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• UAW Cal Rapson Endowed Scholarship and Fellowship 
• Truman Library Research Grant
• NIJ Research and Evaluation on Children Exposed to Violence (CFDA No. 16.560)
• GJEC Fellowships for Dissertation Research
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• UCEA Jackson Scholars Program
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Program ** UPDATED **
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• NCPEA Edgar L. Morphet Dissertation of the Year
• Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grants
• Byron Hanke Fellowship
• Social Issues Dissertation Award
• Donald H. Wulff Diversity Travel Fellowship Program ** anticipated **
• CCS Research Grant for Foreign Scholars in Chinese Studies
• Thomas J. Alexander Fellowship

• NASPA AERKC Assessment and Research Grant ** anticipated **
• FSSS Student Research Grants
• ILA Kenneth E. Clark Student Research Award
• TECRO Taiwan Fellowship

• RCAH Fellowship Program in Undergraduate Teaching and Learning
• RCAH Language Fellowship Program in Undergraduate Teaching and Learning

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• Online option - Human Research Protection Program (HRPP): http://education.msu.edu/irtl/training/rcr.asp#resources
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APRIL 2015

• Sponsor: United Auto Workers (UAW)
• Type of Award: Scholarship
• Most recent deadline: April 1, 2015
• Award description: Scholarship competition for those with current UAW affiliation.
• Citizenship: Not specified.
• Dissertation Proposal: Not stated/unclear
• Eligibility: Open to all MSU students whose parent(s) have been UAW members in good standing for two years or for students who themselves have been UAW members in good standing for two years.
• Award: Up to $2,500
• Website: http://www.finaid.msu.edu/forms/schships/choice.asp?choice=320
• Last updated: 3/18/15

• Sponsor: Harry S. Truman Library Institute
• Pre-Dissertation: Research Grants
• Dissertation: Data Collection
• Post-Dissertation: Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Most recent deadline: April 1 and October 1, annually
• Program requirements: Grants are intended to enable graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and other researchers to come to the Harry S. Truman Library for one to three weeks to use its collections.
• Citizenship: Not specified.
• Eligibility: Preference will be given to projects that have application of enduring public policy and foreign policy issues and that have a high probability of being published or publicly disseminated in some other way.
• Award: Up to $2,500.
• Website: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/grants/#ress

• Sponsor: National Institute of Justice (NIJ); United States Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Dissertation: Data Collection
• Most recent deadline: April 8, 2015
• Program requirements: NIJ seeks proposals for multidisciplinary research and evaluation related to childhood exposure to violence. In particular, NIJ seeks proposals to address polyvictimization, Internet harassment/electronic aggression (e.g, bullying through Facebook, harassing e-mails), resilience, or justice system responses to children identified as being exposed to violence. For the purposes of this solicitation, “Children Exposed to Violence (CEV)” encompasses a broad area that includes children as both direct victims and as bystanders or observers of various forms of violence in the home, school, or community (including, but not limited to, peer victimization/bullying/harassment, child maltreatment, domestic violence, and community violence). This solicitation may be used to address other types of violence to which children are exposed, with the exception of media violence (e.g., television and movie violence, music advocating aggression, and violent video games).
• Citizenship: Not specified.
• Eligibility: Funding priority will be given to experimental research designs that use random selection and assignment of participants to experimental and control conditions.
• Award: Pool of $1,000,000 may be available for multiple awards. This will not fund proposals primarily to purchase equipment, materials, or supplies. The budget may include these items if they are necessary to conduct applied research, development, demonstration, evaluation, or analysis.
• Website: http://www.nij.gov/funding/current.htm

• Sponsor: Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change (GJEC) Program at the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) at Michigan State University
• Type of Award: International; Dissertation Data Collection
• Most recent deadline: April 15, 2015
• Award description: Applicants must have dissertation projects that focus specifically on the gender dimensions of environmental and/or agricultural change.
• Citizenship: Not specified.
• Dissertation Proposal: Complete at application
• Eligibility: Ph.D. students at MSU who have completed all requirements for their degree with the exception of their dissertation research.
• Award: up to 4 fellowships, up to $10,000 each
• Website: http://gencen.isp.msu.edu/funding/gjec.htm
• Last updated: 3/18/15

• Sponsor: Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change (GJEC) Program at the Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) at Michigan State University
• Type of Award: International; Dissertation Write-Up
• Most recent deadline: April 15, 2015
• Award description: Applicants must have dissertation projects that focus specifically on the gender dimensions of environmental and/or agricultural change.
• Citizenship: Not specified.
• Dissertation Proposal: Complete at application
• Eligibility: Ph.D. students at MSU who have completed all requirements for their degree program including dissertation research and will graduate in spring semester one year after application deadline.
• Award: up to 4 fellowships, up to $10,000 each
• Website: http://gencen.isp.msu.edu/funding/gjec.htm
• Last updated: 3/18/15

