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APA Dissertation Research Awards

This award supports science-oriented doctoral students of psychology with research costs. The program funds grants of $1,000 each, along with several larger grants of up to $5,000 to students whose dissertation research reflects excellence in scientific psychology.

Graduate Research Fellowship

This program supports early-career graduate students in NSF-supported STEM fields. Fellows benefit from a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance.

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies

This $5,000 award supports the final year of dissertation writing for PhD candidates in the humanities and social sciences whose work addresses topics of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original ways.

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows Travel and Research Grant

Travel and Research Grants provide graduate students who were Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows with the financial means to complete their research prior to the start of dissertation writing. Funding is for one summer or one semester of travel and/or research support (including photocopies).

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows Dissertation Grants

Applicants must be former Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellows (MMUF) and candidates for the Ph.D. degree in fields recognized under the terms of the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program. Completion of all pre-dissertation requirements means that the applicant has passed all comprehensive examinations, has completed all course work for the degree, has received approval of the […]

Doctoral Fellowships

This $20,000 award supports doctoral candidates who are non-ROC (non-Taiwan) citizens and who are writing their dissertations in the field of Chinese Studies in the humanities and social sciences enrolled in an accredited university in the United States.

Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award

The International Reading Association will present a US $1,000 award annually to honor an outstanding doctoral student who focused their research in the reading field or who conducted related research with implications for reading.

AAS NEAC JAPAN STUDIES GRANTS

Various grant programs in Japanese studies designed to facilitate the research of individual scholars, to improve the quality of teaching about Japan on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Japan into the major academic disciplines.

Research Grants

This award supports research in risk and insurance economics. Suggested themes for research include Economic Theory (uncertainty, risk management, credibility, theories of risk, etc.) and Economic Practice. The 10,000 CHF (around $10,000) award supports research for a doctoral dissertation.

Research Travel Grants

These grants are awarded to support research in the holdings of the Gerald R. Ford Library, including living, travel and photocopying expenses. The library’s collections focus on Federal policies, U.S. foreign relations, and national politics in the 1960s and 1970s.

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