North Dakota State University

The AMNH Grants Program offers modest short term awards to advanced students, postdoctoral trainees, and scientific researchers who are commencing their careers in the fields covered by AMNH. Grants are available from four funds each having specific restrictions. Frank M. Chapman Grants support and foster research in ornithology, both neontological and paleontological. Lerner-Gray Grants for Marine Research support marine zoology. Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grants support research on North American fauna in any phase of wildlife conservation or natural history.

The California Council on Science and Technology seeks PhD scientists and engineers to serve as Fellows to provide the California State Legislature with critical, unbiased scientific and technical advice. If you are looking for a professional development opportunity that enables you to incorporate science and technology into public policy, we encourage you to apply for a one-year fellowship.

Applications for the 2013-2014 program will be accepted starting on December 1, 2012 and ending February 28, 2013. For information or to complete an on-line application, visit fellows.ccst.us.

They will fund research that meets their objectives, generally "The fundamental objective of the PPP-LCC is to increase conservation delivery across the partnership by reducing scientific uncertainty related to landscape level stressors such as climate change. Projects should support on-the-ground decision making and conservation delivery for natural resource managers while accounting for sources of uncertainty about system dynamics that would affect management decisions."

http://www.doi.gov/lcc/index.cfm 

http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRAs.htm

There are numerous small scholarship available to support a wide array of research on plants, from biogeodistribution to ecology and evolution to conservation.

http://www2.gcamerica.org/outreach-scholarships.cfm

Application Information

Graduate School Research Awards

Graduate School Teaching Awards

http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/index.html

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellowships/appltoc.htm

The Murie Science and Learning Center Research Fellowship supports field research in any of the national park service units coordinating with the MSLC. Two broad ecological areas (arctic and interior Alaska) are part of two Inventory and Monitoring Networks: the Arctic Network (Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Preserve, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Kobuk Valley National Park, and Noatak National Preserve); and the Central Alaska Network (Denali National Park and Preserve, Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve, and Yukon–Charley Rivers National Preserve).

The fellowship program supports field research in the biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences. Project requests are more likely to be successful if they address topics that will help park managers tackle management issues. Collaborative projects are encouraged.

http://www.nps.gov/dena/naturescience/discodena.htm

These awards are made for selected areas in the biological sciences. Grants provide partial support of doctoral dissertation research to improve the overall quality of the research effort. Allowed are costs for doctoral candidates to participate in scientific meetings, to conduct research in specialized facilities or field settings, and to expand an existing body of dissertation research.

A student must have advanced to candidacy for a Ph.D. degree before the submission deadline to be eligible to submit a proposal.

Deadline: November 9, 2012 (due by 5 p.m. local time)

For more information, see http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12590/nsf12590.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click

Weaver Grants provide funding of up to $1,000 to graduate students whose research is focused on the ecology and conservation of Great Plains biodiversity.

http://nature.org/

http://www.phietasigma.org/sna_grad.htm

http://www.phikappaphi.org/web/Awards/Scholarships_Awards.html

The SDE/GWIS National Fellowships Program is proud to offer fellowships to help increase knowledge in the fundamental sciences and to encourage research careers in the sciences by women.

For more information and applications: http://gwis.org/programs.html

The Sigma Xi provides Grants-in-Aid of Research (GIAR) of up to $1,000 to students from all areas of the sciences and engineering. Application Deadlines: March 15 and October 15 annually.

http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/giar/index.shtml

Fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution provide students and scholars with opportunities to pursue independent research projects in association with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff.

Graduate Student Fellowships - These fellowships allow students to conduct research for ten-week periods in association with Smithsonian research staff members. Applicants must be formally enrolled in a graduate program of study, must have completed at least one semester, and must not yet have been advanced to candidacy in a doctoral program.

Predoctoral Fellowships - These fellowships allow students to conduct research for periods of three to twelve months.
Applicants must have completed coursework and preliminary examinations for the doctoral degree, and must be engaged in dissertation research. In addition, candidates must have the approval of their universities to conduct their doctoral research at the Smithsonian.

http://www.si.edu/ofg/fell.htm

SICB (http://www.sicb.org/) is one of the largest and most prestigious professional associations of its kind. SICB takes pride in the fact that one of the Society's focal points is to support its student members, and that the organization is fundamentally committed to the advancement and development of the integrative and comparative study of many fields of biology, including Animal Behavior, Comparative Biomechanics, Comparative Endocrinology, Comparative Physiology & Biochemistry, Evolutionary Developmental Biology, Ecology & Evolution, Invertebrate Zoology, Neurobiology, and Phylogenetics & Comparative Biology

The society offers several student support programs:

Grants in Aid of Research (GIAR) - small awards to graduate students in support of their research in the fields of integrative and comparative biology.

