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Members of the Yale School of the Environment (YSE) community have easy access to a curated list of global, external funding opportunities for graduate students and postdocs using this new database. The service is maintained by a collaboration among the School’s Offices of Admissions and Financial Aid, Career and Professional Development (CPD), and Research.

The database contains detailed information on research grants, internship stipends, travel funds, tuition scholarships, and other awards of interest to members of the School’s community. Opportunities and deadlines are updated frequently - please check back regularly. We do our best to keep the content of the database current, but if you see an opportunity that appeals to you and whose deadline has passed, click the associated link to see if a new competition has been announced.

If you are aware of a funding opportunity and it is not listed, please forward a link to Pamela Welch for inclusion. Let’s crowd source the listings so that we have the most comprehensive database available.

Do you have questions or want to provide feedback? Contact any of the YSE External Funds DB team members:

Diana Morgan, Director of Research
Pamela Welch, Associate Director of Financial Aid
Ashley Eugley, YSE External Funds Coordinator
Srishti Singh, YSE External Funds Coordinator

Open Funding Opportunities

Organization	Summary	Open	Deadline	Low	High
Federal Employee Education & Assistance Fund: Scholarships	Tuition support for federal and postal employees and their dependents.		March 13, 2025	$1,000	$5,000
American Society of Agronomy: Environmental Quality Research Award	The Environmental Quality Research Award is intended to recognize contributions that have enhanced the basic understanding of environmental sciences in relation to agriculture, or demonstrated sound and effective management practices for maintaining or improving the quality of soil, water, and air resources. The award consists of a certificate, a complimentary ticket to the award ceremony, and $2,000.		March 14, 2025		$2,000
American Society of Agronomy: Frank D. Keim Graduate Fellowship	Tuition support for graduate students in agronomy.		March 14, 2025		$2,000
Soil and Water Conservation Society: Kenneth E. Grant Scholarship	Funding for graduate students focusing on natural resource conservation.		March 14, 2025	$300	$500
The Diane Dawson Memorial Scholarship	The scholarship will provide financial assistance for young men and women who have a parent or legal guardian with terminal cancer or other terminal illness, or who have lost a parent to a terminal disease during their tenure in high school.	October 27, 2024	March 14, 2025		$3,000
AAG Cartography Specialty Group: Masters Student Thesis Grant (March)	Research grant for Masters students thesis work in cartography or a related degree program		March 15, 2025		$500
American Museum of Natural History: Lerner-Gray Grants for Marine Research	Open to all early career researchers (including all doctoral students) proposing to conduct research in systematics, evolution, ecology, zoology or paleontology of marine life and environments		March 15, 2025	$500	$3,500
Atlantic Salmon Federation: Olin Fellowship	Tuition/ Research support for graduate study and research of Atlantic salmon.		March 15, 2025	$1,000	$3,000