The Space Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) is a ten-week summer program hosted by NASA's Ames Research Center which students with professional experience in space life science disciplines. The program's primary goal is to train the next generation of scientists and engineers, enabling NASA to meet future research and development challenges in the space life sciences.
Eligibility: Graduate Students
Funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to add an important international and language component to their educations. The focus is on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study (Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are excluded). Applicants must show how their study abroad program, as well as their future academic and career goals, will contribute to U.S. national security, broadly defined.
Eligibility: Undergraduates, Graduates
Four-year fellowship for students pursuing doctoral degrees in fields that use high-performance computing to solve complex science and engineering problems. Applicants should want to have an impact on the nation while advancing their research. Fellows come from diverse scientific and engineering disciplines but share a common interest in using computing in their research.
Eligibility: Seniors, Graduate Students
Deadline: January
IDA's two-year Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI) Fellowship provides recent bachelor's degree recipients with a unique opportunity to use their critical thinking and analytic skills to work on a diverse set of challenges in science and technology (S&T) policy areas, including energy and the environment, space sciences, innovation and competitiveness, evaluation, life sciences, information technologies, national security, and STEM education. Fellows will be involved in collaborative research for leaders in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President and other Federal Government organizations, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
Eligibility: Seniors, Graduate Students, Alumnus
Deadline: January
White House Fellowships offer exceptional emerging leaders first-hand experience working at the highest levels of the Federal government. Selected individuals typically spend a year working as a full-time, paid Fellow to senior White House Staff, Cabinet Secretaries, and other top-ranking government officials. Fellows also participate in an education program consisting of roundtable discussions with leaders from the private and public sectors, and trips to study U.S. policy in action both domestically and internationally. Fellowships are awarded on a strictly non-partisan basis.
Eligibility: Graduate Students, Alumni
Deadline: February
Scholarships for remarkable service members, veterans and military spouses as they look to begin their next chapter as public and private sector leaders.
Eligibility: Undergraduate and Graduate Students who are a service member, veteran, or military spouse
Deadline: February
Fellows come together in six cities across Europe and the United States to study how and why people confront intolerance and protect democratic values. Fellows first participate in an intensive three-week educational program providing a country and context-specific curriculum that examines historical and contemporary challenges to human rights, pluralism and equality. After the three weeks, they embark on developing civil society initiatives in their own communities.
Eligibility: Graduates, Alumni
Deadline: March
Two-year Community Fellowships are awarded to recent college graduates with the linguistic skills, passion, and cultural competency to work with diverse immigrant communities. Community Fellows become partially accredited representatives through the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Access Programs, allowing them to represent clients in legal matters before the Department of Homeland Security. They are placed in community-based organizations mostly in and around New York City as well as in other states.
Eligibility: Graduates, Alumni
Deadline: April
Fellowships to reward the best and the brightest US citizens to space‑related careers. Two types of fellowships are offered in areas of space science and engineering of interest to NASA: Dissertation and Thesis Improvement Fellowships and Masters Fellowships.
Eligibility: Graduate Students
Deadline: September
One-year, fully funded master's program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, designed to build a global community of future leaders who will serve to deepen understanding between China and the rest of the world. The program brings together a diverse cohort of young leaders from all regions and sectors of the world who embrace each other's differences while working on a joint mission.
Eligibility: Seniors, Recent Alumnus
Deadline: September
Fellowship for students who seek a unique opportunity to change the world through a Foreign Service career in the U.S. Department of State. Fellows pursue a two-year master's degree and complete two summer internships as part of the program. Applications are encouraged from members of minority groups historically underrepresented in the Foreign Service, women, and those with financial need. Fellows must complete a five-year service commitment to the Department of State.
Eligibility: Seniors, Alumnus
Deadline: September
Fellowship for students who seek a unique opportunity to change the world through a Foreign Service career in the U.S. Department of State. Fellows pursue a two-year master's degree and complete two summer internships as part of the program. Applications are encouraged from members of minority groups historically underrepresented in the Foreign Service, women, and those with financial need. Fellows must complete a five-year service commitment to the Department of State.
