Opportunities For Future Consideration
- Description: Support the development of Methane Hydrate science and enable highly qualified graduate and postgraduate students to pursue advanced degrees and training in an area of increasing national interest.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: STEM
- Requirements: U.S. citizens
- Education: M.S., Ph.D., and Postdoctoral applicants
- Deadline: August 1, February 1
- Description: This new, interdisciplinary fellowship will train recent doctoral graduates from any field who would like to pursue a career in advancing science to prevent or mitigate infectious disease pandemics.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Epidemiology, community health, ecology, immunology, clinical-translational science, genetics, biomedical data sciences, and health policy.
- Requirements:
- Education: M.D. within 3 years of completion of clinical training or Ph.D. within 3 years of graduation as of September 1, 2022.
- Deadline: July 15
- Description: Enables American scientists or engineers to undertake post-doctoral research for a period of one to two academic years at a British university or research institute.
- Type: Fellowships
- Disciplines: STEM
- Requirements:
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: June 2022
- Description: Awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice and teaching.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Composers, conductors, musicians, choreographers, visual artists, filmmakers, poets, novelists, playwrights, designers, directors, and performance artists.
- Requirements: Holders of Ph.D. degrees from Princeton are not eligible to apply.
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: July 1, 2022
- Description: Writers and non-literary artists of exceptional promise who wish to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, translators, writers, or other kinds of artists or humanists who are selected more “for promise than for performance.
- Requirements:
- Education:
- Deadline: July 1, 2022
- Description: As part of your fellowship, you will identify or draft measurement items, test these measures, and ultimately field a fully tested questionnaire on an online panel of respondents to generate data for future PPS chapter.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Mathematics and Statistics or Social and Behavioral Sciences.
- Requirements: U.S. citizenship is not required for participation in the program. However, depending on the research project, U.S. citizenship or permanent residence may be required.
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: June 13, 2022
- Description: Provides exceptional autonomy and resources to recent Ph.D. or M.D. graduates with outstanding research records, who are prepared to take an accelerated path toward independence as a principal investigator.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Biomedical sciences or medicine
- Requirements:
- Education: Doctorate in biomedical sciences, medicine or a related field within five years of application deadline.
- Deadline: May 31, 2022
- Description: Propose your own innovative ideas to accelerate drug discovery and development.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Biomedical sciences or medicine
- Requirements:
- Education: Final year graduate student or an earned PhD or MD.
- Deadline: May 26, 2022
- Description: Supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences. Applications for high-risk projects are particularly encouraged.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: STEM
- Requirements:
- Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students in North, Central, or South America at the time of submission
- Deadline: May 18, 2022
- Description: Recognize bold young researchers who ask fundamental questions at the intersection of the life and social sciences; scientists who have performed interdisciplinary work with an enthusiasm that has catalyzed cross-field collaboration; researchers who take risks to address relevant and exciting questions with creative approaches, regardless of the research outcome.
- Type: Award
- Disciplines: Life & social sciences
- Requirements: Entrants must be thirty-five (35) years of age or younger and must hold an M.D., Ph.D., or M.D./Ph.D. at the time of entry.
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: May 15, 2022
- Description: Program offers nationally competitive fellowship awards to postdoctoral and senior scientists to perform collaborative research at U.S. Air Force research facilities across the country.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: STEM
- Requirements: U.S. citizens
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: May 1, August 1, November 1, February 1
- Description: Attracts candidates in biological, biomedical, and population-based scientists drawn to academic careers from populations historically underrepresented in the biosciences.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: STEM
- Requirements: See here.
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: May 1
- Description: Supports early-stage research and development to improve the flexibility and performance of solar technologies that contribute to a reliable and resilient U.S. electric grid.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Science, technology, mathematics, engineering, public policy, business, law or other field relevant to solar integration
- Requirements: U.S. citizens or permanent residents
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: March 31, and June 30, September 30, December 31
- Description: Provides fundamental, interdisciplinary, and innovative training in cancer research at MD Anderson, University of Texas.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Cancer research
- Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: March 31; June 30; September 30, December 31
- Description: Attracts high-achieving postdoctoral scholars from premier universities in the United States and Canada to do research at one of seven Israeli universities.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: STEM
- Requirements: Citizens of the United States or Canada or have a documented status that allows them to study and work in the US & PhD from American or Canadian university and planning to return to the United States or Canada to compete for an academic position.
