External Funding Opportunities
Fellowship Information Session for faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences: Thursday, September 2, 2021, 12 noon. Remote only.
This session will provide an overview of research fellowships for faculty, a detailed look at fellowships with fall 2021 deadlines (see partial list below), and advice on applying for fellowships. Please contact Tom Ewing with questions.
Fellowships with fall 2021 deadlines:
- Guggenheim Foundation information
- American Council of Learned Societies information
- Spencer Foundation / National Academy of Education Post-docs information
- National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars information
- National Humanities Center information
More information about fellowships is available here: https://sites.google.com/vt.edu/fellowships/home
Directories of Funding Opportunities
- Alexander von Humboldt Fellowships
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Council of Learned Societies
- Gerda Henkel Foundation Grants
- Guggenheim Fellowships
- Huntington Library Research Fellowships
- MacArthur Foundation
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Institutes of Health
- National Science Foundation
- Sandell Center for Retirement Research
- American Philosophical Society
- Folger Library Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Ford Foundation Fellowships
- Spencer Foundation
- United States Institute of Peace
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Department of Education
- U.S. Department of State: Fulbright Awards
- Virginia Commission for the Arts
- Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
- Whirlpool Foundation
Guidelines for Preparing Applications and Writing Proposals
- Foundation Grant Proposal Writing Short Course
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): Writing Your Application
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): Grant Writing Tips Sheet
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): Tips for New NIH Grant Applicants
- American Council of Learned Societies: Writing Proposals
- National Endowment for the Humanities: Advice on Preparing a Grant
- University of Wisconsin: Writing Effective Proposals for Fellowships
Electronic Submission of Grants
Faculty preparing grants for external funding should use the Summit system. For more information, please contact Tom Ewing or Debbis Alvis.
Information sessions
Research grants for individual scholars: NIH NLM, NSF STS, and NEH
- NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (G13), letter of intent, January 26, full proposal, February 26 https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/GrantPubs.html