Graduate Funding Opportunities
Grants, fellowships, and awards for graduate students and postdocs in biology
Many of these opportunities were originally compiled with generous contributions from Dr. Ryan Earley's lab at the University of Alabama — thank you.
Internal Grants & Awards
- TAMU Graduate Studies Funding fellowships, assistantships, awards
- TAMU Internal Funding Opportunities
- Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research
General Grants & Fellowships
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)
- NSF Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide
- NSF Graduate Research Internship Program
- NIH Training Grants (NRSA)
- NIH Kirschstein Predoctoral (F31)
- National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship
- Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship
- Ford Foundation Fellowship
- Graduate Women in Science (GWIS)
- AAUW Dissertation Fellowships
- Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Human Frontier Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
- James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Complex Systems
- The Royal Society International Exchange
- Point Foundation national LGBTQ+ scholarship
- Harry S. Truman Scholarship $30K, public service focus
- Southern Regional Education Board Doctoral Fellowship
- APS Porter Physiology Fellowship minority program
- APS Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
- SACNAS Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science
- LGBTQIA+ Scholarships & Resources Guide
- LGBTQ+ Health Careers Scholarships
- Company of Biologists Travel & Research Grants
- Women in STEM Scholarship (BHW)
- Zombie Apocalypse Scholarship yes, it's real
Taxon-Based Grants
- Coleopterists Society Graduate Student Research Enhancement Award two $5,000 awards; applications due March 1
- Coleopterists Society Jean-Théodore Lacordaire Prize best dissertation paper in beetle systematics/biology
- Entomological Society of America Student Awards travel, biodiversity research, and branch awards
- Society for Study of Amphibians & Reptiles
- ASIH Gaige Fund herpetology
- ASIH Raney Fund ichthyology
- American Cichlid Association Guy Jordan Fund
- North American Native Fishes Association
- American Ornithological Society Student Research Grants up to $2,500 for research in ornithology
- Wilson Ornithological Society Research Grants multiple awards up to $1,500 for ornithological research
- Botanical Society of America Graduate Student Research Award up to $500 for plant biology research
- Phycological Society of America
- Fisheries Society of the British Isles Research Grant
- Fisheries Society of the British Isles PhD Studentship
- American Malacological Society (Carriker Award)
- Conchologists of America Malacology Grant
- British Society for Parasitology Expeditionary Scholarship
- Field Inclusive Conference Travel Awards ornithology
Ecology & Evolution Grants
- Lewis & Clark Field Research Grant
- Society for the Study of Evolution
- SSE Rosemary Grant Advanced Award up to $3,500 for dissertation research by PhD students in evolution; two rounds/yr
- GSA DeLill Nasser Award up to $1,000 for conference attendance or lab course; awarded twice per year
- American Genetic Association Early Career Grant up to $2,000 for genetics/genomics research; open to grad students and postdocs
- SMBE Young Investigator Travel Award $2,500–$3,500 for grad students & postdocs to attend SMBE annual meeting
- American Society for Naturalists
- Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology
- Ecological Society of America
- Animal Behavior Society
- American Museum of Natural History
- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard
- Jessup & McHenry Awards, ANS Philadelphia
- National Geographic Young Explorers
- Explorer's Club Student Grants
- Society of Systematic Biologists
- Danforth Conservation Grants
- Disney Animal Conservation Fund
- Linnean Society Percy Sladen Memorial Fund
- The Wetland Foundation
- Society of Wetland Scientists Student Grants
- NERRS Fellowship Nat'l Estuarine Research Reserve System
- Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship (NOAA)
- NOAA Hollings Scholarship
- Organization for Tropical Studies
- Estuarine Coastal Sciences Association Small Grants
- Mote Marine Lab College Internship
- Mote Marine Lab REU Program
- Marine Labs Directory internship opportunities
- Women Divers Hall of Fame Grants
Microbiology
Neuroscience
- Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology
- Cold Spring Harbor / Marine Biological Labs
- Society for Neuroscience Scholars Program