Grant opportunities

Federal

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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: Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

Deadline: Unspecified

Funds: $9,000-11,000

Eligibility: PhD candidate

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Award Title: Graduate Research Fellowship Award

Deadline: November

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: PhD 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 PhD Award

Deadline: March

Funds: $750

Eligibility: Current PhD student or recent PhD 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, PhD.

Deadline: March

Funds: Award only

Eligibility: Graduating PhD 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 Ornithologist’s Union (AOU)

Award Title: William Brewster Memorial Award

Deadline: October

Funds: Award only

Eligibility: Authorship of a manuscript on ornithology

American Philiosophical Society (APS)

Award Title: Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research

Deadline: February

Funds: $5000

Eligibility: PhD student

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH)

Award Title: Helen T. and F. M. Gaige Fund

Deadline: February

Funds: $400-$1,000

Eligibility: Graduate student with membership and authorship on manuscript

American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH)

Award Title: Edward C. and Charlotte F. Raney Fund

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 Honoria 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: George Barlow Award

Deadline: December

Funds: $500-$2,000

Eligibility: Graduate student with membership

Animal Behavior Society (ABS)

Award Title: Amy R. Samuels Cetacean Behavior and Conservation (CBC) Award

Deadline: December

Funds: $500

Eligibility: Graduate student with membership

Animal Behavior Society (ABS)

Award Title: ABS Student Research Grant

Deadline: December

Funds: $500-2000

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

Cooper Ornithological Society

Award Title: Joseph Grinnell Student Research Award

Deadline: January

Funds: $1,000

Eligibility: PhD student

Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Award Title: George Mercer Award

Deadline: November

Funds: Unspecified

Eligibility: Authorship of manuscript, author under age of 40.

Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Award Title: Snodgrass Memorial Research Award

Deadline: July

Funds: unspecified

Eligibility: Graduate Student with membership

Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Award Title: Stan Beck Fellowship

Deadline: July

Funds: unspecified

Eligibility: Graduate student

Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Award Title: John Henry Comstock Graduate Student Awards

Deadline: August

Amount: Award ($100), registration, accomodation at conference, and per-diem allowance

Eligibility: Graduate student

Ecological Society of America (ESA)

Award Title: Sustainability Science Award

Deadline: December

Funds: unspecified

Eligibility: Authorship of scholarly work (book or manuscript)

Kansas Herpetological Society

Award Title: Allan H. Kamb Award

Deadline September

Funds: $300

Eligibility: Membersihp

Kansas Herpetological Society

Award Title: Howard Kay Gloyd-Edward Harrison Taylor Scholarship

Deadline: September

Funds: $300

Eligibility: Membership

Oklahoma Ornithological Society

Award Title: Oklahoma Ornithological Society Research Grants

Deadline: February

Funds: $1,000

Eligibility: Graduate student

Sigma Xi

Awrad Title: Grants in Aid

Deadline: October and March

Funds: $1,000

Eligibility: Graduate student

Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)

Award Title: Student training exchange

Deadline: November

Funds: $1000

Eligibility: Graduate student with membership

The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)

Awrad Title: Grants in Aid of Research

Deadline: October

Funds: $1,000

Eligibility: Graduate student

The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)

Award Title: The Fellowship of Graduate Student Travel

Deadline: June

Funds: $2,000

Eligibility: Graduate student with membership

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: March

Funds: $1200-2000

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: January

Funds: $1,000

Eligibility: Graduate student

Southwestern Association of Naturalists (SWAN)

Award Title: Howard McCarley Student Research Award

Dealine: January

Funds: $1000

Eligibility: Membership

Texas Academy of Science (TAS)

Award Title: Student Research Grant

Deadline: TBA

Funds: $1000-2000

Eligibility: Membership

Texas Herpetological Society (THS)

Award Title: Grants in herpetology

Deadline: March

Funds: $500

Eligibility: Graduate student

Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Award Title: Canham Graduate Studies Scholarship

Deadline: March

Funds: $25,000

Eligibility: Graduate student

Western New York Herpetological Society

Award Title: Marvin Aures Herpetological Grant

Deadline: February

Funds: $500

Eligibility: Graduate student

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

Award Title: Research Fellowship Program (RFP)

Deadline: March and September

Funds: $25,000

Eligibility: Graduate student

Private

American Association of University Women (AAUW)

Award Title: American Fellowship

Deadline: November

Funds: $20,000

Eligibility: Female PhD candidate.

