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| National Institutes of Health | ||
| Program | Deadline | Program Synopsis |
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| Research Supplements to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research | No deadline | Provides funds as supplements to existing NIH grants for supporting and recruiting students, postdoctorates, and eligible investigators from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented. |
| Career Development Award to Promote Diversity in Neuroscience Research | February 1, June 1, October 1 | Supports an intensive, supervised research career development experience for underrepresented career neuroscientists. |
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NCI Mentored Career Development Award for Underrepresented Minorities (K01) and NCI Transition Career Development Award to Promote Diversity (K22) |
February 1, June 1, October 1 | These are novel programs for underrepresented minority investigators who have committed to biomedical, behavioral, clinical, or social sciences in cancer research. The Mentored Career Development Award is for established investigators; the Transition Award is for postdoctoral and newly independent investigators. |
| NHLBI Mentored Career Development Award to Promote Faculty Diversity in Biomedical Research | July 19 | This award includes research training and mentored career development for underrepresented faculty members to enhance their research skills in cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematologic, and sleep disorders research. |
| Minority Biomedical Research Support: Support of Continuous Research Excellence (SCORE) | February 1, June 1, October 1 | The program assists faculty-initiated research programs (including pilot projects) in all areas of biomedical and behavioral research at minority-serving institutions. An institution may hold only one active SCORE award, which includes up to 28 individual research projects. |
| Minority Opportunities for Research: Faculty Development Award | February 1, June 1, October 1 | Supports faculty in biomedically related science or mathematics programs at minority-serving institutions to spend several summers doing research at another laboratory. Funds include normal salary plus expenses. |
| Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program | February 1 | Funds for institutional development and for research by minority healthcare researchers. Support of $100,000 per year is provided for infrastructure development and for research that can lead to regular health services research grants. |
| National Science Foundation | ||
| Program | Deadline | Program Synopsis |
| ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers | Mid-July and late January | Seeks creative strategies from men and women to increase representation and advancement of women in academic science and engineering careers. Provides Institutional Transformation Awards (up to $750,000 per year), Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation, and Dissemination Awards (up to $500,000 total) and Leadership Awards (up to $300,000 total). |
| Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program | First Monday in December | This program, offered to minority postdoctoral researchers in biology and the humanities, provides up to $50,000 per year for travel, meetings with mentors, and an independent research program. |
| Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research Resources Program | Fourth Monday in August | The program supports acquisition of advanced resources not supported by other programs. Women, minorities, persons with disabilities, and minority institutions are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. |
| Alliances for Broadening Participation in STEM | May, June, October | This program seeks to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups successfully completing quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). |
| Opportunities for Enhancing Diversity in the Geosciences | September 14 for letter of intent | This program supports both one-time and continuous activities to increase the number of members of underrepresented groups that pursue degrees and enter careers in geosciences fields. Projects that also increase the perceived relevance of the geosciences among diverse populations are encouraged. |
| Nonprofit Agencies | ||
| Program | Deadline | Program Synopsis |
| American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships | November 15 | These awards provide one-year support up to $30,000 for women postdoctoral researchers in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. One is designated for a woman from an underrepresented group. |
| AAUW Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars | Mid-February | Honors an untenured woman scholar who has a record of exceptional early professional accomplishments and demonstrates promise of future distinction. The $5,000 award is open to women in all disciplines. |
| American Astronomical Society Annie Jump Cannon Award | Early February | This award honors an untenured woman postdoctoral scholar no more than five years beyond receipt of the doctorate for significant research in astronomy. The award includes funding of $5,000. |
| American Physical Society Edward A. Bouchet Award | July 1 | An award for a minority physicist with significant research contributions, consisting of a $3,500 stipend and support to give lectures at three institutions where they will have a strong impact on minority students. |
| Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Excellence in Science Lecture and Award | April 1 | This award recognizes outstanding achievement by women in biological science. The award includes a $10,000 unrestricted research grant. |
| Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships | December 15 | Fellowships provide a one-year stipend of $40,000 for postdoctoral study in various disciplines and interdisciplinary fields, but not in practice-oriented programs (i.e. medicine or law). |
| American Chemical Society Francis P. Garvan/John M. Olin Medal | February 1 | This medal recognizes distinguished service to chemistry by women chemists. The award consists of $5,000. |
| Marine Biological Laboratory Fellowships and Awards | January 15 | The MBL offers the Ann Kammer Fellowhip to women investigators, especially those in neurosciences. The William Townsend Porter Fellowships support young scientists from underrepresented minority groups. Awards provide funds for research and housing at MBL for one summer. |
| American Physical Society Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award | July 1 | Awarded to a woman physicist early in her career, this award consists of $2,500, plus a $4,000 travel allowance to present her achievements through lectures. |
| American Psychiatric Association Program for Minority Research Training In Psychiatry | December 1, April 1 | Offers post-residency minority researchers the opportunity to engage in exciting, pioneering scientific investigation across the full array of disciplines, from basic neuroscience, genetics, and pharmacology to the cognitive behavioral, and social sciences, clinical psychiatry, and mental health services research. |
| Newberry Library Monticello College Foundation Fellowship For Women | January 10 | This award of $15,000 is for a postdoctoral woman with a research project related to the Library's collections, which mostly cover western Europe and the Americas. Preference is given to proposals studying women. |
| Phi Beta Kappa Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship | January 15 | Annual fellowship consisting of $20,000 awarded to unmarried female postdoctoral researchers, ages 25-35. It supports studies of the language, literature, history, or archaeology of Greece in odd-numbered years and the language and literature of France in even years. |
| American Association for Cancer Research Minority Scholar Awards | Late November | Financial support up to $1,800 provided to minority postdoctoral fellows or junior faculty members wishing to attend AACR Annual Meetings. |
| Association of Women in Mathematics Collaborative Research Grants | February 1 | $2,500 grants to enable women who are already tenured to carry out collaborative research at other institutions. These support travel, accommodations, and other required expenses. |