Funding opportunities for students

Please email ionefine@uw.edu with any opportunities we have overlooked or letting us me know if information is out of date.

January

February

Fight for Sight Summer student fellowships
Undergrad, grad and medical student summer support, includes non-US
$2.5k summer support
https://www.fightforsight.org/Grants/Research-Award-Types/

l’Oreal Postdoctoral Award
Women, US only
Full fellowships (60k)
https://lorealfwis.aaas.org/login/indexA.cfm

March

April

Auditory Neuroscience Training Grant
Graduate & postdoc, US only
Full fellowships for 1-2 years
For graduate students and postdoctoral students. Applications probably due around April. Ask David Perkel or Ione Fine for details
Information is under this link: http://depts.washington.edu/audneuro/index.html

ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational & Data Science Fellowships (graduate students, Women only)
15k designed to augment current support
The goal of this graduate fellowship is to increase the diversity of students pursuing graduate degrees in data science and computational science, including women as well as students from racial/ethnic backgrounds that have not traditionally participated in the computing field. The program will support students pursuing degrees at institutions anywhere in the world.
http://www.sighpc.org/fellowships.

May

WRF Innovation Undergraduate and Post-baccalaureate Fellowships in Neuroengineering (includes non-US)
These fellowships provide up to $6000 to support undergraduate and post-baccalaureate researchers committed to working in UWIN faculty labs. More information about these fellowships can be found in the links below:
– Undergraduate Fellows: http://uwin.washington.edu/students/undergraduate-students/apply/
– Post-baccalaureate Fellows: http://uwin.washington.edu/students/post-bacs/apply/

June

July

August

September

November

Fight for Sight postdoctoral award (includes non-US)
Provides partial stipend support (20k)
https://www.fightforsight.org/Grants/Research-Award-Types/

December

Ford Foundation (minority, US only)
full stipend support for 2 years
http://sites.nationalacademies.org/pga/fordfellowships/index.htm

Other opportunities to check out

Vision Training Grant
For graduate students and postdoctoral students. Applications probably due around June 30th. Ask Tracy Cranick cranick@uw.edu or Ione Fine for details
Information is under this link: https://depts.washington.edu/biostr/content/training-grant-information

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Information and due dates can be found at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201

National Research Science Award (NRSA)
Due April, Aug, Dec
The purpose of the Kirschstein-NRSA predoctoral fellowship (F31) and postdoctoral (F32) award is to enable promising predoctoral students to obtain individualized, mentored research training from outstanding faculty sponsors while conducting dissertation research in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers. The proposed mentored research training must reflect the applicant’s dissertation research project and is expected to clearly enhance the individual’s potential to develop into a productive, independent research scientist.