• Sponsor: University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA)
• Type of Award: Fellowship Training
• Most recent deadline: April 25, 2015
• Award description: This two-year program provides formal networking, mentoring and professional development for graduate students of color who intend to become professors of educational leadership
• Citizenship: Not specified.
• Dissertation Proposal: Not stated/unclear
• Eligibility: Nominations by faculty members of UCEA member institutions. No self nominations.
• Award: Scholars are matched with experienced faculty mentors who provide guidance in professional development, a model for students to reference when assuming mentor roles, and opportunities for networking. In the networking program feature, nominating UCEA institutions provide registration, travel, lodging, and meal funding for scholars to attend two UCEA annual conventions and two AERA annual meetings where the scholars may engage in networking with guidance from their mentor.
• Website: http://www.ucea.org/graduate-student-opportunities/jackson-scholars-program/
• Last updated: 3/18/15

• Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education
• Dissertation: Data Collection
• Most recent deadline: MSU internal: April 17, 2015; External: April 28, 2015. 
• Program requirements: Conduct research in other countries in foreign languages and area studies, outside of Western Europe. Should deepen research knowledge and help the nation develop capability in areas of the world not generally included in U.S. curricula.
• Citizenship: Citizen or national of the U.S. or is a permanent resident of the U.S.
• Eligibility: Ph.D. candidates only. Contact the MSU Fulbright Advisor to be added to a mailing list for updates – Roger Bresnahan, bresnaha@msu.edu
• Award: ~150 awards, 6-12 months, $15,000-$60,000
• Websites: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/applicant.html ;  http://www.isp.msu.edu/funding/fulbright.htm

• Sponsor: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation (BCBSM)
• Pre-Dissertation: Research Grants
• Dissertation: Data Collection
• Most recent deadline: April 30, annually
• Program requirements: To support the next generation of applied researchers in health, health services, and policy. The BCBSM Foundation’s mission is to improve the health of Michigan residents through the support of research projects that affect quality and costs of care, access to care, or community health. Excludes basic research, drug studies, and research involving non-human subjects.
• Citizenship: Any.
• Eligibility: Doctoral and medical students at Michigan universities who research health care topics.
• Award: $3,000 stipend, to fund health care projects, including applied research, pilot programs, or demonstration and evaluation projects.
• Website: http://www.bcbsm.com/content/microsites/foundation/en/grants.html

MAY 2015

• Sponsor: National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA)
• Post-Dissertation: Dissertation Awards
• Most recent deadline: May 1, 2015
• Program requirements: The award is given to recognize scholarship in the dissertation stage of advanced academic work in the field of educational administration. The award is made for efforts at improving the knowledge base of our profession.
• Citizenship: Not specified.
• Eligibility: Nominees should have been awarded the doctorate within two years of the nomination deadline (January 1, 2013 – January 1, 2015)
• Award: Plaque, certificate, and monetary award. Conference fee waiver.
• Website: http://ncpeaprofessor.org/ncpea-membership/opportunities/morphet-award-2013/

• Sponsor: The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.
• Dissertation: Data Collection
• Most recent deadline: May 1, 2015; November 1, 2015
• Program requirements: Grants are awarded to aid doctoral or thesis research. The program contributes to the Foundation’s overall mission to support basic research in anthropology and to ensure that the discipline continues to be a source of vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of humanity’s cultural and biological origins, development, and variation.
• Citizenship: Any.
• Eligibility: Applicants must be currently enrolled for a doctoral degree and have all doctoral degree requirements complete, other than the dissertation/thesis, by the start date.
• Award: Up to $20,000
• Website: http://www.wennergren.org/programs/dissertation-fieldwork-grants

• Sponsor: Foundation for Community Association Research
• Pre-Dissertation: Fellowships & Training
• Dissertation: Data Collection, Write-Up
• Most recent deadline: May 1, annually
• Program requirements: The Byron Hanke Fellowship is available to graduate students working on topics related to community associations. Community associations govern common-interest communities of any kind—condominiums, cooperatives, townhouse developments, planned unit developments, and other developments where homeowners support an association with mandatory financial assessments, and are subject to use and aesthetic restrictions.
• Citizenship: Not specified.
• Eligibility: Hanke Fellowship applicants must be enrolled in an accredited master's, doctoral, or law program in the United States of America or Canada. Students of all disciplines are welcome to apply for the Hanke Fellowship, provided their studies relate to community associations generally and to the topic of the candidate's proposed community associations research project.
• Award: $3,000 to $5,000
• Website: http://www.cairf.org/scholarships/hanke.aspx

• Sponsor: The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
• Post-Dissertation: Dissertation Awards
• Most recent deadline: May 20, annually
• Program requirements: Established to encourage excellence in socially relevant research.
• Citizenship: Not specified.
• Eligibility: Any doctoral dissertation in psychology (or in a social science with psychological subject matter) accepted between March 1st of the previous year and up to the deadline of the current year is eligible. Applicants must have successfully defended their dissertation prior to the current year's award deadline. 
• Award: A first prize of $1000 and a second prize of $500 will be awarded to the dissertations that best demonstrate scientific excellence and potential application to social problems.
• Website: http://www.spssi.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=724

