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.
Rocky Mountain Nature Association: Fellowship in the Rockies
This annual fellowship offers a graduate student the opportunity to spend three months in Rocky Mountain National Park to learn about wildlife programs, vegetation and riparian studies, fire/ecology, cultural sciences, archeology and historic structures management or other fields of interest to the park. Students must be currently enrolled in or recently graduated from a graduate program in one of these fields: botany, zoology, geology, history, ecology, ornithology, wildlife sciences and park management.
Amount: free housing, $5,000 stipend and $3,000 for research expenses. Deadline: 02/01/2007 Apply to: www.rmna.org/
American Sociological Association (ASA): Minority Fellowship Program
This annual award, funded by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, supports the development and training of minority sociologists in mental health. The program seeks to attract talented minority students interested in mental health issues and to facilitate their placement, work and success in doctoral degree programs in the U.S. Doctoral students in the early stages of their program and individuals who have been accepted into a Ph.D. degree program in sociology are eligible. An applicant must be a member of one of the following racial/ethnic groups: Black/African American, Latino/a, American Indian, Alaskan Native, Asian, or Pacific Islander.
Amount: $22,772 stipend and payment of tuition at the fellow's educational institution. May be renewed for two additional years, assuming satisfactory academic progress by the fellow. Deadline: 12/31/2006 Apply to: www.asanet.org/student/mfp.html
Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Programs
Apply: http://www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm. Predoctoral Fellowships are offered to doctoral candidates who have completed preliminary course work and examinations. Candidates must have the approval of their universities to conduct doctoral research at the Smithsonian Institution. Term: 3 to 12 months Amount: $25,000 stipend per year plus allowances Deadline: 1/16/2007 The Smithsonian Minority Internship Program seeks to increase participation of U.S. minority groups who are underrepresented in Smithsonian scholarly programs, in the disciplines of research conducted at the Institution and in the museum field. Internships are full-time (40 hours per week), ten-week appointments during the summer, fall or spring. Amount: $400 per week, with additional travel allowances offered in some cases
Deadlines: 2/01/2007 (for summer and fall 2007) and 10/01/2007 (for spring 2008) Graduate Student Fellowships are offered to students formally enrolled in a graduate program of study, who have completed at least one semester, but have not yet advanced to candidacy in a Ph.D. Program. Term: 10 weeks Amount: $5500 stipend Deadline: 1/16/2007
Winterthur Research Fellowship Program
Winterthur invites academic, independent and museum scholars and advanced graduate students to apply for residential research fellowships in such areas as architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden and landscape studies, travel and tourism and other areas of social and cultural history. McNeil Dissertation Fellowships for doctoral candidates conducting dissertation research
Term: one or two semesters Amount: stipend of $7000 per semester Winterthur Research Fellowships for academic, museum and independent scholars, including graduate students Term: one to three months Amount: stipend of $1500 per month Deadline for both: 1/15/2007 Apply: http://www.winterthur.org/research/fellowship.asp
The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design -- Craft Research Fund
The Craft Research Fund seeks to advance, expand and support scholarship in U.S. Studio Craft by supporting innovative research on artistic and critical issues in craft theory, practice and history. Proposals are welcome from academic researchers, independent scholars, doctoral students and museum curators to receive grants to support research relating to the goals of the Craft Research Fund.
Amount: up to $15,000 Deadline: 1/08/2007 Apply: http://www.craftcreativitydesign.org/
The Dirksen Center Congressional Research Awards
The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The competition is open to individuals with a serious interest in studying Congress. Political scientists, historians, biographers, scholars of public administration or American studies and journalists are among those eligible. The Center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply and awards a significant portion of the funds for dissertation research.
Amount: up to $30,000 Deadline: 2/01/2007 Apply: www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRAs.htm
Page Legacy Scholar and Robert Wood Johnson Legacy Scholar Grants
The Arthur W. Page Center at Penn State University supports scholars and professionals making important contributions to knowledge, practice or public understanding of ethics and responsibility in public communication. Some awards will go to doctoral candidates who are at the dissertation-writing stage during the year of the award.
Amount: $5,000 to $25,000 Deadline: 2/16/2007 Apply: www.comm.psu.edu/pagecenter/grants.htm
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) awards ten or more dissertation fellowships each year to doctoral students who will finish writing the dissertation within the award year. Proposals are invited from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations and control of violence, aggression and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression and dominance in the modern world.
Amount: $15,000 each Deadline: 2/01/2007 Apply: http://www.hfg.org/df/guidelines.htm
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