholarships are available.

Minority Resources for Graduate Students at the University of Delware
A list of resources compiled by the Office of Graduate and Professional Education

National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program recognizes outstanding scholarship and encourages independent graduate level research -- particularly by female and minority students -- in oceanography, marine biology and maritime archaeology.

National Black MBA Association's Scholarship Program
The National Black M.B.A. Association's (NBMBAA) mission is to identify and increase the pool of talent for business, public, private, and nonprofit sectors. The NBMBAA M.B.A. Scholarship Program identifies students who have demonstrated potential to make significant contributions in the field of business in the public and private sectors.

The National GEM Consortium Fellowships for Minorities in Graduate Study of Engineering or Science
The National GEM Consortium's primary focus is to administer and award full fellowships with paid internships to highly qualified under-represented students who wish to pursue graduate studies in engineering or science.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Graduate Sciences Program
The Graduate Sciences Program (GSP) is aimed primarily at increasing opportunities for students in NOAA-related fields to pursue research and educational training in atmospheric, environmental, remote sensing and oceanic sciences at minority serving institutions (MSI) when possible. The GSP offers between two years (master's candidates) to four years (doctoral students) of NOAA-related research and training opportunities.

National Physical Sciences Consortium
Graduate fellowships for women and minorities in the physical sciences. The Dissertation Support Program covers the period of dissertation research and defense, up to a maximum of four years.

National Society of Hispanic M.B.A.'s Scholarship Program
The National Society of Hispanic MBAs (NSHMBA) seeks to increase the representation of Hispanics in graduate business schools, corporations, and leadership roles. Scholarships are offered each year for full- and part-time study at an accredited institution of the student's choice.

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The purpose of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The Program is established in recognition of the contributions New Americans have made to American life and in gratitude for the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors and their family. A Fellow may pursue a graduate degree in any professional field (e.g., engineering, medicine, law, social work, etc.) or scholarly discipline in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Fine and Performing Arts are included.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants
A compilation of resources on fellowships and funding in architecture, accounting, arts and humanities, interior design, liberal arts, planning, and religion, created by Francisco Alberto Tomei Torres, Ph.D.

Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center residency program assists scholars and professionals whose research on the black experience can benefit from extended access to the Center's resources.

Semiconductor Research Corp. Master's Scholarship Program in Microelectronics
The Master's Scholarship Program was created in 1997 for the purpose of attracting qualified students who are also in under-represented minority categories to graduate study in areas of interest to the semiconductor industry. In 1999, the program was opened to women as a category and has since been opened to under-represented students holding refugee or political asylum status in the U.S.

Smithsonian Institute Office of Fellowships
Various fellowships and internship opportunities for graduate minority and under-represented students.

Tribal Business Management Scholarships
The Tribal Business Management program (TBM) is for students in business, finance, management, economics, banking, hotel management, and related fields who plan to work in economic development for tribes.

UNCF/Merck Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowships
The dissertation fellowships will help African American graduate students complete coursework, conduct research, and prepare the dissertation required for a doctoral degree in the biomedically relevant life or physical sciences.

Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation
The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation awards yearly grants to playwrights who submit full-length plays, screenplays, musicals or operas. All works submitted must present the gay and lesbian lifestyle in a positive manner and be based on, or inspired by, a historic person, culture, event, or work of art.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

Michigan State Library Grants for Individuals: Gay/Lesbian/Bi-Sexual, Transgendered
A resource of multiple grant and fellowships opportunities for LGBTQI as population group and as subject.

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation offers national fellowships and dissertation fellowships in religion and ethics, women and gender, conservation, and foreign affairs.

Beinecke Scholarship Program
Students out outstanding ability and a history of socioeconomic need who plan enter a master's or doctoral program in the arts, humanities or social sciences. 

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

Coordinating Council for Women in History Catherine Prelinger Award
This award, named for Catherine Prelinger, a former CCWH president and nontraditional scholar, is intended to enhance the work of a contemporary scholar whose academic path has not followed the traditional path of uninterrupted study, moving from completed secondary, to undergraduate, then graduate degrees, followed by a tenure-track faculty position.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

Michigan State University Library, Grants to Individuals: Nontraditional, Reentry, or Adult Students
A resource of multiple grant and fellowships opportunities for nontraditional, reentry and adult student populations.

