Scholarship and Research Grant Opportunities for Students in Biology

For UA Biology Scholarship Opportunities go HERE

General Science

• Sigma Xi (the scientific research society) Grants in Aid of Research– note that extra funds are available for those doing work on vision (or astronomy) http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/giar/index.shtml

• UNCF MERCK Science Initiative: www.uncf.org/merck/

• American Museum of Natural History http://research.amnh.org/grants/grantsprog.html.   

• EPA "STAR" Fellowships http://es.epa.gov/ncerqa/rfa/

• NSF- Graduate awards programs  Includes Dissertation Improvement Grants, Awards, research fellowships, teaching fellowships, postdoctoral awards, NATO Programs, etc.

• National Geographic Society offers a research grant program at http://www.nationalgeographic.com/research/index.html  (but mostly for those with doctoral degrees

• Association of Women in Science http://www.awis.org/resource/scholarships.html

General Biology

• Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology: http://www.sicb.org/awards.php3

• USDA National Research Initiative http://www.reeusda.gov/nri/

  Biology Sub-disciplines

  Behavior

  ·        Animal Behavior Society: support for student research http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Grants/. Scroll down to "ABS Student Research Grants" on left sidebar -- links to titles and authors and authors' advisors for current and past applications.

  Botany

  ·         Garden Club of America – several grants, including some targeted at students in Ohio and nearby states .http://www.gcamerica.org/

  ·        National Garden Clubs Inc. Scholarship Chairman Renee D. Blaschke 307 Garwood St. Smithville Texas 78957-1504 (in 2003-2004))

  ·        Garden Club of Ohio (The Garden Club of Ohio Inc. Scholarship Chairman Mrs. Margaret Bertin, 530 Mapleview Dr. Seven Hills, Ohio 44131

  ·        New England Botanical Club Graduate student Research Award http://www.huh.harvard.edu/nebc/Graduate.html

  ·         Botanical Society of America’s Karling Award for best student research: http://announce.botany.org/karling2002.html

  ·         Native Plant Conservation Initiative  (http://www.nfwf.org/programs/npci.htm) Sponsored by The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, in partnership with the Plant Conservation Alliance.

   

  Ecology

  ·        Minority Environmental Leadership Development Initiative http://www.umich.edu/~meldi. Environmentally-oriented listing of hundreds of fellowships, job announcements, internships, grant opportunities, etc. (If this link doesn't work, try the old address http://www.sitemaker.umich.edu/meldi)

  ·        Funding Sources in WIldlife, Zoology, and Ecology: http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~ckwillia/Funding%20Sources.htm

  ·        Ohio Environmental Science & Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Scholarship Program http://www.ohiosci.org/OESEESCHOLARSHIPS.htm

  ·        Applied Ecology (a major consulting firm) sponsors grants to student research (pure or applied) up to $2,500/year, and up to 3 years per student. Due date is Jan 1. http://www.appliedeco.com/GrantProgram.cfm

  ·        Simbiota List of potential Funding Sources for Neotropical Field Biologists and Conservationists http://wildlife.wisc.edu/simbiota/s-list.htm

  ·        Also see Native Plant Conservation Initiative under "Botany" above, for work on plant-pollinator interactions

   

  Herpetology

  ·        http://www.anu.edu.au/BoZo/Scott/Studentresources.html - Keogh Lab (Australia) lists many resources

  ·        American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Gaige Grant to Students http://199.245.200.110/awards/gaige2.html

   

  Ichthyology

  ·        American Society of Ichtylogists and Herpetologists Gaige Grant to Students http://199.245.200.110/awards/gaige2.html

   

  Invertebrates

  ·        American Arachnological Society grants:: http://www.americanarachnology.org/arachnology_res_fund.html

   

  Ornithology

  ·        BIRDNET sources:  a LONG list of links to funding sources for ornithological research (and probably more) including plenty of student support at:  http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/Grants/deadline.html

  ·        American Ornithologists' Union: student research awards; $1,800 max.; http://www.biology.eku.edu/RITCHISO/AOU-ResAward.htm

  ·        American Museum of Natural History: Frank M. Chapman Memorial Grants support and foster research in ornithology, for anyone including grad students; http://research.amnh.org/grants/grantsprog.html (scroll down to Chapman). Due November 15 each year; awards announced in March

   

  Medical and related biology

  ·        Grant opportunities in angiogenesis and related areas.  http://www.angio.org/researcher/grant/grant.html

  ·     NIH Research and training programs. http://grants.nih.gov/training/extramural.htm

  American Heart Association with info on Predoctoral Fellowships.http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=9713 is a link to

   

   

  Systematics

  ·        Society of Systematic Biologists Graduate Awards http://systbiol.org/info/awards.html

   

  Miscellaneous

  ·       Ohio Biological Survey small grants program: http://www.msj.edu/cicada/obs/

  ·        Lerner-Gray Grants for Marine Research – provide financial assistance to highly qualified persons starting careers in marine zoology. Support is limited to projects dealing with systematics, evolution, ecology and field-oriented behavioral studies of marine animals. Awards are not made to support research in botany and biochemistry. Deadline Applications on prescribed forms must be postmarked by March 15; awards are announced in mid-May. http://research.amnh.org/grants/grantsprog.html

  ·        Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grants research on North American fauna in any phase of wildlife conservation or natural history related to the activities of the American Museum.  Deadline Applications on prescribed forms must be postmarked by February 15; awards are announced March 1. http://research.amnh.org/grants/grantsprog.html

  ·        Collection Study Grants provide financial assistance to enable predoctoral and recent postdoctoral investigators to study any of the scientific collections at the American Museum. These collections are in Anthropology, Astrophysics, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Entomology, Herpetology and Ichthyology, Invertebrates, Mammalogy, Ornithology, Vertebrate Paleontology. http://research.amnh.org/grants/grantsprog.html

  ·    Funding Sources in WIldlife, Zoology, and Ecology: http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~ckwillia/Funding%20Sources.htm

   

  Contributors: Lauchlan Fraser, Amy Milsted, Randy Mitchell, Paco Moore, Scott Orcutt, Brian Patrick, Ron Salisbury,

    December 03, 2003

  RJ Mitchel