Fellowship and Grant Deadlines
This calendar of deadlines is designed to give you quick access to information about a wide variety of annual fellowship and grant competitions. The majority of these are fellowship and grant opportunities. Some highlight special events such as funding workshops or grant-writing sessions. Most of these are supported by organizations outside of the university; some are university-based. For fellowships and grants offered by our Institute, see the section on Nelson Institute Fellowships and Awards.
The following competitions are arranged in an academic-year format according to the month in which their deadline usually occurs. Please note that all deadlines are approximations only!
September
4 Harvard Society of Fellows Three-Year Junior Fellowships
8 EPA Marshall Scholarships for both new and
continuing graduate students: See the UW Academic Awards Office for
application instructions.
14 Fulbright Grants for Graduate Students (campus deadline)
15 Wildlife Conservation Society (biannual) Research Fellowship Program
23 Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment Grants
25 David H. Smith Conservation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
25 Grants for Your Education: a funding workshop
of Memorial Library
October
1 National Wildlife Federation Campus
Ecology Fellowships
1 American Water Works Association (AWWA)
Academic Achievement Award
1 Identifying Grants for
Research and Project Funding: a funding workshop of Memorial Library
2 UW-Madison Graduate Student International Field Research Awards
2 Jacob K. Javits Fellowships
10 UW-Madison-Montpellier Graduate Student Exchange Program-France
10 Humanities Exposed (HEX) Evjue Research Award
15 DEED Student Research Grants and
Internships
15 DEED Technical Design Project Awards
15 Nelson Institute Travel Grants
15 NSF-SBE Doctoral Dissertation
Research Improvement Grants
15 UW-Madison Child Care Tuition Assistance Program
15
Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research
15 Presidential Management Fellowships
15 Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program
15 Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowships for Graduate Environmental Study
22 UW-Madison House Fellow Opportunities
23 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
(DDRA) with specific instructions for UW-Madison Applicants
23 UW-Madison House Fellow Program
29 Annie's Sustainable Agriculture Scholarships
30 UW-Madison Graduate Student Collaborative
Vilas Travel Grant
November
1 Department of Zoology's John Jefferson
Davis Travel Awards
1 Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy
Graduate Fellowship (spring)
2 Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships:
Predoctoral Awards
2 National Estuarine Research Reserve System Graduate Research Fellowship
2 National Science Foundation Graduate Research
Fellowship Program
with application submission via NSF's FastLane
4 Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
International Dissertation Research Fellowships (IDRF)
5 National Physical Science Consortium
Graduate Fellowships in the Physical Sciences
6 Madison Viking
Scholarships for study at the University of Oslo's International Summer School
9 Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships:
Dissertation Awards
11 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
11 ACLS East European Studies: Fellowships and Grants
13 National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Fellowships
13 Woodrow Wilson Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral
Dissertation Fellowship
15 Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Internships
15
Scholarships and Fellowships with the Garden Club of America
15 American Association of University Women
American
Fellowships
15 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Awards: Study Scholarships and Research Grants
20 NSF-DDIG
Dissertation Research Grants in the Biological Sciences
December
1 Nelson Institute Doris Duke Conservation Fellowships
1 Link Foundation Fellowships in the Energy Field
1 American Association of University Women
International Fellowships
1 Air & Waste Management Association Scholarships
4 UW-Madison Kauffman Entrepreneurship Community Internship Program
15 American Association of University Women
Career
Development Grants
15
Alaska Conservation Foundation Small Grants Program (applications accepted monthly)
21 EPA's P3 Awards: National Student Design Competition for Sustainability
31 Inter-American Foundation and IIE: IAF Fellowship Program
January
1 Applied Ecological Services Graduate Student
Research Assistance Program
1 Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (deadlines vary by country)
1 Organization of American States
OAS Fellowships (deadlines vary by country)
2 NSF-IGERT Nelson Institute Certificate on Humans and the Global
Environment: CHANGE Fellowships
15 Garden Club of America
GCA
Fellowship in Ecological Restoration
15 Sigma Delta Epsilon-Graduate Women In Science SDE-GWIS Fellowships
15 American Water Works Association AWWA Scholarships
and Fellowships
15 International Institute Applied Systems Analysis
Young Scientists Summer
Program
15 Smithsonian Institution
Fellowship Opportunities
15
Environmental Fellows Program (Postdoctoral) at Harvard University
15 Milwaukee County Zoological
Society
Wildlife Conservation Grants for Graduate Student Research
15
AAAS Mass
Media Science & Engineering Summer Fellowship
15 NSF-SBE Dissertation Research Grants in
