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Dear Graduate Students,
The fall fellowship season is upon us! Read below for information about the big ones - NSF GRFP, AAUW, JSPS, and more.

Announcements

  *   Application Support for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

General Funding Opportunities

  *   American Association of University Women - Various Fellowships
  *   Carson Scholar Program - UA Only
  *   Partnership for Public Service - Public Service Fellows
  *   Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
  *   Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Research Fellowship

Funding Opportunities in the Humanities/Arts/Social Sciences

  *   American Educational Research Association (AERA) Dissertation Grants
  *   Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Religion and Ethics
  *   Dumbarton Oaks Short-Term Predoctoral Residencies
  *   Fahs-Beck Doctoral Dissertation Grant Program for Research in Human Services
  *   Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in Entrepreneurship
  *   Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
  *   National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program
  *   National Gallery of Art Predoctoral Dissertation Fellowships

Funding Opportunities in STEM

  *   National Academies - Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
  *   National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships (NSF GRFP)
  *   Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research Program
  *   Welder Wildlife Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
  *   Xerox Minority Scholarships

Postdoctoral Opportunities

  *   American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grants (all areas of knowledge)
  *   Michigan Society of Fellows - Postdoctoral Fellowship
  *   National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
  *   NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships
  *   Sir Henry Wellcome Biomedical Postdoctoral Fellowship

Announcements

Application Support for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
The purpose of the National Science Foundation 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 a wonderful source of funding for graduate students - providing awardees with $34,000 annually for three years, as well as additional benefits. The UA Graduate College provides support for students applying for the GRFP.
More information and registration: 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/

Carson Scholar Program - UA Only
The Carson Scholars Program cultivates and advances interdisciplinary environmental scholarship at the University of Arizona. The program is designed to build a network of graduate students and faculty devoted to furthering knowledge and awareness of Earth's natural environment and its interactions with people. The program also encourages individual initiative, innovation, and communication. Carson Scholars, through their emphasis on excellence in interdisciplinary environmental scholarship, problem-solving, and communicating science to a broad audience, will become leaders in the advancement of collaborative solutions to environmental challenges among the public, private, NGO, and academic sectors. The Carson Scholars Program offers one-year, one-time-only, $5,000 graduate scholarships. The scholarships are designed to support and retain University of Arizona PhD students whose research is related to the environment, social justice and renewable energy and who are interested in communicating science to a broad audience.
Citizenship: Unspecified
Deadline: September 23, 206
Website: http://carson.arizona.edu

Partnership for Public Service - Public Service Fellows
The Partnership for Public Service's Fellowship Program provides paid internships at the organization's offices in Washington, D.C. in specialized assignments that support its mission, including accounting, communications, development, education and outreach, and research.  Undergraduates, graduate students, and recent graduates from any academic background are eligible to apply.  Candidates should possess a strong commitment to public service, analytical thinking, strong written and oral communication, and an ability to work well in teams.  Full-time fellows with an undergraduate or graduate degree are paid $1,000 per month.
Deadline: October 31
Website: www.ourpublicservice.org/fellows<http://www.ourpublicservice.org/fellows>

Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The purpose of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. The Program is established in recognition of the contributions New Americans have made to American life and in gratitude for the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors and their family. Applicants must be:
*           A New American (see website)
*           Not yet 31 years old, as of the application deadline
*           Have at least a bachelor's degree
Deadline: November 1, 2016
Website: http://www.pdsoros.org

Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Research Fellowship
In 2010, SQCC established its Research Fellowship Program, which aims to promote and cultivate scholarly research about Oman across several academic disciplines. The fellowship is open to PhD candidates and university academics who are US citizens or affiliated with an American university, and funds one scholar or team of scholars to carry out research in Oman each year. The fellowship awards up to $51,000 for the fellow or team of fellows.
Deadline: Sept 15, 2016
https://www.sqcc.org/Scholarships-0024-Fellowships/Research-Fellowship-Program.aspx

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: August 25, 2016
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, 2016
Website: http://woodrow.org/fellowships/newcombe/

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. The lunches are, in my opinion, 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: October 1 and March 1
Website: http://www.doaks.org/research/fellowships-and-grants/info-short-term-residencies

