[Plsgs] FW: August 2014 GradFunding Newsletter - Current Opportunities

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Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 2:36 PM
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Subject: August 2014 GradFunding Newsletter - Current Opportunities

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Please see below for more information on the following funding opportunities:

Campus Resources

o   NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program - Application Support Available!

General Funding Opportunities

o   American Association of University Women - Various Fellowships

o   NSF International Research Experiences for Students (IRES)

Funding Opportunities in the Humanities/Arts/Social Sciences

o   American Educational Research Association (AERA) Dissertation Grants

o   Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Religion and Ethics

o   Dumbarton Oaks Short-Term Predoctoral Residencies

o   Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships

o   National Academy of Education (NAEd) Spencer Dissertation Fellowship

o   National Gallery of Art Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowships

o   Social Science Research Council Abe Fellowship

Funding Opportunities in Science and Engineering

o   Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Pre/Post Doctoral Fellowships

o   National Academies - Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program

o   National Physical Science Consortium

o   National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF GRFP)

Postdoctoral Opportunities

o   All Souls College Postdoctoral Fellows

o   Michigan Society of Fellows - Postdoctoral Fellowship

o   NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships

o   Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships

Campus Resources

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program - Application Support Available!
The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce in the United States. The program is an excellent source of funding for graduate students - providing awardees with $32,000 annually for three years, as well as many additional benefits. For more information, please review the following website: http://www.nsfgrfp.org

Eligibility:
1. US citizens, US nationals, or permanent residents
2. Completed no more than 12 months of full-time graduate studies. (This generally includes incoming graduate students and graduate students in the fall of their second year.)
3. Check full eligibility criteria: http://www.nsfgrfp.org/how_to_apply/eligibility_guide

Application Support from the UA Graduate College:
If you are eligible for the NSF GRFP, application support is available through the Graduate College! We will provide you with advice, early deadlines, and feedback on your essays.
Please sign up for support here: https://grad.arizona.edu/ofce/application-support-programs/nsf-graduate-research-fellowship-program

General Funding Opportunities

American Association of University Women - Various Fellowships
The AAUW supports six fellowships and grants. See their website for more information on the following opportunities, American Fellowships (supports dissertation work, postdoctoral leave, and short-term leave for publication work; this fellowship now has an application fee), Career Development Grants (mostly for women returning to school), Community Action Grants, International Fellowships (for women who are not U.S. citizens or residents), International Project Grants, and Selected Professions Fellowships (for women in fields with traditionally low participation from women).
Citizenship: varies
Deadline: varies
Website: http://www.aauw.org/what-we-do/educational-funding-and-awards/

NSF International Research Experiences for Students (IRES)
The International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) program supports development of globally-engaged U.S. science and engineering students capable of performing in an international research environment at the forefront of science and engineering.  The IRES program supports active research participation by students enrolled as undergraduates or graduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation.  IRES projects involve students in meaningful ways in ongoing research programs or in research projects specifically designed for the IRES program.
Citizenship: please encourage your faculty to apply for these grants
Deadline: Aug 19
Website: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12831

Funding Opportunities in the Humanities/Arts/Social Sciences

American Educational Research Association (AERA) Dissertation Grants
AERA invites education-related dissertation proposals using NCES, NSF, and other federal data bases. Dissertation Grants are available for advanced doctoral students and are intended to support the student while writing 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.
Citizenship: Not restricted
Deadline: Sept 4, 2014
Website: www.aera.net/ProfessionalOpportunitiesFunding/FundingOpportunities/AERAGrantsProgram/DissertationGrants/tabid/12812/Default.aspx<http://www.aera.net/ProfessionalOpportunitiesFunding/FundingOpportunities/AERAGrantsProgram/DissertationGrants/tabid/12812/Default.aspx>

