Funding Opportunities

There are lots of prestigious grants and fellowships that graduate students can apply for in order to support their research. Many NREL graduate students have applied for these awards, so ask around before you apply.

NREL Fellowships/Scholarships

CSU Warner College of Natural Resources

EPA Fellowships

NSF Fellowships

NSF Dissertation Improvement Grants

PRIMES (PRogram for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Ecology, and Statistics)

The Warner College of Natural Resources offers a course, NR555 "Preparation of Grant Proposals", which can help you put together a research proposal to submit for funding or for your committee.

**These applications were due earlier this year, but there will likely be a new competition in 2008.

WEBLINK

Fall 2008 EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowships for Graduate Environmental Study
http://es.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2008/2008_star_fellow.html

The 2007 Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program
http://www.nature.nps.gov/canonscholarships/

USDA graduate student fellowships
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/funding/rfas/pdfs/07_national_needs.pdf

Graduate Student Research Program at NASA
http://fellowships.hq.nasa.gov/gsrp/nav/

Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) (@ NSF)
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION IMPROVEMENT GRANTS IN THE DIRECTORATE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5234

Websites that list other fellowships:
http://career.berkeley.edu/Infolab/FellowGrad.stm
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/cms/fellows/grad_opportunities.html
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/fellowships.html
http://www.ors.duke.edu/find/student/grad/gradsci.html