We’ve compiled a list of funding opportunities for early career scientists at multiple levels. If you have interest in joining us, please review the Thrash Lab personnel expectations to see if our culture and attitude look like a fit. If so, email Cameron your CV with some comments about your motivation to work with us and your particular project interests.
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Funding for Undergraduate students
- ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship
- ASM Undergraduate Research Capstone Program
- Barry Goldwater Scholarship
- DoD SMART Scholarship
- Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- NASA Undergraduate Student funding opportunities
- NOAA Student Funding Opportunities
- USC Provost’s Undergrad Research Fellowships
- USC Student Opportunities for Academic Research (SOAR)
- USC Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF)
Current and prospective Undergraduates should read this piece in Nature: From lectures to the lab: three steps to becoming an undergraduate researcher
Funding for Graduate students
- American Association of University Women
- Academy of Underwater Arts & Sciences Zale Parry Scholarship
- ASM Graduate Research Capstone Fellowship
- Chateaubriand Fellowship (10 months of study in France for US students)
- DoD SMART Scholarship
- DoE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
- DoE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program
- Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
- Fulbright Fellowship (one year of funding in the US for UK students)
- Hertz Foundation Fellowship
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- NASA Graduate Student funding opportunities
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship
- NOAA Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (See this excellent help page)
- Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship (1 year policy fellowship in Washington, D.C.)
- USC Graduate Fellowships
Funding for Postdoctoral researchers
- Agouron Institute Geobiology Fellowships
- American Association of University Women
- ASM Career Development Grants for Postdoctoral Women
- David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship
- Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Human Frontier Science Program Fellowship
- Life Sciences Research Foundation
- L’Oréal USA For Women in Science
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships
- NASA Postdoctoral funding opportunities
- NIH Intramural Research Program
- NIH K-Awards for Career Development
- NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowships
- NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
- NSF- list of other Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunities
- Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology
last updated: 09/06/19
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