[Plsgs] FW: November GradFunding Newsletter - Current Opportunities

Tue Nov 5 14:17:29 MST 2013

From: gradfunding-request at list.arizona.edu [mailto:gradfunding-request at list.arizona.edu] On Behalf Of Shelley Hawthorne Smith
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 11:53 AM
To: gradfunding at list.arizona.edu
Subject: November GradFunding Newsletter - Current Opportunities

Please see below for information on funding opportunities for graduate students.

Opportunities at the University of Arizona

  *   Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) Research Grants
  *   Tinker Graduate Research Symposium

Funding Opportunities in the Humanities/Arts/Social Sciences

  *   Carter Manny Award
  *   Chateaubriand Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship
  *   Donald M Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship
  *   James Madison Memorial Fellowship
  *   NSF Arctic Writers and Artists Program
  *   Texas State Historical Association: Research Fellowships
  *   U.S. Army Center of Military History Dissertation Fellowships
  *   Winterthur Fellowships (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Dissertation Fellowships, and Short-term Fellowships)

Funding Opportunities: Science and Engineering

  *   Chateaubriand Fellowship -  Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
  *   International Student Research Fellowships - Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  *   Knowles Science Teaching Foundation (KSTF) Fellowship
  *   National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program (NDSEG)
  *   National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI)
  *   Space Technology Research Fellowships
  *   Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship

Postdoctoral Opportunities

  *   Los Alamos National Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellowships
  *   Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows in the Humanities
  *   NSF Division of Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships

Opportunities at the University of Arizona

Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) Research Grants
A fantastic new opportunity. GPSC strives to support quality graduate and professional student research to continue the University of Arizona's reputation as a leading research institution. Current graduate and professional students in good academic standing who have a project proposal and a principal investigator (PI) or project advisor may apply for Research and Project Grant funding. The maximum that can be awarded for Research Funding is $1000 per project to be used within one year. As terms of accepting funding, students must apply to present their research at the GPSC Student Showcase.
Citizenship: Not Specified
Deadline: Rolling (see website)
Website: http://www.gpsc.arizona.edu/research-grants

Tinker Graduate Research Symposium
If you plan to apply for a Tinker Grant, consider attending the Tinker Graduate Research Symposium. You will get valuable insight on the grant and a chance to network with previous awardees and their professors! With a grant from the Tinker Foundation, the University of Arizona funded 16 graduate students from 9 departments across campus to conduct original research in Latin America this past summer. The University and Tucson community are invited to come and listen to students' research experiences and outcomes on November 6th at the University of Arizona Student Union Memorial Center.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
University of Arizona, Student Union Memorial Center
Website: http://las.arizona.edu/content/tinker-graduate-research-symposium-keynote-speaker-dr-lesley-gill

Funding Opportunities in the Humanities/Arts/Social Sciences

Carter Manny Award
Since the Carter Manny Award's establishment in 1996, over $560,000 has been awarded in recognition of outstanding doctoral students whose work represents some of the most innovative and advanced scholarship on architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. The Carter Manny Award supports dissertation research and writing by promising scholars whose projects focus on fields of inquiry supported by the Graham Foundation: architecture; architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; visual arts; and other related fields. The award is intended to assist students enrolled in graduate programs in architecture, art history, and other programs in the fine arts, humanities, and social sciences. The Graham Foundation offers two Carter Manny Awards: a research award for a student at the research stage of the doctoral dissertation and a writing award for a student at the writing stage of the doctoral dissertation. The research award is acknowledged with $15,000 and the writing award is acknowledged with $20,000
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: March 15, 2014
Website: http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grant_programs?mode=award

Chateaubriand Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship
This fellowship program offered by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US, targets outstanding Ph.D. students from American universities who seek to engage in research in France, in any discipline of the Humanities and Social Sciences. HSS Chateaubriand fellows are selected through a merit-based competition, through a binational collaborative process involving expert evaluators from both countries. HSS Chateaubriand grantees are applicants who answer the program's criteria of excellence and whose sojourn in France will support the program's philosophy. The HSS Chateaubriand fellowship program's purpose is to foster bilateral cooperation at Ph.D. and research level, and to build and strengthen bridges between our two nations.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: December 16, 2013
Website: http://www.chateaubriand-fellowship.org/

Donald M Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship
The Payne Program is designed to attract outstanding young people to careers in international development as USAID Foreign Service Officers.  The Payne Fellowship Program provides benefits valued at up to $90,000 over two years toward a two-year master's degree, arranges internships in Washington D.C. and at USAID missions overseas, and provides professional development and support activities.  Fellows who successfully complete the program become USAID Foreign Service Officers.  Fellows may use the fellowship to attend a two-year master's program in a U.S. institution to study an area of relevance to the USAID Foreign Service, including international development, international relations, public policy, business administration, foreign languages, economics, agriculture, environmental sciences, health, or urban planning at a graduate or professional school approved by the Payne Program.
Citizenship: U.S. Citizen
Deadline:  January 27,2014
Website: http://blogs.utexas.edu/lahonors/2013/10/22/2014-donald-m-payne-international-development-graduate-fellowship/