Eligibility: Seniors, Alumnus
Deadline: October
Recognizes the outstanding computing accomplishments of undergraduate and graduate women, genderqueer, or non-binary students. Students are recognized for their technical contributions to projects that demonstrate a high level of innovation and potential impact. Past projects include: software and app development, machine learning, big data, bioinformatics, cybersecurity, space, and more.
Eligibility: Seniors, Recent Alumnus
Deadline: October
Funding to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject offered by the University of Cambridge. Scholarships are awarded based on intellectual ability, leadership capacity, a commitment to improving the lives of others, and a good fit with Cambridge. The program aims to build a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.
Eligibility: Seniors, Alumnus
Deadline: October
Fellowships provide MS and Ph.D. level students with full tuition, fees, and an annual stipend, as well as access to dozens of the top Engineering and Science firms and Universities in the nation. Fellows are provided a paid, graduate level work experience by an employer.
Eligibility: Seniors, Graduate Students
Deadline: October
Fellowships are awarded to the nation's most promising graduate students in science and technology. Up to five years of funding are available for students pursuing a PhD in the applied physical and biological sciences, mathematics, and engineering who are willing to morally commit to make their skills available to the United States in times of national emergency. Fellows are selected using a rigorous, merit-based process intended to identify innovators with the greatest potential to create transformative solutions to the world's most urgent challenges.
Eligibility: Seniors, Graduate Students
Deadline: October
Fellowships recognize and support outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines, including STEM education, who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions. The GRFP supports those who have demonstrated their potential for significant research achievements in STEM or STEM education.
Eligibility: Seniors, Graduate Students from underrepresented backgrounds
Deadline: October
Fellowship honors the contributions of immigrants and children of immigrants to the United States. Each Fellowship supports one to two years of graduate study in any field and in any advanced degree-granting program in the United States. Fellows must have shown potential in the fields for which they seek further education; the capacity for creativity, persistence and work; and the commitment to the values of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights, which protect the American dream. Applicants should be either naturalized citizens or the child of naturalized citizens.
Eligibility: Seniors, Graduate Students
Deadline: August
Provides grants for individually designed study/research projects or for English Teaching Assistant Programs. During their grants, Fulbrighters will meet, work, live with and learn from the people of the host country, sharing daily experiences.
Eligibility: Graduate Students, Alumni
Deadline: November
Funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to add an important international and language component to their educations. The focus is on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study. The program is a selective opportunity for students in cybersecurity-related fields to gain vital public and private sector work experience and even receive up to $75,000, in student loan assistance. Participants selected for the program will be guaranteed a two-year placement at a federal agency with cybersecurity needs.
Eligibility: Undergraduates, Graduates, Alumni
Deadline: November
Competitive employment opportunity that allows young professionals to live and work in cities, towns, and villages throughout Japan. Being a JET is an opportunity to work and to represent the United States as cultural ambassadors to Japan. Most participants serve as Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) and work in public and private schools throughout Japan; some work as Coordinators for International Relations (CIRs) as interpreters/translators.
Eligibility: Graduate Students, Alumni
Deadline: November
Internship, mentorship, and networking experience for those pursuing careers in commercial spaceflight. Fellows are matched to a position at one of the leading spaceflight companies, which may include assignments in engineering designs, market studies, strategic planning, policy evaluation, and business analysis and development.
Eligibility: Juniors, Seniors, Graduate Students, Alumni
Deadline: November
An intensive overseas summer language and cultural immersion program. Students spend eight to ten weeks studying one of 15 critical languages, receiving group-based intensive language instruction and participating in structured cultural enrichment experiences. Some programs do not require any past language student while others require 1-2 years of previous experience.
Eligibility: Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Alumni
Deadline: November
Fellowship aims to empower women through encouragement and financial support of women pursuing Ph.D./doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering or space sciences. This fellowship is open to women of any nationality.
Eligibility: Doctoral Students
Deadline: November
Fellowship awarded to U.S. citizens and nationals for doctoral studies in one of eighteen supported STEM disciplines. Fellowships provide three years of full tuition and all mandatory fees, a monthly stipend, and medical insurance.
