AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAMMALOGISTS
LIST OF GRANT SOURCES
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND GRADUATE
STUDENTS
Revised November, 2000
ACADEMY
OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA (JESSUP AWARD)
Chairman,
Jessup-McHenry Fund Committee
Academy of Natural Sciences
1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, PA 19103
http://www.acnatsci.org/research/jessupinfo.html
Travel and subsistence for pre- and immediate postdoctoral students to conduct research in natural history at the Academy. Provides travel costs up to $500 (North America.) or $1000 (other parts of world) and subsistence ($250/week).
Deadlines: 1 March and 1 October
Minimum award duration is two weeks; maximum is four months. Supplies and equipment to be provided by student or sponsor. Write for application forms.
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Jean‑Paul‑St. 12
D‑53173 Bonn
Germany
Tel.: (+49) 0228‑833‑0
Fax: (+49) 0228‑833‑199
http://www.avh.de/en/programme/index.htm
A variety of research fellowships and awards for German and non-German scholars to conduct research in Germany.
AMERICAN
ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN
AAUW Educational Foundation
Department 60
2201 N. Dodge St.
Iowa City, IA 52243‑4030
319/337‑1716 ext. 60
American Fellowships provide Doctoral and Postdoctoral fellowships for women.
Career Development Grants provide funds for women with Bachelor’s degree to advance their career or
re-enter the workforce.
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Office of Grants and Fellowships
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024
Fax: 212 769-5192
grants@amnh.org
http://research.amnh.org/grants/index.html
GRANTS PROGRAM – short term awards for grad & post-doctoral research expenses – Lerner-
Gray Grants for Marine Research, Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund, Collection
Study Grants
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS – salary & modest expenses for research at AMNH or one of its field
sites
GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM-- stipend and health benefits to Ph.D.
candidate working at AMNH
INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM -- for non‑U.S. citizens at
the Museum's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES PROGRAM – offers summer internships
to qualified undergraduate students.
AMERICAN
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Committee on Research
American Philosophical Society
Independence Mall East
104 South Fifth Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106-3387
eroach@amphilsoc.org
http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/
Funding for postdoctoral research. Funds cannot be used for salary, overhead, publication expenses, or
travel to meetings.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAMMALOGISTS
http://www.mammalsociety.org/
(Click on Grants-In-Aid Committee)
GRANTS-IN-AID
Supports any aspect of mammalogical research except travel to meetings.
Deadline: Postmarked by 1 March.
SHADLE FELLOWSHIP
Intended to provide recipient with support while conducting research. Not a grant in support of a specific research project. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and enrolled as a graduate student in mammalogy (or accepted for fall) in a U.S. institution.
AMERICAN WILDLIFE
RESEARCH FOUNDATION
John Hasenjager,
AWRF,
RR 2, Box 176,
Cincinnatus, NY
13040-9633.
E-mail:jhas@odyssey.net
The American Wildlife
Research Foundation provides grants of up to $2,000 to be used as start-up
funds or seed money for conservation, wildlife, and conservation education
projects, primarily for research.
ANIMAL BEHAVIOR SOCIETY
http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Grants/
The Animal Behavior Society Research Grants Program was established in 1987 to provide financial support for scientific studies of animal behavior conducted by graduate students. In order to apply for funds, an applicant must be a current member of the society for the year in which the award is made and must be enrolled in a graduate program. Grants are ordinarily awarded for research to be conducted within a 1-year period from the date of award.
ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION
Executive Director
Archbold Biological Station
P.O. Box 2057
Lake Placid, FL 33852
Phone: 863‑465‑2571 FAX: 863‑699‑1927
Email: archbold@archbold‑station.org
http://www.archbold‑station.org/abs/internvol/internrevres.htm
Provides partial support for undergraduate and graduate research training at the Archbold Biological Station.
ARGONNE
NATIONAL LABORATORY
Division of Education Programs
9700 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439
Provides a variety of research and educational opportunities, fellowships, and grants for undergraduates, graduates, post-docs, and faculty. Primarily to conduct research at the Argonne National Laboratory facilities.
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
Dr Sue Healy, Secretary of the Grants Committee,
Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology,
Ashworth Laboratory,
University of Edinburgh,
West Mains Road, Edinburgh,
EH9 3JT, UK
tel: +44-(0)131-650-5455
fax: +44-(0)131-650 -6564
email: s.healy@ed.ac.uk
http://www.societies.ncl.ac.uk/asab/grants.html
The Association provides a number of grants for travel, research and workshops for its members in 2000 to promote animal behaviour science. The grants available are: Undergraduate Project Scholarships, Research Grants, Travel Fund, ASAB Conference Fund, and Postgraduate and Research Workshops.
ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE
1200 New York Ave.,
Suite 650 NW
Washington, D. C. 20005
(202) 326-8940
awis@awis.org
http://www.awis.org/ed_foundation.html
Provides scholarships ($1000 in 1999-2000) for undergraduate and graduate female students in science and engineering.
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AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL
GPO Box 9880
CANBERRA
ACT 2601
http://www.arc.gov.au/grants/default.htm
Provides funding to
researchers, universities and other bodies for research grants, fellowships,
centres and research infrastructure.
Basic, applied and experimental research is supported across all major
discipline areas except clinical medicine and dentistry.
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BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL
Scholarship Program
P.O. Box 162603
Austin, TX 78716-2603
e-mail:
Graduate student research scholarships to document the roosting and feeding habitat requirements of bats, their ecological or economic roles, or their conservation needs. 4-5 grants ranging from $500-$2000.
BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB
Boone and Crockett Club
250 Station Drive
Missoula, MT 59801
http://www.boone‑crockett.org/
Grants-In-Aid Program supports graduate level research in wildlife natural history and management.
CAESAR KLEBERG FOUNDATION FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
711 Navarro Street, Suite 535
San Antonio, TX 78205
Web site and e-mail address not found. Conservation of game and other wildlife. Grants have ranged from $1,000 to $1,900,000. Initial approach by letter. Primarily for S. W. Texas. No grants to individuals.
CENTER FOR FIELD RESEARCH AT EARTHWATCH INSTITUTION
Associate Director
3 Clocktower Place, Suite 100
Box 75
Maynard, MA 01754
(617) 926‑8200
http://www.earthwatch.org/cfr/cfr.html
Supports labor intensive conservation biology research. Preliminary proposals 18 months prior to intended starting date. Upon favorable review, full proposals are invited.
EPPLEY FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH INC.
260 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
No Web site found
Postdoctoral Grants ‑ Supports advanced research in physical and biological sciences. Interest in supporting
areas that the federal government will not support Up to $30,000 with 15% indirect costs allowed. One year duration. Deadlines: 1 February, 1 May, 1 August, 1 November.
ERNST
MAYR GRANTS
Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/Grants/MayrGrant.html
Travel grants in animal systematics. The principal objective of these grants is to stimulate taxonomic research in neglected taxa. Typical awards average about $1,000.00. Deadlines: 15 September and 15 April
FIELD
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
Chairperson, Scholarship Committee
The Field Museum
Roosevelt Road at Lakeshore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605
http://www.fmnh.org/research_collections/scholarships/default.htm
Funds are available in three general categories: Visiting Scholarships, Graduate Student Fellowships, And Undergraduate Internships.
FOUNDATION
FOR NORTH AMERICAN WILD SHEEP
720 Allen Avenue
Cody, Wyoming 82414
(307) 527-6261
http://www.fnaws.org/gf.html
Supports research on this species. Grants range from $2,000 to $20,000. Deadline: 31 December.
GRADUATE WOMEN IN SCIENCE
Sigma Delta Epsilon/ GWIS Inc.
SDE‑GWIS National Headquarters
PO Box 240726
Apple Valley, MN 55124
http://www.gac.edu/Groups/gwis/fellowships.html
Currently administer three research awards: the SDE, Eloise Gerry, and Vessa Notchev Fellowships. SDE Fellowships are for research in all the natural sciences, including physical, environmental, mathematical,computer, life sciences, anthropology, psychology and statistics. Vessa Notchev Fellowships areas of research are the same as for SDE Fellowships. Eloise Gerry Fellowships areas of research are the biological or chemical sciences only.
HUDSON RIVER FOUNDATION (POLGAR FELLOWSHIPS)
Hudson River Foundation
40 West 20th Street, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10011
212 924‑8290
212 924‑8325 (Fax)
http://www.hudsonriver.org/
The Hudson River Fund is dedicated to supporting scientific, ecological, and related public policy research on issues and matters of concern to the Hudson River, its tributaries and its drainage basin, with emphasis given, but not limited to, mitigating fishery impacts caused by power plants, providing information needed to manage the fishery resources of the Hudson River, understanding the factors related to the abundance and structure of fish populations, and gaining knowledge of the Hudson River ecosystem.
JESSIE SMITH NOYES FOUNDATION
6 East 39th Street, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10016‑0112
TEL: (212) 684‑6577 FAX: (212) 689‑6549
E‑Mail: noyes@noyes.org
http://www.noyes.org/
The Foundation makes grants primarily in the areas of environment and reproductive rights.
THE KILLAM TRUSTS
Killam Trusts Office
Secretary to the Killam Trusts
Killam Trusts Office
c/o Faculty of Graduate Studies
Rm. 314, Arts and Administration Building
Dalhousie University
Halifax, N.S., Canada B3H 4H6
Tel: (902) 494‑1329, Fax: (902) 494‑8797
E-mail: Killam.Trust@dal.ca
http://is.dal.ca/~ktrust/killam.html
Provides scholarships for scholars at the predoctoral and postdoctoral level at five Canadian universities. The scholarships are open to all fields of study except the representational and performing arts.
LADY DAVIS FELLOWSHIP TRUST
Secretary General
Lady Davis Fellowship Trust
P. O. Box 1255
Jerusalem, Israel 91904
http://sites.huji.ac.il/LDFT/info.html
Lady Davis Fellowships are awarded at Israel's two leading Academic Institutions, the Hebrew University and the Technion, on the basis of excellence in achievement and promise of further distinction. They are open to candidates of every race, creed, nationality and sex. Doctoral, post-doctoral, and visiting scholar fellowships are available.
LAIRD NORTON ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION
Laird Norton Endowment Foundation
801 Second Avenue, #1300
Seattle, WA 98104
E‑mail: info@lairdnorton.org
http://www.lairdnorton.org/
The mission of the Laird Norton Endowment Foundation is to fund distinctive programs in conservation and forestry education. Through the year 2001, Laird Norton Endowment Foundation will be funding in the area of sustainable forestry. By sustainable forestry, we mean the practice of forestry that restores, enhances, and then sustains a full range of forest values, both ecologicaland economic. Other common names for this practice are ecoforestry, low‑impact forestry, new forestry, and forest stewardship.
LALOR
FOUNDATION
180 Dudley Road
Newton Centre, MA, 02459
Grants to institutions for basic postdoctoral research in mammalian reproductive biology as related to the regulation of fertility.
Deadline: 15 January (contact by December).
MAX MCGRAW WILDLIFE FOUNDATION