Grants for a Doctoral Degree

Sciences

• The National Science Foundation awards Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants in the biological sciences. The grants aim to allow students to attend conferences and conduct research, improving the quality of dissertations. Annual awards are $7,000 to $15,000.

  National Science Foundation
  4201 Wilson Blvd.
  Arlington, VA 22230
  800-877-8339
  nsf.gov

Humanities

• The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California at Berkeley offers a fellowship to doctoral students conducting research. The fellowship is $18,000.

  The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
  University of California
  220 Stephens Hall, Mail Code 2340
  Berkeley, CA 94720
  510-643-9670
  townsendcenter.berkeley.edu

  Additionally, the Smithsonian's Latino Studies Fellowship Program provides opportunities for predoctoral and postdoctoral Latino scholars to pursue research topics that relate to Latino art, culture and history. Fellowships are available for 3 to 12 months and awards are from $27,000 to $42,000.

  Office of Fellowships
  Smithsonian Institution
  470 L'Enfant Plaza SW Suite 7102
  Washington, DC 20024
  202-633-7070
  si.edu/ofg

Math-Based Fields

• The Ford Foundation offers $21,000 fellowships for one year of support. The funds, which are provided for other disciplines as well, are meant to aid students with completing their dissertation. They are specifically for minority students who have an interest in conducting research and teaching at a university. Additionally, students may want to look into grants through their graduate department. The University of New Mexico, for instance, has grants worth $8,000 to aid in the completion of a dissertation.

  Ford Foundation
  320 E. 43rd St.
  New York, N.Y. 10017
  212-573-5000
  fordfound.org/grants

Study Abroad

• For those students interested in studying abroad or domestic travel, the Boren Institute offers up to $30,000 for 24 months. For overseas travel, the program lasts 12 months. Applicants should also be interested in learning a language and have an interest in working with the federal government. Students will live in countries that are important to U.S. national security, and past fellows have studied in Sierre Leone, Bosnia and Egypt, to name a few.

  Boren Scholarships and Fellowships
  Institute of International Education
  1400 K St., N.W., Sixth Floor
  Washington, DC 20005-2403
  800-618-6737
  borenawards.org