Development Office

Opportunities for Funding

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Opportunities for Funding

The Development office focuses on private sources of support. For public sources of funding, including federal granting agencies such as NIH or NSF, contact the Office of Sponsored Projects.

See below for a list of programs and proposals to some private foundations. This is not a comprehensive list of all possible funding sources. Contact the Development office if you wish to apply for any of the grants. Please note that where a program is noted as an institutional nomination, you MUST contact the Development Office to be considered. Sponsored Projects can also assist you on any grant application.

Another resource available to all faculty, researchers, students, and staff is the Foundation Grants Index. This Index is available for use at the reference desk of McHenry Library.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Program Name: Sloan Research Fellowships. 100 grants awarded annually in chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics.

Program Name: Increasing Ph.D.s for Underrepresented Minorities

American Cancer Society

Program Name: Research Opportunity Grants for Beginning and Senior Investigators

Program Name: Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

American Institute for Cancer Research

Program Name: Investigator or Post-Doctoral Grants

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

Program Name: Beckman Young Investigator Program

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Program Name: Career Awards in Biomedical Sciences

Program Name: Student Science Enrichment Program

Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation

Program Name: Special Grant Program in Chemical Sciences

Program Name: Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

Program Name: Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award

* Institution may nominate one Teacher-Scholar Award across both programs in a given year.

Program: Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry

Program: New Faculty Award

Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation

Program Name: Environment and Health

Compton Foundation, Inc.

Program Name: Environment.

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Fund

Program Name: Fellow Award (Post-Doctoral)

Program Name: Scholar Award (Assistant Professor) * Institutional Nominee*

Earthwatch Institute

Program Name: Field work support

Ellison Medical Foundation

Program Name: Senior Scholar in Aging or in Global Infectious Disease * Institutional Nominee*

Program Name: New Scholar in Aging or in Global Infectious Disease * Institutional Nominee*

G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation

Program Name: Oceanography, Climate Studies, and Earth Sciences

Homeland Foundation

Program Name: Environment

The J. M. Long Foundation

Program Name: Marine science, wildlife preservation

National Geographic Society

Program Name: Grants for Scientific Field Research and Exploration

Pew Scholars Program

Program Name: Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences
* Institutional Nominee*

The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

Program Name: Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
* Institutional Nominee*

Whitaker Foundation

Program Name: Research Grants in Biomedical