Category: Physical Sciences

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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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Biology Chemistry Engineering Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Physical Sciences Polymer Science and Engineering

Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (SciSIPDDRIG)

Main Purpose: To help fund research that will “develop, improve, and expand models, analytical tools, data, and metrics that can be applied to the science policy decision making process. Proposals may also develop methodologies to analyze science and technology data, and to convey the information to a variety of audiences.”

Research topics that may be supported include:

  • “Examination of the way contexts, structures, and processes of science and engineering research are affected by policy decision
  • Evaluation of the tangible and intangible returns from investments in science and from investments in research and development
  • Study of structures and processes that facilitate the development of usable knowledge, theories of creative processes and their transformation into social and economic outcomes
  • Collection, analysis and visualization of new data describing the scientific and engineering enterprise”

Benefits: 

  • 1-3 grants are available with total funding equaling $60,000
  • Total direct costs may not exceed $20,000

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: September 9, 2015

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Engineering Engineering, Electrical and Computer Physical Sciences

Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants

Main Purpose:  To support research that will “produce outcomes that address pertinent problems and issues at the interface of science, technology, and society, such as those having to do with practices and assumptions, ethics, values, governance, and policy.”

Benefits: 

  • Maximum $15,000- $18,000 dissertation improvement grant
  • Can be used for conducting field research, data collection and sample survey costs, payments to subjects, research equipment, travel, and partial living expenses if conducting research away from home university.

Eligibility Criteria:

  • For proposals, the dissertation advisor is the principal investigator and doctoral student is the co-principal investigator
  • Research must relate to science and technology

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: August 1 and February 1

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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

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Engineering, Civil Environmental Studies International Research Physical Sciences

Environmental Protection Agency’s Marshall Scholarship Program

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supports education and research among the science and engineering communities in order to address environmental issues.

EPA Marshall Scholarship Program

Main Focus: Tuition Assistance for students pursuing a graduate degree in an environmentally related technical field with a global focus. This is a partnership with The United Kingdom’s government.

Benefits:

  • Tuition and Fee Reimbursement
  • Stipend
  • Covered Program Expenses
  • Funding for Travel to and from The United States for the Fellow and Dependent Spouse

Eligibility Criteria:

  • United States citizen
  • Hold a first degree from a 4-year accredited university in The United States
  • 3.7 GPA
  • Pursuing a graduate degree in an environmentally related field

Application Link: click here

Deadline: October 1st each year

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Health Professions Humanities Physical Sciences

Biological Anthropology Program – Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (BA-DDRIG)

Biological Anthropology Program Doctoral dissertation Research Improvement Grants (BA-DDRIG)

Main Purpose: To support doctoral students’ dissertation research in the area of human biology and ecology. This includes research regarding the evolutionary history that has shaped the biological diversity of human and nonhuman primates.

Benefits:

  • Anticipated $300,000-$400,000 per fiscal year divided into 15-20 grants
  • Proposals may not exceed $20,000 in direct costs

Eligibility:

  • Proposals must be submitted by the principal investigator (PI: faculty member serving as dissertation advisor) on behalf of the Co-PI (the doctoral student)
  • PI and Co-PI should be from the same university

Application Link and Additional Information: Click Here

Deadline: March 12, 2015, November 10, 2015, July 14, 2016, March 09, 2017, November 09, 2017, July 11, 2018, March 14, 2019, November 14, 2019, July 09, 2020- by 5 p.m. (proposer’s local time)

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Engineering Engineering, Civil Environmental Studies Physical Sciences

Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (AGS-PRF)

Main Purpose: To support beginning researchers within 3 years of completing their PhD in carrying out independent research projects in the areas of atmospheric and geospace sciences.

Benefits:

  • Stipend of $58,000 per year paid monthly at the rate of $4,833 directly to the Fellow
  • An annual lump sum fellowship allowance of $28,000 to support research and publication activities
  • Fellowship may be taken to the institution or facility of choice

Time Limit: up to 2 years

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Current graduate student OR have held a PhD for no more than 3 years
  • Degree in the field of science or engineering with research plans falling in the areas of atmospheric and geospace sciences
  • U.S. citizen or legally admitted permanent resident
  • Proposal must be submitted by an individual, not the institution
  • Individual must identify a host institution or sponsoring scientist
  • May not concurrently submit the same research project to another NSF program

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: Proposal due Monday, January 11, 2016

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Behavioral Sciences Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Electrical and Computer Health Professions Nursing Physical Sciences Polymer Science and Engineering Social Sciences

American College of Sports Medicine Foundation Doctoral Student Research Grant

Main Purpose: To fund research conducted by doctoral students in the areas of basic and applied sciences.

Benefits:

  • Award Amount: $5,000

Time Limit: 1 year

Eligibility Criteria: 

  • Doctoral Student
  • Enrolled in program full-time
  • Current ACSM member when submitting application

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: January 15, 2016