Funding Opportunities November 2008

 The Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships seek to increase the ethnic and racial diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. The Fellowship grants awards at the predoctoral, dissertation and postdoctoral levels to students who demonstrate excellence, a commitment to diversity and a desire to enter the professoriate.

 Awarded for study in mathematical, physical, biological, and social sciences; engineering; science education; and in the history and philosophy of  science. For U.S. citizens, nationals, and permanent residents at or near the beginning of graduate study. Three years of support. Intended for students who are in the early stages of their graduate study.

 Symantec Reseach Progran will award graduate fellowships to outstanding Ph.D. and M.S. students focused on innovative research that has real-world value, in areas of Symantec’s business interests in information security, availability, and integrity. The fellowship award will cover 100% of tuition and  fees for the recipient’s graduate school. A stipend is provided to cover living expenses while in school ($20,000 for 2009-2010).

 Betty Carter's Jazz Head, a weeklong music residency program for outstanding, emerging jazz artists in their mid-teens and twenties, brings them 
together under the tutelage of experienced artistinstructors who coach and counsel them, helping to polish their performance, composing, and arranging skills.

Getty Graduate internships are offered for students of all nationalities who intend to pursue careers in fields related to the visual arts. Training and 

work experience are available in areas such as curatorial, education, conservation, research, information management, public programs, and  grantmaking.

 The AAUW Educational Foundation, one of the world's largest sources of funding exclusively for graduate women, 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. Selected Professions Fellowships are awarded to women who intend to pursue a full-time course of study at accredited U.S. institutions during the fellowship year in one of the designated degree programs where women's participation traditionally has been low. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

 The Guggenheim Foundation annually awards ten or more Ph.D. dissertation fellowships to graduate students working in any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities and welcomes proposals that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance.