American Fellowships support women doctoral candidates completing dissertations and scholars seeking funds for postdoctoral research leave or for preparing completed research for publication. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. One-year post-doctoral research leave fellowships, dissertation fellowships, and summer/short-term research publication grants are offered.
Money from these funds is used to provide partial support for doctoral research and preliminary work related to the dissertation proposal. The primary source of money is provided by the Hinds Fund, which is available to all University of Chicago students, regardless of academic unit, who are studying problems in evolutionary biology. Priority for these funds goes to preliminary work related to the dissertation proposal. Sources and foci or priorities of these additional funds will generally vary from year to year. Award amounts vary in size, ranging from about $500 to about $2,000. No award has exceeded $2,000 in the past five years. Grant applications are reviewed and evaluated by the CEB Committee for Student Research Support (previously called the Hinds Fund Committee), which serves in an advisory capacity to the Chair of CEB, who will notify students upon final award decision. Applications are evaluated competitively once each quarter during the academic year.
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Predoctoral and postdoctoral awards for breast cancer research.
DFI fellowships are available to students from underrepresented groups. The intent of the fellowship is to increase the number of underrepresented faculty and staff at Illinois institutions of higher education and higher education governing boards. The fellowships are for students in any field (both masters and doctoral) who will be studying full time in a degree program a participating Illinois institution. All applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and must be Illinois residents.
The Doolittle-Harrison Fellowship awards up to $400 to doctoral students for presentation at a professional academic conference or for short-term travel outside of the contiguous United States to facilitate dissertation research.
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The International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) program supports distinguished Graduate students in the humanities and social sciences conducting dissertation research outside the United States.
Federal award supporting students in selected fields of the arts, social sciences, or humanities for up to 4 years. Must be 4th year undergraduates, 1st year MFA or 1st year doctoral students in eligible fields; must be U.S. citizens, nationals or permanent residents
The objective of this funding opportunity announcement is to help ensure that highly trained scientists will be available in adequate numbers and in appropriate research areas to carry out the Nation's biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research agenda. The participating Institutes of the National Institutes of Health(NIH) provide individual predoctoral research training fellowship awards to promising doctoral candidates who have the potential to become productive, independent investigators in research fields relevant to the missions of these participating NIH Institutes and Centers.
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships (F31) to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research.
Applicants may come from a range of career backgrounds, including biomedical research, conventional allopathic medicine (CAM), or CAM healing practices. Applicant fellows must be citizens or non-citizen nationals of the United States, or have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence.
Designed to facilitate receiving an R01 award earlier in an investigator's research career. Postdoctoral researchers with no more than 5 years of postdoctoral research training at the time of initial application or resubmission(s) are eligible.
The Graduate Research Fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master's or doctoral degrees and is intended for students who are at the early stages of their graduate study.
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The program awards grants of up to $1,000 to students from all areas of the sciences and engineering.
The goal of the grant is to support the research efforts of outstanding graduate students interested in the study of race and ethnicity. The grant may only be used for expenses associated with a clearly defined research project. Activities that will be considered for funding include, but are not limited to, travel-related expenses (transportation and lodging) associated with field research or conference presentation, primary archival research, transcription costs, duplication services, or the acquisition of data sets for quantitative analysis. Preference will be given to dissertation-related research, however, other projects will also be considered. Grants of up to $2500 will be awarded to successful candidates. These grants may be used to supplement other small grants.