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The purpose of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The Program is established in recognition of the contributions New Americans have made to American life and in gratitude for the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors and their family. A Fellow may pursue a graduate degree in any professional field (e.g., engineering, medicine, law, social work, etc.) or scholarly discipline in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Fine and Performing Arts are included.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants
A compilation of resources on fellowships and funding in architecture, accounting, arts and humanities, interior design, liberal arts, planning, and religion, created by Francisco Alberto Tomei Torres, Ph.D.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

Michigan State University Library, Grants to Individuals: Veterans, Military Science Students, and Dependents
A resource of multiple grant and fellowships opportunities for veterans and their dependents.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

ELA Foundation, Inc.
The student must be a woman with a physical disability. The student must be currently accepted to a graduate program working towards a Masters degree or above in an accredited college or university in the United States. The student must be active in a local, state, or national disability organization - either in person or electronically - which is providing services and/or advocacy for people with disabilities.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

Michigan State University Library, Grants to Individuals: Disabled
A resource of multiple grant and fellowships opportunities for disabled persons as population group and as subject.

American Anthropological Association
Graduate fellowships, awards and resources for anthropology and the humanities. International resources are highlighted.

American Association of University Women, AAUW
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; see especially the International Fellowships for women who are not U.S. citizens.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program
The Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP) was launched by the Ford Foundation in 2000 to provide opportunities for advanced study to exceptional individuals who will use this education to become leaders in their respective fields, furthering development in their own countries and greater economic and social justice worldwide. Since the program's first selections in 2001, over 3,300 Fellows have been selected from over 60,000 applications.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
Graduate study fellowships in genetic engineering and biotechnology in India, Italy and South Africa.

International Dissertation Research Fellowship, SSRC
The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) program supports distinguished graduate students in the humanities and social sciences conducting dissertation research outside the United States. The IDRF program is committed to empirical and site-specific research that advances knowledge about non-U.S. cultures and societies (involving fieldwork, research in archival or manuscript collections, or quantitative data collection). Proposals that identify the U.S. as a case for comparative inquiry are welcome; however, proposals that focus predominantly or exclusively on the United States are not eligible. The program is open to full-time graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, regardless of citizenship, enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States.

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Research and Fellowships
Each year the Lincoln Institute sponsors a wide variety of research projects that are generally organized around a set of land policy topics. See especially the China Program awards dissertation and master's thesis fellowships to graduate students attending universities in Asia and researching land and tax policy in the People's Republic of China.

L’Oreal-Unesco Women in Science
Each year since 2000, as part of the L'ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women in Science partnership, 15 international UNESCO-L'ORÉAL International Fellowships are allocated to young women researchers in the Life Sciences, at the doctoral or post-doctoral level, whose promising projects have been accepted by a reputable institution outside their home country.

Organization of American States Graduate Studies Scholarships
OAS scholarships are awarded for full-time study, or research, leading to a graduate or undergraduate degree, in any OAS member state except the one sponsoring the candidate for the OAS scholarship. Applicants must be a citizen of an OAS member state.

The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The purpose of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The Program is established in recognition of the contributions New Americans have made to American life and in gratitude for the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors and their family. A Fellow may pursue a graduate degree in any professional field (e.g., engineering, medicine, law, social work, etc.) or scholarly discipline in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Fine and Performing Arts are included.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants
A compilation of resources on fellowships and funding in architecture, accounting, arts and humanities, interior design, liberal arts, planning, and religion, created by Francisco Alberto Tomei Torres, Ph.D.

Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
The Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues of contemporary importance.

Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowships
Fellowships are awarded on an annual basis to women pursuing PhD/doctoral degrees in aerospace-related sciences and engineering. The financial support provided by the Fellowships means these talented women can invest in state-of-the-art computers to conduct their research, purchase expensive books and resource materials, participate in specialized studies around the globe, and ultimately achieve their educational goals. 

