Funding

Carnegie Mellon

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Individuals, Corporations & Organizations

A summary of all the different forms of funding available. Click on the description for more details. We welcome submissions to our fellowship page! Please email women@cs.cmu.edu with submission details.

You can find additional fellowship opportunities on the CMU SCS Fellowship Opportunities page.

Last updated on March 22, 2012.

Active Fellowships

Description Amount Status Deadline Gender US Citizen Other Eligibility
Etsy Hacker Grants $5,000 Active 2012-08-25 Female No Attend Hacker School for the summer, a three-month, full-time school in New York
GSA Graduate Student Conference Funding $500 Active Rolling All No Graduate Students @ Carnegie Mellon
International Fellowships $18,000 + Active Varies Female No International graduate and postgraduate students.
L'Oreal Women in Science Fellowship Program $40,000 + Active Varies Female No Postgraduate students.
Microsoft Research Fellowship Full tuition + fees Active Varies All No Various requirements for various programs
NSF IGERT Fellowships 75% of cost Active 2012-05-01 All Yes Please refer to the link.
SURG Grant $500 - $1,000 Active 2012-10-19 All No CMU Undergrad.
University of Memphis Fellowships Tuition plus stipends Active Varies Female No Must be applying for grad school at the University

Pending Fellowships

Description Amount Status Deadline Gender US Citizen Other Eligibility
Eaton Corporation Multicultural Scholarship Program (EMSP) $3,000 Pending Unknown Unknown Unknown -

Closed Fellowships

Description Amount Status Deadline Gender US Citizen Other Eligibility
A. R. Zipf Fellowship $10,000 Closed 2012-03-12 All Yes U.S Citizens or Permanent Residents
AAUW Career Development Grants $2,000 - $12,000 Closed 2011-12-15 Female Yes Bachelor's Degree required
AAUW Community Action Grants $2,000 - $10,000 Closed 2012-01-15 Female Yes Permanent residents
APS/IBM Research Internship for Undergraduate Women $2,500 + Closed 2011-02-01 Female No Full-time sophomores and juniors with a minimum GPA of 3.0.
AT&T Labs Fellowship Program $60,230 Closed 2011-01-31 Female No Women, under-represented minorities
CREU Undergraduate Research Program $3,000 stipend, $1,500 expenditures Closed 2011-05-10 Female No Completed two years of undergraduate study at the college level
Dept. Of Homeland Security Varies Closed 2011-01-05 All Yes Full-time student at an accredited college or university in the US.
DOE Computational Science Grad. Fellowship $72,430 Closed 2011-09-30 All Yes Permanent residents.
Facebook Fellowship Program $66,430 Closed 2011-02-28 All No Students must be noinated by a faculty member and enrolled during the academic year that the Fellowship is awarded.
George Washington Univ. Graduate Scholarships Varies w/ housing stipend Closed 2011-01-31 All Yes GPA 3.0+ for undergraduates; GPA 3.2+ for graduates
Goldwater Scholarship Program $7,500 Closed 2012-01-27 All Yes Permanent residents
Google Anita Borg Scholarship $10,000 Closed 2011-02-06 Female No GPA 3.5+; graduate student or senior year of undergrad; permanent resident; international students
Google Global Community Scholarship for the Grace Hopper Conference $2,500 Closed 2010-05-14 Female No Enrolled in a non-U.S. university.
Google PhD Fellowship Tuition, Fees, and Stipend Closed 2011-01-21 All No CMU: please submit materials to April Foster (aprilf[at]cs[dot]cmu[dot]edu) by Feb 12th
Graduate Student Researches Program (GSRP) $30,000 Closed 2011-03-31 No Yes U.S. citizens only. Students may apply at any time during their graduate program, or prior to receiving their baccalaureate degree, provided they have been accepted to an accredited graduate program at a U.S. college or university.
Guy Wassertzug Scholarships $2,000 Closed 2011-03-25 Female No Undergrad with leadership role, GPA 3.0+
Harry S. Truman Scholarships $30,000 Closed 2012-02-07 All No Full-time juniors
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Tuition, fees, and stipend Closed 2010-01-01 All No Full-time Ph.D students.
IEEE-RAS Fellowship Program $12,500 Closed 2008-02-15 Female No Doctoral students
Intel Ph.D. Fellowship $60,430 Closed 2011-02-11 All No Ph.D. students within 18 months of graduation focusing on semiconductor technologies
Jack Kent Cooke Dissertation Fellowship Award $25,000 Closed 2012-02-03 All No Must be enrolled in a graduate degree program and participate in Fellowship activities
Jennings Family Brave Companions Fund Varies Closed 2012-02-24 All Yes QPA 3.0+, CMU sophomore or junior, permanent residents
Judith Resnik Challenger Scholarships Varies Closed Unknown Female No Carnegie Mellon students
Microsoft General Scholarship Full tuition Closed 2011-02-01 All No Full-time at university in U.S., Canada or Mexico
Morgan Stanley Women in IT (WIT) Paid internship Closed Unknown Female No -
NASA Harriet Jenkins Fellowship Program (JPFP) Three-year fellowship award packages that include stipend and tuition offset support Closed 2011-05-01 All No Must be a member of an underrepresented group, which includes women, ethnic minorities and persons with disabilities
Scholarship for Women Studying Information Security (SWSIS) $10,000 Closed 2012-02-15 Female No Junior, senior, or first year grad student; must meet all SWE requirements
Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship full tuition, 25,000-41,800 stipend Closed 2011-12-01 All Yes GPA 3.0+, able to participate in summer internships at DoD laboratories, agree to post-graduate employment with the DoD
Selected Professions Fellowships $5,000 - $18,000 Closed 2012-01-10 Female Yes Permanent residents.
Semiconductor Research Corporation Graduate Fellowship Program $26,232 Closed 2012-02-15 All Yes U.S. citizens or have permanent resident, refugee, or political asylum status in the U.S. Are pursuing or planning to pursue a Ph.D. degree with research relevant to microelectronics under the guidance of a GRC-approved faculty member.
Siebel Scholars Program $25,000 Closed 2011-07-01 All No Final-year students
The Tisdale Fellowship $5000 Grant, Internship Closed 2011-02-15 All No Junior, Senior, or Graduate students
The Upstart/Startup Grants Varies Closed Unknown All Yes -
AAUW American Fellowships $6,000 + Inactive 2011-11-15 Female Yes Permanent residents
National Physical Science Consortium $26,000 + Inactive 2011-11-30 All Yes Senior undergrad with 3.0 GPA or graduate students.
National Research Council of the National Academics $42,000 Inactive 2011-11-01 All Yes Must have earned a Ph.D., Sc.D., M.D., D.V.M., or academically equivalent research doctorate before beginning tenure. Some laboratories have citizen restrictions
NVDIA Fellowship $25,000 Inactive 2011-11-08 All No Students must have already completed their first year of full time Ph.D. level studies.