Fellowships

Where should I look for a fellowship?

One of the easiest places to find a fellowship is at your "own university."

Undergraduate Fellowships

• Beckman Scholars Program. This fellowship recognizes outstanding students in chemistry and the biological sciences. It provides a stipend of $ 19, 300 for two summers and one academic year. 

Graduate Fellowships 

• Ford Foundation Fellowship Program. This fellowship is part of the National Academy of Science,  and it's goal is to increase the number of minorities in academia and research. The Ford Foundation Fellowship program provides awards to pre-doctoral (1-3 Ph.D), Dissertation, and postdoctoral candidates. For eligibility and guileness press here.

For Additional fellowships from the National Academy of Sciences press here.

• Churchill Scholarship from The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States. This scholarship pays for all tuition expenses, provides a travel award. For additional information click here

• Smart Scholarship Science, Mathematics & Research for Transformation. This scholarship from the Department of Defense provides a stipend paid rate of $25,000-28,000 depending on the degree field. For additional information and how to apply click here

• UNCF/Merck Science Initiative Awards. This fellowship is intended to help, African American undergraduate, graduate students and post-doctoral scholars. 

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. This fellowships is to support graduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. 

• Ruth L. Kirschtein National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the National Institute of Health (NIH). NIH provides several fellowships for different carrer levels from graduate studies to individual research grants for faculty.

• Additional Fellowships
• The Hertz Foundation Fellowship
• National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship
• Predoctoral and Graduate Fellowships
• AAUW STEM, Fellowships for women in STEM
• AAPG Foundation Grant for research in petroleum and energy-mineral resources
• American Association of University Women Educational Foundation

Postdoctoral 

• The Life Sciences Research Foundation.  The intent of this fellowship is to provide 3 year founding for postdoctoral individuals in the life sciences. 

• The American Cancer Society.  This fellowship provides a 3 year support to an independent career in cancer research. The award may be for three years.  

• IRACDA Postdoctoral Fellowship. Provides research and teaching training. Fellows need to have a research mentor, as well get assigned teaching a teaching assignment either on the same university or a partner college. 

• Underrepresented Minority Postdoctoral Enrichment Program. This award provides a total of $60,000 for three years to support the development of a postdoctoral fellow in a US institution. 

• GEM Students from The National Gem consortium
• Huward Hughes Medical Institute (hhmi grants)

• The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) Fellowship
• The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation Fellowship
• Pasteur Foundation Fellowship in Paris
• Additional Fellowships in Biological Sciences
• The Leadership Alliance

Young Faculty Fellowships 

• Beckman Young Investigators Program. This fellowship recognizes outstanding faculty at non-profit institutions to promote research in life sciences and chemistry. 

• The Grass Foundation at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL). Provides support for young investigators for one summer by providing all the necessary research equipment at the MBL in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA. 

List of additional Fellowships