Trainees Fellowships & Awards
These programs are not administered or controlled by UC San Diego. These are opportunities outside of UC San Diego, and UC San Diego is not involved in the choosing of the recipients benefiting from these programs.
Predoctoral (PhD students apply)
NIH F99/K00 - NIH Blueprint D-SPAN Award
Purpose/Eligibility
The NIH Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) Award supports the pre- to post-doctoral transition of diverse graduate students.
Who applies?
PhD Students
Predoctoral Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (MHSAS) Fellowship
Purpose/Eligibility
Funded by a grant from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the MFP has created the Predoctoral Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (MHSAS) Fellowship to support the training of practitioners in behavioral health services and prevention. This fellowship program is designed for students in clinical, counseling and school psychology, and other psychology doctoral students whose training prepares them for careers in behavioral health services. It is not required for applicants to come from communities of color but these applicants are especially encouraged to apply.
Who applies?
PhD student. No interns.Details
3 years maximum financial support, travel support (limited), dissertation support.Fullbright IIE Fellowships
Purpose/Eligibility
Sponsored by the United States Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), the Fulbright Foreign Student Program enables graduate students, young professionals and artists from abroad to study and conduct research in the United States. The Fulbright Foreign Student Program operates in more than 155 countries worldwide. Approximately 4,000 foreign students receive Fulbright scholarships each year.Who applies?
Non-US based studentsFullbright US Student Program
Purpose/Eligibility
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed study/research projects or for English Teaching Assistant Programs. A candidate will submit a Statement of Grant Purpose defining activities to take place during one academic year in a participating country outside the U.S.Who applies?
Graduate StudentsDetails
Contact Fullbright Program Advisor: Michelle MonroyGraduate Fellowship Advisor
858-822-2938
gradadvisor@ucsd.edu
Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship
Purpose/Eligibility
Every year, The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans supports thirty New Americans, immigrants or the children of immigrants, who are pursuing graduate school in the United States. Each Fellowship supports one to two years of graduate study in any field and in any advanced degree-granting program in the United States. Each award is for up to a total of $90,000. Here is the break down: Each Fellow receives $25,000 in stipend support a year (all stipend awards are capped at $50,000 per year), as well as 50 percent of required tuition and fees, up to $20,000 per year, for one to two years. The first year of Fellowship funding cannot be deferred.Who applies?
Phd StudentGates Millenium Scholars
Purpose/Eligibility
The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) Program, funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was established in 1999 to provide outstanding African American, American Indian/Alaska Native*, Asian Pacific Islander American**, and Hispanic American students with an opportunity to complete an undergraduate college education in any discipline area of interest. Continuing Gates Millennium Scholars may request funding for a graduate degree program in one of the following discipline areas: computer science, education, engineering, library science, mathematics, public health or science.Support for the cost of education by covering unmet need and self-help aid. Renewable awards for Gates Millennium Scholars maintaining satisfactory academic progress. Graduate school funding for continuing Gates Millennium Scholars in the areas of computer science, education, engineering, library science, mathematics, public health or science.Who applies?
Current or prospective graduate student and former Gates Millennium ScholarPEO International Scholar Awards
Purpose/Eligibility
The P.E.O. Scholar Awards are one-time, competitive, merit-based awards intended to recognize and encourage academic excellence and achievement by women in doctoral-level programs. These awards provide partial support for study and research. Awards are announced in the spring of each year.Who applies?
Women Phd StudentsDetails
Nominations of potential Scholars are accepted from P.E.O. chapters between August 20 and November 20 each year. Nominees then have 45 days after their nomination is approved to complete their application.Postdoctoral (PhD holders apply)
Fullbright IIE Fellowships
Purpose/Eligibility
Sponsored by the United States Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), the Fulbright Foreign Student Program enables graduate students, young professionals and artists from abroad to study and conduct research in the United States. The Fulbright Foreign Student Program operates in more than 155 countries worldwide. Approximately 4,000 foreign students receive Fulbright scholarships each year.
Who applies?
Non-US based students
Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship to Promote Diversity (AARF-D)
Purpose/Eligibility
To support exceptional scientist from underrepresented groups working in Alzheimer’s and all other dementia research, and who are engaged in their post-graduate work (i.e. postdoctoral fellows) and before they have their first independent faculty positions (i.e. Assistant Professor) and working in diverse areas of research including basic, translational, clinical, functional and social-behavioral research.
Details
<10 years post terminal degree
Clinical
APA/APF Fellowships
Purpose/Eligibility
APA/APF supports several diversity-focused fellowships, including: (1) Diversity Leadership Fellowships: The APA/APAF Diversity Leadership Fellowship identifies and motivates minority psychiatry residents or those interested in minority and vulnerable populations who, through the experiential and training opportunities of the fellowship, will become well equipped to teach, administer, and provide culturally competent, evidence based mental health and substance abuse services to diverse minority groups and at-risk populations. (2) SAMHSA Minority Fellowships: The goal of this fellowship is to increase the number and enhance the knowledge and capabilities of racial and ethnic minority psychiatry residents to teach, administer, conduct services research and provide culturally competent, evidence-based mental health services to minority and/or underserved populations.Who applies?
Psychiatry residentsTravel
The American academy of clinical neuropsychology travel grant
Purpose/Eligibility
AACN is proud to offer Registration Scholarships, which is open to all AACN Student Members who will be first-author presenters at this year’s poster session. The award will provide access to the full meeting content. Applicants can apply under the scholarship categories of Diversity or Unrestricted.Who applies?
Students early in their training, including undergraduates to early doctoral students are also encouraged to apply.
APA Travel Award for Students of Color
Purpose/Eligibility
The APA Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention and Training in Psychology II (CEMRRAT2) Task Force is pleased to announce this year’s Request for Proposals (RFPs) for research grants for students of color and psychologists who are recent graduates of MA or PhD or PsyD programs (degrees conferred in 2019 or 2020). Funds have been allocated by the Task Force to cover costs for conducting research and to encourage journal submissions.The goal of CEMRRAT’s student and recent graduate research grant is to promote the career and research development of students and early career psychologists of color by supporting participation in conducting research and by prompting them to publish.Who applies?
Students of color and psychologists who are recent graduates of MA or PhD or PsyD programs.Other
NIH Loan Repayment Program
NIH Loan Repayment Program (LRPs) are a set of programs established by Congress and designed to recruit and retain highly qualified health professionals into biomedical or biobehavioral research careers. The LRPs counteract that financial pressure by repaying up to $50,000 annually of a researcher's qualified educational debt in return for a commitment to engage in NIH mission-relevant research.
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