Funding
The National Science Foundation offers special programs for graduate students that provide either direct or indirect funding for students in a variety of fields, including both STEM and non-STEM. The earliest deadlines are September 11, so see what they offer today!
The National Science Foundation offers special programs for graduate students that provide either direct (i.e., from NSF) or indirect (i.e., from an awardee institution) funding for students or identify programs that focus on educational developments such as curricula development, training, or retention.
For further details, click below on a subject or research focus of interest:
Archaeology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (Proposals Accepted Anytime)- Biological Anthropology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (Deadline: January 20 and July 20, Annually)
- Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) and HBCU Research Infrastructure for Science and Engineering (RISE)
- Cultural Anthropology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (Deadlines: January 16, 2018 with January 15, Annually Thereafter, and August 15, 2018 with August 15, Annually Thereafter)
- CyberCorps(R) Scholarship for Service (Application period: November 17, 2017 - December 5, 2017)
- Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (Deadlines: January 18, 2018 with January 18, Annually Thereafter and August 18, Annually Thereafter)
- Documenting Endangered Languages (Deadline: September 15, 2017 with September 15, Annually Thereafter)
- Documenting Endangered Languages - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (Full Proposal Accepted Anytime)
- Economics (Deadlines: January 18, 2018 with January 18, Annually Thereafter and August 18, Annually Thereafter)
- Geography and Spatial Sciences Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (There are no proposal-submission deadlines. Investigators should submit a proposal when they believe it is ready for submission. A doctoral student may submit a DDRI proposal to GSS only two times.)
- Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Deadlines: October 23 - 27, 2017, depending on subject area. See link for details)
- Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program (Deadline: October 25, 2017)
- Law & Social Sciences (Deadlines: January 16, 2018 with January 15, Annually Thereafter and August 1, 2018 with August 1, Annually Thereafter)
- Linguistics Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (Deadlines: January 16, 2018 with January 15, Annually Thereafter and July 16, 2018 with July 15, Annually Thereafter)
- Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (Deadline: October 18, 2017 with Third Wednesday in October, Annually Thereafter)
- National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program
- NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships (Deadline: October 11, 2017 with Second Wednesday in October, Annually Thereafter)
- Political Science Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (Deadline: June 15, 2018 with June 15, Annually Thereafter)
- Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Statistics and Surveys - R&D, U.S. S&T Competitiveness, STEM Education, S&T Workforce (Deadline: January 16, 2018 with January 15, Annually Thereafter)
- Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program (Deadline: August 29, 2017 with Last Tuesday in August, Annually Thereafter)
- Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (Deadlines: September 11, 2017 with September 9, Annually Thereafter and February 9, 2018 with February 9, Annually Thereafter)
- Science, Technology, and Society (Deadline: February 2, 2018 with February 2, Annually Thereafter and August 3, 2018 with August 3, Annually Thereafter. Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant proposals will have only one deadline per year, August 3rd.)
- Sociology Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (Deadlines: October 16, 2017 with October 15, Annually Thereafter and February 28, 2018 with February 28, Annually Thereafter)