Fahs-Beck Doctoral Dissertation Grant Program for Research in Human Services
Grants of up to $5,000 are available to help support dissertation expenses of doctoral students in the United States and Canada whose studies have the potential for adding significantly to knowledge about problems in the functioning or well-being of children, adults, couples, families, or communities, or about interventions designed to prevent or alleviate such problems. The research for which funding is requested must focus on the United States or Canada or on a comparison between the United States and Canada and one or more other countries.
Citizenship: Unspecified
Deadline: November 1 and April 1
Website: http://www.fahsbeckfund.org/grant_programs.html

Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship in Entrepreneurship
The Kauffman Foundation will award up to 20 Dissertation Fellowship grants of $20,000 each to Ph.D., D.B.A. or other doctoral students for the support of dissertations in the area of entrepreneurship. This fellowship is intended for students who are in the process of formulating their dissertation proposals, as well as doctoral candidates with recently approved dissertation proposals. While dissertations can be written on any topic of importance to entrepreneurship, the Kauffman Foundation is particularly interested in regional dynamics and local ecosystems, demographic dimensions of entrepreneurship, economic growth, entrepreneurship policy, declining business dynamism, future of work, economic inequality and mobility, and programmatic research.
Eligibility: Unrestricted
Deadline: August 17, 2016
Website: http://www.kauffman.org/newsroom/2016/06/kauffman-foundation-accepting-proposals

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
ACLS invites applications for the 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 $38,000 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, 2018.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: October 26, 2016
Website: www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=512<http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=512>

National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program
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 $27,500 fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, analysis, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: October 6, 2016
Website: http://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>

Funding Opportunities in STEM

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 6, 2016
Website: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/policyfellows/index.htm

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 2,000 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: https://grad.arizona.edu/ofce/application-support-programs/nsf-graduate-research-fellowship-program
Citizenship: US citizen, US national, or permanent resident
Deadline: Oct 24 - Oct 28 (varies according to discipline)
Website: http://www.nsfgrfp.org/

Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research Program
The program awards grants of up to $1,000 to students from all areas of the sciences and engineering. Designated funds from the National Academy of Sciences allow for grants of up to $5,000 for astronomy research and $2,500 for vision related research. Students use the funding to pay for travel expenses to and from a research site, or for purchase of non-standard laboratory equipment necessary to complete a specific research project.
Citizenship: unrestricted
Deadline: October 1 and March 15
Website: https://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/grants-in-aid

Welder Wildlife Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
The Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation's graduate research fellowship program is designed to promote the education of exceptionally qualified students and provide research information to manage wildlife populations. The scientific breadth of the program is suggested by the academic units of previous fellowship recipients, among them: animal behavior, biology, botany, conservation education, ecology, genetics, mammalogy, ornithology, parasitology, range science, veterinary pathology, and wildlife sciences.
Citizenship: Unspecified
Deadline: October 1 (for formal application, preliminary application prior to this date)
Website: http://welderwildlife.org/content/research/fellowships/

Xerox Minority Scholarships
Xerox awards about 120 scholarships for underrepresented graduate students in the technical sciences or engineering disciplines.Xerox is committed to the academic success of all minority students. That's why we offer a Technical Minority Scholarship that awards between $1,000 and $10,000 to qualified minorities enrolled in a technical degree program at the bachelor level or above.
Citizenship: US citizens or permanent residents
Deadline:  September 30, 2016
Website: https://www.xerox.com/en-us/jobs/minority-scholarships

Postdoctoral Opportunities

American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grants (all areas of knowledge)
American Philosophical Society has awarded small grants to scholars in order to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. In 2015-2016 the Franklin Research Grants program awarded $473,950 to 93 scholars, and the Society expects to make a similar number of awards in this year's competition. The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.
Eligibility: Unspecified
Deadline: October 1 and December 1
Website: https://amphilsoc.org/grants/franklin

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 27, 2016
Website: http://societyoffellows.umich.edu/

National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
The NEAd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program supports early career scholars working in critical areas of education research. This non-residential postdoctoral fellowship funds proposals that make significant scholarly contributions to the field of education. The program also develops the careers of its recipients through professional development activities involving National Academy of Education members.
Citizenship: Unrestricted
Deadline: November 3, 2016
Website: http://naeducation.org/NAED_080201.htm

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 12, 2016
Website: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5291

Sir Henry Wellcome Biomedical 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 10, 2016 (Preliminary application deadline)
Website: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Funding-schemes/Fellowships/Basic-biomedical-fellowships/WTX033549.htm

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