Eligibility: Seniors, Graduate Students, Alumni
Deadline: December
Supports one year of service at the Endowment in Washington D.C. Junior Fellows provide research assistance to senior associates on international policy issues, participate in meetings with high-level officials, contribute to congressional testimony, and organize briefings attended by scholars, activists, journalists and government officials.
Eligibility: Seniors, Recent Alumnus
Deadline: December
The program aims to bring talented, innovative, and brilliant scientists, engineers, and researchers into the Department of Defense workforce. SMART Scholars receive full tuition scholarships, monthly stipends, health insurance and book allowances, as well as 8-12 week summer internships. Upon degree completion, one year of service is required for each year of scholarship funds received.
Eligibility: First-year, Sophomore, Graduate Students, Alumni
Deadline: December
An 11-month, fully funded professional development opportunity in Russia for emerging American, British, and German leaders in arts/culture management, business, economics, human development, journalism, law, public policy, and other fields. Fellows gain competitive skills for the global workplace plus experience the business, policy, and cultural environments of Russia and the region.
Eligibility: Seniors, Graduate Students, Alumni
Deadline:
supports bold leaders from all over the world who see possibility in the face of the most existential challenges of our day. Together, we strive to build a world that has yet to exist: a future free from racism and its far-reaching consequences where all people can thrive. This Fellowship is for people whose enterprises are at an early stage and who are experts on the challenge they've chosen to confront. We seek leaders who reflect the community they serve and bring deep knowledge of the issues into their work as they co-design solutions with and for their communities.
Eligibility: Graduate Students, Alumni
Deadline: August
Funding for one academic year of postgraduate study in any discipline offered by institutions of higher learning in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The program is designed to introduce and connect generations of future American leaders to the island of Ireland, while recognizing and fostering intellectual achievement, leadership, and a commitment to community and public service
Eligibility: Seniors, Alumnus
Deadline: August
Funding for two to three years of study at the University of Oxford in any field. Rhodes Scholars are chosen based on several criteria, including their literary and scholastic attainments; energy to use one's talents to the full; and their moral force of character and instincts to lead.
Eligibility: Seniors, Recent Alumnus
Deadline: August
Funding to study for a graduate degree in the United Kingdom. The program aims to strengthen the relationship between the British and American peoples and provide future leaders with a lasting understanding of British society.
Eligibility: Seniors, Alumnus
Deadline: August
Cultural exchange program that provides grants to conduct an individually designed research or creative project, study for a graduate degree, or teach English in approximately 140 countries. Grant lengths and dates vary by country.
Eligibility: Seniors, Graduate Students, Alumnus
Deadline: Varies by Program
GFA Fellows work alongside other government leaders on real issues facing our communities by analyzing data to improve access to healthcare, developing toolkits for families to advocate for their child's education, expanding employment opportunities for formerly incarcerated people, and more. We actively seek applicants from traditionally underrepresented in government leadership, including people of color, first generation college students, women and gender non-binary individuals, members of the LBGTQ community, and individuals from low-socio economic backgrounds.
Eligibility: Seniors, Graduate Students, Alumni
Deadline: November
Fellowship that annually provides 75 American and 75 German young professionals, between the ages of 18-24, the opportunity to spend one year in each other's countries, studying, interning, and living with hosts on a cultural immersion program. Consists of two months of intensive German language training, one semester of classes in one's academic or career field at a university, technical or professional school, and three to five month internship in one's career field
Eligibility: Graduate Students, Alumni
Deadline: Varies by Program
Offers recent graduates and career changers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) a stipend to complete a specially designed, cutting-edge master's degree program, in exchange for a commitment to teach for three years in high-need secondary urban or rural schools. The Fellowship is currently recruiting in Pennsylvania, where the program provides Fellows with a $32,000 stipend to help offset the cost of tuition and living expenses during a year of full-time master's study and to help support Fellows in their preparation for teaching, including in-depth classroom experience, at one of several partner universities and their teacher education programs.
Eligibility: Graduate Students, Alumni
Deadline: Varies by Program
This program recruits, trains, and places locally-rooted, dynamic leaders in communities across America to address critical community challenges while strengthening the civic fabric of their towns. We prioritize locations where the narrative of success too often means leaving and never coming back.
Eligibility: Graduate Students, Alumni
