Current Fellowship Opportunities
Deadline Date - November 24, 2009
Grant Resource - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Synopsis - The sponsor awards fellowships to support research and writing about the Holocaust. The fellowship may be three to nine months in duration.
Size of Grant - up to $3,500 a month
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral
Deadline Date - November 25, 2009
Grant Resource - Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
Synopsis - The sponsor is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2010 Statewide Family Network grants. The purpose of this program is to enhance State capacity and infrastructure to be more oriented to the needs of children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances and their families. The sponsor anticipates providing 42 new awards.
Size of Grant - The anticipated total amount of funding is $2.67 million. Recipients will receive up to $60,000 per year in total costs (direct and indirect). Up to 6 grantees will receive an additional $10,000 per year for projects that include a youth leadership component.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Statewide Family Network Grants
Deadline Date - November 30, 2009
Grant Resource - Center for Afroamerican & African Studies
Synopsis - The sponsor provides support to scholars working on Africa or the
African Diaspora. Consideration will be given to all disciplines
including--but not limited to--the humanities, social sciences,
physical sciences and professional schools.
Size of Grant - $45,000 ACAD YR
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Deadline Date - November 30, 2009
Grant Resource - New York University
Synopsis - The sponsor's provides a fellowship to support promising scholars and educators from different backgrounds, races, ethnic groups, and other diverse groups whose life experience, research experience, and employment background will contribute significantly to academic excellence at NYU.
Size of Grant - Fellows receive an annual stipend of $40,000 as well as allowances for housing ($20,000), research ($2,000), and one-time relocation ($3,000). The University also provides a medical and dental benefits package. The sponsor will award five in-residence fellowships in 2010. The two-year appointments, which have a possibility of a third-year extension, begin in September 2010 and end in August 2012. Fellows teach a maximum of one course per semester.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity Fellowship
Deadline Date - December 1, 2009
Grant Resource - CDS International, Inc.
Synopsis - The sponsor provides funds for a one-year cultural exchange, involving work and study, to give participants an understanding for and knowledge of the everyday life, education, and professional training in Germany. The program is directed to young adults in business, technical, vocational, and agricultural fields. .
Size of Grant - Funding is provided for international airfare, local transportation, language training and study costs, orientation, mid-year and final seminars, sickness and accident insurance, and host family compensation or other accomodation costs during the study portion of the program. Spending money in the amount of $300-$500 per month must be provided by the participant.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals
Deadline Date - December 1, 2009
Grant Resource - American Society for Nutrition
Synopsis - The sponsor offers fellowships for nutrition research to predoctoral students enrolled in a program registered with the ASNS Directory of Graduate Programs in Nutritional Sciences.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Predoctoral Fellowships
Deadline Date - December 1, 2009
Grant Resource - Office of Postsecondary Education/Department of Education
Synopsis - The sponsor provides support for faculty of Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) to engage in research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. Proposals must focus on one or more of the following geographic areas: Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, the Near East, East Central Europe and Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere (excluding the United States and its territories).
Size of Grant - $70,000 AVERAGE
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship Program
Deadline Date - December 3, 2009
Grant Resource - British Academy
Synopsis - This scheme enables young scholars from overseas to be invited to visit the UK to carry out research for two to six months. The Academy grants the title of British Academy Visiting Fellow and awards a sum of money towards travel and maintenance costs, which will be administered by the host institution. The main purpose of the visit should be to enable the visitor to pursue research.
Size of Grant - $7,500 MAXIMUM
Cost Sharing or Match - Yes
Web - Visiting Scholars
Deadline Date - December 9, 2009
Grant Resource - National Association of Television Program Executives' Educational Fndn.
Synopsis - The program provides selected faculty with complete access to the sessions and activities of the annual NATPE Market and Conference.
Size of Grant - will receive a 2010 Educational Membership ($95 value)
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Conference Faculty Fellowship Program
Deadline Date - December 10, 2009
Grant Resource - Brown University
Synopsis - The sponsor provides support for three or four postdoctoral research fellows in residence for an academic year. Candidates who do work that is qualitative and humanistic in nature are drawn from the humanities, the social sciences, and the life sciences.
Size of Grant - up to $50,000 for 1 academic year
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Pembroke Center for Teaching & Research on Women
Deadline Date - December 15, 2009
Grant Resource - Huntington Library
Synopsis - The sponsor provides awards of $50,000 for nine to twelve months in-residence fellowships to scholars to work in the holdings of its library collections
Size of Grant - $50,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - David and Dana Dornsife Fellowship
Deadline Date - December 15, 2009
Grant Resource - American Association for the Advancement of Science
Synopsis - The sponsor provides a fellowship in diplomacy, security and development.
