The UNL Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED) maintains a list of all current funding opportunities. Send a subscription request to ORED to receive weekly announcements of funding opportunities in a wide variety of fields of study.
ACTR/ACCELS Support for Research and Language Studty
American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS works to advance education, research, and mutual understanding across the United States, Canada and the nations of Southeastern Europe, Eurasia, and South Asia. American Councils designs, implements, and supports innovativeprograms in education, professional development, and scholarly research. A number of competition and award opportunities are available for graduate scholars in the humanities and social sciences, providing support for research and language study in countries in Europe, Russia and Eurasia.
The deadline to apply for summer 2007 programs is October 1. For more information, go to http://www.americancouncils.org/level1.asp?PageID=95.
American Association of University Women
One of the world's largest sources of funding exclusively for graduate women, the AAUW Educational Foundation supports aspiring scholars around the globe, teachers and activists in local communities, women at critical stages of their careers, and those pursuing professions where women are underrepresented.
Applications for grants to be awarded for the 2007-2008 academic year will be available August 1, 2006. For more information visit the AAUW online.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Fellowship
These multi-year national fellowships offer tuition plus $30,000 stipend to doctoral students pursuing a degree in the social sciences, hard sciences, engineering, or some humanities fields. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents who are in the 4th year of undergraduate or 1st or 2nd year of graduate studies at the time of application (early November 2006).
For more information, visit the NSF’s webpage on the Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
This multi-year national fellowship provides tuition and a need-based stipend of up to $30,000 to students pursuing an MFA or Ph.D. in selected fields in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and religious studies. Applicants must be U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents who are in the fourth year of undergraduate or first year of graduate studies at the time of application (early October 2006).
For more Information on the Javits Fellowship Program visit the Department of Education.
Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program
The Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Program encourages a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. These fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential forbringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world. Although the dissertation topic must concern education, recipients may be in any academic discipline or professional field. Candidates should be interested in pursuing further research in education once the doctorate is attained.
For more information, go to http://www.spencer.org/programs/index.htm. Applications are due November 1, 2006, for fellowships that can begin as early as June 2007.
National Physical Science Consortium Fellowships and Dissertation Support
The National Physical Science Consortium offers traditional fellowships and a dissertation support program for students in Astronomy, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geology, Materials Science, Mathematical Sciences, Physics, and their sub-disciplines and related engineering fields (Chemical, Computer, Electrical, Environmental, and Mechanical).
The application period is August 25-November 5. Go to http://www.npsc.org/students/info.html for more information.
From the National Institutes of Health: The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predocteral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
The primary objective of the Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award is to help ensure that diverse pools of highly trained scientists will be available in appropriate research areas to carry out the nation’s biomedical, behavioral, health services, or clinical research agenda. This initiative seeks to improve the diversity of the health-related research workforce by supporting the training of predoctoral students from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented. Such candidates include individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.
There are two deadlines annually – Nov. 15 and May 1 for awards that begin in September and May of each following year. For complete information, see the Funding Announcement on the NIH’s web site.
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