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.
American Dissertation Fellowships
Dissertation Fellowships are available to women who will complete their dissertation writing between certain dates. To qualify, applicants must have completed all coursework, passed all required preliminary examinations, and received approval for their research proposal or plan by Nov. 15, 2007. Open to applicants in all fields of study, except engineering. Scholars engaged in researching gender issues are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: Nov. 15, 2007
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American Publication Grants
Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grants fund women in college and university faculty and independent researchers to prepare research for publication. Applicants may be tenure-track, part-time, or temporary faculty, or new or established scholars and researchers at universities. Time must be available for eight consecutive weeks of final writing, editing and responding to issues raised in critical reviews. Funds cannot be used for undertaking research. Applicants must have received their doctorates by the application deadline. Scholars with strong publishing records should seek other funding.
Deadline: Nov. 15, 2007
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American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program
The objective of the Minority Fellowship Program is to increase the knowledge of issues related to ethnic minority mental health and to improve the quality of mental health treatment delivered to ethnic minority populations.
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2008
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Guggenheim Foundation Dissertation Fellowships (Harry Frank)
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations and control of violence, aggression and dominance. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence, aggression and dominance in the modern world.
Deadline: Feb. 1, 2008
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TIAA-CREF Ruth Simms Hamilton Research Fellowship
Fellowships are awarded to one or more graduate students enrolled in a social science program at an accredited U.S. college or university and studying the African Diaspora.
Deadline: March 1, 2008
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Visit the Research Center’s Grants, Fellowships, and Funding Opportunities page or email the research coordinator at grants@waldenu.edu.
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