Womens's Resources in Earth and Environmental Sciences

Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards:

American Association of University Women

Dissertation Fellowships: $15,000 fellowships available to women in their final year of a doctoral degree program

International Fellowships: $16,500 awards to women graduate students studying in the United States who are not U.S. citizens

Selected Professions Fellowships: Approximately $8,000 awards for women in their final year of graduate study in historically under-represented professions

American Statistical Association

Gertrude Cox Scholarship: $1,000 scholarship designed to encourage more women to enter statistically oriented professions

Business and Professional Women’s Foundation

BPW Career Advancement Scholarship: $1,000 scholarship to assist women who want to further their education, advance their career, or will soon enter/re-enter the workforce

Coordinating Council for Women in History

CCWH / Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Award: An annual competition for graduate student awards to assist in the completion of dissertation work in any field of study

Fellowship Fund Incorporated

Various Fellowships: A number of fellowships offered to women doing PhD and postdoctoral research. For more information: email

International Federation of University Women

Fellowships and grants to women graduates for advanced study, teaching, and research

Kappa Kappa Gamma Foundation

Graduate Scholarships. Scholarships available for women pursuing a graduate degree

Lucent Technologies Foundation Bell Laboratories

Graduate Research Program for Women

$17,000 fellowships for full time doctoral students in order to increase female representation in science and engineering

National Science Foundation

Women in Engineering and Computer and Information Science: Up to $21,500 for women who intend to pursue graduate degrees in the areas of engineering or computer and information science

Radcliffe College

Jeanne Humphrey Block Dissertation Award: $5,000 grant for women graduate students studying female psychological development

Women’s Research and Education Institute

Congressional Fellowships on Women and Public Policy: Fellowships of $12,400 available to place graduate students in congressional offices and on strategic committee staffs

Women’s Sports Foundation

Dorothy Harris Endowed Scholarship: $1,500 scholarship to assist women graduate students pursuing one of the following fields of study: Physical Education, Sport Management, Sport Psychology, or Sport Sociology

Zonta International

Amelia Earhart Fellowship Awards: $6,000 award open to women who demonstrate a superior academic record studying engineering or an aerospace-related science