Our Funding Opportunities page is designed to offer links to websites for research funding information specifically for women. If you know of a funding opportunity that you would like to share, please e-mail us at WISMAC@utsouthwestern.edu.  We recommend searching for research funding opportunities by use of COS (formerly known as Community of Science) through the UT Southwestern Library intranet:  http://www4.utsouthwestern.edu/library/education/tutorials/index.cfm#COS

Mary Fieser Postdoctoral Program for Women and Minorities Harvard University will award 12 new postdoc fellowships in chemistry this spring that are aimed at increasing the number of women and minority Ph.D.'s who become professors. Fellows will study for a year in Harvard's department of chemistry and chemical biology, and will have the opportunity to apply for a second year of fellowship money. Deadline for the first award: February 15 and for the second award: July 15, 2008.To apply. [from AWIS Jan. ’08 Washington Wire].  [posted February 15, 2008]

Want to know how many women receive NIH funds? The average size of their grants?
NIH has created a website on the involvement of women in its various grant
programs! see:
Sex/Gender in the Biomedical Science Workforce (link for grant)

P.E.O. Educational Loan Fund (ELF), established in 1907, makes loans available to qualified women who desire higher education and are in need of financial assistance. Students must be recommended by a local chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood and within two years of completing her course of study. The current maximum loan is $9,000 at 2% interest and due six years from the date of issue. Interest is billed annually with principal payments to begin after graduation from the program for which the loan was granted.

P.E.O. Program for Continuing Education (PCE) was established in 1973 to provide need based grants to women in the United States and Canada whose education has been interrupted and who find it necessary to return to school to support themselves and/or their families.

ADVANCE Grant: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers: Institutional Transformation ADVANCE Grant sponsored by the National Science Foundation. For information go to: Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation--the world's largest source of funding exclusively for graduate women--supports aspiring scholars around the globe, teachers and activists in local communities, women at critical stages of their careers, and those pursuing professions where women are underrepresented. For information visit: AAUW Educational Fund 

National Medical Fellowships, Inc. (NMF) fellowship programs offer minority medical students the opportunity to study or serve in internships under the guidance of prominent mentors in areas including: biomedical research, community medicine, pediatric nutrition, and substance abuse research and treatment. Priority is given to second- and third-year students. Fellowships are not renewable.

Graduate Women in Science Sigma Delta Epsilon offers grants and fellowship opportunities.  Read about them at this link: Graduate Women in Science