Graduate fellowship opportunities
Fellowship Application deadline Eligibility requirements Description
CMU’s Fellowship & Scholarship Office N/A N/A Fellowship and Scholarship Office

NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Training Program

N/A
  • CMU faculty, staff, students, and alumni graduated in the past year
  • STEM discipline projects

Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Site program at CMU, NSF grantees can receive up to $3,000 in grant funding to conduct customer discovery, market research or purchase supplies to create a prototype for their STEM technology

Teresa Heinz Scholarship for Environmental Research

N/A

Open to all advanced doctoral students (those who will have passed their thesis proposal by May of the previous year). No citizenship constraints

 

Provides doctoral dissertation support for research on emerging environmental problems. Research must have public policy to increase society's understanding of environmental problems and their solutions.

Steinbrenner Institute U.S. Environmental Sustainability Ph.D. Fellowships

Contact Neil Donahue for details

The Steinbrenner Institute Doctoral Fellowship program has been established to provide support to highly qualified, second-year doctoral students across all 7 colleges at Carnegie Mellon University who are involved in environmentally focused, interdisciplinary research projects on topics aligned with the strategic focus areas of the Steinbrenner Institute. The two strategic focus areas are a) energy transition strategies and b) urban infrastructure and sustainable cities.

 

For students interested in topics of U.S. environmental sustainability

Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship

Rolling application

Open to all

 

Fellowship awarded up to $12,000 to support the work of graduate students “exploring the principles, practices, and institutions necessary for a free society”

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: NRC Research Associateship Programs

Multiple application cycles; see website for more details

Open to both U.S. citizens and foreign nationals. Postdoctoral applicants should hold/anticipate receiving a doctorate in science or engineering

Research in: chemistry, earth/atmospheric/ocean sciences, engineering, applied sciences, computer science, mathematics, life/biomedical sciences, and physics. Awards are made for 1 or 2 years and are renewable for a maximum of 3 years. Annual stipends for recent doctoral recipients range from $45,000-80,000

Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP)

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Programs and resources for prospective and current STEM undergraduate and graduate students -- including funding opportunities and professional development programs and resources

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Link Foundation Fellowship

Varies by fellowship; see websites for details

No limitations on citizenship

To foster education and innovation in the area of societal production and utilization of energy