AAAS Mentor Awards
Deadline for nominations: July 31
URL: http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/awards/mentor/index.shtml The two categories of the AAAS Mentor Awards (Lifetime Mentor Award and Mentor Award) both honor individuals who during their careers demonstrate extraordinary leadership to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in science and engineering fields and careers.
These groups include: women of all racial or ethnic groups; African American, Native American, and Hispanic men; and people with disabilities.
Research on Gender in Science and Education (National Science Foundation)
Deadlines: March 27, 2012
URL: http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf10516&org=NSF
The program seeks to broaden the participation of girls and women in all fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education by supporting research, dissemination of research, and extension services in education that will lead to a larger and more diverse domestic science and engineering workforce.
American Society for Microbiology
Title: Career Development Grants for Postdoctoral Women
Deadline: February 1
URL: http://www.asm.org/index.php/women-in-microbiology/121-whats-new/membership/1120-womens-career-development-grants
Career Development Grants for Postdoctoral Women are given to enhance the careers of postdoctoral women with outstanding scientific accomplishments and potential for significant research in the area of microbiology.
Jeannette Rankin Foundation Women's Education Fund
Deadline: March 1
URL: http://www.rankinfoundation.org/
The sponsor awards scholarships to low-income 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.
Scholarships / HORIZONS
Deadlines: July 1 for Fall Semester
URL: http://wid.ndia.org/horizon/
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
URL: www.faseb.org/What-We-Do/Awards/Excellence-in-Science-Award.asp
"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: May 15 (Freshman);
February 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)
Note: The Fellows Program is on hiatis until 2013
URL: http://www.awis.org/ (select 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 -- Internships and Fellowships
Deadline: Internships - January 15; Fellowships - January 31
URL: http://www.research.att.com/evergreen/working_with_us/internships.html
Each summer, research interns from universities all over the U.S. come to AT&T Labs Research to work with individual technical staff members on research projects for 10 weeks. The AT&T Labs Fellowship Program (ALFP) offers three-year fellowships to outstanding under-represented minority and women students pursuing PhD studies in computing and communications-related fields.
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, 2011
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/what-we-do/educational-funding-and-awards/
AAUW invites women to submit applications for fellowships and grants in the computer or information sciences, engineering, mathematics or statistics, natural sciences and other fields.
One of the world's largest sources of funding exclusively for graduate women, the AAUW Educational Foundation supports aspiring scholars around the globe, teachers and activists in local communities, women at critical stages of their careers, and those pursuing professions where women are underrepresented.
