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American Indian Graduate Center Fellowship

Main Purpose: To support American Indian and Alaskan Native graduate students.

Benefits: $1,000-$5,000 per academic year

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Pursuing a graduate degree at an institution in The United States
  • Demonstrated financial need
  • Enrolled member of a federally recognized American Indian or Alaskan Native group or able to provide documentation of descent (one-fourth degree verifiable federally recognized Indian blood) by submitting a Tribal Eligibility Certificate

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: Check back early Spring 2016

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Foreign Languages Health Professions Modern Languages Speech- Language Pathology and Audiology( AuD.)

Linguistics Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (Ling-DDRI)

Main Purpose: The Linguistics Program supports research regarding the human language including projects about syntax, linguistic semantics and pragmatics, morphology, phonetics, and phonology.

The program encourages interdisciplinary research, including questions such as:

  • “What are the psychological processes involved in the production, perception, and comprehension of language?
  • What are the computational properties of language and/or the language processor that make fluent production, incremental comprehension or rapid learning possible?
  • How do the acoustic and physiological properties of speech inform our theories of language and/or language processing?
  • What role does human neurobiology play in shaping the various components of our linguistic capacities?
  • How does language develop in children?
  • What social and cultural factors underlie language variation and change?”

Benefits:

  • Dissertation research grant
  • Direct costs may not exceed $12,000 plus indirect costs
  • 25-35 awards available

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Doctoral Student enrolled in a U.S. University
  • Principal Investigator must be advisor of the doctoral student or a faculty member at the U.S. university where the doctoral student is enrolled. The doctoral student will be the Co-PI.

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: July 15, 2015 and January 15, 2016

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Arts and Arts Administration Behavioral Sciences Business Administration Counseling Education Environmental Studies Foreign Languages Health Professions History Humanities Music Nursing Physical Sciences Political Science and Applied Politics Psychology Psychology- Adult Development and Aging Psychology- Organizational Social Sciences Speech- Language Pathology and Audiology( AuD.) Urban Studies and Public Affairs

The Awesome Foundation Grants

Main Purpose: The Awesome Foundation supports projects of all kinds that will  “conserve, sustain, and support the worldwide ecosystem of awesomeness. Projects have included efforts in a wide range of areas including technology, arts, social good, and beyond.” It is “a micro-genius grant for flashes of micro-brilliance.”

Benefits: $1,000

Eligibility Criteria: no specific criteria, a wide variety of people and projects have been funded.

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: ongoing, grants available monthly