Funding Opportunities for EEB-Bio grads at Indiana University

 

This is only a partial list of grants to which EEB students have applied recently.  Certainly other opportunities exist, but this can provide a start.

 

Maintained by:                      

Spencer Hall 

Department of Biology

Indiana University

email: sprhall (at) indiana (dot) edu

 

Also see Marissa Baskett’s excellent page,

especially for ecologists

 

 

                                                                   

I. Pre-doctoral Fellowships:

 

NSF Graduate Research Fellowships – due 6 Nov 2009

The Graduate Research Fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master’s or doctoral degrees and is intended for students who are in the early stages of their graduate study.

 

EPA STAR – due 22 October 2009

For master’s and doctoral level students in environmental fields of study.  Up to three years of fellowship funding.

 

American Society of Microbiology Fellowships

 

NASA Fellowship program

 

NOAA Educational Partnership Program’s Graduate Sciences Program

 

National Audubon’s TogetherGreen Program

 

National Research Council, National Academy, Research Associate Program

 

Department of Energy (DOE) Graduate Research Environmental Fellowshipsdue 2 Feb

Also their Office of Science Graduate Research Fellowshipsdue 30 Nov  (many areas of biology and environmental sciences)

 

Federal government’s Office of Personnel Management’s Presidential Management Fellowship – 15 October

 

 

 

II. Research funding:

 

Indiana Academy of Science –15 September 2009 and 1 March 2009

 

Sigma Xi – 15 March  and 15 October

 

Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (DDIG) – due 18 November 2009 (must be a candidate to apply)

 

American Association for Women in Science (AWIS) – January

     Educational awards (fellowships)

 

Explorer’s club – January

 

Garden Club of American- various awards and dates

 

IU College of Arts and Sciences   various awards

 

Indiana University Graduate School – various awards

 

Lewis and Clark Fund in Exploration and Research   February

 

McCormick Science Grant – march

 

American Association for University Women (AAUW) – various awards

 

American Society of Microbiologists – Travel grants

 

World Wildlife Fund’s Kathryn Fuller Doctoral Fellowship – due 31 January

Their interests: ecosystem services, carbon stocks in forests, climate change on freshwater resources

 

 

 

 

 

III. Other Compilations of Awards:

 

Marissa Baskett’s (at UCSD) page, especially good for ecologists

 

 

 

Resources at IU:

 

* University Graduate School Internal (IU) Awards

 

* College of Arts and Sciencts Awards

 

* External Awards

 *Office of the Vice President for International Affairs (Student Grants)

 

* List of External Awards frequently awarded to I.U. students

 

* GradGrants Center