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The information below has been copied from the websites of each organization or agency. Go to the individual websites for complete information on application procedures and deadlines. The USF Office for Research and Innovation has highlighted these awards and also has links to the appropriate web pages. If you need any help, please contact Dr. Graham A. Tobin at gtobin@acad.usf.edu.

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Alexander von Humboldt Fellowships (AAU)

Promote academic cooperation between excellent scientists and scholars from abroad and from Germany. Our research fellowships and research awards allow you to come to Germany to work on a research project you have chosen yourself together with a host and collaborative partner. If you are a scientist or scholar from Germany you can profit from our support and carry out a research project abroad as a guest of one of about 23,000 Humboldt Foundation alumni worldwide - the Humboldtians. As an intermediary organisation for German foreign cultural and educational policy we promote international cultural dialogue and academic exchange.

If you would like to become a member of the Humboldt Family, only one thing counts: your own excellent performance. There are no quotas, neither for individual countries, nor for particular academic disciplines. Our selection committees comprise academics from all fields of specialisation and they make independent decisions, based solely on the applicant’s academic record. We support people, not projects. After all, even in times of increasing teamwork, it is the individual’s ability and dedication that are decisive for academic success.

Deadlines: various – see different awards on line.

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American Academy in Rome (AAU)

The American Academy in Rome is one of the leading American overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the fine arts and the humanities. Through its annual Rome Prize fellowship program, the Academy supports up to thirty individuals working in archaeology, architecture, classical studies, design arts, historic preservation and conservation, history of art, landscape architecture, literature, modern Italian studies, musical composition, post-classical humanistic studies and visual arts. Rome Prize Fellows are chosen by juries of experts who review past work and the proposed project of each applicant. While the Academy is composed of two historic disciplines, the Arts and the Humanities, it does not have a faculty, a curriculum or a student body. The artists and scholars in residence at the Academy are there to pursue their own independent projects.

Applicants for all Rome Prize fellowships, except those applying for the NEH post-doctoral fellowship, must be United States citizens at the time of application.
U.S. citizens and those foreign nationals who have lived in the U.S. for the three years immediately preceding the application deadline may apply for the NEH post-doctoral fellowships.

Deadline:  November 15, 2008

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAU)

Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is an independent policy research center that conducts multidisciplinary studies of complex and emerging problems. The Academy’s elected members are leaders in the academic disciplines, the arts, business, and public affairs.

Hellman Fellowships

As part of the Initiative for Science, Engineering, and Technology, the American Academy is pleased to announce the establishment of the Hellman Fellowship in Science and Technology Policy for an early-career professional with training in science or engineering who is interested in transitioning to a career in public policy and administration. While in residence, the Hellman Fellow will work with senior scientists and policy experts on critical national and international policy issues related to science, engineering, and technology.

The focus of the work will be on one or more of the ongoing projects (see below) under the Academy’s Initiative for Science, Engineering, and Technology to which the Hellman Fellow will contribute substantively. The mission of the Initiative is to examine, in broad terms, how the world of science and technology is evolving, how to help the public understand these changes, and how society can better adapt. The Initiative brings together scientists and public policy experts in a neutral setting, outside of the constraints of the political process.

The overall objectives of the Hellman Fellowship Program are as follows: (1) To provide a setting and resources for an early-career professional to develop expertise on issues of science, engineering and technology policy; (2) To increase the cadre of young science-policy professionals who are engaged in substantive discussion of science and engineering research questions with a broad understanding of their social implications; and (3) To increase the scale of American Academy projects and studies on science, engineering, and technology.

Fellowship Eligibility: Applicants must have a Ph.D. in an area of science or engineering and have some experience or a demonstrated interest in an area related to science and technology policy. Masters degrees may be considered in the fields of engineering and computer science. Strong writing and organizational skills are desired. Candidates must be U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or current employees of an academic or professional organization in the United States.

Deadline: December 15, 2008

Visiting Scholars Program

The purpose of the Visiting Scholars Program is to support the work of younger public policy analysts, humanists, and social scientists who show promise of becoming leaders in their field, especially those who work on multidisciplinary topics. The Program offers opportunities for them to carry out their individual research as well as to collaborate with Academy Fellows on shared scholarly or policy-related interests. It also helps to create a national network for scholars in the early stages of their career, assisting them in their research and professional development. Finally, it has established the House of the Academy as an active research center for intensive scholarship by individuals from diverse disciplinary, institutional, and geographic backgrounds. The VSP is an important way to share the Academy’s extraordinary intellectual resources, including many of America’s most distinguished leaders in science, scholarship, public affairs, and business and the arts and to invest in the future of the next generation.

Deadlines: October 17, 2008

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American Antiquarian Society Fellowships (AAU)

The American Antiquarian Society offers three broad categories of visiting research fellowships, with tenures ranging from one to twelve months. All of the fellowships are designed to enable scholars, advanced graduate students, and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library on their projects and discussing their work with others.

Long-Term fellowships

The American Antiquarian Society offers long-term visiting academic research fellowships tenable for four to twelve months each year.  All awards are for a period of residence to use the AAS library's resources for research and writing. The following long-term awards are intended for scholars beyond the doctorate.

Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship: The purpose of the fellowship is to provide the recipient with time and resources to extend research and/or to revise the dissertation for publication. The Society welcomes applications from those who have advance book contracts, as well as those who have not yet made contact with a publisher. The twelve-month stipend for this fellowship is $35,000.

Deadline: October 15, 2008

 AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowships: At least three fellowships will be awarded for periods extending from four to twelve months. Funds come from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Deadline: January 15, 2009

 ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Fellowships: The American Council of Learned Societies will award these one-year residential fellowships for which recently tenured humanists may apply. The American Antiquarian Society is one of nine major research libraries and interdisciplinary centers participating in this program.

Deadline: Unknown

Short-Term Fellowships

The American Antiquarian Society offers short-term visiting academic research fellowships tenable for one to three months each year. The following short-term fellowships are available for scholars holding the Ph.D. and for doctoral candidates engaged in dissertation research. Candidates holding a recognized terminal degree appropriate to the area of proposed research, such as the master's degree in library science or M.F.A., are also eligible to apply. A single form is used to apply for short-term fellowships offered by the Society.

Deadlines: January 15 or 20, 2008

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American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellows (TARU)

The ACLS Fellowship Program invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects.

Deadlines: various October 2nd  –  January 16th 2008.

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American Philosophical Society (AAU)

Daland Fellowships in Clinical Investigation

For patient-oriented research in internal medicine, neurology, pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery. Candidates are expected to have held the M.D. or M.D./Ph.D. degree for less than eight years. The fellowship is intended to be the first post-clinical fellowship; but each case will be decided on its merits. Preference is given to candidates who have had not more than two years of post-doctoral training. Applicants must expect to perform their research at an institution in the United States, under the supervision of a scientific advisor.

Franklin Research Grants

This is a program of small grants to scholars intended to support the cost of research leading to publication in all areas of knowledge. The Franklin program is particularly designed to help meet the cost of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies or equivalent research materials; the costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.

Applicants are expected to have a doctorate or to have published work of doctoral character and quality. Predoctoral graduate students are not eligible, but the Society is especially interested in supporting the work of young scholars who have recently received the doctorate.

Sabbatical Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences

This program is open to mid-career faculty of universities and 4-year colleges in the United States who have been granted a sabbatical/research year but for whom financial support from the home institution is available for only part of the year. Candidates must not have had a financially supported leave at any time subsequent to September 1, 2006. The doctoral degree must have been conferred no later than 2001 and no earlier than 1988.

Applicants may be residents of the United States or American citizens resident abroad. Foreign nationals are eligible to apply for projects to be carried out in the United States. Grants are made to individuals. Institutions are not eligible to apply.

Deadlines: Various

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American School of Classical Studies in Athens Fellowships (AAU)

Getty Research Exchange Fellowships (CAORC): A stipend of up to $3,000 for no less than one month for living expenses and up to $1,000 for travel expenses. Open to scholars who are Greek citizens and who have already obtained a Ph.D. or have professional experience in the study or preservation of cultural heritage and who wish to undertake a specific research project at an American overseas research center in another country. Funded by the Getty Foundation, the fellowships require scholars to affiliate with one of the approved overseas research centers in the Mediterranean Basin and Middle East. Applications at CAORC’s web site: www.caorc.org. Applicable to Associate Members

Deadline: January 16, 2009

Kress Publications Fellowships: Postdoctoral scholars working on a Corinth or Agora publication. Grants for at least three months (up to $10,000) to a maximum of nine months (up to $30,000).

Deadline: January 15, 2009

Mellon (East And Central European) Research Fellowships: Three fellowships for scholars from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. Any field of classical studies or post-classical studies.

Deadline: January 15, 2009

NEH Fellowships: Two to four awards for postdoctoral scholars and professionals in the humanities. U.S. citizens or foreign nationals being U.S. residents for three years before application deadline. Applicants must hold their Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree. Terms: Maximum stipend of $40,000.

Deadline: December 1, 2008

Note, this School also provides many awards for graduate students.

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Beckman Young Investigators (TARU)

The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation makes grants to non-profit research institutions to promote research in chemistry and the life sciences, broadly interpreted, and particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science. The Beckman Young Investigators (BYI) Program is intended to provide research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences.

Deadline:  October 1st 2008.

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Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards

The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is an independent private foundation dedicated to advancing the biomedical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. Interfaces in Science, Science Education, Population Sciences, Biomedical, Infectious Diseases, Translational Research.

Deadlines: Various

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Cottrell Scholars (TARU)

Cottrell Scholar Awards are for beginning faculty members who are committed to excel at both research and teaching. Applicants should be tenure-track beginning faculty members whose primary appointment is in a Bachelor’s and Ph.D. degree-granting department of astronomy, biochemistry, biophysics, chemistry, or physics, but not in a school of medicine or engineering. Eligibility is limited to those in the third year after their first tenure-track appointment.

Deadline: September 2nd 2008

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Fields Medal (AAU)

The Fields Medal is awarded every four years on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement.

The Fields Medal Committee is chosen by the Executive Committee of the International Mathematical Union and is normally chaired by the IMU President. It is asked to choose at least two, with a strong preference for four, Fields Medallists, and to have regard in its choice to representing a diversity of mathematical fields. A candidate's 40th birthday must not occur before January 1st of the year of the Congress at which the Fields Medals are awarded.

Deadlines: Unknown

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Folger Library Postdoctoral Fellowships (AAU)

The Folger Shakespeare Library offers research fellowships to encourage access to its exceptional collections and to encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars of the early modern period.  Each year, scholars may compete for a limited number of long-term (six to nine months) and short-term (one to three months) fellowships.

Long-term Fellowships

Long-term fellowships are supported by funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Long-term fellows are selected by an external committee which considers the following criteria in making its selections: importance of the topic; originality and sophistication of approach; feasibility of the research objectives; and the applicant’s need for the Folger collections. The Folger looks for highly talented, productive scholars whose work will be significantly advanced by a prolonged period of access to our collection, and who, while in residence, will contribute to the intellectual vitality of this institution. The Folger is open to traditional as well as innovative scholarly methodologies and agendas.

Two Mellon Research Fellowships will be awarded and carry stipends of $50,000.  Three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships will be awarded and carry maximum stipends of $40,000. Budget permitting, the Folger may elect to raise the stipends of NEH Fellows to $50,000. NEH Fellowships are restricted to US citizens or to foreign nationals who have been living in the United States for at least three years. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are open to scholars from any country.

Deadline: 1 November 2008

Short-term Fellowships

Short-term fellowships are supported by the Library’s endowments and carry a stipend of $2,500 per month. The criteria for success in the annual short-term fellowship competition are the same as those for long-term fellowships.  Each year the Folger awards around 35 short-term fellowships.

The Folger joins the American Council of Learned Societies in support of fellowships for recently tenured faculty in the humanities. Applicants must apply directly to the ACLS (see link at right) for a Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship, which carries a stipend of $75,000.

Deadline: 1 March 2009

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Ford Foundation Fellowships (AAU)

The Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships seek to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
To facilitate this goal the Fellowship grants awards at the Predoctoral, Dissertation and, Postdoctoral levels to students who demonstrate excellence, a commitment to diversity and a desire to enter the professoriate.

The Fellowship makes the following annual awards: approximately 60 Predoctoral Awards at $20,000 per year for up to three years; approximately 35 Dissertation Awards at $21,000 for one year; and approximately 20 Postdoctoral Awards at $40,000 for one year

Eligibility Requirements

All citizens or nationals of the United States regardless of race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation; Individuals with evidence of superior academic achievement; Individuals committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level; Individuals enrolled in or planning to enroll in an eligible research-based program leading to a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree at a U.S. educational institution, and Individuals who have not earned a doctoral degree at any time, in any field. 

Deadlines:  Unknown

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Fulbright American Scholars (AAU, TARU) and Fulbright Awards (AAU)

Currently, there are active Fulbright Programs in more than 155 countries. The majority of the Fulbright Program is individual country programs, which are for the exchange between citizens of the United States and a particular partner country. There are also programs which are specific to one region of the world. Regional programs may consider candidates for grants to the U.S. from a selected group of countries in a region or allow Americans to apply to complete projects in one of a selection of countries as a regional program grantee. Worldwide programs offer a specific number of opportunities worldwide to citizens of selected or all eligible countries. The Fulbright Program is based on binational partnerships and open, merit-based competition. Fulbrighters are offered unique opportunities for enrichment and leadership development as well as access to facilities and a vast community of alumni. Approximately 7,000 Fulbright grants are awarded annually. Must be a U.S. citizen

Note: The Fulbright program at USF is run out of the International Affairs office. Before applying, it is advisable to contact Dean Maria Crummett at crummett@iac.usf.edu.

Deadline: Not provided

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Getty Scholars in Residence (TARU)

Getty Scholar and Visiting Scholar Grants provide a unique research experience. Recipients are in residence at the Getty Research Institute where they pursue their own projects free from academic obligations, make use of Getty collections, join their colleagues in a weekly meeting devoted to the 2009-10 theme of The Display of Art and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty. Grants are for established scholars, artists, or writers who have attained distinction in their fields. Applications are welcome from researchers of all nationalities who are working in the arts, humanities, or social sciences.

Deadline: November 1st 2008

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Guggenheim Fellows (AAU, TARU)

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. Fellowships are not available for students. The Foundation only supports individuals. It does not make grants to institutions or organizations. The Foundation selects its Fellows on the basis of two separate competitions, one for the United States and Canada, the other for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Deadlines:  The United States and Canadian 2009 competition is closed. Completed applications for the Latin American and Caribbean 2009 competition should be postmarked no later than December 1, 2008.

Deadline: December 1st 2008.

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Huntington Library Research Fellowships (AAU)

The Huntington is an independent research center with holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, and the history of science and medicine. Within the general fields listed above there are many areas of special strength, including: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature, British Drama, Colonial America, American Civil War, Western America, and California. The Huntington will award to scholars over one hundred fellowships for the academic year 2009-2010.  These fellowships derive from a variety of funding sources and have different terms. Recipients of all fellowships are expected to be in continuous residence at The Huntington and to participate in and make a contribution to its intellectual life.

Short-Term Awards

Huntington Fellowships

Eligibility: PhD or equivalent; or doctoral candidate at the dissertation stage
Tenure of fellowship: One to five months Amount of award: $2,500 per month.
Within this category, The Huntington awards a number of specialized fellowships, including:

  • Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowships in Renaissance England
  • Haynes Foundation Fellowships in Los Angeles History
  • Reese Fellowship in American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas
  • Trent R. Dames Civil Engineering History Fellowship
  • Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowships

Huntington-British Academy Fellowships for Study in Great Britain

Eligibility:  PhD or equivalent.
Tenure of fellowship:  One month. In cooperation with the British Academy, The Huntington offers a limited number of exchange fellowships in any of the fields in which the Huntington collections are strong.

Long-Term Awards(Applicants may apply for only one long-term fellowship.)

Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowships

Eligibility:  Non-tenured faculty.
Tenure of fellowship:  Nine to twelve months. Amount of award:  $45,000. Fellowship is designed to support non-tenured faculty members who are revising a manuscript for publication. Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington's collections and must have received the PhD between 2004 and 2006.

Mellon Fellowships

Eligibility: PhD or equivalent (Applicant must have received the PhD by June 2008).
Tenure of fellowship:  Nine to twelve months. Amount of award:  $45,000. Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington's collections.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships

Eligibility:  PhD or equivalent (Applicant must have received the PhD by June 2008.  NOTE:  This is a requirement of The Huntington, not the NEH.).  Applicant must be a United States citizen or foreign national with a minimum of three years U.S. residence.
Tenure of fellowship:  Four to twelve months. Amount of award:  Up to $50,000. Applicants must be pursuing scholarship in a field appropriate to The Huntington's collections.

Deadlines: December 15, 2008

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Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators (TARU) 

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is dedicated to discovering and disseminating new knowledge in the basic life sciences. HHMI grounds its research programs on the conviction that scientists of exceptional talent and imagination will make fundamental contributions of lasting scientific value and benefit to mankind when given the resources, time, and freedom to pursue challenging questions. The Institute prizes intellectual daring and seeks to preserve the autonomy of its scientists as they pursue their research. By appointing scientists as Hughes investigators — rather than awarding research grants — HHMI is guided by the principle of "people, not projects." Since the early 1990s, investigators have been selected through rigorous national competitions. The Institute solicits applications from researchers at medical schools and other research institutions in the United States, with the aim of identifying researchers who have the potential to make significant contributions to science.

Deadline: Not provided

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Lasker Medical Research Awards (TARU)   

The Lasker Awards are among the most respected science prizes in the world. Since 1945, the Awards Program has recognized the contributions of scientists, physicians, and public servants who have made major advances in the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of human disease. Lasker Awards often presage future recognition by the Nobel committee, so they have become popularly known as "America's Nobels." Seventy-six Lasker laureates have received the Nobel Prize, including 28 in the last two decades.

Deadline: (Nomination packets for 2009 will be available on November 3, 2008)

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MacArthur Foundation Fellows (AAU, TARU) 

The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work.

Deadline: No fixed deadlines

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Awards (TARU)  

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation currently makes grants in six core program areas: Higher Education and Scholarship; Scholarly Communications; Research in Information Technology; Museums and Art Conservation; Performing Arts; Conservation and the Environment. Within each of its core programs, the Foundation concentrates most of its grantmaking in a few areas. Institutions and programs receiving support are often leaders in fields of Foundation activity, but they may also be promising newcomers, or in a position to demonstrate new ways of overcoming obstacles to achieve program goals.

Our grant making philosophy is to build, strengthen and sustain institutions and their core capacities, rather than be a source for narrowly defined projects. As such, we develop thoughtful, long-term collaborations with grant recipients and invest sufficient funds for an extended period to accomplish the purpose at hand and achieve meaningful results. The Foundation does not make grants to individuals. Unsolicited proposals are rarely funded.

Deadline:  Contact first

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National Academy of Education (AAU)

The National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program supports early career scholars working in critical areas of education research. This nonresidential postdoctoral fellowship funds proposals that make significant scholarly contributions to the field of education. The program also develops the careers of its recipients through professional development activities involving National Academy of Education members.

The National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is open to all eligible applicants regardless of race, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Applicants must have received their PhD, EdD, or equivalent research degree between January 1, 2003, and December 31, 2008, and have a demonstrated record of research experience in education.

Deadline: November 7, 2008

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National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellows

NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, and other scholarly tools. Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of six to twelve months. Fellowships may not be used for: curricular or pedagogical methods, theories, or surveys; preparation or revision of textbooks; projects that seek to promote a particular political, philosophical, religious, or ideological point of view; projects that advocate a particular program of social action; works in the creative and performing arts, i.e., painting, writing fiction or poetry, dance performance, etc.; or doctoral dissertations or theses.

Deadline May 1 2009

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National Humanities Center Fellows (TARU) 

The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year, September 2009 through May 2010. Applicants must hold doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Young scholars as well as senior scholars are encouraged to apply, but they must have a record of publication, and recent Ph.D.s should be aware that the Center does not support the revision of a doctoral dissertation. In addition to scholars from all fields of the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects. The Center is also international and gladly accepts applications from scholars outside the United States. Most of the Center's fellowships are unrestricted. Several, however, are designated for particular areas of research. These include environmental studies and history; English literature; art history; French history, literature, or culture; Asian Studies; and theology.

Deadline:  October 15th 2008

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National Institutes of Health Outstanding Investigator (R35) (TARU) 
National Institutes of Health (NIH) MERIT (R37) (TARU) 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recognizes researchers who have demonstrated superior competence and outstanding productivity in research endeavors by the highly selective award, the MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) Award. MERIT Awards provide long-term support to investigators with impressive records of scientific achievement in research areas of special importance or promise. Less than 5 percent of NIH-funded investigators are selected to receive MERIT Awards.

Initiated in 1987, the MERIT Award program extends funding to experienced researchers who have superior grants and who have demonstrated a long-term commitment to and success in research. The principal feature of the program is the opportunity for such investigators to gain up to ten years of grant support. The MERIT Awards are intended to provide such investigators with long-term, stable support to foster their continued creativity and spare them some of the administrative burdens associated with frequent preparation and submission of research grant applications.

The MERIT Award (R37) program provides a means to recognize the most outstanding R01 applications from superior researchers. Program staff and/or members of the National Cancer Advisory Board will identify candidates for the MERIT Award during the course of review of competing research grant applications prepared and submitted in accordance with regular PHS requirements.

Cannot be a direct application

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National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology (TARU) 

The National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation represent the highest honors for achievement in science & technology bestowed by the President of the United States. Today more than 600 discoverers and innovators have been honored with a National Medal-America's Nobel.

Deadline: Not provided

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Nobel Prize (AAU)

Every year since 1901 the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and a cash award.

Deadlines: Not applicable

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NSF CAREER awards (TARU) 

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Such activities should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from junior faculty members at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.

Deadlines: July 21-23 depending on area.

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Newberry Library Long-term Fellows (AAU, TARU)

Long-term fellowships are available to post-doctoral scholars for periods of six to eleven months. Applicants for post-doctoral awards must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application. These grants support individual research and promote serious intellectual exchange through active participation in the Library's scholarly activities, including a biweekly fellows' seminar. The stipends for these fellowships range from $25,200 to $70,000. Applicants may combine these fellowship awards with sabbatical or other stipendiary support. Scholars may apply for any of the long-term fellowships using the same application.

ACM/GLCA Faculty Fellowships: These fellowships support faculty from the colleges of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. as they teach a small group of select undergraduate students in an advanced research seminar, while doing their own research. Fellows can come from any of the colleges in ACM or GLCA, from any discipline. More information is available. Potential applicants should contact John Ottenhoff at ACM (312) 263-5000; jottenhoff@acm.edu.

Deadline: March 2, 2009 for the 2009-10 academic year

Lloyd Lewis Fellowships in American History: Lloyd Lewis Fellowships are awarded to post-doctoral scholars pursuing projects in any area of American history appropriate to the Newberry's collections.

Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowships: Applications are invited from post-doctoral scholars in any field relevant to the Library's collections for awards to support residential research and writing.

Monticello College Foundation Fellowship for Women: This award is designed for a post-doctoral woman at an early stage of her academic career whose work gives clear promise of scholarly productivity and who would benefit significantly from six months of research, writing, and participation in the intellectual life of the Library. The applicant's topic should be related to the Newberry's collections; preference will be given to proposals particularly concerned with the study of women. The tenure of this fellowship is six months with a stipend of $25,200.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships: Fellowships for post-doctoral scholars to support projects in any field appropriate to the Library's collections. Applicants must be United States citizens or foreign nationals with three years' residence. Preference is given to applicants who have not held major fellowships for three years preceding the proposed period of residency.

Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowship in Art History: The Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowship at the Newberry Library will enable a scholar to advance a project of significance about historical American art using resources in any collections in Chicago. Studies may focus on painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, or photography. Applicants must have held the Ph.D. for at least three years prior to September 1, 2009. The fellowship carries an academic-year stipend of $70,000 for a full professor (or its equivalent outside the academy) and $50,400 for an Associate or Assistant Professor or independent scholar. The award includes a stipend for a graduate student research assistant and a modest budget for local travel. The Terra Foundation Fellow will participate in the Newberry’s community of scholars, offer two public lectures, and be available to visit at least one graduate seminar in the Chicago area.

Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars: The American Council of Learned Societies has a program supporting advanced scholarly work in the humanities. The Newberry Library is one of the residential sites. For information on how to apply, go to www.acls.org.

Deadline: September 28, 2009

Deadlines: January 12th and later for some.

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Packard Fellowships (AAU)

In 1988, the Foundation established the Packard Fellowships for Science and Engineering to allow the nation's most promising professors to pursue science and engineering research early in their careers with few funding restrictions and limited paperwork requirements. Every year, the Foundation invites the presidents of 50 universities to nominate two professors each from their institutions. Nominations are reviewed by an advisory panel  of distinguished scientists and engineers. The panel then selects 20 Fellows to receive individual awards of $875,000, payable over five consecutive years.

Fellows must be faculty members who are eligible to serve as principal investigators engaged in research in the natural and physical sciences or engineering and must be within the first three years of their faculty careers. Disciplines that are considered include physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology, astronomy, computer science, earth science, ocean science, and all branches of engineering. Candidates engaged in research in the social sciences are not considered.

The intent of the Fellowship Program is to provide support for unusually creative researchers early in their careers; faculty members who are well established and well funded are less likely to receive the award. It is further the intent of the Foundation to emphasize support for innovative individual research that involves the Fellows, their students, and junior colleagues, rather than extensions or components of large-scale, ongoing research programs.

Deadline; Nominations due March 15, 2008

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Pew Scholars in Biomedicine (TARU)

The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences is designed to support young investigators of outstanding promise in the basic and clinical sciences relevant to the advancement of human health. The funding of the awards is provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The award is intended to provide assured support, during their earlier years, for junior members of the faculty as they establish their laboratories. It is hoped that the assurance provided through the Program will encourage successful applicants to be more venturesome in their research and future applications for support than would otherwise be likely.

For the 24th series of awards, to be made in 2008, one nomination will be invited from the presidents of each of a limited number of institutions selected on the basis of the scope of their work in biomedical research, and which will have been recommended to The Pew Trusts by the National Advisory Committee of the Program.

Deadline: November 1st 2008.

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Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

In 1996, the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) was commissioned to create an award to recognize and honor outstanding scientists and engineers at the outset of their independent research careers. The NSTC was established to coordinate the multiagency science and technology policy-making process, and to implement and integrate the President's science and technology policy agenda across the federal government. The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) embodies the high priority placed by the government on maintaining the leadership position of the United States in science by producing outstanding scientists and engineers and nurturing their continued development. The Awards identify a cadre of outstanding scientists and engineers who will broadly advance science and the missions important to the participating agencies.

The PECASE Award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. The awards are conferred annually at the White House following recommendations from participating agencies. To be eligible for a PECASE Award, an individual must be a U.S. citizen, national or permanent resident. Each PECASE Award will be of five years duration. Individuals can receive only one PECASE award in their careers.

Deadline: Not provided

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Residency at the Center for Advanced Studies in Visual Arts and Humanities (AAU)

The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts announces its program for senior fellowships. Fellowships are for full-time research, and scholars are expected to reside in Washington and to participate in the activities of the Center throughout the fellowship period. Lectures, colloquia, and informal discussions complement the fellowship program. Each senior fellow is provided with a study. In addition, senior fellows who relocate to Washington are provided with housing in apartments near the Gallery, subject to availability. Senior fellows have access to the notable resources represented by the collections, the library, and the photographic archives of the National Gallery of Art, as well as to the Library of Congress and other specialized research libraries and collections in the Washington area.

One Paul Mellon Fellowship and four to six Ailsa Mellon Bruce and Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellowships will be awarded for the academic year, early fall to spring. Applications for a single academic term or quarter are also possible.

The Paul Mellon and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowships are intended to support research in the history, theory, and criticism of the visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism, prints and drawings, film, photography, decorative arts, industrial design, and other arts) of any geographical area and of any period. The Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellowships are intended primarily to support research on European art before the early nineteenth century. Senior fellowship applications are also solicited from scholars in other disciplines whose work examines artifacts or has implications for the analysis and criticism of form.

Senior fellowships are intended for those who have held the PhD for five years or more or who possess an equivalent record of professional accomplishment at the time of application.

Deadline: October 15, 2008

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Residency at the Institute for Advanced Study (AAU)

The Artist-in-Residence program at the Institute for Advanced Study was established in 1994 to create a musical presence within the Institute community, to have in residence a person whose work could be experienced and appreciated by scholars from all disciplines. 

In 2007, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec joined the Institute as its new Artist-in-Residence.  His inaugural season, Tradition Redefined, explored the wide variety of aesthetic perspectives in art music, especially of the 20th and 21st centuries.  Moravec's term as Artist-in-Residence ended on June 30, 2008.  He will serve as Artistic Consultant to the Institute for the 2008-09 season, arranging and presenting the four pairs of concerts for the Edward T. Cone Concert Series.

Deadline: not available

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Robert Wood Johnson Policy Fellows (TARU)

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows program provides the nation's most comprehensive experience at the nexus of health science, policy and politics in Washington D.C. The fellowship is an outstanding opportunity for exceptional midcareer health professionals and behavioral and social scientists with an interest in health and health care policy. Fellows experience and participate in the policy process at the federal level and use that leadership experience to improve health, health care and health policy.