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: February 1, March 31, December 15
- Description: The Newton International Fellowship selects the very best early-stage post-doctoral researchers to work at one of three participating academies (the Royal Society, the British Academy, and the Academy of Medical Sciences).
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: STEM
- Requirements: Citizens other than British citizens
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: March 16, 2022
- Description: Provides four to five grants of $55,000 every other year to women researchers engaged in basic research in the chemical sciences.
- Type: Award
- Disciplines: Chemistry, biochemistry, physiology, or any chemistry-related field
- Requirements: U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are women
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: March 18, 2022
- Description: Helps scientists hone their skills by putting them to practice for the benefit of Gulf Coast communities and ecosystems.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Sciences
- Requirements:
- Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students
- Deadline: March 2, 2022
- Description: Offers scientists and engineers from a wide variety of disciplines unique opportunities to conduct research in a wide range of topics relevant to the Intelligence Community.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: STEM
- Requirements: U.S. citizens
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: February 28, 2022
- Description: Enhance the research knowledge, skills, and practices of recent doctoral graduates in STEM, STEM Education, Education, and related disciplines, with a goal of advancing their preparation to engage in fundamental and applied research in STEM education that advances knowledge within the field.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: STEM
- Requirements: US persons who have earned a doctoral degree no more than 24 months before the proposal deadline or will earn such a degree within 10 months after the proposal deadline.
- Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students
- Deadline: March 1, 2022
- Description: Awards five women postdoctoral scientists annually with grants of $60,000 each.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Sciences
- Requirements: U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are women
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: January 28, 2022
- Description: Provides a total of $60,000 over three years to support the career development activities.
- Type: Award
- Disciplines: Biomedical or medical research
- Requirements: Underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows in a degree-granting institution in the United States or Canada
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: January 12, 2022
- Description: Helps create and train the next generation of leading researchers needed for climate studies.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Sciences relevant to the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program
- Requirements:
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: January 7, 2022
- Description: Designed to encourage education and empowerment, stressing the importance of NATO’s goals and missions in the 21st century.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Field surrounding transatlantic policies/NATO Alliance
- Requirements: Citizens of a NATO Allied Country
- Education: Graduate student, earned masters or doctorate
- Deadline: December 17, 2021
- Description: Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and increase the number of professors…
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: STEM
- Requirements: U.S. Person
- Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students
- Deadline: December 16, 2021
- Description: This fellowship enables US scholars to carry out trans-regional and comparative research in countries across the network of Overseas Research Centers (ORCs), as well as other countries.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Humanities, social sciences, and allied natural sciences
- Requirements: U.S. citizens
- Education: Earned doctorate or doctoral students who are ‘all but dissertation.
- Deadline: November 16, 2021
- Description: Provides support for women pursuing full-time graduate or postdoctoral studies.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines:
- Requirements: International women in the United States who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and who intend to return to their home country to pursue a professional career.
- Education: Earned doctorate or graduate students
- Deadline: November 15, 2021
- Description: Support women scholars who are pursuing full-time study to complete dissertations, conducting postdoctoral research full time, or preparing research for publication for eight consecutive weeks.
- Type: Fellowships
- Disciplines:
- Requirements: U.S. citizens or permanent residents who are women
- Education: Earned doctorate or doctoral students
- Deadline: November 1, 2021
- Description: Offer early-career scholars the opportunity to join a collaborative research community that nurtures creative, transdisciplinary thought in pursuit of key insights about the complex systems that matter most for science and society.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Various
- Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: October 24, 2021
- Description: Stimulate original cross-disciplinary research and the development of sustainable solutions by developing and deepening connections with external partners.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: STEM
- Requirements:
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: October 18, 2021
- Description: Targeted at exceptional female scientists and engineers who are typically under-represented in these subjects, and wish to establish a research career in the UK.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: STEM
- Requirements: Female
- Education:
- Deadline: October 8, 2021
- Description: Fellowship at Radcliffe is an opportunity to step away from usual routines and dive deeply into a project.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Science, engineering, and mathematics
- Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: September 30, 2021
- Description: The awards will fund one woman per STEM2D discipline who has completed her advanced degree, who is working as an assistant professor (or global equivalent faculty position), and who is not yet tenured at an accredited university, institution, or design school.
