Scholarships

Fellowships support basic, clinical or epidemiological lines of inquiry into leading women’s health concerns. Priority areas are cardiovascular disease, leading female cancers, hormones’ role in disease and stage-of-life health concerns, diseases or health concerns that disproportionately afflict women, and exploration of gender differences related to the aforementioned topics. The fellowship is for one year.

Several post-doctoral fellowships and training grants in cancer biology, research, and prevention

Fellowship is intended to support the development of outstanding investigators embarking on careers in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. Grants help investigators make the transition to independent, self-supporting, faculty members and are awarded to institutions for the purpose of providing stipends, fringe benefits, and modest travel expenses in support of qualified post-doctoral fellows or newly appointed assistant professors. Award recipients may thereby devote the major part of their professional effort to research related to pulmonary disease and lung biology. Award provides three years of support.

The Morgan Prize is awarded for outstanding research in mathematics. It is made jointly by the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The prize is awarded annually to any undergraduate student in a college or university in Canada, Mexico, the United States or its possessions, for outstanding research in mathematics.

provides one-year fellowships for gifted young musicians, generally performers and composers in classical disciplines, who wish to pursue advanced music study and performance abroad.The Fund provides financial support for round trip transportation, living and other expenses.

The Roosevelt Institute supports a program of small grants in support of research on the “Roosevelt Years” or clearly related subjects. Funds are awarded for the sole purpose of helping to defray living, travel, and related expenses incurred while conducting research at the Roosevelt Library. The grants program is particularly designed to encourage younger scholars to expand our knowledge and understanding of the Roosevelt period.

FRAXA awards fellowships to postdoctoral researchers working in established labs on projects related to FRAXA’s Research Priorities. The Foundation supports research focused on finding a specific treatment for fragile X syndrome. Their goal is to bring practical treatment into current medical practice as quickly as possible. Preference is given to research projects that have a clear practical application and the results of which will be shared in a timely fashion. The fellowship offers support for two years.

Fellowships support research related to the broad themes and historical problems of Colonial America, the Revolutionary Era, and the Early Republic as well as the history of the arts, material culture, and society which help us better understand the greater legacy of George Washington and his home, Mount Vernon. Projects related to national memory, philanthropy, and the history of historic preservation are also encouraged. The resources of the library include the archives of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association. Fellowships offer up to six months of support.

The Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship honors the legacy of the abolitionist and statesman with a fully-funded Summer study abroad program. This Fellowship is developed for students of color and selection is in the spirit of Douglass himself with special emphasis on leadership, social justice, agitation for positive change, and cross-cultural understanding.

A Freeman-Asia Award provides need-based funding, to assist the recipient with the cost of the study abroad program and related expenses