Scholarships
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Scholarship | Subject | GPA Minimum | Location |
The Alfred Landecker Democracy Fellowship The Fellowship brings together 30 diverse leaders from Europe and the United States who spend one year working part-time on creating projects that reinvent democratic spaces, strengthen social cohesion and build community against the backdrop of COVID-19’s impact on democracy. Each fellow designs, tests and implements an innovative project that has a publicly visible impact on their communities and beyond. Fellows come from diverse backgrounds including politics, business, the arts, activism and academia. |
Global Studies & Foreign Language Skills, Humanities and Fine Arts, Math & Science, Media & Journalism, Professional (Medicine/Law/Business), Public Policy & Social Sciences, psychology, social work | Unspecified | Europe / UK, North America |
The American Indian Services (AIS) Scholarship Program The AIS Scholarship program is to help undergraduate Native American students with financial support to attend college, maintain enrollment and graduate through scholarships. Awards are based on up to one-half of tuition and need for the term the student is applying for and are allocated directly to the school for the student. Students will need to have their own email account in order to apply. |
2-3 | North America | |
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) The Father James B. Macelwane Annual Award in Meteorology The purpose of this award is to stimulate interest in meteorology among college students through the submission of original student papers concerned with some phase of the atmospheric sciences. The student must be enrolled as an undergraduate at the time the paper is written, and no more than two students from any one institution may enter papers in any one contest. |
Additional Fellowships, Math & Science | Unspecified | |
The American Nuclear Society Scholarship Program Granted to qualified undergraduate and graduate student members of ANS who have demonstrated a high commitment to nuclear science and engineering |
Math & Science | Unspecified | North America |
The American Political Science Association Minority Fellows Program (MFP) The Minority Fellows Program (MFP) is a fellowship competition for individuals from underrepresented backgrounds applying to or in the early stages of doctoral programs in political science. Each year, APSA awards between 12-14 funded fellowships. Recently, APSA introduced a new spring round of the MFP awards for graduate students in the pre-dissertation stage of their career in the form of a one-time award to support expenses related to PhD graduate study for first and second year political science PhD students from underrepresented groups. |
Public Policy & Social Sciences | Unspecified | North America |
The Aspen Institute’s Hearst Endowed Fellowship for Minority Students The Hearst Fellow serves as an intern with PSI in the Washington, DC office of the Aspen Institute. Through this fellowship, PSI seeks to introduce a diverse group of students to issues and challenges affecting philanthropy, social enterprise, nonprofit organizations, and other actors in the social sector. |
Public Policy & Social Sciences | Unspecified | North America |
The Atlantis Project Shadow doctors in hospitals around the world for 20+ hours each week over spring or summer break. Experience multiple hospital specialties. This program lasts for 1–6 weeks. |
Professional (Medicine/Law/Business) | Unspecified | Various Locations |
The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) Harry Ransom Center Pforzheimer Fellowship in Bibliography supports the bibliographical study of early modern books and manuscripts, 1455–1700, held in the Ransom Center’s Pforzheimer Library and in related collections of early printed books and manuscripts, including the Pforzheimer Gutenberg Bible and Incunabula. Other significant early holdings include the John Henry Wrenn Library, the Recusant (English Catholics) collection, and the Ransom Center’s general holdings of early English books. |
Humanities and Fine Arts | Unspecified | North America |
The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) Short-term Fellowships support bibliographical research that focuses on the physical aspects of books or manuscripts as historical evidence. Books and manuscripts in any field and of any period are eligible for consideration. Projects may include studying the history of book or manuscript production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Projects to establish a text are also eligible. |
Humanities and Fine Arts | Various Locations | |
The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) Topical Fellowships Fellowships for bibliographic inquiry and research in: hispanic, culinary, 18th century, cartographical, American, and British book trades. |
Humanities and Fine Arts | Unspecified | Various Locations |