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.
The Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research: Aquila Energy Sciences Fellowship
 A new fellowship for students in the second year of a master’s or doctoral program in any of the physical sciences, engineering, economics, areas relating to energy or public policy, political science, and architecture, and demonstrating the potential to make an impact on the energy sciences in their graduate research.
  Deadline: 02/28/07 Award amount: $2500 http://ncesr.unl.edu/jobs.html

 

U.S. National Park Service: Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program
 Doctoral dissertation scholarships for Ph.D. students throughout the Americas to support research critical to conserving the national parks of the region. Research projects in the biological, physical, social and cultural sciences are eligible, as are projects in technology innovation in support of conservation science.
  Deadline: 05/03/07 Award amount: $80,000 http://www.nature.nps.gov/canonscholarships/

 

Kennedy Center Internships
 The Kennedy Center selects over 20 college juniors, seniors, graduate students, and recent graduates each semester for full-time internship placements in advertising, development, education, press, programming, production, technology, and the National Symphony Orchestra.
 Deadline: 03/01/07 for summer 2007 internship Award amount: weekly stipend of $225. http://www.kennedycenter.org/education/artsmanagement/internships/

United States Department of Energy Laboratory Graduate Participation Program
 Enables qualified graduate students in the physical, life, social, and environmental sciences, engineering and mathematics to conduct their master's thesis or Ph.D. dissertation research in residence at the DOE facility when the necessary resources are not available on campus. The proposed research program must be acceptable to the university for an advanced degree and meet the programmatic interest of the particular research facility.
Deadline: at least four months prior to starting date
Award amount: annual stipend of $12,000-$14,000; annual allowance of $10,000 for a spouse and one dependent child and $15,000 for a spouse and two or more dependent children; a maximum of $3,500 paid to the university for tuition and fees.
For application materials write to:
Laboratory Graduate Participation Program Science/Engineering Education Division
Oak Ridge Institute for Science & Education
P.O. Box 118
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-0117

 

SAE International Doctoral Scholars Program
 The SAE Doctoral Scholars Program offers forgivable loans to assist and encourage promising engineering graduate students to pursue careers in teaching engineering at the college level. For each year of qualified teaching after graduation, one year of loans will be forgiven.
Deadline: 04/01/07

Award amount: up to $5,000 per year for up to three years, for a total of $15,000 http://students.sae.org/awdscholar/loans/doctoral/

 

Association for the Study of Higer Education/Lumina Foundation for Education Fellowship Program
 The key objective is to promote innovative scholarship by creating an intergenerational community of scholars who will examine social, institutional, and policy barriers to opportunity and student success.
Deadline: 5/10/07

Award amount: $14,000 for three years http://www.ashe.ws/fellowship/aboutfellowship.htm

 

James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation Graduate Fellowships for Teachers
 Fellows receive the opportunity to deepen critical research and writing skills; develop professional ties that can significantly affect their career paths; and strengthen their teaching proficiency in government, history or social studies. Two types of fellowships are offered: Junior Fellowships for students about to complete, or who have completed, their undergraduate course of study and intend to pursue full-time graduate work; Senior Fellowships for teachers who want to pursue graduate studies on a part-time basis through summer and evening classes.
Deadline: 03/01/07

Award amount: up to $24,000 for two years, not to exceed $12,000 per academic year http://www.jamesmadison.com/

 

American Educational Research Association Dissertation Grants
 AERA invites education policy- and practice-related dissertation proposals using NCES, NSF, and other national data bases. Dissertation grants are available for advanced doctoral students and are intended to support students while they write the doctoral dissertation. Applications are encouraged from a variety of disciplines, such as (but not limited to) education, sociology, economics, psychology, demography, statistics, and psychometrics.
Deadlines: 03/01/07 to be reviewed in April; 05/05/07 to be reviewed in October

Award amounts: up to $15,000 for one-year projects. http://www.aera.net/grantsprogram/res_training/diss_grants/DGFly.html

 

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
2007 National Wildlife Refuge System Centennial Scholarship Program
 Applicants must be pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in environmental science, natural resource management, biology, public policy, education, geography, political science or related disciplines, and engaged in research focused on improving management and understanding of fish, wildlife and plant resources.
Deadline: 4/13/07

Award amounts: $5000 for undergraduate, master’s, and J.D. students; $15,000 for Ph.D. & D.V.M. students http://nfwf.org/programs/centennialscholarship/index.cfm 

 

Social Science Research Council
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship
 A strategic fellowship program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation designed to help graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate doctoral dissertation proposals. The 2007 program is organized around five distinct research fields: Black Atlantic Studies; The Political Economy of Redistribution; Rethinking Europe: Religion, Ethnicity, Nation; Visual Culture; and Water Sustainability. Ten to 12 fellows in each research field will participate in two workshops: one in the late spring to help prepare them to undertake pre-dissertation research on their topics; and one in the early fall to help them synthesize their summer research and draft proposals for dissertation funding.
Deadline: 03/01/07

Award Amount: up to $5000 http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf/

 

Elderhostel K. Patricia Cross Doctoral Research Grant
 This grant is intended to aid doctoral students (in education, psychology, gerontology, social work or a related discipline) researching topics relevant to aging and later-life learning.
Deadline: 2/15/07

Award amount: $5000 http://www.elderhostel.org/grants/?CFID=44786&CFTOKEN=67783352

 

Resourcs for the Future: Joseph L. Fisher Dissertation Fellowships
 RFF will award fellowships for the coming academic year in support of doctoral dissertation research on issues related to the environment, natural resources, or energy. RFF’s primary research disciplines are economics and other social sciences. Proposals from the physical or biological sciences must have an immediate and obvious link to environmental policy matters.
Deadline: 02/28/07

Award Amount: $12,000 for the 2007-2008 academic year http://www.rff.org/rff/About/Fellowships_and_Internships/Fisher/Joseph-L-Fisher-Doctoral-DissertationFellowships.cfm
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