Funding Sources for Experimental Psychology

This is a listing of some potential sources of funding available to graduate students in experimental psychology. If you know of any additional funding sources, please let me know so that I can add them to the list. Email me at dallbrit@depaul.edu

• Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans - http://www.pdsoros.org

  Available to naturalized US citizens, green card holders, and children of two naturalized citizens. Students can apply during their final year of undergraduate study, or during their first or second year of graduate study.

  Application deadline: November 1

• Javits Fellowship Program - http://www.ed.gov/programs/jacobjavits/index.html

  Available to experimental (but not clinical) psychology PhD students. Up to 3 years of funding, including tuition plus stipend. Eligibility is based on both merit and financial need. Students must not have completed a full year of PhD course work at the time of application, so only first-year students and students who have not yet entered the program are eligible to apply.

  Application Deadline: Early October of the student's first year of graduate study

• The Spencer Foundation's Dissertation Fellowship Program - http://www.spencer.org/programs/index.htm

  ... seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. The fellowships support individuals whose dissertations show potential for bringing fresh and constructive perspectives to the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education anywhere in the world.

  Although the dissertation topic must concern education, graduate study may be in any academic discipline or professional field. Each fellow will receive a stipend of $20,000.

  Applicants need not be citizens of the United States; however, they must be candidates for the doctoral degree at a graduate school within the United States.

  Application Deadline: Nov. 1, 2005 (see Spencer web site http://www.spencer.org/ for subsequent years)

• National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Awards - www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06605/nsf06605.txt

  Application Deadline: Jan. 15, 2007 (and Jan. 15 subsequent years)

  Search the NSF web site for details

• Other Funding Sources - a collection of lists of funding sources. These have not been reviewed for relevance, but you may find something that applies to you if you search through them.