Faculty and Postdoctoral Research Opportunities

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Multiple Fields - Biological and Medical Sciences - Education - Humanities and Social Sciences - Russian and Soviet Studies - Science Engineering and Technology

Multiple Fields

CUWMA Cooperative Grants for Faculty - Consortium of Universities - funding cooperative projects to faculty from two or more universities

Fulbright Scholar Program - lecturing and/or research grants; long- and short-term

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships - fellowships for advanced professionals in any field

MacArthur Fellows Program - to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations. For scientists, writers, artists, social scientists, humanists, teachers, activists, or workers in other fields

The Pew Charitable Trusts - Grants for Culture Education, Environment, Health & Human Sciences, Public Policy, and Religion

Rotary Foundation Grants for University Teachers to Serve in Developing Countries - Provides funds to higher education faculty to travel abroad to teach at colleges and universities in developing countries

Biological and Medical Sciences

The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc - award programs which seek to advance the science of chemistry, chemical engineering and related sciences
GrantsNet - funding opportunities for training in the Biological and Medical Sciences
National Research Council Associateship Programs - information about Postdoctoral Research Associateship programs at over 100 US and overseas locations

Education

The Spencer Foundation - encouraging research to yield new knowledge about education in the US and abroad

Humanities and Social Sciences

Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellowships - for research projects appropriate to the collection

George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation - fellowships for independent projects in fields selected on a rotational basis

Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships - for outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the Social Sciences and Humanities

National Endowment for the Humanities - for research in the Humanities

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship and Grant Programs (ACLS)

Social Science Research Council (SSRC) -- Fellowships and Grants - Postdoctoral fellowships and advanced research grants in both Social Sciences and the Humanities

Russian and Soviet Studies

Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies - Special Scholarships in Russian and Post-Soviet Studies - to support research on topics in the Russian/NIS field

Science, Engineering, and Technology

Lawrence Livermore Fellowship - Postdoctoral fellowship to pursue cutting edge science in Atmospheric Science, Biological Science, Chemistry, Computational Mathematics, Computer Science, Energy, Engineering, Environmental Research, Geological Science, Laser Science, Material Science, and Physics
Marshall Sherfield Fellowships - to introduce American Scientists and Engineers to cutting edge UK science and engineering
National Research Council Associateship Programs - information about Postdoctoral Research Associateship programs at over 100 US and overseas locations
National Science Foundation
Sloan Research Fellowships - to enhance the careers of the very best young faculty in Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, Neuroscience, and Physics