Graduate Student Funding Opportunities
Links to sites that list multiple funding sources
- Cornell’s searchable database
http://www.gradschool.cornell.edu/fellowships - The National Academies links
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fellowships/ - OSU’s Graduate School’s links (includes information for Presidential Fellowships)
http://www.gradsch.ohio-state.edu/funding1.html - Collection of links
http://scholarships.fatomei.com/ - Animal Behaviour Society's list of sources (most with conservation emphasis)
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABSConservation/ABSConservationFunding
Travel funds
- CGS Ray Travel Award for Scholarship and Service; quarterly competition
(Awards up to $750)
http://cgs.osu.edu/funding/hayes-research-forum/ - NSF’s East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5284 - OSU’s Office of International Affairs, International Dissertation/Theses Travel Grant
http://oia.osu.edu/fulbright/graduate-and-professional-students/fulbright-hays.html - U.S. Department of State, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program is designed to give recent B.S./B.A. graduates, master's and doctoral candidates, and developing professionals and artists opportunities for international experience, personal enrichment and an open exchange of ideas with citizens of other nations.
http://www.iie.org/en/Fulbright
Stipends
- Graduate Research Fellowships
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201&org=NSF - NIH’s Research Training Grants
http://grants1.nih.gov/training/extramural.htm - EPA’s Star Fellowships for Graduate Environmental Study
http://epa.gov/ncer/rfa/current/2004_grad_fellow.html - Great Lakes Commission-Sea Grant Fellowship for graduate students in a marine or aquatic-related field
http://glc.org/about/scholarships/ - U.S. Department of Homeland Security Graduate Fellowships in Science & Technology
(stipend & tuition for first/second year graduate students)
http://www.orau.gov/dhsed/ - Occasionally, the OSU Graduate School will offer Graduate Administrative Associate positions. Let the Graduate Studies Committee Chair know if you are interested in learning about these. Further, watch for emails from the GSC Chair announcing GAA positions
Research
General
- NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5234 - Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid
http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/giar/index.shtml
Specific Disciplines, Systems
- Animal Behaviour Society Student Research Grant
http://abs.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Grants/ - American Livebearer Association’s Vern Parish Fund for research on livebearing fish
http://livebearers.org/modules/content/index.php?id=12 - New England Botanical Club student research awards ($2000) for systematic botany, biosystematics, plant ecology, or plant conservation biology
http://www.rhodora.org/awards/graduate.html - The Janice Carson Beatley Fund provides support for OSU EEOB graduate student fieldwork in the areas of plant systematics and plant ecology.
(Follow the "Beatly Fund" link)
http://herbarium.biosci.ohio-state.edu/
For Specific Populations
Women
- American Association of University Women; Dissertation writing fellowships, Post-doctoral fellowships, summer publication grants for women.
http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/american.cfm - OSU’s Critical Difference for Women
http://criticaldifference.osu.edu/Professional_Development_Grants.htm - L’Oreal’s Women in Science Fellowship
(Follow the link entitled "For Women in Science" at the top of the page)
http://www.lorealusa.com/_en/_us/ - First-year graduate students
Phi Kappa Phi
http://www.phikappaphi.org/web/Awards/Scholarships_Awards.html
Minorities
- Dissertation-Year Visiting Fellowships for U.S. Minorities in Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, and Other Fields
http://www.diversityoncampus.com/id15.html - Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral, dissertation, and post-doctoral fellowships
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/
Miscellaneous Opportunities
- IIASA's Young Scientists Summer Program...an opportunity to work in an international setting on projects ... to explore the policy implications of their work
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Admin/YSP/index.html - Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum, Present your research to win cash prizes/travel money.
http://cgs.osu.edu/funding/hayes-research-forum/
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