Opportunities

The School of Humanities and Sciences awards Graduate Research Opportunity (GRO) funding to PhD and DMA students in the humanities, arts, and social sciences to support research for their dissertation. This funding is incremental and does not replace other funding that the student may receive to support their dissertation research.Thanks...

The Dalai Lama Fellowship at Stanford is a year-long opportunity for students to develop inner resources and skills to lead significant social change.  Students learn how and why leadership might be best understood as a set of capacities that allow one to meet the world authentically—capacities such as self-awareness, courage, compassion, and...

The Journeys of Inquiry program provides an opportunity for Stanford undergraduate and graduate students to experience different societies and cultures as part of short-term programs led by Stanford King Center on Global Development faculty and affiliates. These programs, which typically take place during the summer quarter, provide opportunities to highly...

DDRO provides competitive awards to doctoral students for research expenses related to dissertations that focus on some aspect of diversity, broadly defined to include culture, socioeconomic background, race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, and life experience. These funds help advance Stanford’s commitment to diversity.

DARE: Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence The DARE Doctoral Fellowship Program awards two-year fellowships to advanced Stanford doctoral students who want to investigate and prepare for academic careers and whose presence will help diversify the professoriate. The DARE Program's objectives are to better prepare students from diverse backgrounds for academic careers and to have...

Awards of up to $500 are paid as reimbursement after completion of travel to offset hotel fees, conference registration, and travel costs. Both U.S. and international students are eligible to apply. Funds available first-come, first-served until exhausted. Students may receive no more than two CEAS travel grant awards per fiscal...

Digital Impact is an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS). We work to improve the digital infrastructure for civil society and help social sector practitioners and policymakers use digital resources safely, ethically, and effectively. Digital Impact is made...

Projects should be focused on topics related to East Asia, broadly defined. Language study is generally undertaken in an approved language (Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Tagalog, Thai, Tibetan, Vietnamese); other languages by petition. U.S. citizens and permanent residents who plan to undertake intensive advanced language study, either at Stanford or...

Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend for students in M.A. or Ph.D. programs who plan to undertake intensive language study in Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Tagalog, Thai, Tibetan, or Vietnamese during the academic year, either at Stanford or an approved overseas institution...

The Lab's graduate fellowship program supports PhD students as they conduct dissertation research. Financially, fellows will receive $5,000 stipends to defray the costs of central research tasks, including travel to fieldsites, transcription of interviews, and compensation for participants. In terms of intellectual support, the Lab coordinates and funds an "Advanced...

The Stanford King Center on Global Development offers graduate student fellowships for the 2021-2022 academic year that provide up to three quarters of fellowship support in the form of tuition and a graduate student stipend to qualified Stanford student applicants (PhD students with TGR status) pursuing dissertation research on topics...

This fellowship provides funding for students at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (IUC). The IUC provides an intensive 10-month training program in advanced Japanese for a select number of undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students.

Writing submissions must be produced during the current academic year in any discipline within the area of Korean Studies, broadly defined. This competition is open to both undergraduate and graduate students. The prize will be awarded at a special ceremony in the fall and the first place winner will receive...

The award support original research or conference costs. Dr. Yalom was a part of the Clayman Institute since 1978, having served as both Associate Director and Acting Director. Prior to her death in 2019, she was a Senior Scholar and a well known internationally acclaimed historian of women's and gender...

Students are nominated for the prize by affiliated Clayman Institute faculty and may be nominated for dissertation research or independent projects with the intent of publishing an article or presenting on the topic at a research conference. Stanford graduate students are nominated from a variety of disciplines. This prize of...

The $1,500 annual prize highlights news articles about women’s education, work, family, or the nexus of work and family. Myra Strober is a labor economist and Professor at the School of Education and at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University (by courtesy). Myra is the founding director of...

The PACS Center explores the role of civil society in a very broad sense. The program welcomes projects that address questions about nonprofits and civil society organizations, as well as research that examines the role of the state or the marketplace in contrast to nonprofits, philanthropic foundations, or civil society...

The Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS) supports student research by awarding funding to current Stanford students on a quarterly basis. As a leading research center dedicated to developing and sharing knowledge that can create positive social change, Stanford PACS is committed to supporting and nurturing promising new...

The Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship (SIGF) Program is a competitive, university-wide program that awards three-year fellowships to outstanding doctoral students engaged in interdisciplinary research. Since 2008, 262 students have received a SIGF. The SIGF supports Stanford doctoral students in undertaking novel, cutting-edge research and pursuing questions that cross traditional disciplinary...

This competitive fellowship is open to both U.S. and international students and provides $15,000 in stipend plus three quarters TGR tuition for one academic year, to support thesis/dissertation research or dissertation write-up on topics related to women in Asia. Stanford graduate students in any discipline conducting research on topics concerning...

The CS Bridge program is a collaboration between Stanford University and host universities around the world. CS Bridge offers intensive two-week residential courses in the summer for high school students at different universities. Each course is hosted by a well-known university in the host country and is free for the...

The Europe Center (TEC) Austria Visitor Program (formerly, Advanced Graduate Student Travel Scholarships) is part of the Stanford-Austria scholarly exchange program hosted jointly by TEC at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and the University of Vienna in Austria. These fellowships are intended to support Stanford graduate students...

The Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign offers a portfolio of courses to engage Stanford students in the important challenge of reinventing healthcare with the help of technology. Each of our courses teaches our need-driven, value-based approach to health technology innovation and how to apply it to improve lives everywhere. The...

The program is intended to fill in the gaps between the availability of university and external funding for graduate dissertation work. As a result, awards will be made on a competitive basis to students who are conducting dissertation field research, or writing up the results of dissertation research. General Requirements...

The objective of this program is to provide opportunities for Stanford graduate students to spend 8-12 weeks in Germany pursuing internships or performing research such as lab exchanges and collaborative research at local institutions. Students may identify their target institutions based on their curricular expertise and career goals; the program...

Funds are available for Ph.D. candidates across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to prepare for dissertation research and to conduct research on approved dissertation projects. The Europe Center also supports early graduate students who wish to determine the feasibility of a dissertation topic or...

The John and Jackie Lewis Fund supports graduate students, predoctoral and postdoctoral students working on matters related to Asia. In particular this fund’s purpose is to help facilitate and support collaborative opportunities between members of FSI and members from institutions located in Asia. Grants are up to $1000 or dependent...

This program offers grants for Stanford student-driven-and-managed environmental projects that make a measurable impact on sustainability issues through direct activities or applied research. Preference is given to projects that focus on environmental sustainability within one of the following topic areas: climate, ecosystem services and conservation, food security, freshwater, oceans, public...

The Stanford Center at Peking University (SCPKU) provides Stanford doctoral students with a home base to advance their dissertation research in China. Located on the Peking University campus in an area known for its rich intellectual community, the Center facilitates academic discovery and rich collaborations to support cutting-edge graduate research...

The Stanford Bio-X Travel Awards Program gives PhD candidates and postdoctoral students the opportunity to develop their public speaking skills, to travel and network with like-minded peers, to disseminate information about their research, and to learn new ideas that could potentially and positively affect their research and that of others.