Fellowships/Postdoctoral

CSU Fellowship Opportunities

The Colorado Alliance for Graduate Education & Professoriate (AGEP) Fellowship Program

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program

  • Description: The National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in the U.S. and abroad.
  • Application
  • Contact: Ludy Avalos, 970-491-6817
  • Deadline: Please refer to the announcement link for the updated deadline

Non-CSU Fellowship Opportunities

AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellows Program

  • Description: The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship seeks to increase communication skills in student scientists. From grant writing to interaction with their community, today's young scientists must also be able science communicators. The lessons they learn through the Fellowship experience will benefit their career path and help them increase public understanding of science and technology.

Alcatel-Lucent

  • Description: Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories Summer Research Program offers women and members of underrepresented minority groups the opportunity for technical employment experience at our research and development laboratories in Bell Labs. Also available is the Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

American Association of University Women

  • Description: For more than a century, the AAUW has helped nearly 9,000 women from 133 countries pursue their dream of obtaining a graduate degree or making an impact in their community. Fellowship and grant recipients perform research in a wide range of disciplines and work to improve their schools and communities. For more information visit.

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)

  • Description: ACLS is holding competitions for the following fellowship and grant competitions in 2009-2010:
    1. ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships and ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships - Applications can be accessed at http://ofa.acls.org or under "Fellowships & Grants" on the ACLS website listed above. Applicants for the ACLS/New York Public Library fellowships must also apply to the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. An application for the NYPL competition is available at http://www.nypl.org/csw.
    2. Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships - Applications can be accessed at http://ofa.acls.org or under "Fellowships & Grants" on the ACLS website listed above.
    3. Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars - Applications can be accessed at http://ofa.acls.org or under "Fellowships & Grants" on the ACLS website listed above.
    4. ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships - Applications can be accessed at http://ofa.acls.org or under "Fellowships & Grants" on the ACLS website listed above.
    5. ACLS Collaborative Research Awards - Applications can be accessed at http://ofa.acls.org or under "Fellowships & Grants" on the ACLS website listed above.
    6. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowships: Dissertation Completion Fellowships and Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowships - Applications can be accessed at http://ofa.acls.org or under "Fellowships & Grants" on the ACLS website listed above.
    7. Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art - Applications can be accessed at http://ofa.acls.org or under "Fellowships & Grants" on the ACLS website listed above.
    8. Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Grants to Individuals in East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History - Information and Applications can be accessed at http://ofa.acls.org under "Fellowships & Grants" on the ACLS website listed above.
    9. American Research in the Humanities in China - Applications can be accessed at http://ofa.acls.org or under "Fellowships & Grants" on the ACLS website listed above.
    10. New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society - There are no application forms. Application guidelines are available at http://ofa.acls.org under "Fellowships & Grants" on the ACLS website listed above.
    11. East European Studies Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships, Dissertation Fellowships, Conference Grants, Travel Grants, Language Training Grants, and Heritage Speakers Research Grant - Applications can be accessed at http://ofa.acls.org or under "Fellowships & Grants" on the ACLS website listed above.
    12. Fellowship Programs Administered by the Social Science Research Council - For more information visit http://www.ssrc.org/fellowships.

American Society for Microbiology

  • Description: Encourages students to pursue careers or advanced degrees in microbiological sciences by participating in a research project and presenting the results.

Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships

  • Description: These fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, as well as to help Ph.D. candidates in these fields complete their dissertation work in a timely manner. These fellowships are provided to Ph.D. candidates at institutions in the United States who will complete their dissertations during the fellowship year. In 2009, 29 fellows will receive $24,000 for 12 months of full-time dissertation writing.

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) Fellowship Programs

  • Description: A non-profit and non-partisan educational organization established to develop the next generation of Latino leaders. CHCI seeks to accomplish this by offering educational and leadership development programs, services, and activities that promote the growth of its participants as effective professionals and strong leaders.

Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Ping Foundation Fellowships

  • Description: The fellowship is named after Dr. Charles Ping, President Emeritus of Ohio University and a long-time former Chairman of the CIEE Board of Directors, and it provides support for doctoral research focused on U.S. undergraduate study abroad.

Fellowship Internet Resources/Web Sites

  • Description: Visit this list for multiple fellowship/scholarship opportunities for undergraduates who will be attending graduate school or graduate students looking for additional funding.

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships

  • Description: Designed to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.

Hertz Foundation Fellowship Awards

  • Description: The foundation provides fellowships to students in the areas of applied sciences and engineering. The Graduate Fellowship Award is based on merit and consists of cost-of-education allowance and a personal support stipend. The cost-of-education allowance is accepted by all of the tenable schools in lieu of all fees and tuition.

Michigan Society of Fellows

  • Description: The Michigan Society of Fellows was founded in 1970 through grants from the Ford Foundation and Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies for the purpose of promoting academic and creative excellence in the humanities, the arts, the social, physical, and life sciences, and in the professions. For more information, view the brochure.

