Funding

The Queen-Nellie Evans Scholarship will provide $4,000 to outstanding minority graduate students in the field of psychology who have a demonstrated commitment to improving the conditions of marginalized communities. Deadline to apply is November 15, 2020.

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is accepting applications for their 9-month residential fellowships offered for the 2021-2022 year. Applicants from any country are welcome to apply. Deadline is October 1, 2020.

The Life Sciences Research Foundation recently announced a fellowship competition for three-year postdoctoral researchers in basic life sciences. All postdoctoral researchers engaged in high-quality, creative science in all areas of basic life sciences are encouraged to apply. Read on for more info and apply by October 1, 2020!

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation is inviting applications for Fall 2020 Graduate Fellowships in applied physical, biological, mathematics, or engineering sciences for first-year graduate students. The fellowship includes a cost-of-education allowance and a personal-support stipend. Apply by Oct. 23, 2020!

UC Center Sacramento is happy to announce the 2020-2021 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Solutions in Public Policy Award Competition. This award will recognize one or more outstanding proposals for new California legislation from UC STEM graduate students. Apply by Oct. 23, 2020!

The Mellinchamp 21st Century Global Dynamics faculty cluster is hiring advanced UCSB PhD students for a research fellowships related to media & culture for this Fall. The deadline has been extended to 5:00PM on September 10, 2020!

The Mellinchamp 21st Century Global Dynamics faculty cluster is hiring advanced UCSB PhD students for research fellowships related to the specific themes for this Fall: 1) Gender and Islam and 2) Globalization studies and Sociology. Apply by 5:00PM on August 31, 2020!

Are you an innovative scholar who aspires to conduct research in Israel and join the Fulbright family? The United States-Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF) plans to award eight grants to U.S. postdoctoral scholars who seek to pursue research at Israeli institutions of higher education. Grants are open to all academic disciplines and support programs of work in Israel for up to two academic years. Apply by September 15, 2020.

The new Leading Edge Fellowship program for recent PhDs aims to demonstrate the potential of people with advanced degrees in the humanities and humanistic social sciences to solve problems outside the academy. Fellows will receive $60,000 to help communities respond to issues caused by the COVID-19 crisis and advance public understanding of the pandemic. Apply by July 31, 2020!

There is less than a month left to file your federal and state taxes by the extended July 15th, 2020 deadline. Need a little help or don’t know where to get started? Check out these free online resources!

Get a quick glance at upcoming deadlines for summer and a head start for the fall. Various opportunities listed to include a sampling of postdoctoral announcements, dissertation fellowships, research funding, and awards competitions.

The Graduate Division would like to congratulate our Funding Peer Advisor, Kaitlyn Ugoretz, for receiving two prestigious fellowships: the Japan Foundation's Doctoral Research Fellowship and the Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC-IDRF). Kaitlyn will be donating her fellowship application materials to the GSRC's fellowship library. Read on to learn more!

In 1988, the late Mr. Karam Singh Maughan established an endowment to support graduate fellowships to be awarded to graduates or universities in a specific area of India and Pakistan for the purpose of pursuing graduate study at the University of California. Check your eligibility and submit your materials for consideration by May 15, 2020!

The Schmidt Family Foundation, in partnership with the UCSB Graduate Division, is once again generously funding three types of awards and fellowships for research in the broad fields of ocean sciences, ecology, and environmental sciences to UCSB students. Awards are available to undergrads, grad students, and postgraduate scholars. Apply by May 15, 2020!

COVID-19 is having devastating consequences for graduate students’ financial, as well as mental and physical, wellbeing. We’ve all lost jobs, funding, rent, investments, and other kinds of financial security due to the necessities of quarantine, shelter-in-place, and social distancing. Here is a list of emergency funding resources available to graduate students at UCSB.