Each month Walden University’s Research Center features funding opportunities and provides links to more information. Many of these may not apply to this year’s studies, but may be a better fit in later years of your academic career. Student researchers may use the Research Funding Search Form to request a personal grant search.

Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation will award up to 15 grants of $20,000 each to doctoral students for the support of dissertations in the area of entrepreneurship.

This initiative seeks to help launch a cohort of world-class scholars into this young and exciting field, thus laying a foundation for future scientific advancement. It is hoped that the findings generated by this effort will be translated into knowledge with immediate application for policy-makers, educators, service providers and entrepreneurs.

The deadline for this year's proposals is 5:30 p.m. Pacific time, Monday, Oct. 1, 2007.

John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship
This fellowship, named for a distinguished member of the American Philosophical Society, offers a stipend of $25,000 for a 12-month period, plus $5,000 to support the cost of residency in Philadelphia.

The fellowship seeks to help remedy the shortage of faculty of color in core fields in the arts and sciences, as well as other talented students who have a demonstrated commitment to eradicating racial disparities and enlarging minority representation in academia. The fellow will spend a significant amount of time in residence at the APS Library, and therefore, applicants should be pursuing dissertation topics in which the holdings of the library are especially strong. (The library's extensive collections in a wide number of fields are described at www.amphilsoc.org/library).

Applications are due April 1, 2008; notification is made in May.

Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research
The program awards grants of up to $1,000 to students from all areas of the sciences and engineering. Students use the funding to pay for travel expenses to and from a research site, or for purchase of nonstandard laboratory equipment necessary to complete a research project.

While membership in Sigma Xi is not a requirement, approximately 75 percent of funds are restricted for use by dues-paying student members of Sigma Xi or students whose project advisor is a dues-paying member. Students from any country are eligible to receive funding.

Annual application deadlines are March 15 and Oct. 15.

More Information
Visit the Research Center’s Grants, Fellowships, and Funding Opportunities page or email the research coordinator at grants@waldenu.edu.

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