For Women

AAUW American Fellowships: Support women doctoral candidates completing dissertations and scholars seeking funds for postdoctoral research leave or for preparing completed research for publication. Applicants must be U.S citizens or permanent residents. One-year postdoctoral research leave fellowships, dissertation fellowships, and summer/short-term research publication grants are offered.

AAUW Community Action Grants: Provide seed money to individual women, AAUW branches, AAUW state organizations, and community-based nonprofit organizations for innovative programs or nondegree research projects that promote education and equity for women and girls. Applicants must be women who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Grant projects must have direct public impact, be nonpartisan, and take place within the United States or its territories.

AAUW Educational Foundation Academic Grants: Provide support for course work beyond a bachelor's degree, including a master's degree, second bachelor's degree, or specialized training in technical or professional fields. Course work must be taken at an accredited two- or four-year college or university, or at a technical school that is fully licensed or accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Funds are not available for doctoral-level work or for distance learning.

AAUW Eleanor Roosevelt Teacher Fellowships: Designed to provide professional development opportunities for women public school teachers; improve girls' learning opportunities, especially in math, science, and technology; and promote equity and long-term change in classrooms, schools, and school systems. A range of program options allows flexible funding opportunities.

AAUW Selected Professions Fellowships: Awarded to women who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and who intend to pursue a full-time course of study during the fellowship year in designated degree programs where women's participation traditionally has been low. Candidates in all programs except the master's in engineering and medicine are eligible to apply for support for the final year of study only and are expected to receive their degrees at the end of the fellowship year. Women pursuing master's in engineering programs are eligible to apply for either the first or final year of study. Women in medical programs may apply for either their third or final year of study. Doctoral candidates in engineering must be entering the final stages of writing their dissertations. Special consideration is given to applicants who show professional promise in innovative or neglected areas of research or practice in areas of public interest.

Association for Women in Science (AWIS): Female students enrolled in a behavioral, life, physical, or social science or engineering program leading to a Ph.D. degree may apply.

AT&T-Bell Laboratories Graduate Research for Women: Awarded to women pursuing graduate study in chemistry, computer science/data processing, electrical engineering, mathematics, or physics.

National League of American Pen Women: Applicant must be a female U.S. citizen age 35 or over and must submit background. Award is given on a rotating basis for novel, short story, essay, drama, and poetry. View website for more info about the organization, contact person below for more information.
Contact: Mary Jane Hillery
Title: NLAPW Chairperson
Address: 66 Willow Rd
Sudbury, MA 01776-2663
Phone: 978-443-2165
Fax: 202-452-6868
http://www.americanpenwomen.org/

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (Including Women in Engineering and Computer and Information Science Awards): Offers recognition and three years of support for advanced study to approximately 900 outstanding graduate students in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, and behavioral and social sciences, including the history of science and the philosophy of science, and to research-based PhD degrees in science education.

National Women's Studies Association Graduate Scholarship: NWSA will award $1,000 to a student who, in the fall of 2003, will be engaged in the research or writing stages of a Master's Thesis or Ph.D. Dissertation in the interdisciplinary field of women's studies. The research project must be on women and must enhance the NWSA mission. Applicants must be members of NWSA at the time of application.

National Women's Studies Association Graduate Scholarship in Lesbian Studies: The NWSA Scholarship in Lesbian Studies will be awarded to a student who, in the fall of 2003, will be doing research or writing a Master's thesis or Ph.D. dissertation in Lesbian studies. Preference will be given to NWSA members.

Society of Women Engineers Scholarship Program: Offers a variety of scholarships for women pursuing degrees in engineering.

Strang, Ruth Research Award: For females pursuing a graduate degree in education.

Wilson, Woodrow Dissertation Grants in Women's Studies: Encourage original and significant research about women that crosses disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries. Special grants also available for dissertations concerning women's or children's health. Students in doctoral programs who have completed all pre-dissertation requirements in any field of study at graduate schools in the United States.

Women Scholarships: General archive of grants, fellowships, and other financial assistance for women.

Zeta Phi Beta General Graduate Scholarships: Available to graduate women working on a professional degree, masters, doctoral or enrolled in post-doctoral study. Awarded for full-time study for one-academic year (Fall-Spring).