professional development & Funding

AAUW Funding and Grants

AWIS Scholarship and Grants

BU GWiSE Fellowship & Application Tips

Compiled list of Fellowships and advice, including that for international students.

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program

For college seniors, first-year graduate students, or those in a gap year preparing to apply to doctoral programs in the applied physical and biological sciences, mathematics, or engineering.

Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program

For master’s and doctoral students in oceanography, marine biology, or maritime archaeology.

Ford Foundation Fellowship

For those interested in careers of teaching and research who would help to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties.

Graduate Fellowships for STEM Diversity

GEM Fellowship Programs

Google Scholarships+

GWIS National Fellowship Program

Any person, graduate student through assistant professor,  who identifies as a woman in science, irrespective of race, religion, nationality, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, or age is welcome to apply.

M. Hildred Blewett Scholarship for Women in Physics​

For women to return to physics research careers after having had to interrupt those careers for family reasons.

National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering

For Black/African American, Native/American Indian, and Latinx/Hispanic American young women and men in STEM careers.

The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship

For students engaged in graduate work in fields relevant to national security.

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships

For graduate students in the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the history and ​philosophy of science.

OWSD PhD Fellowship

For women scientists from science- and technology-lagging countries (STLCs) to undertake PhD research in the natural, engineering and information technology sciences at a host institute in another developing country in the Global South.

P.E.O. Scholars Award

Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future

For women citizens of a developing country or emerging economy where women are underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines.

The United States Department of Energy Science Graduate Fellowship

For students engaged in graduate work relevant to energy technology and policy.

Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Scholarships