Program: Grants Program (Advanced Graduate Students and Recent PhDs)
Agency: American Museum of Natural History
Provides two hundred short-term awards that average $1,400 in support of advanced graduate students, recent PhDs, and established investigators in zoology, paleontology, anthropology, astrophysics, and earth and planetary sciences.
Program: Visiting Scientists Fellowship Program
Agency: Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)
Provides opportunities to work with JILA university staff at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder for periods of four months to one year. Research at JILA involves collaboration between experimentalists and theorists and spans six areas: Atomic Physics, Chemical Physics, Materials Physics and Chemistry, Optical Physics, Precision Measurement, and Astrophysics.
Program: Plant Genome Research Program
Agency: National Science Foundation
Supports basic research in plant genomics, and to accelerate acquisition and utilization of new knowledge and innovative approaches to elucidate fundamental biological processes in plants. Focus on plants of economic importance and plant processes of economic value.
Program: Division of Astronomical Sciences
Agency: National Science Foundation
Program areas in the Division of Astronomical Sciences, supported primarily through individual investigator awards, include planetary astronomy, stellar astronomy and astrophysics, galactic astronomy, extragalactic astronomy, and cosmology.
Program: Materials Research and Education
Agency: National Science Foundation
Supports innovative experiments in materials-related education, such as inquiry-based learning, integration of research and education, and early workplace exposure.
Program: Statistics Program
Agency: National Science Foundation
Supports research to develop or improve statistical theory and methods (with applications to any area of science and engineering).
Program: Tropical Research Institute Fellowships (Various Academic Levels)
Agency: Smithsonian Institution
Supports programs in residence at the Tropical Research Institute in Panama in tropical biology, ecology, behavior and evolution of terrestrial and marine organisms, archeology, paleontology, and human ecology.
Program: National Ocean ServiceFellowship and Scholarship Programs
Agency: U.S. Department of Commerce
NOS supports two programs: Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship ProgramFinancial Assistance for Grad Students; National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The Foster program will offer approximately $160,000 for up to five awards.
Program: Developing Global Scientists and Engineers
Agency: National Science Foundation
Provides U.S. institutions with support for international research experiences and education for early career stages of scientists and engineers. Focus: support for International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) at the undergraduate and graduate levels and Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Projects (DDEP).
Program: Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program
Agency: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Provides a weekly stipend of $450 plus travel expenses for up to thirty Mass Media Fellows to work for ten weeks each summer as reporters, researchers, and production assistants in mass media organizations nationwide. Fellows attend a session at AAAS at the beginning and end of the program. Eligibility is limited to college students in their senior year or in any graduate or post-graduate program in the natural, physical, health, engineering, computer, social sciences, or mathematics fields.
Agency: Association of American Geographers
Offers three different dissertation and research grant programs to support doctoral dissertation research in geography.
Agency: National Science Foundation
The purpose of the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program is to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and to reinforce its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in the relevant science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees, including women in engineering and computer and information science.