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Religion and Ethics
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, and particularly to help Ph.D. candidates in these fields complete their dissertation work in a timely manner. In addition to topics in religious studies or in ethics (philosophical or religious), dissertations appropriate to the Newcombe Fellowship competition might explore the ethical implications of foreign policy, the values influencing political decisions, the moral codes of other cultures, and religious or ethical issues reflected in history or literature.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: November 15, 2014
Website: http://woodrow.org/fellowships/newcombe/#mission

Dumbarton Oaks Short-Term Predoctoral Residencies
Dumbarton Oaks offers a limited number of Short-Term Pre-Doctoral Residencies for advanced graduate students who are preparing for their PhD general exams, writing their doctoral dissertations, or expecting relevant final degrees in the field of Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, or Garden and Landscape studies. Students who need access to the fieldwork and photo collections or to the Rare Book Room, or who wish to examine museum objects are particularly encouraged to apply. Each residency provides two to four weeks of free accommodation and free lunches on weekdays, which, in my opinion is reason alone to apply for this fellowship. In addition, a Reader badge for access to the Library will be issued for the period of the residency.
Citizenship: Unspecified
Deadline: rolling
Website: http://www.doaks.org/research/fellowships-and-grants/info-short-term-residencies

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
ACLS invites applications for the ninth annual competition for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships, which support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. Awards include a stipend of $30,000 along with other benefits. The program encourages timely completion of the Ph.D. Applicants must be prepared to complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure and no later than August 31, 2016.
Citizenship: USA
Deadline: October 22, 2014
Website: www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=512<http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=512>

National Academy of Education (NAEd) Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
The Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. These $25,000 fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: October 3, 2014
Website: http://www.naeducation.org/NAED_080200.htm

National Gallery of Art Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowships
The predoctoral dissertation fellowship program supports advanced graduate research in the history, theory, and criticism of art, architecture, urbanism, and photographic media. Each of the nine fellowships has specific requirements and intents, including support for the advancement and completion of a doctoral dissertation and for residency and travel during the period of dissertation research. Application for a predoctoral dissertation fellowship may be made through nomination by the chair of a graduate department of art history or other appropriate department.
Citizenship: USA
Deadline: see website
Website: www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/research/casva/fellowships.html<http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/research/casva/fellowships.html>

Social Science Research Council Abe Fellowship
The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. The program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral and global research network built around such topics. It strives especially to promote a new level of intellectual cooperation between the Japanese and American academic and professional communities committed to and trained for advancing global understanding and problem solving.
Citizenship: USA, Japan, and researchers with affiliations to those countries
Deadline: September 1, 2014
Website: www.ssrc.org/fellowships/abe-fellowship<http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships/abe-fellowship>

Funding Opportunities in Science and Engineering

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Pre/Post Doctoral Fellowships
The purpose of the program is to provide opportunities to young pre- and post-doctoral researchers to conduct, under the guidance of their hosts, cooperative research with leading research groups in universities and other Japanese institutions. In so doing, the program is designed to help advance the research of the visiting fellows, while augmenting opportunities for young researchers to come to Japan from the USA, Canada and Europe.
Citizenship: EU, United States, Canada, Norway, Switzerland, Russia
Deadline: October 11, 2014
Website: http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fellow/postdoctoral_short.html

National Academies - Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
The Fellowship provides early career individuals with the opportunity to spend 12 weeks at the National Academies in Washington, DC learning about science and technology policy and the role that scientists and engineers play in advising the nation. Each year, applicants from around the world become part of a National Academies committee, board, or unit where they are assigned to a mentor and learn about the world of science and technology policy.  An immersive experience, the program is designed to broaden fellows' appreciation of employment opportunities outside academia and leave them with both a firm grasp of the important and dynamic role of science and technology in decision-making and a better understanding of the role that they can play in strengthening the science and technology enterprise for the betterment of mankind.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: September 1, 2014
Website: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/policyfellows/index.htm

