Federal
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Award Title: Science to Achieve Results
Deadline: October
Funds: Tuition ($12,000), stipend (20,000), and allowance ($5,000) per year for 2 years (Master's degree) or 3 years (Doctoral)
Eligibility: Graduate student
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Award Title: Graduate Research Fellowship Award
Deadline: October
Funds: Tuition ($10,000), stipend ($30,000), and travel funds ($500) per year for 3 years
Eligibility: Graduate student
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Award Title: National Research Service Award
Deadline(s): April, August, and December
Funds: Tuition(60%), stipend(~$20,000), allowance($3,100) per year.
Eligibility: Ph.D. student
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Award Title: NRSA Institutional Predoctoral Training in Neurosciences
Deadline(s): January, May, and September
Funds: Tuition ($16,000), stipend (~$21,000), travel ($750), other expenses ($4,200) per year for 5 years
Eligibility: Graduate student with sponsoring faculty/program director
National Institutes if Health (NIH)
Award Title: NRSA Institional Predoctoral Training in Systems Biology of Developmental Biology & Birth Defects
Deadline(s): January, May, and September
Funds: Tuition ($16,000) and stipend (~$21,000) per year for 5 years
Eligibility: Graduate student
United States Department of Defense (DOD)
Award Title: Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation
Deadline: December
Funds: Tuition and stipend ($25,000-41,000) per year until graduation.
Eligibility: Graduate student and must be able to accept position at a DoD laboratory post-graduation.
United States Department of Defense (DOD)
Award title: National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program
Deadline: January
Funds: Tuition and stipend ($30,500-$31,500) per year for 3 years.
Eligibility: Graduate student
United States Department of Energy (DOE)
Award Title: Graduate Research Environmental Fellowship
Deadline: December
Funds: Tuition and stipend ($19,200) per year for 3 years
Eligibility: Second year graduate student
United States Department of Energy (DOE)
Award Title: DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program
Deadline: November
Funds: Tuition ($10,500), stipend ($35,000), and research stipend ($5000) per year for 3 years.
Eligibility: Graduate student
Academic Institution
Oklahoma State University
Award Title: Phoenix Outstanding M.S. Award
Deadline: March
Funds: $750
Eligibility: Current M.S. student or recent M.S. graduate
Oklahoma State University
Award Title: Phoenix Outstanding Ph.D. Award
Deadline: March
Funds: $750
Eligibility: Current Ph.D. student or recent Ph.D. graduate
Oklahoma State University Graduate College
Award Title: Graduate Research Excellence Award, M.S.
Deadline: March
Funds: Award only
Eligibility: Graduating with M.S. student within the academic year
Oklahoma State University Graduate College
Award Title: Graduate Research Excellence Award, Ph.D.
Deadline: March
Funds: Award only
Eligibility: Graduating Ph.D. student within the academic year
Oklahoma State University
Award Title: Women's Faculty Council Research Awards for Research and Scholarship
Deadline: December
Funds: $500
Eligibility: Female student at OSU.
Oklahoma State University
Award Title: Graduate College Research Fellowship
Deadline: May
Funds: $2,000
Eligibility: Graduate student at OSU
Oklahoma State University
Award Title: Nancy Randolph Davis Scholarship
Deadline: May
Funds: $ 1,000
Eligibility: Any graduate student of U.S. citizenship at OSU.
Societies
The Academy of Natural Sciences
Award Title: Jessup Award
Deadline: March and October
Funds: Travel allowance to the academy ($500) and stipend ($350 per week) for 2 to 16 weeks.
Eligibility: Graduate student sponsored by member of the Academy
American Philosophical Society (APS)
Award Title: Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
Deadline: November
Funds: $5000
Eligibility: Graduate student
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH)
Award Title: Gaige and Raney awards
Deadline: March
Funds: $400-$1,000
Eligibility: Graduate student with membership
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
Award Title: Raymond L. Lindeman Award
Deadline: October
Funds: Award only
Eligibility: Authorship on manuscript, author under age of 35
American Society of Mammalogists (ASM)
Award Title: Graduate Student Honoraria Papers
Deadline: February
Funds: $1500
Eligibility: Graduate student with membership and authorship on manuscript
American Society of Mammalogists (ASM)
Award Title: Grants-In-Aid of Research
Deadline: March
Funds: $1500
Eligibility: Graduate student with membership
American Society of Mammologists (ASM)
Award Title: ASM Fellowship in Mammology
Deadline: May
Funds: $20,000
Eligibility: Graduate student with membership
American Society of Mammologists (ASM)
Award Title: Albert R. and Alma Shadle Fellowship
Deadline: March
Funds: $4,000-4,500
Eligibility: Graduate student with membership
Animal Behavior Society (ABS)
Award Title: E.O. Wilson Conservation Award
Deadline: December
Funds: $2,000
Eligibility: Graduate student with membership
Animal Behavior Society (ABS)
Award Title: Various awards
Deadline: December
Funds: $500-$2,000
Eligibility: Graduate student with membership
Association of Field Ornithologists (AFO)
Award Title: The E. Alexander Bergstrom Memorial Research Award
Deadline: January
Funds: $1,000
Eligibility: M.S. Student
American Ornithological Society
Award Title: Various awards
Deadline: December
Funds: up to $2,500
Eligibility: Undergraduate and graduate students
Ecological Society of America (ESA)
Award Title: Various awards
Deadline: Depends on award
Funds: Unspecified
Eligibility: Depends on award
Kansas Herpetological Society
Award Title: Allan H. Kamb Award
Deadline: September
Funds: $300
Eligibility: Membership; proposed work on snakes in Kansas
Oklahoma Ornithological Society
Award Title: Oklahoma Ornithological Society Research Grants (page dead as of 15 July 2020)
Deadline: February
Funds: $1,000
Eligibility: Graduate student
Sigma Xi
Award Title: Grants in Aid
Deadline: October and March
Funds: up to $1,000
Eligibility: Graduate student
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
Award Title: Student training exchange
Deadline: February
Funds: up to $1000
Eligibility: Graduate student with membership
The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)
Award Title: Various awards
Deadline: Variable
Funds: Depends on award
Eligibility: Graduate student
Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
Award Title: SfN Travel Award
Deadline: June
Funds: Travel expenses
Eligibility: Graduate student with first authorship on abstract
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR)
Award Title: Grants in Herpetology
Deadline: December
Funds: $500
Eligibility: Membership
Society of Systematic Biologists
Award Title: Graduate Student Research Award
Deadline: October
Funds: $3,000
Eligibility: Graduate student with membership
Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS)
Award Title: Grants in Aid
Deadline: March
Funds: $1,000
Eligibility: Graduate student
Southwestern Association of Naturalists (SWAN)
Award Title: McCarley Award
Deadline: March
Funds: $1,000
Eligibility: Graduate student
Texas Academy of Science (TAS)
Award Title: Student Research Grant
Deadline: TBA
Funds: $1000-2000
Eligibility: Membership
Private
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Award Title: American Fellowship
Deadline: November
Funds: $20,000
Eligibility: Female Ph.D. candidate.