Chateaubriand Fellowships
Dissertation scholarships for research in France on French literature, cinema, the humanities, the arts, history, philosophy, political sciences; also offers scholarships for research in science and technology to conduct research in a French laboratory.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is a publicly-funded independent organization of higher education institutions in Germany. Our 14 international offices provide information as well as financial support to over 55,000 highly-qualified students and faculty per year for international research and study.

Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program
The Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP) was launched by the Ford Foundation in 2000 to provide opportunities for advanced study to exceptional individuals who will use this education to become leaders in their respective fields, furthering development in their own countries and greater economic and social justice worldwide. Since the program's first selections in 2001, over 3,300 Fellows have been selected from over 60,000 applications.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

French American Cultural Exchange
Each program is offered either directly by the Departments and Offices or in conjunction with our non-profit partner FACE (French American Cultural Exchange). FACE pools private and public resources to support innovative dialogue and exchange.

Fulbright Program for U.S. Students
Fulbright Grants--U.S. Student Program are for graduate study or research abroad. Grants are awarded to seniors and graduate students in all academic fields and in the creative and performing arts who are citizens of the United States.

International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
Graduate study fellowships in genetic engineering and biotechnology in India, Italy and South Africa.

International Dissertation Research Fellowship, SSRC
The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) program supports distinguished graduate students in the humanities and social sciences conducting dissertation research outside the United States. The IDRF program is committed to empirical and site-specific research that advances knowledge about non-U.S. cultures and societies (involving fieldwork, research in archival or manuscript collections, or quantitative data collection). Proposals that identify the U.S. as a case for comparative inquiry are welcome; however, proposals that focus predominantly or exclusively on the United States are not eligible. The program is open to full-time graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, regardless of citizenship, enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States.

L’Oreal-Unesco Women in Science
Each year since 2000, as part of the L'ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women in Science partnership, 15 international UNESCO-L'ORÉAL International Fellowships are allocated to young women researchers in the Life Sciences, at the doctoral or post-doctoral level, whose promising projects have been accepted by a reputable institution outside their home country.

The Language Flagship Fellowships
The Language Flagship offers a limited number of fellowships to qualified American students interested in receiving full financial support to participate in one of the Flagship Programs in Arabic, Central Asian Turkic languages, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, and Russian. The program creates opportunities for U.S. students to achieve a superior level of fluency in languages critical to U.S. competitiveness and security.

Organization of American States Graduate Studies Scholarships
OAS scholarships are awarded for full-time study, or research, leading to a graduate or undergraduate degree, in any OAS member state except the one sponsoring the candidate for the OAS scholarship. Applicants must be a citizen of an OAS member state.

Rhodes Scholarships
The Rhodes Scholarships, the oldest international fellowships, were initiated after the death of Cecil Rhodes in 1902, and bring outstanding students from many countries around the world to the University of Oxford. The first American Scholars entered Oxford in 1904.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants
A compilation of resources on fellowships and funding for study abroad opportunities, created by Francisco Alberto Tomei Torres, Ph.D.

Support for International/Global Research, Performances and Travel for Graduate Students at the University of Delaware
Graduate students must travel internationally to conduct investigations in renowned collections, to study cultures, to collect scientific data, to carry out field research, to participate in public service endeavors through internships, to perform in popular festivals, and to create meaningful art. International exposure enriches cultural knowledge and diversity, inspires creativity, fosters global partnerships, and enhances the students’ scholarship, impact, and marketability.

Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowships
Fellowships are awarded on an annual basis to women pursuing PhD/doctoral degrees in aerospace-related sciences and engineering. The financial support provided by the Fellowships means these talented women can invest in state-of-the-art computers to conduct their research, purchase expensive books and resource materials, participate in specialized studies around the globe, and ultimately achieve their educational goals. 

American Economic Association Minority Fellowships and Summer Training
Summer study program for graduate women and minorities in economics.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants
A complication of resources on fellowships and funding created by Francisco Alberto Tomei Torres, Ph.D.

