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
6
EPA Marshall
Scholarships for both new and
continuing graduate students: See the
UW Academic
Awards Office for application instructions.
7 Harvard Society of Fellows Three-Year Junior
Fellowships
14 Humanities Exposed (HEX) Evjue Research Award
15 Wildlife Conservation Society (biannual) Research Fellowship Program
17
Fulbright Grants for Graduate Students (campus deadline)
30
Annie's
Environmental Studies Scholarships
October
1 DEED Student Research Grants and Internships
1 Organization for Tropical Studies
(biannual)
Research Fellowships Program
1 American Water Works Association (AWWA) Academic
Achievement Award
1
UW
Madison-Montpellier Graduate Student Exchange Program
5
Jacob K.
Javits Fellowships
15
Nelson
Institute Travel Grants
15 DEED Technical Design Project Awards
15 NSF-SBE Dissertation Research Grants in the Social Sciences
15 UW-Madison
Child Care Tuition Assistance Program
15 Hispanic
Scholarship Fund
15
Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research
15 Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program
23 Environmental Protection Agency
STAR
Fellowships for Graduate Environmental Study
26 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) with specific instructions for UW-Madison Applicants
31 UW-Madison Graduate Student Collaborative
Vilas Travel Grant
November
1 National Science Foundation
Graduate Research
Fellowship Program
with application submission via
NSF's FastLane
1 Department of Zoology's John Jefferson
Davis Travel Awards
1 Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship (spring)
2 Identifying Grants for Research and Project Funding: a funding workshop of Memorial Library
2
Madison Viking Scholarships for study at the University of Oslo's
International Summer School
5
5
9 Presidential Management Fellowships
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
15 ACLS Southeast
European Studies: Fellowships and Grants
16 Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships:
Predoctoral Awards
16
NSF-DDIG
Dissertation Research Grants in the Biological Sciences
30 UW-Madison
House Fellow Program
30 Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships:
Dissertation Awards
December
1 Nelson Institute
Doris Duke
Conservation Fellowships
1 American Association of University Women
International Fellowships
1
mtvU GE
ecomagination Challenge
15 American Association of University Women
Career
Development Grants
15
Alaska Conservation Foundation Small Grants Program (applications accepted monthly)
20 National Wildlife Federation
Campus
Ecology Fellowship Program
21
EPA's
P3 Awards: National Student Design Competition for Sustainability
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
2 NSF-IGERT Nelson Institute Certificate on Humans and the Global
Environment: CHANGE
Fellowships
11
Air & Waste Management Association Scholarships
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 UW-Madison
Child Care Tuition Assistance Program
28 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Network for Environmental Management Studies Fellowships
28 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coastal Management
Fellowship
30
February
1 NSF IGERT China Program: Graduate Traineeships and Graduate Associates in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Southwest China
1 National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) Graduate Student Researchers Program
1
Community
Forestry Research Fellowship
1 Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Internships
1 NSF-SBE Dissertation Research Grants in the Social Sciences
4
Foreign
Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Graduate Fellowships
4
Department of Energy Graduate
Research Environmental Fellowships (GREF)
8 National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration Nancy Foster
Scholarships
14 Inter-American Foundation and IIE: IAF Fellowship Program
15 The Land Institute Graduate Research Fellowships
15
DEED Student Research Grants and Internships
15 Nelson Institute
Andrew
Muzi Yellow Jersey Award
15 Scott Kloeck-Jenson
International Internship
and Travel Grants
15 Alaska Conservation Foundation
Conservation Internship Program
22 NOAA Great Lakes Summer Student Fellowship Program
25 UW-Madison Graduate Student Exchange Scholarships: Bonn & Warwick
27 Resources For the Future
RFF
Fellowships and Internships
28
NASA Graduate
Student Summer Program in Earth System Science
28 WWF-Russell Train Education for Nature Fellowships for International Students
29 Organization for Tropical Studies (biannual)
Research Fellowships Program
March
1 Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship (summer)
1 Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Dissertation Fellowship Program
3
The Wilderness Society Gloria Barron Scholarship
7 Tinker-Nave Fund Short-Term
Field Research Grants
12
Marie Christine Kohler Fellowship-Knapp House Graduate Program
(Contact your department for their internal campus deadline)
12
National Sea Grant Internship Program-Knauss Marine Policy Fellowships
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 Nelson Institute Kaplan
Family Award
15
Alaska Conservation Foundation Small Grants Program (applications accepted monthly)
24 Anna Grant Birge
Memorial Awards Summer Awards For Graduate Research in Limnology: E-mail Mary Possin for application
details
27 Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Dr. Laurel Salton Clark Memorial Graduate Fellowship Program
28 UW-Madison
Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award for Outstanding (Ph.D.) Research in
Social Studies
30 WWF-Russell Train Education for Nature Fellowships for International Students
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
23 American Water Resources Association (AWRA)
Richard A. Herbert
Memorial Scholarships
25 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
30 Environmental Research & Education Foundation EREF Graduate Scholarships
May
1
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships, Madison Chapter/Rotary District
#6250
1 Ruth Dickie Grants-in-Aid and Ruth Dickie Research Scholarships
15 Middlebury
Fellowships in Environmental Journalism
30 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Population Health Dissertation Grants
June
1 UW-Madison Child Care Tuition Assistance Program
1 Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship (Fall)
1 Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Internships
12 Charles A. and Anne
Morrow Lindbergh Foundation Grants
30
Robert Bruce Dickie and Anna Adams Dickie Family Sauk County Educational
Award
July
1 NSF IGERT China Program: Graduate Associates in Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Southwest China
August
1 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Awards
1 NSF-SBE Dissertation Research Grants in the Social Sciences
Continuous Recruitment:
UW-Madison Child Care Tuition Assistance Program
National Geographic's Young Explorers Grants (YEG)
Alaska Conservation Foundation Small Grants Program