The NDF’s Division of Social and Economic Sciences and Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences award grants to doctoral students to improve the quality of dissertation research. These grants provide funds for items not normally available through the student’s university. Additionally, these grants allow doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and to conduct field […]
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Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant – Geography and Spatial Sciences
The GSS DDRIG provides up to $18000 of support for dissertation research expenses which will enhance and transform the dissertation project. Effective July 1, 2017, proposals can be submitted anytime.
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant – Law & Social Science
The Law & Social Sciences Program considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules. The Program is inherently interdisciplinary and multi-methodological.
Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
The purpose of the Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF) is to support future leaders in the mathematical sciences by enabling them to participate in research environments that will have maximal impact on their future scientific development.
NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships (EAR-PF)
The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) awards Postdoctoral Fellowships to highly qualified investigators within 3 years of obtaining their PhD to carry out an integrated program of independent research and education. The research and education plans of each fellowship must address scientific questions within the scope of EAR disciplines. The program supports researchers for a […]
SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF)
The SBE directorate offers postdoctoral fellowships on two tracks, Broadening Participation (SPRF-BP) and Interdisciplinary Research in Behavioral and Social Sciences (SPRF-IBSS). Postdoctoral fellows use this opportunity to establish their research careers and broaden participation in their field.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
This postdoctoral fellowship supports research and training for recent PhDs in order to advance the human resource development goals of the Biological Sciences Directorate. Applicants should propose research and training relevant to the current areas within BIO that have been selected for support.
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant – Science of Science & Innovation Policy
The Science of Science & Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program supports research designed to advance the scientific basis of science and innovation policy, which includes research to develop models, analytical tools, data and metrics that can be applied in the science policy decision making process.
Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant – Cultural Anthropology
The primary objective of the Cultural Anthropology Program is to support basic scientific research on the causes, consequences, and complexities of human social and cultural variability.
Pathfinder Fellowship Program
The CUAHSI Pathfinder Fellowship program provides travel funds to graduate students in water science to make an extended trip to conduct and enhance their research. Fellowships are awarded to cover travel costs up to a maximum of $5000.