Fellowship of Graduate Student Travel (FGST) - provide student funds for travel and other expenses at distant research laboratories, museums, or field sites.

Libbie H. Hyman Memorial Scholarship - provides assistance to students to take courses or to pursue research on invertebrates at a marine, freshwater, or terrestrial field station.

a. Student Research Grants program  http://www.sws.org/studentgrants/index.mgi
b. SWS North Central Chapter Student Research Grants - http://www.sws.org/regional/northcentral/documents/StudentResearchGrantAnnouncement2012.pdf
c. SWS North Central Chapter Student Travel Grants - http://www.sws.org/regional/northcentral/

The Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) and University Microfilms International (UMI) are pleased to announce the 2013-2014 WAGS/UMI Innovation in Technology award.  This $1,500 award may be given either to a master’s thesis or to a doctoral dissertation and is intended to recognize the innovative application of technology to scholarship.  Each member institution may submit one nomination for this award.  

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS  

This award may be given either to a master’s thesis or to a doctoral dissertation for the development of an innovative technology and its utilization for the creative solution of a major problem. Each submission requires a written nomination by the Dean of the Graduate School (College) or equivalent office.  The internal institutional selection processes are the responsibility of the endorsing official.  

GUIDELINES FOR THE 2013-2014 WAGS/UMI INNOVATION IN TECHNOLOGY AWARD  

1. A nominee must have earned the master’s or doctoral degree within the period of July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013.  Nomination materials should be assembled in the following order and submitted electronically as one PDF file: 
   
   a. The written nomination letter from the Graduate Dean cited in the Eligibility Requirements above.  The letter should describe the process that was used to select the thesis or dissertation for nomination.
   b. A summary prepared by the student (100-1500 words) describing the research and how it demonstrates innovative or creative use of technology in the conduct of scholarship.  This summary should be directed to a general academic audience of non-specialists.
   c. Letters from the major professor and one additional faculty member.  The letters should include information regarding the significance of the technological innovations in the work for the discipline, and for the student’s department and institution. 
   d. A copy of the student nominees’ cv or resume.
                 
2. All nomination materials must be submitted electronically in a single PDF file titled: LastNameofRecipient_AbbreviatedNameofInstitution_WAGSTechAward_2012-13 by September 3, 2013, and emailed to Linda La Grange .
3. Initial screening will be based upon
   a. originality,
   b. creativity,
   c. scholarly significance of the use of technology, and
   d. overall quality.    
   
   The technological contribution to the degree program and/or the institution may also be a consideration.  Finalists will be asked to provide three complete copies of the thesis or dissertation.
4. The 2013-2014 award consists of a certificate of award, $1,500 to the recipient, and travel expenses for the student and student’s adviser to receive the award at the annual meeting of the Association.

 Field and Conference grants http://thewetlandfoundation.org/The_Wetland_Foundation/Wetland_Grants.html

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies: The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies encourages original and significant research about women that crosses disciplinary, regional or cultural boundaries. Seven fellowships are awarded each year in the amount of $3,000 for dissertation-related connections, such as books, travel, microfilming and computer services. These fellowships were designed to support 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.

The Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship: This fellowship program provides funding to participants as they are prepared academically and professionally to enter the United States Department of State Foreign Service. Women and members of minority groups historically underrepresented in the Foreign Service are encouraged to apply. Eligible U.S. students studying in fields such as public policy, international affairs, public administration, business, economics, political science, sociology or foreign language can be awarded the fellowship based on academic merit and financial need. The fellowship covers tuition, room and board, and mandatory fees for the first and second years of graduate study, as well as book and travel reimbursement. In exchange for the fellowship, after completion of a degree, students are required to spend at least three years in service as a Foreign Service Officers.

• American Museum of Natural History
• California Council on Sciene and Technology Fellowship
• Department of Interior--Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
• Dirksen Center Congressional Research Awards
• Garden Club of America
• Golden Key Graduate Scholar Award
• Graduate School Awards
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• National Park Service/Murie Science and Learning Center
• National Science Foundation--Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants (DDIG)
• 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
• 2014 WAGS/UMI Innovation in Technology Award
• The Wetland Foundation
• The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation