Potential Funding Sources:

Deadlines and requirements may have changes, check individual fellowship websites

 

Agency

Eligibility

Availability

Deadline

Amounts

NSF- Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

First and second year’s only, US Citizens

 late summer

Early November

$30,000 + $10,000 tuition

DOE- Global Change Education Program (GREF)

Environmental – second years and beyond, US Citizens

 October

December 31

???

American Association of University Women

post-TGR(U.S. citizen fellowship)/Anytime (non-citizen), Women only

Aug. 1

Nov. 15 (U.S.)/Dec. 1(international)

 $20,000

NASA- Graduate Student Research Program 

NASA inclusion, anytime, U.S. citizens

 

February 1

$27,000+$3000  to  advisor

National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowships

 Senior in college or First year, U.S. citizen, or dissertation support.  Requires working with an employer during the summer

 

 November 5

 $16,000

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (NDSEG)

 First and second years, US Citizens, related to currently miltary research areas (very broad)

 

 Early January

 $31,000 + tuition

Harriet Jenkins Predoctoral Fellowship Program

Minorities, women, or persons with disabilities, US Citizens

 

February 1

$24,000 + $8,000 tuition and travel

EPA- Science to Achieve Results (STAR) fellowship

Environmental applications

 

 

 

NASA Earth System Science Fellowship Program

Anytime, Anyone

 

March 15

$24,000

EvolvingEarth.org

Anyone

 

March 1

$3,000

Dr. Nancy Foster Fellowship Program (NOAA)

Ocean science

 

 

 

Department of Homeland Secruity Graduate Fellowships

Anytime, US Citizens, but not offered in 2010

 

 

 

Smithsonian Opportunities for Research and Study

Smithsonian affiliation

 

 

 

NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant

Anytime, when available