James Madison Memorial Fellowship
The James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation offers $24,000 James Madison Graduate Fellowships to individuals desiring to become outstanding teachers of the American Constitution at the secondary school level. Fellowship applicants compete only against other applicants from the states of their legal residence. After receiving the master's degree, each Fellow must teach American history, American government, or social studies in grades 7-12 for one full year for each academic year of funding received under a fellowship, preferably in the state from which the recipient won the fellowship.
Citizenship: U.S. Citizen
Deadline: March 1, 2014
Website: http://www.jamesmadison.gov/

NSF Arctic Writers and Artists Program
The Antarctic Artists and Writers Program supports writing and artistic projects specifically designed to increase understanding and appreciation of the Antarctic and of human activities on the southernmost continent. The Antarctic Artists and Writers Program furnishes U.S. Antarctic Program operational support, and round-trip economy air tickets between the United States and the Southern Hemisphere, to artists and writers whose work requires them to be in the Antarctic to complete their proposed project. The Antarctic Artists and Writers Program is primarily for citizens of the United States who have a substantial record of achievement in the arts and letters or who are in early career and demonstrate exceptional promise.
Citizenship: Proposals are accepted from citizens of other Antarctic Treaty nations if a significant audience will be reached in the United States or the project is otherwise in the U.S. interest
Deadline: May 1, 2014
Website: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503518&org=PLR&from=home

Texas State Historical Association: Research Fellowships
The Texas State Historical Association has a number of small fellowships for research relating to the history of Texas. These include awards for study of Latino history, arts and material culture, and Civil War history.
Deadline: December 31
Website: http://www.tshaonline.org/awards-and-fellowships

U.S. Army Center of Military History Dissertation Fellowships
To support scholarly research and writing among qualified civilian graduate students preparing dissertations in the history of warfare, the U.S. Army Center of Military History (CMH) offers three Dissertation Fellowships each year. One, funded by the National Museum of the U.S. Army, is designed to support dissertations that explore the material culture of the Army; the two others support research in the more general areas of military history in all its many aspects. For purposes of this program, the history of war on land is broadly defined, including such areas as biography, military campaigns, military organization and administration, policy, strategy, tactics, weaponry, technology, training, logistics, and the evolution of civil-military relations.
Citizenship: U.S. Citizen
Deadline: January 15
Website: http://www.history.army.mil/html/about/df-geninfo.html

Winterthur Fellowships (National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Dissertation Fellowships, and Short-term Fellowships)
Research fellows conduct research in many areas of social and cultural history, including material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden and landscape studies, Shaker studies, travel and tourism, the Atlantic World, and objects in literature. Winterthur's collections are rich and diverse, and applications that offer fresh approaches to its resources are welcome. All applicants are strongly encouraged to search Wintercat, visit Winterthur, and contact staff members to discuss potential research projects.
Deadline: January 15
Website: http://www.winterthur.org/?p=418

Funding Opportunities: Science and Engineering

Chateaubriand Fellowship -  Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
This fellowship program offered by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US, aims to initiate or reinforce collaborations, partnerships or joint projects by encouraging exchange at the doctoral level. To that end, the OST supports PhD students who are registered in an American university and wish to conduct research in a French laboratory (public or private) for a 4 to 9 month period of time as part of a co-supervised PhD.
Citizenship: Not Restricted
Deadline: January 31, 2013
Website: http://stem.chateaubriand-fellowship.org/

International Student Research Fellowships - Howard Hughes Medical Institute
This fellowship program supports outstanding international predoctoral students studying in the United States who are ineligible for fellowships or training grants through U.S. federal agencies. Participation is by invitation only. Nominated students must be in their second or third year of study to apply for the fellowship. To activate the fellowship, students must be in the third or fourth year of a PhD program at one of the designated institutions. Students in the first, second, or fifth year of their PhD programs cannot activate the fellowship. In no case will support be provided past year five of a PhD program. Eligible fields of study include biology, chemistry, physics, math, computer science, engineering, and plant biology-as well as interdisciplinary research.
Website: http://www.hhmi.org/programs/international-student-research-fellowships

Knowles Science Teaching Foundation (KSTF) Fellowship
KSTF awards Teaching Fellowships to exceptional young men and women committed to teaching science and mathematics in United States high schools. We believe the commitment to teaching merits the deepest respect and support. Our Teaching Fellowship is designed explicitly to meet the needs of teachers from the time they begin working on a teaching credential through the early years of their career. The result of this approach is one of the most comprehensive fellowship programs in the United States. KSTF Teaching Fellowships combine extensive financial and professional support. The total award for each Fellow is valued at nearly $150,000 over the course of the five-year Fellowship. Fellows receive tuition assistance while participating in a teacher credentialing program, monthly stipends, and grants for professional development and teaching materials.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: January 9
Website: http://www.kstf.org/fellowships/

