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Engineering, Biomedical

Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award

Main Purpose: To honor and stimulate research careers in biomedical engineering. This award is based on a review of a single published paper of original work.

Benefits: 

  • $1,000 check
  • Complementary registration  for the BMES 2015 Annual Meeting
  • The opportunity to present the 20-minute Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Lecture at the meeting and publish the text of the lecture in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering
  • Travel Expenses up to $1,000

Eligibility Criteria: 

  • Must be within 5 years of earning highest degree
  • The recipient must be the senior author of the paper. If there are co-authors, a letter from the first or senior co-author attesting to the role of each contributor in design, execution and authoring of the manuscript must be included in the application packet.

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

  • Will need two letters of support by “recognized authorities in the field (neither of whom may be associated with the institution at which the work was completed nor a co-author on the paper), attesting to the significance of the investigation described in the manuscript.”

Deadline:  Check back early Spring 2016

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Engineering Engineering, Biomedical Minority-Specific Grants

Biomedical Engineering Innovation and Career Development Travel Awards

Main Purpose: To provide travel funding for graduate, postdoctoral fellows, and early career faculty from underrepresented populations in engineering who are conducting research regarding health disparities and minority health.

Benefits:

  • $800 travel stipend
  • Complementary registration to the BMES 2015 Annual Meeting

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Must be a graduate student,  postdoctoral fellow, or early career faculty member
  • Must identify with an underrepresented population in engineering, including women and racial and ethnic minorities
  • Preference given to those who are conducting research on health disparities
  • Must be a member of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
  • May not be receiving any other funding from BMES

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: May 31, 2015

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Behavioral Sciences Counseling Psychology Psychology- Adult Development and Aging Psychology- Organizational Social Sciences

The Social Issues Dissertation Award

Main Purpose: To award and “encourage excellence in socially relevant research.”

Benefits:

  • First prize of $1000
  • Second prize of $500
  • Awards  are given “to the dissertations that best demonstrate scientific excellence and potential application to social problems.”

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Any doctoral dissertation in psychology (or in a social science with psychological subject matter) accepted between March 1st of the previous year and up to the deadline of the current year is eligible.
  • Applicants must have successfully defended their dissertation prior to the current year’s award deadline.

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: May 1 annually

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Arts and Arts Administration Behavioral Sciences Biology Business Administration Chemistry Counseling Economics Education Engineering Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Environmental Studies Foreign Languages Health Professions History Humanities International Research Law Mathematics Minority-Specific Grants Modern Languages Music Nursing Physical Sciences Political Science and Applied Politics Polymer Science and Engineering Psychology Psychology- Adult Development and Aging Psychology- Organizational Social Sciences Sociology Speech- Language Pathology and Audiology( AuD.) Urban Studies and Public Affairs

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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Behavioral Sciences Counseling Psychology Psychology- Adult Development and Aging Psychology- Organizational Social Sciences Sociology Urban Studies and Public Affairs

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

Main Purpose: To support doctoral candidates and allow dissertations to be completed in a timely manner. Research must be connected to understanding human violence and aggression.

Benefits:

  • $20,000 fellowship
  • Not meant for the support of the doctoral research, but to support the student during the writing phase

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Ph.D. candidate entering dissertation stage
  • Must be approaching final year of Ph.D. work and confident that dissertation will be finished in the next year
  • Typically fieldwork and other research has been completed and writing has begun

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: February 1, 2016

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Behavioral Sciences Counseling Psychology Psychology- Adult Development and Aging Psychology- Organizational Social Sciences

The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues: The Grants in Aid Program

Main Purpose: These grants support research on social problems and help social and behavioral researchers apply their knowledge to today’s problems. Areas that will receive special consideration include:

  • Interpersonal violence
  • Marriage equality
  • Immigration reform

Benefits: “Funding up to $1000 is available for graduate student research if proposals are accompanied by evidence of a request for appropriate university official agreement to match the amount requested.”

Eligibility Criteria: 

  • Must be a member of The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
  • Students may submit a joint application

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: This grant is awarded twice per year. Spring Deadline is May 15th annually. Fall Deadline is October 5th annually.

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Arts and Arts Administration Music

Chamber Music America: Residency Partnership Program

Main Purpose: “The Residency Partnership Program supports ensembles and presenters in building audiences for classical/contemporary, jazz, and world chamber music through residency projects.  Funding is intended for activities that take place in community settings and that are not part of a regular concert series.”

Benefits:

  • Short Term Projects: 3-9 activities taking place over at least three consecutive or separate days within a month- $2,500-$6,000
  • Extended Projects: 10 or more activities taking place over more than one month and up to one year- $5,000-$12,000
  • Grants support up to 75% of the expenses directly related to the project

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Projects must take place in The United States or its territories
  • Activities may include, but are not limited to:
    • interactive or audience engagement programs in classrooms (preschool through high school), libraries, hospitals, senior centers, or other community venues
  • The Program does not support activities intended for college music students

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: October 30, 2015

 

 

 

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Behavioral Sciences Health Professions Nursing Psychology Psychology- Adult Development and Aging Social Sciences

The John Merck Fund: Developmental Disabilities Translational Research Program

Main Purpose: To support research that will help improve the treatment and outcomes of individuals with developmental disabilities, specifically Down syndrome and Fragile X syndrome. Interdisciplinary research is encouraged.

Benefits:

  • Ten awards are available of $1 million each ($250,000 per year for four years)

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Academic rank in a university
  • A record of research in areas relating to developmental disabilities
  • Scholarly commitment to a career in developmental disabilities research

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: Preliminary proposal due May 18, 2015, Full proposal due September 14, 2015

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Mathematics

Enriched Doctoral Training in the Mathematical Sciences (EDT)

Main Purpose: This program supports doctoral students’ participation in “research activities supplementary to the dissertation research theme” with the goal of improving research training, preparing students for a wider range of careers, and encouraging connections between mathematical science departments and other disciplines (including other academic departments, businesses, government agencies, and non-profits).

 

Benefits:

  • Standard grant to support training outside one’s dissertation work including:
    • Internships
    • Research projects
    • Consulting
    • Participation in complementary courses or summer schools
  • 5-10 grants available
  • Grant can be used to benefit a cohort of students

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Proposals must come from an academic institution in The United States that grants a doctoral degree in the mathematical sciences.
  • “Projects are expected to train students to work in teams to refine, attack, and solve problems that are open-ended, not initially sharply formulated, and originate outside the academic mathematical realm. Projects should also provide opportunities that allow the students to develop strong oral and written communication skills in an interdisciplinary setting.”

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: July 8, 2015

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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