General Funding Opportunities
American Indian Graduate Center Fellowships
The AIGC Fellowship program provides approximately $1,200,000 in fellowships to over 400 American Indian and Alaska Native graduate and professional students each year. Graduate fellowships are monetary awards made to American Indian and Alaska Native graduate or professional full-time, degree-seeking students, who meet all eligibility criteria. The fellowship amount is typically between $1000 and $5000 per academic year (not including summer), and varies from year to year, depending on the number of qualified applicants, the availability of funds and unmet financial need.
Citizenship: enrolled member of a federally recognized American Indian or Alaska Native group, or provide documentation of descent (possess one-fourth degree verifiable federally recognized Indian blood) as verified through submission of a Tribal Eligibility Certificate
Deadline: June 1, 2017
Website: http://www.aigcs.org/scholarships/graduate-fellowships/
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Short Term Research Grants
Short-Term Research Grants are awarded for 1-6 months to highly qualified candidates who have completed a Master’s degree or Diploma, or in exceptional cases a Bachelor’s degree at the latest by the time they begin their grant supported research, or those who have already completed a PhD (postdocs). DAAD will cover health insurance and provide a flat rate subsidy for travel costs. In addition, limited funds are available for a rent subsidy and family allowance.
Citizenship: US or Canadian citizens or permanent residents. Foreign nationals who live in the USA or in Canada must have been living in the US/Canada for a minimum of one year and have their current residence in the US/Canada by the time of the application deadline.
Deadline: May 1, 2017
Website: https://www.daad.org/en/find-funding/graduate-opportunities/research-grants/short-term-research-grants/
German Federal Environmental Foundation/ Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) – Doctoral Scholarship Program
The DBU grants dissertation fellowships each year, for individuals in all disciplines, for advanced research work in the field of environmental protection. The work has to be done mainly in Germany, with a clear reference to the German environmental situation. The chosen topic is expected to be of high relevance and should contribute to solving problems in environmental and conservation efforts. Generally, all environmental issues are welcome who meet the above-mentioned criteria, i.e. in addition to the natural sciences and engineering, also applications from the social sciences, humanities, economics and law. Interdisciplinary topics that support a sustainable development, are especially welcome. The complexity of environmental problems requires interdisciplinary collaboration between different scientific disciplines. Therefore, DBU would like to support individuals with its scholarship programme with as many different environmental issues and in various fields. 60 fellowships are awarded each year. Projects are expected to be completed in a period of up to three years. An individual may not yet have started the doctoral thesis. DBU expects good skills of German from foreign applicants to allow their integration into the DBU scholars' network.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: June 15, 2017
Website: https://www.dbu.de/2599.html
International Foundation for Ethical (non-animal) Research Fellowship Program
The purpose of IFER’s Fellowship Program is to provide financial incentives to graduate students in science that encourage them at the earliest stages of their career to integrate innovation and discovery with ethics and respect for animals. Fellowships are awarded to those candidates whose program of study shows the greatest potential to replace the use of animals in science. Graduate Fellowships to develop alternatives to the use of animals in research, testing and education are open to students enrolled in Master’s and Ph.D. programs in the sciences, and human or veterinary medicine. Fellowships will also be considered for graduate students in other fields, such as education, psychology, humanities, journalism, and the law, for projects that show promise to increase public awareness or to promote changes in the legal system or public policy regarding the use of animals in research, testing, and education.
Citizenship: Not Specified
Deadline: May 22, 2017
Website: http://www.ifer.org/fellowships.php
Korean American Scholarship Foundation
The Korean American Scholarship Foundation (KASF) is a non-profit, volunteer-managed organization established to help meet the financial needs of Korean-American students seeking higher education. KASF scholarships (which range from $500 to $5,000) are offered to the qualified Korea American students (including foreign students from Korea). All applicants must be enrolled in a full time program in the U.S during the scholarship application year. If extra funds are available, other students (non Koreans) may qualify for scholarships. Specifically, descendants of American veterans served during the Korean War may qualify for scholarships (applicable to selective regions)
Citizenship: Students who reside, or will reside, in the US during the 2017-18 school year, whether US citizens or foreign nationals, are all welcome to apply
Deadline: June 30
Website: http://www.kasf.org/western
For more information, contact: ONSF at onsf@uconn.edu