Size of Grant - These fellowships are one-year opportunities. For most Fellows, the annual stipend and benefits are administered by the sponsor. Some Fellows are hired directly by hosting offices under temporary federal employee status and receive their annual stipend and benefits directly from their office. Stipends and benefits vary according to the circumstances.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Diplomacy, Security and Development Fellowships
Deadline Date - December 15, 2009
Grant Resource - American Association for the Advancement of Science
Synopsis - Fellows spend one year engaging in projects, programs, policies and outreach initiatives to: protect animal, plant and environmental health; address ecosystem degredation, pollution, and biological threats, tackle challenges and opportunities in agriculture, fisheries, climate change, and energy; and to safeguard the air, water, land and natural resources.
Size of Grant - The fellowships are one-year opportunities. Some of the fellowship assignments in federal agencies may be renewable for a second year, at the mutual agreement of the hosting office, the Fellow, and the sponsor. For most Fellows, the annual stipend and benefits are administered by the sponsor. Some Fellows are hired directly by hosting offices under temporary federal employee status and receive their annual stipend and benefits directly from their office.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Energy, Environment, Agriculture and Natural Resources Fellowships
Deadline Date - December 15, 2009
Grant Resource - American Association for the Advancement of Science
Synopsis - Fellows spend one year engaging in projects, programs, policies and
outreach initiatives to: protect animal, plant and environmental
health; address ecosystem degredation, pollution, and biological
threats, tackle challenges and opportunities in agriculture,
fisheries, climate change, and energy; and to safeguard the air,
water, land and natural resources.
Size of Grant - The fellowships are one-year opportunities. Some of the fellowship
assignments in federal agencies may be renewable for a second year, at
the mutual agreement of the hosting office, the Fellow, and the
sponsor. For most Fellows, the annual stipend and benefits are
administered by the sponsor. Some Fellows are hired directly by
hosting offices under temporary federal employee status and receive
their annual stipend and benefits directly from their office.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Energy, Environment, Agriculture and Natural Resources Fellowships
Deadline Date - December 15, 2009
Grant Resource - American Association for the Advancement of Science
Synopsis - The sponsor provides one-year fellowships which focus the Fellows
experience to support improved programs, policies, planning risk
analysis, regulation, monitoring and evaluation for a broad range of
initiatives in Preventive and community health, disease identification
and response, and medical research; Individual, family and community
social services, systems and support; Food, processing and
distribution safety; and Science education, research, and
innovation.
Size of Grant - The fellowships are one-year opportunities. Some of the fellowship
assignments in federal agencies may be renewable for a second year, at
the mutual agreement of the hosting office, the Fellow, and the
sponsor. For most Fellows, the annual stipend and benefits are
administered by the sponsor. Some Fellows are hired directly by
hosting offices under temporary federal employee status and receive
their annual stipend and benefits directly from their office.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Health, Education and Human Services Fellowships
Deadline Date - December 15, 2009
Grant Resource - Nieman Foundation for Journalism
Synopsis - The Nieman Fellowship is a ten-month appointment at Harvard University for midcareer journalists. The fulfillment of the sponsor's mandate to "promote and elevate the standards of journalism and educate persons deemed specially qualified for journalism" begins each year with the selection of 12 working journalists from the United States and 12 from other countries. Journalists selected as 2010 Nieman Fellows will have the opportunity to study at Harvard for the 2010-2011 academic year. Nieman Fellowships are awarded to print, broadcast and online reporters, editors, photographers, producers, editorial writers and cartoonists with at least five years of full-time, professional experience in the news media.
Size of Grant - $60,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Nieman Fellowships for Journalism at Harvard
Deadline Date - December 15, 2009
Grant Resource - McKee (Robert E. and Evelyn) Foundation
Synopsis - The sponsor makes grants in the areas of: civic, cultural and religion; education, literature and science; hospitals; medical and medical research and mental health; rehabilitation and welfare; youth activities; and community funds.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Grants Program
Deadline Date – January 4, 2010
Grant Resource – National Endowment for the Humanities
Synopsis –
The sponsor provides support for research on how contexts such as families and programs affect youth, how these contexts can be improved, and how scientific evidence affects influential adults. It also funds various capacity-building activities to develop the infrastructure necessary to do this work. The sponsor also funds activities that encourage communication among influential policymakers, practitioners, scholars and members of the media.
Size of Grant - Awards are typically between $100,000 and $600,000 and cover two to three years of support.
Cost Sharing or Match – No
Web – Investigator Initiated Grants
Deadline Date – January 7, 2010
Grant Resource –
Environmental Protection Agency
Synopsis –
The sponsor is issuing a request for proposals for applied research on innovative or improved methods to predict whether or not a pesticide protein is a food allergen. Research to characterize the key factors that influence human immune responses to dietary proteins is needed in order to better assess potential food allergy from genetically engineered plants.