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Award Title: International Fellowship
Deadline: November
Funds: $18,000–20,000
Eligibility: Foreign female M.S. or Ph.D. candidate
American Heart Association (AHA)
Award Title: Predoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: January
Funds: Stipend ($25,320), research stipend ($2,000), and health insurance ($4,200) per year for 2-3 years.
Eligibility: Ph.D. student
American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
Award Title: T. Roosevelt Memorial
Deadline: February
Funds: $500 - $3,500
Eligibility: Graduate student
American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
Award Title: Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research
Deadline: March
Funds: $200-$2,500
Eligibility: Graduate student studying marine organisms
American Water Works Association (AWWA)
Award Title: Abel Wolmann Fellowship
Deadline: August
Funds: $30,000 per year for up to two years
Eligibility: Ph.D. student in the field of water supply and treatment
American Water Works Association (AWWA)
Award Title: Larson Aquatic Research Support
Deadline: January
Funds: $5,000-$7,000
Eligibility: Graduate student
American Water Works Association (AWWA)
Award Title: Holly Cornell Scholarship
Deadline: January
Funds: $5,000
Eligibility: Female or under-represented minority graduate student
Bat Conservation International
Award Title: Student Research Scholarship
Deadline: NA
Funds: Variable
Eligibility: Graduate student studying bats
Box turtle conservation committee
Award Title: The Lucille F. Stickel Box Turtle Research Award
Deadline: January
Funds: $500-1000
Eligibility: Graduate student
Desert Tortoise Council (DTC)
Award Title: Morafka award
Deadline: December
Funds: $2,500
Eligibility: Graduate student
Ducks Unlimited
Award Title: Edward D. and Sally M. Futch Graduate Fellowship
Deadline: November
Funds: $7,000
Eligibility: Graduate student
Ducks Unlimited
Award Title: Various awards
Deadline: November
Funds: Depends on award
Eligibility: Graduate student
E.N. Huyck Preserve
Award Title: General grant program
Deadline: February
Funds: $2,000–3,500
Eligibility: Graduate student
Explorer’s Club
Award Title: Student Grants
Deadline: December
Funds: $2,500-5,000
Eligibility: Graduate student
Garden Club of America (GCA)
Award Title: Fellowship in Ecological Restoration
Deadline: December
Funds: $8000
Eligibility: Graduate student
Hertz Foundation
Award Title: Hertz Fellowship
Deadline: October
Funds: Tuition (full) and stipend ($34,000) per year for 5 years
Eligibility: First-year graduate student
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Award Title: Summer Internship Program
Deadline: February
Funds: 10-week program, including stipend
Eligibility: Graduate Student
Ford Foundation
Award Title: Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: December
Funds: Stipend of $27,000/year for 3 years.
Eligibility: M.S. or early Ph.D. student
Ford Foundation
Award Title: Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Deadline: December
Funds: $28,000 one-year stipend
Eligibility: Ph.D. candidate
National Water Research Institute (NWRI)
Award Title: NWRI Fellowship
Deadline: April
Funds: $5,000-$10,000
Eligibility: Graduate student
Neotropical Grassland Conservancy (NGC)
Award Title: Student Grant Program
Deadline: April, August, and December
Funds: $1,000
Eligibility: Latin American Graduate student
Paul and Daisy Soros
Award Title: Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Deadline: October
Funds: $90,000
Eligibility: U.S. immigrant or child of immigrant parents
International Association for Great Lakes Research
Award Title: Various scholarships
Deadline: December
Funds: $2,000–3,000
Eligibility: Graduate student
Smithsonian Institution
Award Title: Graduate Student Fellowship
Deadline: November
Funds: 10-week residence with $7,500 stipend
Eligibility: Graduate student before Ph.D. candidacy
Smithsonian Institution
Award Title: Predoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: November
Funds: 3–12 month residence at $3,000/month, plus up to $4,000 for research
Eligibility: Ph.D. candidate
Welder Wildlife Foundation
Award Title: Fellowship for Graduate students
Deadline: October
Funds: $1,600–1,800 / month fellowship
Eligibility: Graduate Student
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Award Title: Education for Nature (EFN) fellowships
Deadline: Varies
Funds: Varies
Eligibility: Graduate student studying conservation in an approved country