At UC Davis/UC System
- Student Parent Childcare Grant Program
- Student Parent Childcare Grant Program applications are available for the 2024-25 academic year. The Graduate Student Child Care Grant (GSCCG) Program provides $1400 per quarter/$2100 per semester, beginning Fall 2024, to full-time graduate and professional students with children up to age 12, regardless of financial need. The program is designed to offset actual costs incurred in childcare services. The GSCCG can be supplemented with additional funds from the Community Based Care Grant (CBCG) program for those students who demonstrate both financial and situational need.
Please visit the website for more information and applications: https://hr.ucdavis.edu/departments/worklife-wellness/student-parent/ucd-grant - 2024-2025 Business Development Fellowship
- Open to UC Davis graduate students, Ph.D. candidates and postdoctoral researchers in all disciplines who are seeking leadership careers outside of academia. Business Development Fellows cultivate foundational business, management and leadership skills; build an interdisciplinary network of colleagues and mentors committed to innovation and entrepreneurship; identify potential career pathways; and develop valuable skills to pursue post-fellowship employment.
Are you ready to apply? Complete the online application no later than August 29: https://ucdavis.startuptree.co/event/s/ZAJKVJdvRsLh4pDYLS4kR6/2024-25-Business-Development-Fellowship-Application. Then participate in an interview. If accepted as a fellow, submit the required letter of support from your advisor/principle investigator. View a sample letter.
This prestigious fellowship has been offered by the UC Davis Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship since 2006. Fellows will receive a certificate from the Graduate School of Management upon successful completion of the nine-month program. NOTE: This is a highly competitive fellowship opportunity; applications may close early. Questions? Email aggieinnovators@ucdavis.edu. - The UC-National Laboratory In-Residence Graduate Fellowship
- The UC-National Laboratory In-Residence Graduate Fellowship is a funding opportunity for UC graduate students in any field of study that aligns with the missions of Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.
Key Dates
RFP release: Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Letters of Intent (LOI) due: Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 12:00 noon Pacific Time
Notification of LOI outcome decision: Friday, June 14, 2024
Full proposals due: Thursday, September 5, 2024 at 12:00 noon Pacific Time
Notification of review outcome: December 13, 2024 (expected)
Graduate Fellowship start date: April 1, 2025
Please review the RFP carefully and visit the program website for other program announcements. For questions on program scope and priorities, please contact UCRI@ucop.edu. Administrative questions regarding the application process may be directed to RGPOGrants@ucop.edu. - Fulbright U.S. Student Program
- The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides 2,200+ awards in 150+ countries to teach English (ETA) or conduct independent research (S/R). The program aims to increase mutual understanding between the U.S. and other countries through the exchange of persons, knowledge and skills. Apply here: https://apply.iie.org/apply/?sr=fcf7bc91-202e-4149-a81a-bc9ffaa7c7ec
Eligibility:
U.S. citizens.
Hold a bachelor’s but not earned a PhD prior to grant start date.
Potential host country language proficiency needed.
Timeline:
April 2 – Application opens.
Sept. 10 – UCD S/R candidate deadline.
Sept, 17 – UCD ETA candidate deadline.
Sept. 16-18 – S/R campus interviews.
Sept. 23-25 – ETA campus interviews.
Oct. 8 – Fulbright National deadline. - Public Scholars for the Future
The Public Scholars for the Future program was established to support doctoral students who are interested in developing their community engaged research with non-university partners. The aim of the program is to integrate community-centered theories, methods and techniques into the research and scholarship practices of the next generation of public scholars.
Students who successfully complete the program will be awarded $1,000 for research support.
For more information, visit the Public Scholars for the Future program website.
External Opportunities
- NIH F30/31/32 Fellowship
- The purpose of this Kirschstein-NRSA program is to enable promising predoctoral students with potential to develop into a productive, independent research scientists to obtain mentored research training while conducting dissertation research. The fellowship provides up to 60% tuition assistance, allowance, stipend and childcare allowance. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-23-272.html
- 2025 AHA Predoctoral Fellowship
- The AHA Predoctoral Fellowship is designed to enhance the integrated research and clinical training of promising students who are matriculated in pre-doctoral or clinical health professional degree training programs and who intend careers as scientists, physician-scientists or other clinician-scientists, or related careers aimed at improving global cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and brain health. Proposals are due by September 4, 2024. Visit their webpage for details: https://professional.heart.org/en/research-programs/aha-funding-opportunities/predoctoral-fellowship
Annual Stipend: $28,224 - AHA's stipend matches the published NIH stipend for predoctoral fellows at the time the AHA begins to accept proposals (July 1, 2024). Plus $4,550 per year for health insurance.