Summer Research Fellowships for Graduate Students in Material Culture
Ten fellowships will be awarded to University of Delaware MA and PhD students to support their research in material culture studies, which may include internships and field-based study experiences.

Support for International/Global Research, Performances and Travel for Graduate Students at the University of Delaware
Graduate students must travel internationally to conduct investigations in renowned collections, to study cultures, to collect scientific data, to carry out field research, to participate in public service endeavors through internships, to perform in popular festivals, and to create meaningful art. International exposure enriches cultural knowledge and diversity, inspires creativity, fosters global partnerships, and enhances the students’ scholarship, impact, and marketability.

American Association of University Women, AAUW
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.

American Council of Learned Societies, ACLS
The ACLS offers fellowships and grants in more than a dozen programs for research in the humanities and related social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
The primary source of news, information, jobs and funding for higher education.

Community of Science
The most comprehensive source of funding information available on the Web, with more than 25,000 records, representing over 400,000 funding opportunities, worth over $33 billion.

Foundation Center Grants to Individuals Online
The Foundation Center database that targets scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support for individuals (access at Morris Library only).

Library of Congress Kluge Center Fellowships
The John W. Kluge Center also accommodates up to two dozen post-doctoral Fellows pursuing resident research, usually for periods from six to twelve months. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural topics of a kind normally not encouraged in specialized departmental settings are welcome.

L’Oreal-Unesco Women in Science
Each year since 2000, as part of the L'ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women in Science partnership, 15 international UNESCO-L'ORÉAL International Fellowships are allocated to young women researchers in the Life Sciences, at the doctoral or post-doctoral level, whose promising projects have been accepted by a reputable institution outside their home country.

L’Oreal USA Fellowship for Women in Science Program
As part of its commitment to further help women scientists achieve their goals, L’Oréal USA awards each recipient $40,000 to apply toward their postdoctoral research. The L’ORÉAL USA Fellowships for Women in Science are awarded to women engaged in basic research in the life and physical/material sciences, technology (including computer science), engineering and mathematics.

National Academies/National Research Council
The Research Associateship awards are open to doctoral level scientists and engineers (U.S and Foreign Nationals) who can apply their special knowledge and talents to research areas that are of interest to them and to the participating host laboratories and centers. Awards are available for Postdoctoral Associates (within 5 years of the doctorate) and Senior Associates (normally 5 years or more beyond the doctorate).

National Humanities Center Fellowships
The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year; must be post-doctoral. In addition to scholars from all fields of the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects. The Center is also international and gladly accepts applications from scholars outside the United States.

The Newberry Library
Fellowships at the Newberry Library are of two types: short-term fellowships with terms of one week to two months and long-term fellowships of six to eleven months. Short-term fellowships are generally restricted to individuals from outside the metropolitan Chicago area and are primarily intended to assist researchers with a need to examine specific items in the Library's collection. Long-term fellowships are generally available without regard to an applicant's place of residence and are intended to support significant works of scholarship that draw on the Library's strengths.

Scholarships, Fellowships and Grants
A compilation of resources on fellowships and funding in architecture, accounting, arts and humanities, interior design, liberal arts, planning, and religion, created by Francisco Alberto Tomei Torres, Ph.D.

William T. Grant Scholars
The William T. Grant Scholars Program supports promising early-career researchers from diverse disciplines, who have demonstrated success in conducting high-quality research and are seeking to further develop and broaden their expertise.

Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
The Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illuminate policy issues of contemporary importance.

• The Department bulletin boards; your advisor; and other graduate students;
• Peruse the CV's of senior scholars who you emulate; department newsletters
• The Chronicle of Higher Education; professional organization websites
• New! Office of Graduate & Professional Education website
• Foundations & Grants subject guide at the Morris Library

• Professional conferences
• Dissertation & theses
• Postdoctoral fellowships
• NOTE: Funding for professional conferences and global research travel; available via Office of Graduate and Professional Education.

