Financial Aid and Fellowships
Don't let financial needs stop you from achieving your
dreams! College is very expensive, and graduate school
and medical school can be too, but there is help available.
Check out these sites for information on financial aid
and fellowships:
Undergraduate Opportunities
Specific Scholarships:
Gates
Millennium Scholars Program
The Gates Millennium Scholars Program provides outstanding,
low-income, underrepresented minority students with
an opportunity to complete an undergraduate education
in all areas of study.
NIH
Undergraduate Scholarship Program
The US National Institutes of Health offers competitive
scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds
who are committed to careers in biomedical and health-related
research.
Robert
C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program
The Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program is a federally
funded, State-administered program to recognize exceptionally
able high school seniors who show promise of continued
excellence in postsecondary education.
Financial Aid and Scholarship Databases:
Colleges,
Scholarships, and Financial Aid Page
4FinancialAid.com
CollegeFunds.net
FastWeb
FinAid!
LunchMoney
Princeton
Review: Scholarship Search
ScholarshipCoach.com
Scholarship
Resource Network Express
Scholarships.com
Graduate and Medical Student Opportunities
Fellowships
and Financial Aid
This list of graduate fellowship opportunities for those
entering graduate programs is by no means comprehensive,
but it provides basic information about some of the
fellowships that might be available for graduate study.
Financial
Aid Information
Gradschools.com presents this list of sources for information
about obtaining financial aid.
Graduate
Level Fellowships and Scholarships for Women in Science
and Engineering
This listing of financial aid sources is a great resource
for women in science!
GrantsNet
GrantsNet is a resource to find funds for training in
the biomedical sciences and undergraduate science education.
Howard
Hughes Medical Institute
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute provides grant funding
for pre-K to 12th-grade and undergraduate science education,
graduate science education and research training, and
research by non-U.S. scientists.
Scholarships,
Fellowships and Postdoctoral Awards for Women
This site is a great resource for information about
financial aid for college, graduate school and postdoctoral
study.
Third
Wave Foundation - Grants
The Third Wave Foundation offers grants which help young
women activists make change in their lives and the lives
of others.
For Minorities:
Gates
Millennium Scholars Program
The Gates Millennium Scholars Program provides outstanding,
low-income African American, American Indian/Alaska
Natives, Asian Pacific Islander Americans, and Hispanic
American students with an opportunity to complete graduate
education in mathematics, science, engineering, education,
or library science.
GEM:
National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities
in Engineering and Science
The GEM Fellowship programs are designed to offer opportunities
for underrepresented minority students to obtain MS
degrees in engineering and Ph.D. degrees in engineering
and the natural and physical sciences through a program
of paid summer internships and graduate financial assistance.
Herbert
W. Nickens, M.D., Minority Medical Student Scholarships
The Herbert W. Nickens, M.D., Minority Medical Student
Scholarships were established by the AAMC to continue
advancing Dr. Nickens’ lifelong concerns about
the educational, societal, and health-care needs of
minorities. These awards consist of five scholarships
given to outstanding third-year minority medical students
who have demonstrated leadership in eliminating inequities
in medical education and health care.
MARC:
Minority Access to Research Careers
The Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program
was created by the National Institute of General Medical
Sciences (NIGMS) to increase the number of biomedical
and behavioral scientists from minority groups. A key
objective of the MARC Program is the encouragement of
minority students in the pursuit of graduate training
leading to the Ph.D. degree in the biomedical and behavioral
sciences.
National
Medical Fellowships
National Medical Fellowships, Inc. is dedicated to improving
the health of underserved communities by increasing
the representation of minority physicians, educators,
researchers, and policymakers in the United States;
training minority medical students to address the special
needs of their communities; and educating the public
and policymakers about public health problems and needs
of underserved populations.
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