Graduate Student Funding Opportunities 

FELLOWSHIPS (primarily for stipend and tuition support) and RESEARCH GRANTS (primarily for research expenses).  ***The programs below change frequently. If you are interested in a specific opportunity, check it out with the listed source*** FELLOWSHIPS Granting Agency Name of Grant Specifics Amount Deadline Information Smithsonian Institute SI Graduate Student Fellowship stipend for 10 weeks research at Smithsonian facility $350/week January 15 http://www.si.edu/ofg/sifell.htm Smithsonian Institute SI Predoctoral Fellowship 3 months to 1 year, stipend and travel for research at Smithsonian facilities.  Have completed coursework and prelims. $15,000/yr plus travel and up to $2,000 research allowance January 15 http://www.si.edu/ofg/sifell.htm Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute STRI Short-term Fellowship For exploratory or short-term research for 1-3 months at STRI facilities in Panama Stipend, travel and research allowances February 15, May 15, August 15, November 15 http://www.si.edu/stri/What_we_do/ Fellowship_Opportunities.html#5 American Association of University Women American Fellowship For women in final year of dissertation $15,000 for stipend and fees November 15 http://www.aauw.org/3000/fdnfelgra.html (319)337-1716, ext. 60 EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Apply in 1st year of graduate school.  Duration is 3 years $20,000/yr stipend, plus $5,000 for research expenses November http://es.epa.gov/ncer/fellow/index.html NASA Earth System Science Fellowship Duration is 3 years $19,000/yr stipend, plus $3,000 for books and travel March http://research.hq.nasa.gov/code_y/nra/current/ Fellowship-ESS01/index.html NSF NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Duration is 3 years $27,000/yr stipend, plus tuition and fees, and a one time $1,000 travel allowance November http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/dge/programs/grf/ Sea Grant Sea Grant / NMFS Graduate Fellowship Program in Population Dynamics and Marine Resource Economics Duration is 2-3 years stipend, tuition, fees, and research expenses December http://www.nsgo.seagrant.org/funding.html http://www-csgc.ucsd.edu/PROPOSAL/SPEC_COMPET/Fellows2003.html Sea Grant CALFED Science Fellows Program Duration is 3 years $25,000 stipend, plus tuition, fees, and research expenses May 1 http://www-csgc.ucsd.edu/EDUCATION/CALFED/CALFED_Fellows.html L'Oreal Women in Science Fellowship For women in 3rd or 4th year of PhD program $20,000/yr stipend November 1 http://www.lorealusa.com/fwis/fwis_home.aspx RESEARCH GRANTS Granting Agency Name of Grant Specifics Amount Deadline Information American Museum of Natural History Frank Chapman Memorial Fund ornithology max $1,000 January 15 American Museum of Natural History Office of Grants & Fellowships Central Park West at 79th St New York, NY 10024-5192 http://research.amnh.org/grants/grantsprog.html or for additional monies http://research.amnh.org/grants/index.html T. Roosevelt Memorial Fund N. American fauna, except birds February 15 Lerner-Grey Fund marine zoological research March 15 Association for Women in Science   female graduate students max $1,000 January http://www.awis.org/ed_foundation.html Explorer's Club Exploration Fund Grant   max $5,000 January 31 http://explorers.org/research_grants/the_explorers_fund.php International Women's Fishing Association IWFA Scholarship Trust marine science research by male or female grad student max $3,000 March 1 Chairman IWFA Scholarship Trust PO Drawer 3125 Palm Beach, FL 33480 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant support for dissertation research in some disciplines max $10,000 3rd Friday in November http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf98151/nsf98151.htm Professional Association of Dive Instructors (PADI) Project AWARE research related to the marine environment... max $1,000 February, May, August, November http://www.padi.com/Aware/get_involved/grants.htm Sigma Delta Epsilon, Graduate Women in Science Sigma Delta Epsilon & Eloise Gerry Awards must be female grad student, member of GWIS max $4,000 December 1 http://www.gwis.org/Awards.htm Sigma Xi Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research   max $1,000 October 15, March 15 http://www.sigmaxi.org/giar/guidelines.htm Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology SICB Grants-in-Aid of Research SICB member max $1,000 December 1 phone: 1-800-955-1236 email: sicb@sba.com

Websites with additional grant source information: The Foundation Center, Grantmaker Info at http://www.fdncenter.org/funders/ : "Your gateway to philanthropy on the World Wide Web." Sponsored by AAAS and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a searchable database of funding for grad students and post-docs: http://www.grantsnet.org/  List of Biological Sciences Fellowships (Cornell): http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/list.phtml?category=BIOLOGICALSCIENCES Office of Research, UC Davis: http://ovcr.ucdavis.edu/ The Packard Foundation: http://www.packard.org/ Community of Science Funding Opportunities http://fundingopps.cos.com/