Funding Opportunities

Awards and fellowships

UMN Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship

Website: https://grad.umn.edu/funding/program-requests-nominations/nominations/interdisciplinary-doctoral-fellowship

Deadline: Mid November

UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

Website: https://grad.umn.edu/funding/current-students/apply-through-program/doctoral-dissertation-fellowship

Deadline:Late February

Past Humphrey School Recipients:

• Vivek Bhandari (2016) Essays around two distant but interrelated issues for a low carbon future - understanding a carbon tax and diffusion of Combined Heat and Power

• Greg Colburn (2016) The Use of Markets in Social Policy: Voucher Recipients as Market Participants

• Kangkang Tong (2017) Urban Infrastructure in China: Carbon Footprinting, Low-Carbon Strategy Analysis, and Financial Investment Trajectories

• Chen Zhang (2018) In-Between People and Places: Collective Identity Formation in Chinese Rural-to-Urban Migrants’ Community-Defending Movements

• Jueyu Wang (2019) Bicycling Renaissance: A Distributional Equity Inquiry of Bikeway Investment

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

https://www.nsfgrfp.org/

Deadline: Mid-late October

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Behavioral Interventions Scholars grant program

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/behavioral-interventions-scholars-2017-2019-overview

Past Humphrey School Recipients:

• Weston Merrick (2019) “Using behavioral and design science to reduce administrative burdens: evidence from Minneapolis public housing”

Harvard University Academy Scholars Program

https://academy.wcfia.harvard.edu/programs/academy_scholar

Deadline:Early October and Early June

Eligibility: doctoral candidates in the social sciences or law.

Comprehensive list of University fellowships here.

Some external fellowships here.

Travel grants

• • The Council of Graduate Students (COGS) has funds available to support travel. Review specifics (including application deadlines) here.

  • UM Thesis Research Travel Grants

    • Grants of up to $2,500 for domestic research and up to $5,000 for international research are available to PhD students who have completed a minimum of one academic year of graduate work at the University of Minnesota. Travel must be completed by December 31 of the year following application. More information

    • App deadline: early December

• Each fiscal year (July 1 through June 30) you are eligible for up to $1,000 travel reimbursement from the PhD program. Travel money would typically be approved for conference attendance, conference presentations, and research opportunities. Covered expenses can include conference registration fee, travel, ground transport, lodging, and food.

  • • Advance approval is needed: send an email to Program Coordinator with details about the trip and an approximate budget.

• • Follow reimbursement procedures here.

  • Review University travel policies here.