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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 Highsort descending
Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church College Scholarships

Tuition support for students belonging to a Greek Orthodox Church in the Greater New Haven Area.

April 22, 2024
International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Fellowship Program

The IASC Fellowship Program is meant to engage ECS in the work of the IASC Working Groups (WGs): Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Marine, Social & Human, and Terrestrial.

1-3 years fellowships at the IASC

October 18, 2024
Allegheny County Bar Foundation: Kennedy T. Friend Scholarship Fund

Tuition support for children of members of the Bar of Allegheny County in any field [incoming students only]

May 1, 2024
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI): Short-Term Fellowships (October)

3-month research grant for graduate students focusing on tropical research.

October 15, 2024 $5,000
Linnean Society of London: The Linnean Medal

Awarded annually by Council alternately to one or two biologists (in any field), as an expression of the Society’s esteem and appreciation for service to science. Any biologist, irrespective of nationality, who is not at the time a member of Council, is eligible to receive the Medal, which is presented at the annual Anniversary Meeting by the President, who specifies the grounds on which the medal has been awarded.

September 30, 2024
NEWWA Scholarships

Tuition support for graduate students regardless of field of study, with preference given to those candidates whose programs of study are related to the water works industry.

April 1, 2024
ForEverglades Fellows

Up to $30,000 per year for graduate research students pursuing the development of innovative scientific methods to advance the understanding of Everglades physical, chemical or biological processes, or research in the economic impacts of environmental changes. 

July 1, 2024 $30,000
Yale Club of New Haven

The Yale Club of New Haven annually awards scholarships to full-time matriculated graduate and professional school students in the spring of their first and/or subsequent years. The by-laws of the club stipulate that the scholarships be awarded to
residents of the Greater New Haven County area.

Please contact Financial Aid office for scholarship form

April 8, 2024