Big Important Grants/Fellowships?

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
  • Deadline Oct-nov
• Hertz Foundation Fellowship ​Application and Deadlines - (Oct)
• Ford Foundation Fellowship
• ​National Academies of Science Research Associateship Programs

Medium sized grants/short term fellowships

• ​Smithsonian
  • Due Dec 1st
• ​Chateaubriand Fellowship - Get paid to study in France (4-9 months)
  • 2014/2015 app is due January 20th (Only available for late stage PhD students, i think you have to at least advance to candidacy)
• ​Helen Fellowship at AMNH
  • Year long. Deadline March 1, 2015.
  • For women in data science, tracks for graduates, MA/PhD, and post-docs.
• ​Lewis & Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
  • February 2, 2015 <- Deadline is early in the year
  • Up to $5k for collecting

SSE Grants

• ​Rosemary Grant Award - (Starts in Jan) For early grads
• ​WD Hamilton Award - Mostly for later stage PhDs? to present unified work. Awarded for best graduate level presentation at the annual SSE meeting.
• ​TH Huxley Award (Opens in March) - For presenting at a teaching conference
• ​RA Fischer Award - Best dissertation published in Evolution (late stage)

SSB Grants

• ​Graduate Student Research Award - ~$2k for collecting prelim data, etc. Must be in first 2 years of your phd.

American Society of Naturalists

• ​Student Research Award
  • $2k App due in January

European Society of Evolutionary Biologists

• ​John Maynard Smith Prize
  • Nominations early January. Mostly for late-stage PhD early Post-Doc. You gotta have done something worthy of recognition.

Small / One-off grants (fun)

• ​ESEB Outreach Fund
  • educational initiatives that promote evolution, development of evolutionary material (books, films, web sites) intended for a general audience, public outreach seminars, public exhibitions.
  • ~1500 Euro, deadlines March 15, September 15

CUNY Specific Grants

• ​CUNY Grad Student Activity Grant

GC digital fellowship mgold@… ​http://gcdsl.commons.gc.cuny.edu/about/ ​http://digitalfellows.commons.gc.cuny.edu/about/

​http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/rap/

​http://www.sicb.org/

Smithsonian fellowships

• ​Application and info

Fulbright, or a scholarship such as a Rhodes, Churchill or Marshall

Doctoral Student Research Grant Yrs 2-6 “Low Hanging Fruit”

Foundation Directory Online

​CCNY Scholarship and Fellowship Page

​http://forum.thegradcafe.com/forum/17-the-bank/