the Social Sciences
15 IIASA’s Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) in Austria
25 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coastal Management
Fellowship
27 NCR-SARE Graduate Student Grants in Sustainable Agriculture
28 National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships
29 Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Fund: Doctoral Research Fellowships in Tiger Conservation
30 NSF IGERT China Program: Graduate Traineeships and Graduate
Associates in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Southwest China
February
1 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Network for
Environmental Management Studies Fellowships
1 AMS/UCAR Congressional Science Fellowship
1 Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Dr. Laurel Salton
Clark Memorial Graduate Fellowship Program
1 National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) Graduate Student Researchers Program
1 Community Forestry
Research Fellowship
1 National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Fellowships
1 Department of Energy Graduate
Research Environmental Fellowships (GREF)
8 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Graduate Fellowships
15 UW-Madison Child Care Tuition Assistance Program
15 Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Internships
15 The Land Institute Graduate Research Fellowships
15
DEED Student Research Grants and Internships
15 Nelson Institute Andrew Muzi Yellow Jersey Award
15 Alaska Conservation Foundation Conservation Internship Program
15 UW-Madison Graduate Student Exchange Scholarships: Bonn &
Warwick
17 Hispanic Scholarship Fund for Graduate and Undergraduate Students
19 National Sea Grant Internship Program-Knauss Marine Policy
Fellowships
19 Scott Kloeck-Jenson International Internship and Travel Grants
24 Morris K. Udall Environmental Public Policy & Conflict Resolution Ph.D. Fellowship
26 NOAA Great Lakes Summer Student Fellowship Program
26 NASA Graduate
Student Summer Program in Earth System Science
26 WWF-Russell Train Education for Nature Fellowships for International Students
26 Resources For the Future
RFF Fellowships and Internships
March
1
Scholarships for Nontraditional UW-Madison Students
1 Organization for Tropical Studies
Research Fellowships Program
1 Women of Wind Energy Rudd Mayer Memorial Fellowships
1 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Population Health Dissertation Grant
1 Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy
Graduate Fellowship (summer)
1 Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Dissertation Fellowship Program
1 Marie Christine Kohler Fellowship: Knapp House Graduate Program
1 Tinker-Nave Fund Short-Term Field Research Grants
1 Anna Grant Birge Memorial Awards Summer Awards For Graduate Research in Limnology: E-mail
Mary Possin for application details
5 RGK Center for Philanthropy & Community Service
Summer Fellowship Program
15 Wildlife Conservation Society (biannual) Research Fellowship Program
15 Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research
15 J.W. Saxe Memorial Fund for Public Service
15 Nelson Institute Travel Grants
15
Alaska Conservation Foundation Small Grants Program (applications accepted monthly)
19 UW-Madison
Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award for Outstanding (Ph.D.) Research in Social Studies
22 WAGE and the Global Legal Studies Center Pre-dissertation Travel Grants
31 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Nancy Foster Scholarships
31 National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Fellowships
31 The Wilderness Society Gloria Barron Scholarship
April
1 Department of Zoology Graduate Research Grants and
John Jefferson Davis Travel Awards
1 Society of Environmental Journalists
Awards for Reporting on the Environment
2 G. Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition
10 Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE) Climate Leadership Challenge
21 American Water Resources Association (AWRA)
Richard A. Herbert Memorial Scholarship
23 UW-Madison Kauffman Entrepreneurship Community Internship Program
30 Raymond J. Penn Scholarship Fund for Dissertators: See announcement in
Wisconsin Week or contact
Chris Elholm for information
May
1 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships,
Madison Chapter/Rotary District #6250
1 Ruth Dickie Grants-in-Aid and
Ruth Dickie Research Scholarships
1 Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy
Graduate Fellowship (Fall)
15 Middlebury Fellowships in Environmental Journalism
15 Environmental Research & Education Foundation
EREF Graduate Scholarships
28 Humanities Exposed (HEX) Awards
June
1 UW-Madison Child Care Tuition Assistance Program
1 Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Internships
10 Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation Grants
30 Robert Dickie & Anna Adams Dickie Family
Sauk County Educational Award
July
1 NSF IGERT China Program: Graduate Associates in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Southwest ChinaAugust
1 NSF-SBE Dissertation Research Grants in the Social Sciences
Continuous Recruitment:
UW-Madison Child Care Tuition Assistance Program
National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Fellowships
National Geographic's Young Explorers Grants (YEG)
Alaska Conservation Foundation Small Grants Program
Milwaukee Public Health Scholars Program
Funding Workshops: Grants Information Collection at Memorial Library