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External Funding Sources for Graduate Education

 

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
  The Graduate Research Fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master's or doctoral degrees and is intended for students who are at the early stages of their graduate study.
  
• NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program
  The NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) awards fellowships for graduate study leading to masters or doctoral degrees in the fields of science, mathematics, and engineering related to NASA research and development.
  
• American Meteorological Society Graduate Fellowships
  are sponsored by leading high-technology firms and government agencies and are designed to attract promising young scientists to prepare for careers in the meteorological, oceanic, and hydrologic fields.
  
• DOD Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program
  NDSEG Fellowships are intended for students at or near the beginning of their graduate studies in science or engineering. Fellowships are awarded to applicants who will pursue a doctoral degree in, or closely related to, an area of DoD interest within one of the following disciplines.
  • Biosciences
  • Geosciences
  • Oceanography
  The program is open to citizens and nationals of the United States.
• Global Change Education Program - Graduate Research Environmental Fellowships
  The GREF program support graduate students in the Office of Biological and Environmental Research-funded collaborative global change research at universities and national laboratories. The fellowship program makes three-year appointments, renewable annually, and pays an annual stipend , a $600 Research Education Supplement in March and October, tuition, and fees.
  
• Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
  The Foundation is interseted in supporting the graduate education of America's most promising technical talent, the Ph.D.-directed effort of the young men and women who can be expected to have the greatest impact on the application of the physical sciences to human problems during the next half-century
  
• Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Program
  The CSGF Program encourages study and research in computational science accompanied by practical work experience at recognized Department of Energy research facilities. Applicants must be either in their first or second year of graduate school and working toward a Ph.D. All fellowship recipients receive a monthly stipend. There is an on-line application form.
  
• Cornell University: Fellowship Database
  
  
• Graduate Fellowships in the Physical Sciences for Women and Minorities
  National Physical Science Consortium
  

Small Research Grants Available to Graduate Students

• GSA Research Grants Program for Students
  The primary role of the GSA research grants program is to provide partial support of master's and doctoral thesis research in the geological sciences for graduate students at universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America. In 2006, 47% of the applicants received funding with the average award being $1963
  
• The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Grants-in-Aid Program
  The purpose of the Program is to foster research in the geosciences by providing support to graduate students in the earth sciences whose research has application to the search for and development of petroleum and energy-minerals resources, and to related environmental geology issues.