North Dakota State University

North Dakota Trade Office Export Assistantships

ND EPSCoR Graduate Student Research Assistantship

General Scholarships for Returning Students

ND EPSCoR Doctoral Dissertation Assistantship (DDA) Program

NDSU Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships

College of Agriculture, Food Systems and Natural Resources

North Dakota Water Resources Research Institute 

Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education Grant Program 

American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowships

American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program

Bullitt Foundation- Bullitt Environmental Fellowship

Jack Kent Cooke Dissertation Fellowship Award

Environmental Protection Agency- Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Graduate Fellowships

Fanny and John Hertz Graduate Fellowships

Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships

Knowles Science Teaching Fellowship

L’Oréal USA Fellowships for Women in Science Program

Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Microsoft Research Student Fellowship

National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science

National Institutes of Health- National Research Service Award (NRSA)

National Science Foundation--Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GFRP)

Soros Foundation

United Negro College Fund and Merck Foundation Science Initiative Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowships

US Department of Agriculture--Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship (NNF) Grants Program

US Department of Defense--National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

US Department of Defense—Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program

US Department of Energy--Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

US Department of Energy—Science Graduate Fellowship Program (SCGF)

American Museum of Natural History

California Council on Science and Technology

Department of Interior--Landscape Conservation Cooperatives

Dirksen Center Congressional Research Awards

Garden Club of America

Golden Key Graduate Scholar Award

National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Park Service/Murie Science and Learning Center

The Nature Conservancy

Phi Eta Sigma

Phi Kappa Phi

Sigma Delta Epsilon-Graduate Women in Science

Sigma Xi

Smithsonian Institution

Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)

The Society of Wetland Scientists

The Wetland Foundation

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

American Academy in Rome Fellowships (AAR)

American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowships

Central Europe Summer Research Institute (CESRI)

David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships

National Science Foundation - East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI)

The National Science Foundation-- International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) Program

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships

Fulbright Study / Research Abroad Fellowships

Government of France/US French Embassy—Office of Science and Technology

Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award for the Biological Sciences, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Life Sciences and Engineering

Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award for Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, and Business

Innovation in Technology Award

Council of Graduate Schools--Distinguished Dissertation Awards

National Science Foundation Student Funding Presentation

Resources for Writing Fellowship Applications

Letters of Recommendation

Writing a Statement of Purpose

Federal Grant Opportunities

NDSU Pivot Search 

Funding for Grad Students and Postdocs

Research Development & Grant Writing News is a monthly electronic newsletter on how to compete successfully for research and education funding from federal agencies and foundations. Each monthly issue contains a section devoted to Funding for Grad Students and Postdocs. 

To access this resource, enter your NDSU email log-in after clicking into Research Development & Grant Writing News. You will find links to the monthly issues.  In each month’s issue, you will see Funding for Grad Students and Postdocs listed as an option.