Size of Grant - $425,000 MAXIMUM
Cost Sharing or Match – No
Web – Approaches to Assessing Potential Food Allergy from Genetically Engineered Plants
Deadline Date - January 10, 2010
Grant Resource - Mary Josephine Cochran Fellowship
Synopsis - The sponsor provides support for a graduate student pursuing a degree in textiles and clothing. One award will be made.
Size of Grant - $5,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Mary Josephine Cochran Fellowship
Deadline Date - January 11, 2010
Grant Resource - American Society for Engineering Education
Synopsis - The sponsor invites applications for undergraduate and graduate scholarships focused on aeronautical research.
Size of Grant - up to $15,000 a year
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - NASA Aeronautics Scholarship
Deadline Date - January 14, 2010
Grant Resource - PEN American Center
Synopsis - The Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship of $5,000 is offered annually to an author of children's or young-adult fiction.
Size of Grant - $5,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Phyllis Naylor Working Writer
Deadline Date - January 15, 2010
Grant Resource - Sigma Delta Epsilon
Synopsis - The sponsor provides awards for research in all the natural sciences, including: physical, environmental, mathematical, computer, life sciences, anthropology, psychology and statistics.
Size of Grant - $4,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Sigma Delta Epsilon Fellowships
Deadline Date - January 15, 2010
Grant Resource - Archaeological Institute of America
Synopsis - One award of $11,000 is given to support studies undertaken at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, for no more than a year
Size of Grant - $11,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Anna C. and Oliver C. Colburn Fellowship
Deadline Date - January 15, 2010
Grant Resource - Hazel Putman Roach Fellowship
Synopsis - The sponsor provides support for graduate students pursuing a master's degree in any area of family and consumer sciences.
Size of Grant - $5,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Hazel Putman Roach Fellowship
Deadline Date - January 15, 2010
Grant Resource - Jewell L. Taylor Fellowship
Synopsis - The sponsor provides support for students pursuing a graduate degree in family and consumer sciences. Five awards of $5,000 are available.
Size of Grant - $5,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Jewell L. Taylor Fellowship
Deadline Date - January 22, 2010
Grant Resource - Texas Tech University
Synopsis - The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library (SWC/SCL) invites applications for the Formby Research Fellowships which support short-term fellowships of one to three months for conducting research in its collections.
Size of Grant - $2,000 MONTH
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Formby Library Research Fellowships
Deadline Date - January 26, 2010
Grant Resource - Directorate for Biological Sciences/NSF
Synopsis - The sponsor announces its intention to continue to support plant genome research through the Plant Genome Research Program. The estimated number of awards is 15-25, pending availability of funds.
Size of Grant - The award size will be determined based on the nature of activities and at a level that would be enabling, as well as the availability of funds. The anticipated award date is June 2010. Approximately $20 million is available for FY 2010 new awards, pending availability of funds.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Plant Genome Research Program
Deadline Date - January 31, 2010
Grant Resource - Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics
Synopsis - Support is provided for in-residence fellowships in the fields of laser technology, optoelectronics, precision measurement, surface science and semiconductors, information and image processing, and materials and process science, as well as basic research in atomic, molecular and optical physics, precision measurement, gravitational physics, chemical physics, astrophysics, and geophysical measurements.
Size of Grant - The stipend will be approximately $4,000 per month.
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Visiting Fellowships
Deadline Date - January 31, 2010
Grant Resource - Nieman Foundation for Journalism
Synopsis - With this fellowship, the sponsor will be educating Arts/Culture journalists with the purpose of influencing more comprehensive and informed arts coverage and, ultimately, greater public appreciation of the arts.
Size of Grant - $60,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Nieman Fellowship in Arts and Culture Reporting
Deadline Date - January 31, 2010
Grant Resource - Pfizer Inc., U.S. Pharmaceuticals Group
Synopsis - The sponsor provides career development awards designed to support the career development of junior faculty in Public Health.
Size of Grant - $130,000
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Pfizer Fellowships in Public Health
Deadline Date - March 1, 2010
Grant Resource - Folger Institute
Synopsis - The sponsor provides support for fellowships of one to three months for in-residence research projects appropriate to the sponsor's collections.
Size of Grant - $2,500 a month
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Short-Term Fellowships
Deadline Date - October 26, 2010
Grant Resource - Educause
Synopsis - The sponsor provides fellowships for information technology professionals to attend EDUCAUSE events, thus helping to build future leaders.
Size of Grant - varies
Cost Sharing or Match - No
Web - Jane N. Ryland Fellowship
Deadline Date – September 7, 2012
Grant Resource – Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
Category – AHRQ Individual Awards for Postdoctoral Fellows Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards
Cost Sharing or Match – No
Web – AHRQ Individual Awards for Postdoctoral Fellows