National Physical Science Consortium
The National Physical Science Consortium is a partnership between government agencies and laboratories, industry, and higher education. NPSC's goal is to increase the number of American citizens with graduate degrees in the physical sciences and related engineering fields, emphasizing recruitment of a diverse applicant pool. Though the fields supported can vary annually depending on employer needs, in general NPSC covers the following: astronomy, chemistry, computer science, geology, materials science, mathematical sciences, physics, and their subdisciplines, and related engineering fields (chemical, computer, electrical, environmental, mechanical).
Citizenship: USA
Deadline: November 30, 2014
Website: npsc.org

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF GRFP)
The National Science Foundation aims to ensure the vitality of the human resource base in biological science, technology, engineering, mathematics, physical science, earth science, and social science in the United States and to reinforce its diversity by offering approximately 1,000 graduate fellowships in this competition. The Graduate Research Fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based masters or doctoral degrees and is intended for students who are at the early stages of their graduate study.
Applicant Support is available for U of A students who register here:
Citizenship: US citizen, US national, or permanent resident
Deadline: Oct 29 - Nov 6 (varies according to discipline)
Website: http://www.nsfgrfp.org/

Postdoctoral Opportunities

All Souls College Postdoctoral Fellows
The Fellowships will be open to candidates in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Mathematics; the College intends to allocate at least two Fellowships specifically to the Natural Sciences / Mathematics. The primary duty of a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow is to pursue in Oxford an independent programme of advanced study and research for publication as approved by the College at the time of election and at a level of achievement acceptable to the College. Post-Doctoral Research Fellows are full Fellows of the College and members of its governing body. As such, they are expected to attend and participate in all College meetings and may be required to serve on College committees and assist with the annual Examination Fellowship examinations. As the College is a charity of which the Fellows are trustees, the successful applicants must be eligible to be Charity Trustees and discharge this responsibility effectively.
Citizenship: Not Specified
Deadline: September 12, 2014
Website: http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/content/Post-Doctoral_Research_Fellowships:_Further_Particulars

Michigan Society of Fellows - Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Michigan Society of Fellows, under the auspices of the Rackham Graduate School, was established in 1970 with endowment grants from the Ford Foundation and the Horace H. and Mary Rackham Funds. The most distinctive aspect of the society is its multidisciplinary emphasis. Each year the society selects four outstanding applicants for appointment to three-year fellowships in the social, physical, and life sciences, and in the professional schools. The Mellon Foundation awarded a grant to add four Mellon Fellows annually in the humanities, expanding the number of fellowships awarded each year from four to eight. The newly appointed Postdoctoral Fellows join a unique interdisciplinary community composed of their peers as well as the Senior Fellows of the society, who include many of the university's leading scholars.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Website: http://societyoffellows.umich.edu/

NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships
These postdoctoral fellowships provide an opportunity for highly qualified, recent doctoral scientists to carry out an integrated program of independent research and education. Fellows may engage in observational, instrumental, theoretical, laboratory or archival data research in any area of astronomy or astrophysics, in combination with a coherent educational plan for the duration of the fellowship. The program supports researchers for a period of up to three years with fellowships that may be taken to eligible host institution(s) of their choice. The program is intended to recognize early-career investigators of significant potential and to provide them with experience in research and education that will establish them in positions of distinction and leadership in the community.
Citizenship: U.S.A.
Deadline: October 8, 2014
Website: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5291

Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships
This fellowship provides a unique opportunity for the most promising newly qualified postdoctoral researchers to make an early start in developing their independent research careers, working in the best laboratories in the UK and overseas. Candidates will be expected to identify an important biomedical research question and to develop and deliver a personal programme to achieve their research aims. The fellowship should normally include periods in more than one laboratory, either in the United Kingdom or overseas. Candidates may be sponsored by their current host institution but must begin their fellowship at a new research location. Research should fall within the Wellcome Trust's normal funding schemes.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: October 6, 2014 (Preliminary application deadline)
Website: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Funding-schemes/Fellowships/Basic-biomedical-fellowships/WTX033549.htm

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University of Arizona Graduate College
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