AAUW National offers numerous fellowships and grants to women pursuing higher education. Here is a brief overview on each fellowship and grant available.

 

Fellowships

AAUW offers different fellowships to women who are currently looking for higher education. 

1. American Fellowships: This fellowship is for women who are pursuing full-time study to complete dissertations or conduct postdoctoral research, or preparing to research for eight consecutive weeks for publication. 
2. International Fellowships: This fellowship is for women who are pursuing graduate or postdoctoral study in the U.S. who are not citizens or permanent residents. 
3. Selected Professions Fellowships: This fellowship is for women pursuing full-time study in a master’s or professional degree program in which women are underrepresented, including STEM, law, business and medicine. 

 

Grants

These awards are given to women who are currently looking for higher education.

1. Career Development Grants: Women who are pursuing a certificate or degree to advance or change careers, or reenter the workforce in education, health, and medical science, or social sciences and whose bachelor’s degree was received at least eight years before award period. 
2. Community Action Grants: For individuals, AAUW branches and states, and nonprofit organizations that fund innovative programs or that promote education and equity through projects focused on encouraging girls to select, before entering college, the physical sciences or engineering as a career.
3. International Project Grants: For alumnae of AAUW’s International Fellowships program who are living in their home countries and pursuing community-based projects to improve the social advancement and economic empowerment of women and girls.
4. Research Publication Grant in Engineering, Medicine, and Science: For women conducting basic research in engineering, medicine or the physical or biological sciences and who have a doctorate degree in one of those fields. Grantees are required to publish their research in a scholarly scientific publication and be listed as a primary author.

 

Credit: All information is from the AAUW National website. For more information, click on the fellowship and grant page on our website. It will direct you to the National website.