| Title |
Applicable College(s) |
Recognized by AAU/MUP |
Comments |
Alexander von Humbolt Research Fellowships
|
All |
AAU |
There are no quotas, neither for individual countries, nor for particular academic disciplines. The selection committees comprise academics from all fields of specialisation and make independent decisions based solely on the applicant's academic record. They support people, not projects. The Fellowships for Experienced Researchers are available to all qualified applicants while the Research Award is by nomination only. |
| American
Academy in Rome |
CEA, CLA |
AAU |
Designed for emerging artists and for scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers. |
American
Academy of Arts and Science
|
CAHNRS, CLA |
AAU |
To support the work of younger public policy analysts, humanists, and social scientists who show promise of becoming leaders in their field, especially those who work on multidisciplinary topics. |
| American
Antiquarian Society Fellowships |
CLA, Libraries |
AAU |
Designed to enable scholars, advanced graduate students, and others to spend an uninterrupted block of time doing research in the AAS library on their projects and discussing their work with others. |
| American
Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) |
CLA |
AAU/MUP |
Invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. |
| American
Philosophical Society |
CLA |
AAU |
Promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach. |
| American
School of Classical Studies in Athens Fellowships |
CLA |
AAU |
Invitation required (WSU not yet invited) - Provides graduate students and scholars a base for the advanced study of all aspects of Greek culture, from antiquity to the present day. |
| Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Awards |
CAHNRS, CEA, CLA, COMM, Libraries |
MUP |
Supports grantees within Higher Education and Scholarship, Scholarly Communications, Research in Information Technology, Museums and Art Conservation, Performing Arts and Conservation and the Environment. |
| Beckman Young Investigators |
CAHNRS, COS, CVM, Nursing, Pharmacy |
MUP |
Promotes research in chemistry and the life sciences, broadly interpreted, and particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science. - LIMITED |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards at the Scientific Interface |
CAHNRS, CEA, COS, CVM, Pharmacy |
MUP |
Intended to foster the early career development of researchers with backgrounds in the physical/computational sciences whose work addresses biological questions and who are dedicated to pursuing a career in academic research. |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards in the Biomedical Sciences |
CVM, Pharmacy |
MUP |
Proposals must be in the area of basic biomedical, disease oriented, translational, or molecular, genetic, or pharmacological epidemiology research. Proposals that are in the area of epidemiology should contact BWF to determine the eligibility of the proposal. Proposals in health services research or involving large-scale clinical trials are ineligible. |
| Cottrell Scholars |
COS |
MUP |
Originality, feasibility, and the prospect for significant fundamental advances to science are the main criteria for the research plan. |
| Fields
Medal |
COS |
AAU |
Recognizes outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement. |
| Folger
Library Postdoctoral Fellowships |
CLA, Libraries |
AAU |
Encourages access to its exceptional collections and to encourage ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue among scholars of the early modern period. |
| Ford Foundation
Fellowships |
All Colleges |
AAU |
Encourages initiatives by those living and working closest to where problems are located; to promote collaboration among the nonprofit, government and business sectors; and to ensure participation by men and women from diverse communities and all levels of society. |
| Fulbright
American Scholars |
All Colleges |
AAU/MUP |
Offers opportunities for American scholars to conduct research, lecture, and/or consult with other scholars and institutions abroad. |
| Guggenheim Fellowships: Fellowships to Assist Research and Artistic Creation |
COS, CLA |
AAU/MUP |
The foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in all fields (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts) except the performing arts. |
| Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators |
CVM |
MUP |
Established in 1985 to give outstanding students at U.S. medical schools the opportunity to receive research training at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. |
| Huntington
Library Research Fellowships |
CLA |
AAU |
Holdings in British and American history, literature, art history, the history of science, and medicine. |
Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award
|
CVM, Pharmacy |
MUP |
Invitation required - Honors investigators whose contributions have improved the clinical treatment of patients. - Applications packets will be available for download from the website. |
| MacArthur
Foundation Fellows |
All Colleges |
AAU/MUP |
Must be nominated -
Recipients may be writers, scientists, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, entrepreneurs, or those in other fields, with or without institutional affiliations. |
| National
Academy of Education |
Education |
AAU |
Supports early career scholars working in critical areas of education research. There are awards for predoctural and postdoctural. |
| National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships |
CLA |
AAU/MUP |
Support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities. |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) MERIT (R37) |
All Colleges |
MUP |
Invitation required - NIH determines awards for R37 grants; the Outstanding Investigator (R35) award has been phased out and is no longer available. |
| National Medal of Science |
CAHNRS, CEA, COS, CVM, Nursing, Pharmacy |
MUP |
To be given to individuals deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, social, behavioral or engineering sciences. |
| National Medal of Technology |
All Colleges |
MUP |
Awarded annually to individuals, teams (up to four individuals), companies or divisions of companies for their outstanding contributions to the Nation's economic, environmental and social well-being through the development and commercialization of technological products, processes and concepts; technological innovation; and development of the Nation's technological manpower. |
| Newberry
Library Long-term Fellows |
CLA, Libraries |
AAU/MUP |
Independent research library concentrating in the humanities. |
| Nobel
Prize |
All Colleges |
AAU |
Invitation required -
Awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for peace. |
| NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program |
CAHNRS, CEA, COS, Education |
MUP |
Offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. |
| Packard
Fellowships |
CAHNRS, CEA, COS, CVM, Pharmacy |
AAU |
Invitation required -
Fellowships for Science and Engineering allow the nation's most promising young professors to pursue their research. At this time, Washington State University has not been invited. |
| Pew Scholars in Biomedicine |
CAHNRS, COS, CVM, Nursing, Pharmacy |
MUP |
Designed to support young investigators of outstanding promise in the basic and clinical sciences relevant to the advancement of human health. - WSU is an invited institution. |
| Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) |
All Colleges |
MUP |
Invitation required - Recognizes outstanding scientists and engineers who, early in their careers, show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of knowledge. This award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent research careers. The PECASE award is an honorary award and does not provide additional funds. |
| Residency
at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual
Arts |
CEA, CLA |
AAU |
Fosters study of the production, use, and cultural meaning of art, artifacts, architecture, and urbanism, from prehistoric times to the present. |
| Residency at the Getty Center for Arts and Humanities |
CLA |
AAU/MUP |
Grants are for established scholars, artists, or writers.Getty Scholars in Residence Program. |
| Residency
at the Institute for Advanced Study |
CAHNRS, CLA, COS, |
AAU |
The major consideration in the appointment process is the expectation that each Member's period of residence at the Institute will result in work of significance and originality. |
| Residency at the National Humanities Center |
CLA |
AAU/MUP |
Offers residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year. National Humanities Center Fellows. |
| Robert Wood Johnson Policy Fellows |
CLA, CVM, Nursing, Pharmacy |
MUP |
An outstanding opportunity for exceptional mid-career health professionals and behavioral and social scientists with an interest in health to experience and participate in health policy processes at the federal level. |
| Rockefeller
Fellowships |
Contact OGRD |
AAU |
Attempts to harness the creative forces of globalization to ensure that the tools and technologies that have significantly improved the human condition in many parts of the world during the past half century are accessible today to more people, more fully, in more places. |
| Searle
Scholars |
CAHNRS, COS, CVM, Pharmacy |
AAU/MUP |
Invitation required -
Supports research in medicine, chemistry and the biological science. - LIMITED |
| Sloan Research Fellowships |
CAHNRS, CEA, COS, CVM |
AAU/MUP |
To enhance the careers of the very best young faculty members in specified fields of science. |
| US Secretary of Agriculture Honor Awards |
CAHNRS |
AAU/MUP |
The Secretary's Annual Honor Awards are the most prestigious awards given at the Department of Agriculture (USDA). The purpose of Honor Awards is to provide high-level recognition to deserving USDA employees at all grade levels and private citizens who have made outstanding contributions supporting USDA's mission. |
| Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars Fellowships |
CAHNRS, CLA |
AAU/MUP |
Awards residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national or international issues. |