Project Support: $2,000 per year, in addition to the stipend.
Award Duration: One or two years. - 2025 AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship
- The AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship is designed to enhance the training of postdoctoral applicants who are not yet independent. The applicant must be embedded in an appropriate investigative group with the mentorship, support, and relevant scientific guidance of a research mentor. Recognizing the unique challenges that clinicians, in particular, experience in balancing research and clinical activity, this award mechanism aims to be as flexible as possible to enable applicants to develop academic careers in research alongside fulfilling clinical service commitments. Proposals are due by September 5, 2024. Visit their webpage for details: https://professional.heart.org/en/research-programs/aha-funding-opportunities/postdoctoral-fellowship
AHA does not require use of the NIH salary cap. Plus $12,200 per year for health insurance
Project Support: $3,000 per year, in addition to the stipend.
Award Duration: One or two years. - USDA Predoctoral Fellowship
- The Predoctoral Fellowships Program Area Priority help develop new scientists and professionals to enter research, education, and/or extension fields within the food and agricultural sciences within the private sector, government, or academia. The aim of these fellowships is to cultivate future leaders who can solve emerging agricultural challenges of the 21st century. NIFA is particularly interested in supporting fellows that address (1) sustainable agricultural intensification; (2) agricultural climate adaptation; (3) food and nutrition translation; (4) value-added innovation; and (5) agricultural science policy leadership.
For more information, you can visit the National Institute of Food and Agriculture website. - Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation invites graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to apply for the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences or Chemical Instrumentation. The 2025 AOB Postdoc Program opens May 29, 2024 and LOI submissions are due September 6, 2024 by 5pm.
Eligibility:- Current graduate student anticipated to complete a PhD in the chemical sciences by May 1, 2025; or
- Current postdoctoral researcher with a granted/conferred PhD in the chemical sciences with no more than 18 months cumulative postdoctoral research experience (at time of application due date).
Types of Funding:
1) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences will allow chemists to pursue advanced research within the core areas of fundamental chemistry, to include chemical physics, chemical engineering, and chemistry of materials research. This fellowship is not intended to fund proposals that are supported by traditional NIH mechanisms in the fields of medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, biochemistry.
2) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Instrumentation will allow researchers in chemistry to conceptualize, develop and build instrumentation suitable to advanced research in chemistry, chemical physics, chemical engineering, and chemistry of materials science. Instrumentation projects must be suitable to the two-year fellowship timeframe, be driven by a need in the chemical sciences listed above, be innovative in method, speed or process or represent a wholly new instrument for technological advancement in chemistry, and may potentially be used for future research in the broader scientific community.
Funding amount and timeline:
The Beckman Postdoc Program opens May 29, 2024 and LOI submissions are due September 6, 2024 by 5pm. The award amount is $224,000 over 2 years for salary, fringe benefits and research expenditures; Instrumentation fellowships will receive an additional one-time amount of up to $200,000. Fellows receiving year 3 renewal awards will receive an additional $118,000.
For additional information regarding this program, please visit: http://www.beckman-foundation.org/programs/beckman-postdoctoral-fellows
- AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship
- Opens: August 1, 2024. Dissertation Fellowship of $25,000. The purpose of the American Dissertation Fellowship is to offset a scholar’s living expenses while they complete their dissertation. Fellows must use the award for the final year of writing the dissertation. Applicants must have completed all course work, passed all preliminary examinations, and received approval for their research proposals or plans by the preceding November. Students holding fellowships for writing a dissertation in the year prior to the AAUW fellowships year are not eligible. Open to applicants in all fields of study. Scholars engaged in science, technology, engineering, and math fields or those researching gender issues are especially encouraged to apply.
https://www.aauw.org/resources/programs/fellowships-grants/current-opportunities/american/ - AAUW International Fellowships
- International Fellowships are awarded for full-time study or research in the United States to women who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Both graduate and postgraduate studies at accredited U.S. institutions are supported.
Applicants must have earned the equivalent of a U.S. bachelor’s degree by the application deadline, and they must have applied to their proposed institutions of study by the time of the application. Up to five International Master’s/First Professional Degree Fellowships are renewable for a second year. Fellows will receive application information for this competitive program. Recipients are selected for academic achievement and demonstrated commitment to women and girls. Recipients return to their home countries to become leaders in business, government, academia, community activism, the arts or scientific fields.
Master’s/first professional degree: $20,000
Doctoral: $25,000
Postdoctoral: $50,000
https://www.aauw.org/resources/programs/fellowships-grants/current-opportunities/international/