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Funding Opportunities for Women Graduate Students

(This page represents only a sample of funding opportunities for women graduate students. Graduate students are also encouraged to take a more active approach - using the funding databases COS and IRIS - when searching for funding)

American Association of University Women - Dissertation Fellowships. $15,000 fellowships available to women in their final year of a doctoral degree program. http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/american.cfm

American Association of University Women - International Fellowships. $16,500 awards to women graduate students studying in the United States who are not U.S. citizens. http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/international.cfm

American Association of University Women - Selected Professions Fellowships. Approximately $8000 awards for women in the final year of graduate study in historically under-represented professions. http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants/selected.cfm

American Statistical Association - Gertrude Cox Scholarship. $1,000 scholarship designed to encourage more women to enter statistically oriented professions. http://www.amstat.org/

Business and Professional Women's Foundation - BPW Career Advancement Scholarship. $1,000 scholarship to assist women who want to further their education, advance their career, or will soon enter/re-enter the workforce. http://www.bpwusa.org/

Coordinating Council for Women in History - CCWH / Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Award. An annual competition for graduate student awards to assist in the completion of dissertation work in any field of history. http://theccwh.org/awards.htm

Fellowship Fund Incorporated - Various Fellowships. A number of fellowships offered to women doing PhD and postdoctoral research. For more information email: applications@afuwqfellowships.com

Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation - Graduate Scholarships. Scholarships available for women pursuing a graduate degree. 
http://www.kappakappagamma.org/Content/NavigationMenu Foundation/Scholarships1/Foundation_Scholarships.htm

Lucent Technologies Foundation Bell Laboratories - Graduate Research Program for Women. $17,000 fellowships for full time doctoral students in order to increase female representation in science and engineering. 
http://www.bell-labs.com/fellowships/#GRPW

National Science Foundation - Women in Engineering and Computer and Information Science. Up to $21,500 for women who intend to pursue graduate degrees in the areas of engineering or computer and information science. http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/dge/programs/grf/

Radcliffe College - Jeanne Humphrey Block Dissertation Award. $5,000 grant for women graduate students studying female psychological development. http://www.radcliffe.edu/murray/grants/index.htm

Women's Research and Education Institute - Congressional Fellowships on Women and Public Policy. Fellowships of $12,400 available to place graduate students in congressional offices and on strategic committee staffs. http://www.wrei.org/fellowships/index.htm

Women's Sports Foundation - Dorothy Harris Endowed Scholarship. $1,500 scholarship to assist women graduate students pursuing one of the following fields of study: Physical Education, Sport Management, Sport Psychology, or Sport Sociology. 
http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/cgi-bin/iowa/funding/results.html

Zonta International - Amelia Earhart Fellowship Awards. $6,000 award open to women who demonstrate a superior academic record studying engineering or an aerospace-related science. http://www.zonta.org/

List of Web Sites Featuring Research Grants for Women

American Association of University Women (AAUW): http://www.aauw.org/

Women's Grants and Resources on "Fundsnet" http://www.fundsnetservices.com/women.htm

A list of grant resources for women compiled by the Cornell University Graduate School: http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/list.phtml?category=WOMEN

"Field of Dreams" is a site created by and for women in business: http://www.bizwomen.com/siteindex.php

The RFP Bulletin of Philanthropy News Digest, published by the Foundation Center: http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_women.jhtml

While it doesn't list grant opportunities, the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) has the following "WomensNet" link of useful resources for women. http://www.igc.org/womensnet/index.html

The International Federation of University Women: http://www.ifuw.org/i_fell.htm

A lengthy list of resources compiled by Kachina Technologies, Inc.: http://scholarships.fatomei.com/scholar7.html

A list of resources (web, books, etc.) for women. Compiled by the Michigan State University Libraries. http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/3women.htm

National Science Foundation (NSF) career development grants for women.
http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/getpub?pr9885

Grants for women in science (published by Science magazine's "Nextwave"): http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2000/05/31/12

A list of grants of interest to women. Compiled by the Computer Science Department at Yale University. http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/fellowships.html