• Sponsor: Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD)
• Pre-Dissertation: Fellowships & Training
• Most recent deadline: May 23, 2014
• Program requirements: To increase participation by people of color from underrepresented groups and individuals from underrepresented institutions in the field of instructional development (which includes faculty development, TA development, instructional development, organizational development, etc.). Grant funds support travel to the annual POD conference held in November.
• Citizenship: Not specified.
• Eligibility: Applicants are eligible to receive up to two grants.
• Award: up to $1,200 to individuals, up to $2,400 for teams of two or more.
• Website: http://podnetwork.org/about-us/grants-and-awards/

• Sponsor: Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
• Pre-Dissertation: Research Grants; International Research
• Dissertation: Data Collection
• Post-Dissertation: Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Most recent deadline: May 31, annually
• Program requirements: The content of the research, to be undertaken in Taiwan, should be within the field of Chinese studies. Assistance in liaising with institutions and use of facilities will also be provided to recipients. Grants of between three months and one year in duration will be awarded to successful applicants, with a research paper to be submitted to the CCS upon completion of the research period.
• Citizenship: Any.
• Eligibility: This grant is designed for foreign professors, associate professors, assistant professors and doctoral candidates in departments related to Chinese studies at universities around the world, as well as researchers at related foreign academic institutes.
• Award: Travel subsidies in the form of a round-trip flight are included in the grant, along with a monthly stipend to cover research expenses.
• Website: http://ccs.ncl.edu.tw/ccs2/ENGLISH/regulation.aspx

• Sponsor: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
• Post-Dissertation: Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Most recent deadline: December 19, 2014; May 24, 2015. A call for proposals will be issued twice a year.
• Program requirements: The programme seeks to develop and support improvements in education quality and equity, particularly in emerging economies, in three ways, namely by: supporting quantitative research to provide evidence-based analysis relating to education policy and practice; strengthening the use of such analysis in policy making; and helping education leaders modify their practices to maximize its impact on student learning.
• Citizenship: Any.
• Eligibility: Fellows will typically come from research institutions, governmental agencies, or professional organizations. Ideally they will hold a Ph.D., have experience with quantitative research methods and using large-scale surveys, and have had articles published in scientific journals. Excellent oral and written communication skills in one of the two official languages of the OECD (English or French) and a very good working knowledge of the other language.
• Award: Fellows will have the opportunity to work at OECD headquarters in Paris with the team of analysts. They will be expected to spend at least three months and up to a maximum of 12 months in Paris. Fellows will be expected to produce a publishable research paper or report at the end of their fellowship.
• Website: http://www.oecd.org/edu/thomasjalexanderfellowship.htm

JUNE 2015

• Sponsor: NASPA Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Knowledge Community (AERKC)
• Pre-Dissertation: Research Grants
• Most recent deadline: June 1, 2014
• Program requirements: Proposals will be evaluated on: connection to the mission of the AER-KC; relevance to the field of assessment and research; research design; proposed budget.
• Citizenship: Not specified.
• Eligibility: Current NASPA membership required.
• Award: up to $1,000
• Website: http://www.naspa.org/about/awards/regions/assessment-evaluation-and-research-knowledge-community-assessment-and-resea

• Sponsor: The Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (FSSS); Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS)
• Pre-Dissertation: Research Grants
• Dissertation: Data Collection
• Most recent deadline: June 1, 2015
• Program requirements: Grants are awarded to student members who are doing human sexuality research. The purpose of the research can be a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation, but this is not a requirement.
• Citizenship:
• Eligibility: Applicants must be enrolled in a degree-granting program and a member (student) of SSSS.
• Award: Two grants per year. $1,000 per grant.
• Website1: http://fsssonline.org/grants/

• Sponsor: International Leadership Association (ILA); Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)
• Research Award
• Most recent deadline: June 12, 2015
• Program requirements: To recognize outstanding unpublished papers by undergraduate and graduate students. Submissions may be either empirically or conceptually based. Multi-disciplinary approaches to research are welcomed. The paper should focus on some aspect of leadership or leadership development.
• Citizenship: Not specified.
• Eligibility: Authors must be current students or have graduated within one year prior to submission deadline.
• Award: $1,000 cash prize; travel, lodging, and registration to the ILA annual conference; 1-year membership in the ILA; recognition in ILA publications and at events.
• Website: http://www.ila-net.org/awards/clark/

• Sponsor: Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S. (TECRO)
• Pre-Dissertation: Research Grants, International Research
• Dissertation: Data Collection
• Post-Dissertation: Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Most recent deadline: June 30, 2015
• Program requirements: Encourages experts and scholars overseas who are interested in topics related to the Republic of China (Taiwan), cross-strait relations, mainland China, the Asia Pacific, and Sinology to pursue advanced studies at Taiwan’s universities, colleges or research institutions. Fellowship is between three and 12 months.
• Citizenship: Any.
• Eligibility: Field of study should be in the social sciences and humanities. Open to faculty at all levels, post-docs, and doctoral students.
• Award: One direct round-trip economy-class ticket subsidized between home country and Taiwan, monthly stipend of NT$50,000 (~$1,666-$2,000).
• Website: http://www.moetwdc.org/English/index.html