- Type: Award
- Disciplines: STEM
- Requirements: Female
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: September 27, 2021
- Description: Designed to promote and develop scholars for tenure-track faculty positions at the University of Missouri or elsewhere, in any discipline.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Any
- Requirements:
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: September 27, 2021
- Description: Fellowship at Radcliffe is an opportunity to step away from usual routines and dive deeply into a project.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Humanities & social sciences
- Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: September 9, 2021
- Description: Makes use of the Library’s large and varied collections. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research is particularly welcome in the Kluge Fellowship program.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Humanities, social sciences, or in a professional field such as architecture or law
- Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
- Education: Terminal advanced degree
- Deadline: July 15, 2021
- Description: Apply for a post-doctoral fellowship to support research on key topics, including the separation of powers, the role of constituent voice in policymaking, diversity and representation in the legislative branch, and institutional reforms to increase congressional capacity.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Humanities, social sciences, or in a professional field such as law
- Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
- Education: Terminal advanced degree
- Deadline: July 15, 2021
- Description: Post-doctoral fellowship in the field of congressional policymaking, with a special focus on legislative negotiations.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Humanities, social sciences, or in a professional field such as law
- Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
- Education: Terminal advanced degree
- Deadline: To be announced
- Description: Supports scholarly research that contributes significantly to a greater understanding of the work of Alan Lomax and the cultural traditions he documented over the course of a vigorous and highly productive 70-year career.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Anthropology, ethnomusicology, ethnography, ethno-history, dance, folklore and folklife, history, literature, linguistics, and movement analysis, with particular emphasis on the traditional music, dance, and narrative of the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the Caribbean, as well as methodologies for their documentation and analysis.
- Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: July 15, 2021
- Description: Encourages the pursuit of scholarly excellence in the scientific study of the relation of religiousness and spirituality to physical, mental, and social health.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Health and spirituality
- Requirements: U.S. citizens or permanent residents
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: July 15, 2021
- Description: Brings together world-leading researchers from all disciplines to work with Durham colleagues in developing collaborative projects of major intellectual, scientific, political, and practical significance.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Any
- Requirements: U.S. & non-U.S. citizens
- Education: At least five years’ experience following the completion of a PhD
- Deadline: June 25, 2021
- Description: Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships will provide the opportunity for recipients to pursue independent research of their own choosing that supports the mission of the Army Research Laboratory.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: STEM
- Requirements:
- Education: Earned doctorate
- Deadline: June 15, 2021
- Description: Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships will provide the opportunity for recipients to pursue independent research of their own choosing that supports the mission of the Army Research Laboratory.
- Type: Award
- Disciplines: STEM
- Requirements:
- Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students in North, Central, or South America at the time of submission
- Deadline: June 15, 2021
- Description: Junior researchers are given the opportunity to enjoy maximum freedom in their early scientific careers. The ‘Freigeist’ scheme is deliberately left open to all disciplines and topics.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Various
- Requirements:
- Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students
- Deadline: April 1, 2021
- Description: Provides opportunities for young pre- and post-doctoral researchers from North America and Europe to receive an orientation on Japanese culture and research systems and to pursue research under the guidance of host researchers at a Japanese university or research institute over a period of two months during the summer.
- Type: Fellowship
- Disciplines: Any
- Requirements: Citizen of the UK, France, Germany, Canada, Sweden, and the US
- Education: Earned doctorate or current graduate students
- Deadline: No open call for US participants in 2021
If you find any broken links, expired programs, or any new programs to list here, please email Valli Sarveswaran at v.sarveswaran@missouri.edu.