Tag: Travel Assistance

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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 Education Law Psychology Psychology- Adult Development and Aging Social Sciences Sociology

Law and Social Sciences (LSS) Research Grant

Main Purpose: To support “research that advances scientific theory and understanding of the connections between law or legal processes and human behavior.”

Research topics may include but are not limited to:

  • Crime, Violence and Punishment
  • Economic Issues
  • Governance
  • Legal Decision Making
  • Legal Mobilization and Conceptions of Justice
  • Litigation and the Legal Profession

Benefits:

  • Dissertation Grant, maximum $20,000
  • Funding for maximum of 12 months
  • Funding intended to cover costs not covered by the students’ university and is not intended to cover the full cost of the dissertation. Funding is only to cover costs directly associated with research such as:
    • Conducting field research in settings away from campus that would not otherwise be possible
    • Data collection and sample survey costs
    • Payments to subjects or informants
    • Specialized research equipment
    • Data transcription, analysis and services not otherwise available
    • Supplies
    • Travel to archives, special collections or seminars, and facilities or field research locations, and partial living expenses for conducting necessary research away from the student’s university

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Doctoral Student enrolled in U.S. academic institution, not required to be a U.S. citizen
  • Proposal must be submitted by the institution on behalf of the student

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: January 15, 2016

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Humanities Modern Languages

Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL)

Main Purpose: To support research that will contribute to the knowledge of endangered human languages.

Benefits: 

  • varies, 26-30 awards available
  • “Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases.”
  • Doctoral Dissertation Grants are available for up to 24 months

Eligibility:

  • Doctoral student
  • Dissertation that will advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages
  • The Principal Investigator must be the 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.

Additional  Information and Application Links: click here

Deadline: September 15, 2015

 

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Biology Environmental Studies

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in the Directorate for Biological Sciences (DDIG)

Main Purpose: To support research in the biological sciences, specifically in environmental biology or animal behavior.

Benefits:

  • $13,000-$16,000 research grant
  • Funds can be used for “participation in scientific meetings, to conduct research in specialized facilities or field settings, and to expand an existing body of dissertation research.”

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Student must have advanced to candidacy for a Ph.D. before the proposal deadline
  • Student must be enrolled in a U.S. institution but citizenship is not required

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: October 8, 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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Social Sciences Sociology

Sociology Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards

Main Purpose: To support doctoral dissertation research in all areas of sociology including societies, institutions, groups, and demography. “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
  • Family and social networks
  • Socialization and gender roles
  • The sociology of science and technology.

Benefits: Financial support for doctoral dissertation research. Funding can be used for data gathering, statistical or methodological training, meeting with other scholars, and field work away from student’s main campus.

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Doctoral student in sociology
  • Four Key Components of the Research Proposal
    • Based on theoretically grounded issues
    • Based on empirical observation or be subject to empirical validation or illustration
    • Research design that is appropriate for the research question
    • Research must advance understanding of social processes, structures, and methods

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: October 15, 2015

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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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Arts and Arts Administration Music

Asian Cultural Council: Individual Grants

Main Purpose:  To encourage a cultural exchange between The United States and Asia by supporting the “living costs and international travel for students participating in graduate/post-graduate degree programs relating to the visual and performing arts.”

Benefits: No specific amount of the grant is indicated but funding is available for works in the following areas: archaeology, architecture, art history, arts administration, arts criticism, conservation, crafts, curation, film/video, literature, museum studies, music, photography, theater, and visual arts

Eligibility Criteria:

  • Must be an artist, arts or humanities professional, scholar, or graduate/post-graduate student an arts-oriented field
  • Country of permanent residence must be in The United States or Asia
  • Proposed project must take place outside home country- either in The United States or Asia
  • Project must begin no earlier than June of the year following application, and must take place within 18 months of receiving the award (award notification is received in May)

Application Link and Additional Information: click here

Deadline: November 1 annually (application opens September 1)

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Arts and Arts Administration

Art Libraries Society of North America: Travel Award

Main Purpose: The Arts Libraries Society of North America/Ohio Valley chapter offers this award as “a way to support and encourage professional development, networking, and participation amongst art + design information professionals.”

For more details, send an inquiry at the following link: click here