The National Institute of Drug Abuse awards fellowship grants for individuals preparing for drug abuse research careers.
Like scholarships, fellowship grants are tax-free as long as they are used for educational expenses like tuition and fees or academic research. Recipients of fellowship grants must also have gained or are in the process of gaining a degree from an educational institution with regular faculty, curriculum and enrolled body of students to be eligible for tax freedom. Fellowship grants are not limited to education though, there are also awards for working individuals. Commonly they are awarded in medical, art or research areas.
Dedalus Foundation Individual Fellowship Grants
The Dedalus Foundation is privately owned and was established by the Abstract Expressionist artist Robert Motherwell. The foundation provides grants for institutions and individuals. It offers three types of fellowship grants for individuals including senior fellowships in art history, dissertation fellowships in art history and master of fine arts fellowships in painting and sculpture.
The dissertation fellowships are for PhD candidates at a US university who is completing a dissertation related to modern art or modernism in the amount of $20,000. Senior fellowships were developed to support critical and historical studies of modernism and modern art and are awarded to United States citizens who have made prior accomplishments and are not matriculated for academic degrees. The award is a maximum of $30,000 and is according to project needs. There are two fellowship grants given for master of fine arts (MFA) and they are awarded to painting and sculpture students in the last year of their MFA program in the amount of $20,000.
Dedalus Foundation
555 West 57th Street, Suite 1222
New York, New York, 10019
212-220-4220
dedalusfoundation.org
Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer's Fellowship Grant
Founded by Aaron Siskind, an artist and photographer from New York City, the Aaron Siskind Foundation offers fellowship grants for individual working artists of photo-based art and still photography in amounts up to $7,000. Requirements are that the artist be a US citizen and over the age of 21. The application consists of a career summary, artist's resume, short biography, a portfolio of eight samples with descriptions and a work statement that explains each sample. There are no restrictions for genres or subject matter but internet projects, videos, interactive media and film are not permitted. Information and the application is found on the foundation's website.
Aaron Siskind Foundation
c/o School of Visual Arts, MFA Photography
209 East 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
609-348-5650
aaronsiskind.org
Wenner-Gren Foundation Fellowship Grants
The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research provides programs that fund research in all branches of anthropology as well as fellowships, publications and conferences. There are a variety of grants for doctoral students, post-PhD scholars and non-US scholars. The fellowship grants that the foundation presents are the Wadsworth International Fellowships, Wadsworth African Fellowships and the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships. The Wadsworth International Fellowships support PhD students attending colleges or universities with the opportunity to study abroad and must study within countries where anthropology is underrepresented. They cannot attend a school within their native country to be eligible. Candidates are awarded $17,500 for any education related expense. Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships are intended for scholars that have already completed research. The candidate must not have had their PhD longer than ten years and funds of $40,000 in financial support for a period of twelve months of full-time writing will be given to a maximum of eight individuals. The Wadsworth African Fellowships are funded to African PhD students in South Africa that provides international-level training in anthropology. Awards are given in the amount of $17,500 for education and research expenses.
Wenner-Gren Foundation
470 Park Avenue South, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10016
212-683-5000
wennergren.org
NIDA Fellowship Grants
The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) offers pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowship grants for individuals that are permanent US residents who are enrolled or accepted to an accredited Doctor of Philosophy or Science (Ph.D or Sc.D) program or a combined clinical degree and Ph.D degree (such as M.D./Ph.D). They are given to students preparing for drug abuse research careers. The pre-doctoral grants are for up to five years and the post-doctoral grants are for up to three years. The NIDA also offers specialized fellowship grants for the disabled and underrepresented minorities. Applications and more information is available on the NIDA website.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research
6001 Executive Boulevard
Room 5153, MSC 9589
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-9589
301-443-6504
drugabuse.gov
