Selected Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students

KU Funding Opportunities:

• Graduate Scholarly Presentation Travel Fund
  • The Graduate Scholarly Presentation Travel Fund is available to Lawrence campus graduate students only. You must be presenting a paper or the disciplinary equivalent at a national or regional meeting of a learned or professional society.  A student may receive an award ($500) only once, and funds are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
• Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship
  • The University of Kansas Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship program seeks to identify, recruit, and provide development opportunities for exceptional Ph.D. students in the sciences, engineering, business, and economics who demonstrate the promise to make significant contributions to their fields of study and society as a whole.
• The University Women's Club of the University of Kansas
  • The University Women's Club of the University of Kansas makes awards to eligible full-time graduate and undergraduate women.  Awards are based on academic merit, need, service and activities, career plans and other criteria.
• For Incoming and Current Graduate Students
  • Please check this link for opportunities available through academic departments: http://www.scholarships.ku.edu/graduate.shtml
• Doctoral Student Research Fund
  • The Doctoral Student Research Fund is designed to support KU doctoral students on the Lawrence Campus who need assistance to carry out research that advances progress toward the degree. The application process is currently closed. Look here for more information in July.
    
    

    Funding may be requested to cover: supplies, material, equipment, if not possible to charge to a department or a research grant; research related expenses (e.g., subject fees, access to specialized data sets, purchase of archival materials or images, laboratory supplies that will be consumed in the course of the project); travel expenses in connection with research (requests for travel expenses must include a justification of the need to travel and a day-to-day or week-to-week schedule of specific research plans). Priority is given to requests to do on-site research where the facilities at the site are unique; other research expenses such as funds to pay research participants or publication expenses for refereed books or articles will be considered.

    Students are eligible for this funding to support research, performance or exhibition as required by their graduate program. In order to be eligible, the proposed activity must be central to the student's graduate studies and serve to contribute directly to his or her degree.

    Requests for funds to travel to professional meetings will NOT be considered. Funds for this purpose can be requested from the Paper Presenter Fund. Funding also cannot be used as salary for graduate students, undergraduate research assistants, or others helping with the project. Computers and computer hardware are not allowable.

• Hall Center for the Humanities Opportunities
  The Hall Center for the Humanities provides several opportunities for graduate students. Information may be found on their website.
• KU Women for KU Women Fund
  • The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center administers the KU Women for KU Women Fund. An application form is available here.