National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC) Graduate Fellowships

  • Description: The Consortium comprises leading universities (who provide tuition and fees) and private corporations and governmental research laboratories (who provide stipends and two summers of employment). NPSC welcomes applications from all qualified students, with continued emphasis on recruitment of a diverse pool of female and underrepresented minority applicants.

National Science Foundation East Asia & Pacific Summer Institutes (EAPSI)

  • The goals of EAPSI are to introduce students to East Asia and Pacific science and engineering in the context of a research setting, and to help students initiate scientific relationships that will better enable future collaboration with foreign counterparts.

National Security Education Program's (NSEP) David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships

  • Description: Enables U.S. graduate students to add an important international language component to their graduate education through specialization in area study, language study, or increased language proficiency. NSEP supports students studying languages, cultures, and world regions other than Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Fellowships are intended to support U.S. graduate students who will pursue the study of languages and cultures deemed critical to U.S. national security, and who are highly motivated by the opportunity to work in the federal government.

Pathways to Science Graduate Student Portal Page

  • Description: Access resources for graduate students.

Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowships

  • Description: Every year, the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi awards fifty-seven new graduate Fellowships of $5,000 each and three at $15,000 each to members entering the first year of graduate or professional study. Each Phi Kappa Phi chapter may select one candidate from among its local applicants to compete for the Society-wide awards.

Smithsonian Fellowships

  • Description: The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. is offering several fellowship programs for research and study including Senior Fellowships, Postdoctoral Fellowships, Predoctoral Fellowships, Ten-Week Graduate Student Fellowships, and Latino Studies Fellowships. Awards are based on merit and are open to all qualified individuals.
    1. Senior Fellowships - For scholars more than seven years beyond the Ph.D. Term: Three to twelve months.
    2. Postdoctoral Fellowships - For scholars up to seven years beyond the Ph.D. Term: Three to twelve months.
    3. Predoctoral Fellowships - For doctoral candidates to conduct dissertation research. Term: Three to twelve months.
    4. Ten-Week Graduate Student Fellowships - For graduate students to conduct independent research usually before having been advanced to candidacy if in a Ph.D. program. Term: Ten weeks.
    5. Latino Studies Fellowship Program - For U.S. Latino/a predoctoral students and postdoctoral or senior scholars to pursue research related to Latino history, art, and culture using Smithsonian resources. Term: Three to twelve months with the opportunity to spend up to a third of the time in the field but not at the home institution.

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

  • Description: These fellowships support 30 individuals a year for up to two years of graduate study in any subject anywhere in the U.S. Students already in graduate study are eligible, though not past their second year. The Fellowship provides $20,000 maintenance and half tuition (up to a maximum of $16,000 per academic year) wherever the Fellow attends. Candidates must be either holders of Green Cards, naturalized citizens, or children of two naturalized citizen parents. The deadline to apply is November 1, 2009.

The Women's Research and Education Institute (WREI)

  • Description: WREI Fellowships are designed to train potential leaders in public policy formation to examine issues from the perspective, experiences, and needs of women. Administered by WREI, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization located in Washington, D.C., this program is unique-the only Congressional fellowship program directed by, for, and about women.

United Negro College Fund (UNCF)/Merck Science Initiative Research Fellowships

  • Description: The UNCF/Merck Science Initiative is dedicated to supporting the training of world-class African American biomedical scientists and to achieving the complementary goals of national economic competitiveness and social diversity.

Non-CSU Postdoctoral Opportunities

Pathways to Science Post Doc Portal Page

  • Description: Access resources for post docs and early career individuals.

St. Jude Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities

  • Description: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is offering several postdoctoral fellowship opportunities.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore Postdoctoral Openings

  • Description: The Divisions of Gerontology and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition seek THREE qualified M.D. and Ph.D. postdoctoral fellows to work with a multidisciplinary team of clinical investigators, exercise physiologists, molecular biologists, geneticists, and epidemiologists conducting research in aging, diabetes, obesity, exercise physiology, nutrition, and cardiovascular disease.For more information about the University of Maryland, Baltimore, visit the website above; about the School of Medicine, visit: http://www.medschool.umaryland.edu; or about Maryland's PROMISE, an AGEP, visit: http://www.umbc.edu/promise/.

University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

  • Description: The University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was established in 1984 to encourage outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of California. The current program offers postdoctoral research fellowships and faculty mentoring to qualified scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to the diversity and equal opportunity at the University of California.  Application deadline is November 2, 2009.  Complete the online application.

Online Search Resources

SPIN - An electronic search engine, which provides current and available sources of funds and sponsorships. SPIN is a computer database with detailed and up-to- the minute information about thousands of Federal and Non-Federal and International funding opportunities.

Next Wave - Focus is on career development for young researchers and produced by the non-profit American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Science magazine. The primary audience is graduate and post doctorate students and, but also some faculty, staff, career counselors and administrators access the site.