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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:

Open Funding Opportunities

Organization Summary Open Deadline Low High
E-Waste scholarship

$1000 award for students in any field

March 30, 2024 $1,000
Equal Opportunity Scholarship

“$1,000 Equal Opportunity” Scholarship exists to support two motivated high school, undergraduate, or graduate school students who want to improve their life and the lives of the people around them

March 30, 2024 $500
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR) Dean Metter Memorial Award

Reward outstanding herpetology students who intended to continue their education and seek a career in vertebrate biology. 

March 30, 2024 $300 $1,000
American Australian Association (AAA): Australia to USA Fellowship

Tuition support for Australian graduate or post-graduate student studying in the US.

March 31, 2024 $40,000
Association for Women Geoscientists: Chrysalis Scholarship

Tuition/Research support for women geoscience graduate student to complete thesis/ dissertation after been significantly interrupted by life circumstances.

March 31, 2024 $2,000
Audubon Appleton-Whittel Research Ranch (AWRR): Apacheria Fellowship Program

The Apacheria Fellowship Program provides support for studies to determine and demonstrate methods to safeguard and rehabilitate grasslands and related ecosystems

March 31, 2024 $1,500
Brookhaven National Laboratory: Renate W. Chasman Scholarship
Tuition support for female graduate students performing research at Brookhaven National Laboratory in STEM disciplines.
 
March 31, 2024 $3,250
Brown and Caldwell: Eckenfelder Scholarship

Tuition support for graduate students in the Environmental sciences or Environmental engineering.

March 31, 2024 $5,000