Jeannette Rankin Foundation Women's Education Fund
Deadline: March 1, 2009
URL: http://www.rankinfoundation.org/
The sponsor awards scholarships to women thirty-five years of age and older who, through undergraduate or vocational education, are seeking to better themselves, their families, and their communities. Awards are not given to pursue or complete graduate study or a second undergraduate degree. Critical financial need is a major selection factor.

Business and Professional Women - Career Advancement Scholarship Program
Deadline: April 15, 2009
URL: http://www.bpwusa.org/
The Business and Professional Women's Foundation provides scholarship support to assist women who are twenty-five years of age or older with critical financial need to seek the education necessary to enter, re-enter, or advance within the work force.

HORIZONS Scholarship
Deadlines: July 1 for Fall Semester; November 1 for Spring Semester
URL: http://wid.ndia.org/horizon/scholar.htm
The sponsor provides support to encourage women to pursue careers related to the national security interests of the United States and to provide development opportunities to women already working in national security fields. The scholarship program is intended to provide financial assistance to further educational objectives of women either employed or planning careers in defense or national security areas.

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
Deadline: March 1, 2010
URL: http://www.faseb.org/excellenceinscience/
"Recognizing the Research Accomplishments of Women Scientists" - Sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company to recognize outstanding achievement by women in biological science. All women who are members of one or more of the societies of FASEB will be eligible for nomination.

Society of Women Engineers (SWE) scholarships
Deadlines: February 1 (Freshman and Reentry applicants); May 15 (Sophomore through Graduate)
URL: http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/; select "Scholarships"
As part of its national educational activities, SWE administers over 70 individual scholarship awards annually, varying in amount from $1000 to over $10,000 per year and totaling more than $250,000.

Association for Women in Science Educational Foundation (AWIS)
Deadline: January 23, 2010
URL: http://www.awis.org/ (click on Awards and Funding)
AWIS Educational Foundation provides support for female students enrolled in a behavioral, life, physical, or social science or engineering program leading to a PhD degree. Five to ten awards are available.

AT&T Labs Fellowship Program
Deadline: January 31
URL: http://www.research.att.com/index.cfm?portal=20
Grants offer support to students in computer and communications-related fields. Each recipient of a grant is placed in a summer research internship the first summer. During these summers, the students work as a part of research teams on various ongoing projects within AT&T Labs, specifically with a mentor who is a staff member at AT&T Labs. The program emphasizes personal interaction with each mentor.

Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science, Inc.
Deadline: January 15
URL: http://www.gwis.org/
Fellowships are for research in all the natural sciences, including physical, environmental, mathematical, computer, life sciences, anthropology, psychology, and statistics.

American Association for the Advancement of Science
L'oreal-USA Fellowships for Women in Science
Deadline: December 15, 2009
URL: http://www.aaas.org/programs/education/loreal.shtml
The sponsor provides award funding to annually recognize, reward and support five women postdoctoral researchers in the U.S. who are pursuing careers in the life and physical/material sciences, as well as mathematics, engineering and computer science.

American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation Fellowships and Grants
URL: http://www.aauw.org/3000/fdnfelgra.html
As one of the largest sources of funding in the world exclusively for graduate women, the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation in 2002-03 distributed more than $4 million in fellowships, grants, and awards.

Sloan Research Fellowships
Deadline: September 15
URL: http://www.sloan.org/programs/scitech_fellowships.shtml
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is awarding Sloan Research Fellowships to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science. Currently, 100 grants of up to $45,000 are awarded annually in chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, physics and evolutionary molecular biology.

Women’s International Science Collaboration (WISC) Program
Deadline: August 1, 2009
URL: http://www.aaas.org/international/wisc/
WISC increases the participation of women in international scientific research by awarding on a competitive basis small travel grants to U.S. scientists to plan and design new collaborations with colleagues in Central/Eastern and Western Europe, the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union, Near East, Middle East, Africa, the Americas, Pacific, Asia, and Western Europe. These activities are expected to lead to full research proposals that are submitted to the National Science Foundation or other funders.

American Physical Society (APS)
Deadline: July 1, 2009
URL: http://www.aps.org/praw/mgm/index.html
The Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award recognizes and enhances outstanding achievement by a woman physicist in the early years of her career, and provides opportunities for her to present these achievements to others through public lectures.

Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
Deadline: dates vary (April to November)
URL: http://www.awm-math.org/programs.html
The Association for Women in Mathematics sponsors a variety of programs and awards to encourage girls and women in the mathematical sciences.

Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs
Deadline: August 15, 2009 and January 19, 2009
URL: http://www.awm-math.org/workshops.html
AWM provides funding for travel and subsistence to women graduate students and women mathematicians who have received the Ph.D. within the last five years, to attend a workshop held in conjunction with the annual Joint Mathematics Meetings in Atlanta, Georgia. Participants have the opportunity to present and discuss their research and to meet with other women at all stages of their careers.

American Chemical Society (ACS)
Deadline: November 1 (annual review)
URL: http://www.chemistry.org/portal/Chemistry?PID=acsdisplay.html&DOC=awards\women.html
This award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences (sponsored by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.) recognizes individuals who have significantly stimulated or fostered the interest of women in chemistry, thereby promoting their professional development as chemists or chemical engineers, and/or increasing their appreciation of chemistry as the central science.

Microsoft National Women's Technical Scholarships
Deadline: February 1, 2010
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/college/ss_overview.mspx
Microsoft's program is designed to encourage women to pursue studies in computer science and related technical disciplines.

Women's Research and Education Institute
Deadline: May 22, 2009
URL: http://www.wrei.org/Fellows.htm
The WREI Fellowships are designed to train future public policy leaders to examine issues from the perspective, experiences, and needs of women. A WREI Fellow works a minimum of 40 hours a week in a Congressional office as a legislative aide on policy issues affecting women. Fellows meet weekly for issue seminars directed by the WREI staff.

Brookhaven National Laboratory - Science and Engineering Programs for Women and Minorities
Deadline: April 30, 2009
URL: http://www.bnl.gov/diversity/programs.asp
Undergraduate women and minority students are employed for ten to twelve weeks during the summer. This on-the-job training program is a paid position.