Exceptional candidates from academic faculties and nonprofit health care organizations are encouraged to apply. Applicants may have backgrounds in the following disciplines: allied health professions; biomedical sciences; dentistry; economics or other social sciences; health services organization and administration; medicine; nursing; public health; or social and behavioral health. Beginning in 2008, applicants will be able to select whether to apply from a sponsoring institution or as an individual. Track 1 applicants will maintain their affiliation with their originating academic institution or nonprofit health care organization. Track 2 applicants will have their fellowship stipend administered by the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

Deadline: November 14th  2008

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Rockefeller Fellowships (AAU)

The Center typically offers one-month residencies for no more than 1-2 scholars and scientists at a time. Individuals in any discipline – and from any part of the world – are welcome to apply. Space is reserved for both academic projects, as well as projects that align with the Foundation’s mission to expand opportunities for poor or vulnerable people and to help ensure that globalization’s benefits are shared more widely. (Details on the Foundation’s mission and philosophy can be found in the About Us section.) Alignment can reflect policy analysis, applied work, and/or basic scholarship, or any combination thereof. A Bellagio residency provides time for critical thinking, disciplined work, individual reflection, and collegial engagement, uninterrupted by the usual professional and personal demands.

Residency cohorts include artists, writers, non-governmental organization practitioners, policymakers, scholars and scientists from around the world. Meals and informal presentations of work provide an opportunity for residents to engage with each other. During special dinners, residents also have the chance to interact with the participants of international conferences that are hosted in various buildings on the Center’s property. The combination of private time for work and reflection and informal gatherings is an important part of life at the Center.

Deadline: February 11,2009

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Searle Scholars (AAU, TARU)

The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry.

Fifteen individuals doing research in the chemical and biological sciences have been selected as the 2008 class of Searle Scholars. Since the Program began in 1981, 452 Searle Scholars have been named. This year, the Scientific Advisory Board considered 176 applications from recently appointed assistant professors, nominated by 120 universities and research institutions. In selecting the Scholars, the Board looked for individuals who have already done important, innovative research and who have the potential for making significant contributions to biological research over an extended period of time. The Searle Scholars Program announces a major increase in awards, from $240,000 to $300,000 per three year grant beginning with its 2008 awards. The program will continue to make 15 such awards each year.

Deadline: September 26th 2008.

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Sloan Research Fellows (AAU)

The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.  These two-year fellowships are awarded yearly to 118 researchers in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.

Candidates for Sloan Research Fellowships are required to: i) hold a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, economics, neuroscience or computational and evolutionary molecular biology, or in a related interdisciplinary field; ii) be members of the regular faculty (i.e., tenure track) of a college or university in the United States or Canada; and iii) be no more than six years from completion of the most recent Ph.D. or equivalent, unless they have held a faculty appointment for less than two years or unless one of the following special circumstances apply: military service, a change of field, or child rearing. If any of the above circumstances do apply, the nomination letter should provide a clear explanation.

While Fellows are expected to be at an early stage of their research careers, there should be strong evidence of independent research accomplishments. Candidates in all fields are normally below the rank of associate professor and do not hold tenure, but these are not strict requirements. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation welcomes nominations of all candidates who meet the traditional high standards of this program, and strongly encourages the participation of women and members of underrepresented minority groups.

Deadline: September 15th 2008.

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US Secretary of Agriculture Honor Awards (TARU)

To address the national priority of developing human capital for scientific and professional expertise in the food and agricultural sciences, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) through its Science and Education Resources Development, Higher Education Programs office will offer, subject to the availability of funds, a National Awards Program for Excellence in College and University Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences (hereafter referred to in this document as the "Awards Program").

The Awards Program recognizes faculty who promote effective and innovative pedagogy evidenced by successive years of sustained, meritorious and exceptional teaching.

The Awards Program is offered annually to honor excellence in teaching, a key element in developing expertise. The Awards Program will recognize and honor a select group of college and university teachers who excel at teaching, make a positive impact on student learning, and influence other teachers by example. It is designed to focus national attention on the teaching role--one which is fundamental to the development of the scientific and professional expertise essential to the future growth and progress of our nation's food and agricultural system.

Deadline: March 15th 2009 (Request nominations 2 to 3 months prior).

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Woodrow Wilson Fellows (AAU)

CIC recently began administration of the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows program, which sends highly regarded, accomplished individuals to colleges across the country for a week of residency. For 35 years, the Visiting Fellows have been introducing students and faculty at liberal arts colleges to a wide range of perspectives on life, society, community, and achievement. CIC continues this tradition under the direction of Roger Bowen, who has served as general secretary of the American Association of University Professors, president of the Milwaukee Public Museum, president of the State University of New York at New Paltz, and vice president for academic affairs at Hollins University. Please consult the Visiting Fellows’ brief biographies for more information and use the campus request form below to request a visit from a Visiting Fellow in 2008-2009.

Deadlines: Not provided.