American Association of University Women (AAUW)

Award Title: International Fellowship

Deadline: December

Funds: $20,000

Eligiblity: Foreign female PhD candidate

American Heart Association (AHA)

Award Title: Predoctoral Fellowship-South Central Affiliate

Deadline: January

Funds: Stipend ($23,000), research stipend ($1,000), and health insurance ($1,000) per year for 2-3 years.

Eligibility: PhD student

American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)

Award Title: T. Roosevelt Memorial

Deadline: February

Funds: $200 - $2,500

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

American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Award Title: Abel Wolmann Fellowship

Deadline: January

Funds: $20,000 per year for two years

Eligibility: PhD student

American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Award Title: Larson Aquatic Research Support

Deadline: January

Funds: $5,000-$7,000

Eligiblity: Graduate student

American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Award Title: Holly Cornell Scholarship

Deadline: January

Funds: $5,000

Eligiblity: Female or under-represented minority graduate student

American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Award Title: Academic Achievement Award

Deadline: October

Funds: $1,500-$3,000

Eligibility: Graduate student with authorship on dissertation

American Wildlife Conservation Foundation

Award Title: American Wildlife Research Foundation Grant Program

Deadline: Feburary and August

Funds: up to $2,000

Eligibility: Graduate student

Bat Conservation International

Award Title: Student Research Scholarship

Deadline: December

Funds: $5000

Eligibility: Graduate student

Box turtle conservation committee

Award Title: The Lucille F. Stickel Box Turtle Research Award

Deadline: TBA

Funds: $500-1500

Eligibility: Graduate student

Desert Tortoise Council (DTC)

Award Title: Davis J Morafka award

Deadline: November

Funds: $2,000

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: Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation Wetlands and Waterfowl Research Fellowship

Deadline: November

Funds: $7,500

Eligiblity: Graduate student

E.N. Huyck Preserve

Award Title: Graduate and Post Graduate Research Grant

Deadline: February

Funds: $2,500

Eligibility: Graduate student

Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF)

Award Title: EREF Francois Fiessinger Scholarship

Deadline: April

Funds: $5,000-$12,000

Eligibility: Graduate student

Explorer’s Club

Award Title: Exploration Fund Grants

Deadline: December

Funds: $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 ($31,000) per year for 5 years

Eligibility: Graduate student

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Award Title: Summer Internship Program

Deadline: February

Funds: $5,000

Eligibility: Graduate Student

Ford Foundation

Award Title: Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

Deadline: November

Funds: Tuition ($2,000) and stipend ($20,000) per year for 3 years.

Eligibility: Under-represented minority PhD student

Ford Foundation

Award Title: Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

Deadline: December

Funds: $21,000

Eligibility: Under-represented minority PhD candidate

National Water Research Institute (NWRI)

Award Title: NWRI Fellowship

Deadline: March

Funds: $2,000-$15,000 per year for 2 years

Eligibility: Graduate student

Neotropical Grassland Conservancey (NGC)

Award Title: Student Grant Program

Deadline: April, August, and December

Funds: $500

Eligibility: Latin American Graduate student

Paul and Daisy Soros

Award Title: Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans

Deadline: November

Funds: Tuition (half of cost) and stipend ($20,000) per year for 2 years.

Eligibility: Permanent resident graduate student

International Association for Great Lakes Research

Award Title: Paul W. Rodgers Scholarship Competition

Deadline: March

Funds: $2,000

Eligibility: Graduate student with membership

Smithsonian Institution

Award Title: Graduate Student Fellowship

Deadline: January

Funds: $6,000 for 10 weeks

Eligibility: Graduate student before PhD candidacy

Smithsonian Institution

Award Title: Predoctoral Fellowship

Deadline: January

Funds: $27,000

Eligibility: PhD candidate

Welder Wildlife Foundation

Award Title: Fellowship for Graduate students

Deadline: October

Funds: $15,000-$16,000 and travel expenses ($1,200)

Eligibility: Graduate Student

World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Award Title: Kathryn Fuller Fellowships to Support Biodiversity Conservation Projects

Deadline: June

Funds: $15,000-$20,000 per year for 2 years

Eligibility: Second year PhD student with two years experience in conservation