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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
Out to Innovate Scholarship

Tuition scholarships students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering,or mathematics (STEM) programs who are either lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or an active ally of the LGBTQ+ community

 July 7, 2025 $2,000
WRISE: Rising Solar Fellowship for 2025

GRID Alternatives and WRISE are partnering again for a Rising Solar fellowship program to give aspiring solar professionals from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to pursue a career in renewable energy. The program, part of GRID and WRISE’s workforce diversity initiatives, is aimed at anyone identifying as a woman or marginalized gender training for careers in installation and design as well as college and graduate students studying renewable energy and related fields.

 July 7, 2025
GeneTex Scholarship Program

The GeneTex Scholarship Program will award a $2000 (USD) scholarship to students pursuing a STEM undergraduate or graduate degree. The scholarship will be awarded to one student twice a year.

 July 11, 2025 $2,000
Science & SciLifeLab: Prize for Young Scientists

The Prize is awarded annually to one young scientist for outstanding life science research for which he/she was awarded a doctoral degree in the previous two years.

 July 15, 2025 $10,000 $30,000
Google Academic Research Awards
Google Academic Research Awards (GARA) support groundbreaking foundational and applied research in computing and technology around the world.
 
Each funding cycle, Google will identify key research areas and invite proposals from academics who are conducting research in a variety of technologically-focused domains that have societal implications.
 
The program is open to professors (assistant, associate, etc.) at degree-granting institutions who are advising students and conducting research in the field of technology and computing.
 June 18, 2025 July 23, 2025
Club300: Bird Protection Grant

Support conservation and research on highly threatened or poorly known species.

 July 31, 2025 $5,000
Laura Bassi Scholarship (Summer)

Providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines.

 July 31, 2025 $500 $2,500
MPOWER Global Citizen Scholarship
Scholarships awarded annually to international and DACA students enrolled at schools MPOWER supports. 
 July 31, 2025 $1,000 $8,000