STUDENT FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

Listed below is a short list of web sites to start your search for scholarships, fellowships and other training opportunities. These will lead you to some of the many sources of funding and are by no means the only ones out there. Good hunting!

FAU Opportunities

• FAU Graduate Student Association
• Dissertation Year Awards
• Graduate Fellowship for Academic Excellence

Scholarship Granting Organizations

1. Oak Ridge Associated Universities - undergraduates, graduates, post-docs, internships, sabbaticals
2. Council of Graduate Schools - www.cgsnet.org/Default.aspx?tabid=119
3. IGERT Joint Program in Applied Mathematics & Earth and Environmental Science - www.appmath.columbia.edu/igert/
4. Ron Brown Scholarships (www.RonBrown.org). Leadership, community service, all fields.
5. Jackie Robinson Foundation Scholarship (www.JackieRobinson.org). It's renewable. Academic merit, leadership, community service, all fields.
6. Kodak Scholarships (www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/students/). For those studying in film/cinematography at U.S. colleges, or go to: motion.kodak.com/US/en/motion/Education/Discounts_And_Scholarships/index.htm
7. Intel Science Talent Search (www.sciserv.org/sts) You must present a scientific research project.
8. Gates Millennium Scholarships (www.gmsp.org/). The Gates Millennium Scholarship is to promote academic excellence and to provide an opportunity for thousands of outstanding students with significant financial need.
9. National Society of Black Engineers Scholarships -  This is primarily for engineering students, and others majoring in related disciplines (national.nsbe.org/).
10. Ambassadorial Scholarships (www.rotary.org/en/StudentsAndYouth/EducationalPrograms/Ambassadorial
    Scholarships/Pages/ridefault.aspx). This is the prestigious "rotary" organization scholarship for students who can speak another language and want to study abroad in the "host" country of that language.
11. Xerox Technology Minority Scholarship--Go to: www.xeroxstudentcareers.com/why-xerox/scholarship.aspx.  This is a good scholarship for strong minority students studying in areas like chemistry, engineering, physics, and "tech" areas.
12. National Collegiate Athletic Association - Go to: www.ncaa.org/wps/portal.  Postgraduate scholarships annually, for men and women. The scholarships are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically and who are in their final year of intercollegiate athletics competition. Awards are given in all sports categories and are available for sports related study (like sports journalism).
13. National Alliance for Excellence Scholarships--Go to: www.excellence.org/programs.html. The student competitors can be seniors or already in college. They must submit an application that can include recommendations (academics), art (slides), dance (tapes), photographs, or other materials that point to talent and achievement in all areas.
14. The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation --Go to: www.truman.gov The is one of the most prestigious scholarship for students who intend to pursue a career in public service or government. You must be at least a junior, and your college must nominate you. A "nomination" package must be created.
15. Society of Women Engineer Scholarships These scholarships are for women in engineering or computer science. (societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/ ).

Student Search Sites

1. American Council of Learned Societies, www.acls.org/programs/comps/
2. Association for Women in Science, www.awis.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=8
3. Community of Science - Graduate Student Update, fundingopps2.cos.com/news/grad
4. Cornell University Graduate School cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/list.phtml.
   This is a link to a site listing hundreds of opportunities--general, international, minorities, biological sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, summer abroad, and post doc.
5. Council for International Exchange of Scholars Fulbright, www.iie.org/fulbright
6. GrantsNet. This helps find funds for training in the sciences and undergraduate science education. Go to sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/
7. Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. There is also an extensive list of funding opportunities for students on the Resource page. Go to www.jkcf.org/.
8. Nationally Coveted Scholarships, Fellowships and Postdoctoral Awards, scholarships.fatomei.com - From this site, you can access many other sites listing scholarships, grants, fellowships, and research awards as well as to perform free searches on FastWeb.
9. National Institutes of Health - Research and Training Opportunities,, Dissertation Awards. grants.nih.gov/training/extramural.htm
10. National Science Foundation (NSF) - Graduate www.nsf.gov/funding/
11. National Science Foundation - Undergrad www.nsf.gov/funding/
12. Social Science Research Council, www.ssrc.org/
13. U.S. Dept. Housing & Urban Development, www.oup.org
14. Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Women’s Studies. Go to: www.woodrow.org/fellowships/

Dissertation Research

1. American Educational Research Association - Dissertation grants - societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/
2. American University Library. Guide to the Preparation of Theses and Dissertations (www.library.american.edu/about/services/dissertations.html)
3. National Science Foundation - Post Doc, www.nsf.gov/funding
4. Visit the Amazon.com bookstore (www.amazon.com) and Barnes and Noble online (www.barnesandnoble.com/).
5. Write Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis -- Joan Bolker; Paperback.
6. How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation -- David Sternberg; Paperback
7. Writing the Doctoral Dissertation: A Systematic Approach -- Gordon B. Davis, Clyde A. Parker; Paperback

Graduate Student Grant Workshop: Hunting of the Snark Redux, September 2009

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