• Agency or foundation website and annual reports
• Listing of past awards
• Mission or purpose of agency
• Procedure for application review
• Opportunity to contact Program Officer or submit draft

• Confirm eligibility
• Know your audience
• Read application materials with attention to criteria for selection
• Read instructions, respond to all questions, deadline, # of copies, format

• Careful thought to your proposal title
• Focus on WHAT do you want to do and WHY is it important - impact
• Create ENTHUSIASM & EXCITEMENT
• Work far in advance
• No boilerplate, be specific
• Organize description under headings; be careful about pages of text
• Avoid jargon - spotlight ideas
• Short sentences
• Active voice
• First sentence is key
• Pay attention to format-white spaces, safe margins, font, justification

• Your objective & goals
• Problem and significance
• Your capabilities
• Total budget (unless est. by award)
• Ensure strong first impression
• Write last Gain attention
• What? • Why? • How Much?

• Who is interested?
• Why are you the best scholar?
• What will we learn?
• Why is this important?
• When will the work be completed?
• How will you accomplish this?

• Superb bibliography
• Be thorough-don't promise more than you can deliver
• Did you answer all the questions on the application form?
• Clear, easy to find, be consistent
• Think long-term

• Read instructions carefully
• Do not inflate
• Do not underestimate
• Detail expenses - transparent
• Pursue matching funds to strengthen proposal
• Check math 3 times

• Be consistent
• Be positive
• State objectives clearly
• Focus in your credibility
• Demonstrate your knowledge and your passion
• Follow outline, write clearly
• Be specific
• Do not complain
• Transparent budget
• Review and review
• Do not be shy

Many funding opportunities are available for graduate study at the University of Delaware. Primarily, students receive support through assistantships for research and teaching. Competitive support funding is also made available through the Office of Graduate and Professional Education. More opportunities for graduate funding and fellowships can also be located through the many excellent departments and programs at the university, through the Morris Library and through Financial Aid. These opportunities include university-sponsored funding, external foundation/institutional funding, and federal loan opportunities.

Requests for proposals (RFPs) and opportunities for fellowships and grants from foundations and institutions beyond UD can be found through the resources and databases at the Morris Library; see specially the Community of Science Funding Opportunities and Foundation Grants to Individuals Online directories. Grant and fellowship opportunities can also be found on the fellowships and grants by field/discipline/interest page and the general web resources page.

The Office of Graduate & Professional Education has a webpage dedicated to tips and guidelines for grants and fellowships. The page includes downloadable bibliographies and other helpful links and files. The page also features a presentation on "Writing Winning Proposals," created by Debra Hess Norris, Vice Provost of Graduate & Professional Education. The office periodically hosts grant-writing workshops for graduate students, as well as department/program-specific presentations.

Grant and fellowship opportunities by discipline can be found on the fellowships and grants by field/discipline/interest page, as well as the general web resources page. More opportunities and announcements can be found through the resources and databases at the Morris Library; see specially the Community of Science Funding Opportunities and Foundation Grants to Individuals Online directories.

Grant and fellowship opportunities by discipline can be found on the fellowships and grants by field/discipline/interest page, as well as the general web resources page. More opportunities and announcements can be found through the resources and databases at the Morris Library; see specially the Community of Science Funding Opportunities and Foundation Grants to Individuals Online directories.

Grant and fellowship opportunities by discipline can be found on the fellowships and grants by field/discipline/interest page, as well as the general web resources page. More opportunities and announcements can be found through the resources and databases at the Morris Library; see specially the Community of Science Funding Opportunities and Foundation Grants to Individuals Online directories.

Yes, the office periodically hosts grant-writing workshops for graduate students, as well as department/program-specific presentations.

Our Professional Development Award enables graduate students to present papers and posters at an array of national and international academic conferences.

The Office of Graduate & Professional Education offers annual competitive funding, including the University Graduate Fellows, the University Graduate Scholars, and the University Dissertation Fellows. Moreover, the Office of Professional & Graduate Education works to further the innovative scholarship of our graduate students with funding for conferences and research. We are particularly proud of our new International/Global Research, Internships and Performances Award, which supports the scholarly pursuits of our graduate students across the globe. Our Professional Development Award enables graduate students to present papers and posters at an array of national and international academic conferences. We also offer short-term support for graduate students’ collections-based research and travel.