National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program (NDSEG)
As a means of increasing the number of U.S. citizens and nationals trained in science and engineering disciplines of military importance, the Department of Defense (DoD) plans to award approximately 200 new three-year graduate fellowships in April 2013, subject to the availability of funds. The DoD will offer these fellowships to individuals who have demonstrated the ability and special aptitude for advanced training in science and engineering. National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowships are awarded to applicants who will pursue a doctoral degree in, or closely related to, an area of DoD interest.
Citizenship: U.S. Citizens and Nationals
Deadline: December 20, 2013
Website: http://ndseg.asee.org/

National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI)
NSF and selected foreign counterpart science and technology agencies sponsor international research institutes for U.S. graduate students in seven East Asia and Pacific locations at times set by the counterpart agencies between June and August each year. The Summer Institutes (EAPSI) operate similarly and the research visits to a particular location take place at the same time. Although applicants apply individually to participate in a Summer Institute, awardees become part of the cohort for a country.
Citizenship: U.S. Citizens and Nationals
Deadline: December 20, 2013
Website: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5284&WT.mc_id=&WT.mc_ev=click

Space Technology Research Fellowships
The Space Technology Research Fellowships are for individuals pursuing or planning to pursue master's (e.g., M.S.) or doctoral (e.g., Ph.D.) degrees in relevant space technology disciplines at accredited U.S. universities. This call is open to students pursuing advanced degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The goal of NSTRF is to provide the Nation with a pipeline of highly skilled researchers and technologists to improve America's technological competitiveness. NASA Space Technology Fellows will perform innovative space technology research while building the skills necessary to become future technological leaders. Students receive a $36,000 stipend, advisor receives a $9,000 stipend, and tuition and fees are paid.
Citizenship: U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents
Deadline: Dec 4, 2013
Website: http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/stp/strg/nstrf13.html

Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship
Symantec will award Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowships to outstanding Ph.D. and M.S. students who meet the eligibility criteria. A key goal of the program is to fund innovative research that has real-world value, in areas of Symantec's business interests. .There are two award categories: Storage and Systems: areas such as storage, backup, virtualization, cloud computing, big data infrastructure, etc. Next Generation Security: cryptography, and security in areas of cloud, web, network, mobile, data center, big data analytics, networks etc. Fellowship participants also gain first hand research and development experience through guidance and mentorship from a top scientist of Symantec Research Labs during the fellowship period. Each participant is also encouraged to spend a summer working with their mentor at Symantec on a research project in their area of interest.
Citizenship: Not Specified
Deadline: May 28, 2014
Website: http://www.symantec.com/about/careers/college/fellowship.jsp

Postdoctoral Opportunities

Los Alamos National Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Postdoctoral (Postdoc) Program offers the opportunity for appointees to: perform research in a scientifically rich research and development environment; present and publish research; contribute to the research efforts at the laboratory, the advancement of knowledge in the areas of basic and applied research, and the strengthening of our national scientific and technical capabilities. For initial consideration, you can submit a general application to the Postdoctoral Research program and/or for a specific posted position.
Deadlines: varied
Website: http://www.lanl.gov/careers/career-options/postdoctoral-research/index.php

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows in the Humanities
The School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University invites applications for its Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows in the Humanities positions. Fellows will be assigned to one of six departments within the School of Liberal Arts: Communication, English, French and Italian, History, Philosophy, or Spanish and Portuguese. Fellows will devote much of their time to strengthening their research profiles. The remainder of their time will be spent teaching one course per semester. Fellows will teach mid-and upper-level courses in their field of expertise, and these courses will be cross-listed with one or more of eighteen interdisciplinary programs. Fellows must be in residence at Tulane during the tenure of their fellowship.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: December 1
Website: http://apply.interfolio.com/23365

NSF Division of Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) awards Postdoctoral Fellowships to recent recipients of doctoral degrees for research and training in topics relevant to Earth sciences. The fellows must develop and implement 1) research projects that seek to address scientific questions within the purview of EAR programs and 2) plans to broaden participation in Earth sciences. The program supports researchers for a period of up to 2 years with fellowships that can be taken to the institution of their choice (including facilities abroad). The program is intended to recognize beginning investigators of significant potential, and provide them with research experience, mentorship, and training that will establish them in leadership positions in the Earth Sciences community.
Deadline: July 18
Website: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503144

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Shelley Hawthorne Smith, PhD
University of Arizona Graduate College
Office of Fellowships and Community Engagement
University Services Building #204E
888 N Euclid Ave
Tucson, AZ 85721
520-626-087ssmith at grad.arizona.edu<mailto:520-626-087ssmith at grad.arizona.edu>

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