Vanderbilt Corner
This guide is intended to assist Vanderbilt graduate students locate dissertation and fellowship funding.
Look to this corner for Vanderbilt resources.
Web sites
- AAUW Fellowships and Grants Program Information
Graduate support for women. - Chronicle of Philanthropy: Deadline for Grants and Awards
- Consortium Research Fellows Program (CRFP) Research opportunities in a wide array of disciplines.
- Dissertation Funding Resources Helpful links to locate dissertation funding. (Tufts University)
- Fulbright Program Funding for graduate study and advanced research in all academic disciplines.
- Graduate College Fellowship Opportunities Graduate funding including fellowships, dissertation and travel. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Grants, Scholarships, and Other Opportunities for Minorities Funding resource for minorities. (American Bar Foundation Law and Social Science Dissertation Fellowship & Mentoring Program)
Best Places to Start
The databases listed below provide a multidisciplinary starting point for your funding search. They are searchable by discipline or research topic.
Whenever a keyword or free text search option is available, consider including keywords like "dissertation" or "graduate students" to help narrow your search.
"Vanderbilt subscription" indicates that if you are off-campus, you will be prompted for your VUNet ID and password in order to use these databases.
- Foundation Directory Online
A database of the entire universe of over 98,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities in the U.S. (Vanderbilt subscription) - Grant Advisor+ Leading source of information on grant, research, and fellowship opportunities for U.S. institutions of higher education and their faculty. (Vanderbilt subscription)
- ResearchResearch Newspaper for the Research World. (Vanderbilt subscription)
- NIH RePORTER Database contains National Institute of Health funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions
- Graduate and Professional Student Funding Comprehensive database to locate funding for research, study, and projects. (Duke University)
- GrantsNet Useful for basic science research funding. Advanced Search allows option for searching by experience level. (Science/AAAS)
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