Financial Assistance
Teaching or Research Assistantships/Fellowships
Graduate students in our program are supported by teaching assistantships, research assistantships, or fellowships. Graduate teaching assistantship are readily available and the current 9-month stipend is $19,944 (for M.S. students) and $23,175 (for Ph.D. students). Tuition is waived for students on assistantships.
External Funding
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) FundingThe EPA website provides access to research funding opportunities for scientists and engineers. The major funding categories are fellowships, which are awards to individual students or recent graduates for environmental study, and research grants. Grants and fellowships are offered to researchers affiliated with academic institutions and other not-for-profit organizations.
- National Research Council (NRC)Information about the Postdoctoral Research Associateship Programs that the National Research Council administers for thirty federal laboratories and NASA Research Centers at over one hundred United States and overseas locations.
- National Science Foundation (NSF) FundingNSF funds research and education in science and engineering, through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. The NSF sponsors the Graduate Research Fellowship Program, which provides three years of financial support for graduate students.
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)ORAU is a consortium of 87 colleges and universities and a management and operating contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). ORAU works with its member institutions to help their students and faculty gain access to federal opportunities for fellowship, scholarship, and research appointments; and to organize research alliances among its members. A comprehensive listing of these programs and other opportunities, their disciplines, and details on locations and benefits can be found in the Resource Guide.
- Peterson's Scholarship SearchCreate a profile containing your personal information. Peterson's will search the scholarship database for awards with criteria that match your profile information. Descriptions of the matched awards-and their providers-will be instantly displayed on your screen upon completion of your profile survey.
Scholarships
- Integrative Biology Graduate ScholarshipEstablished in 1987 to fund an Integrative Biology graduate scholarship. Recipient must be a graduate student enrolled in the Department of Integrative Biology. Consideration will be given to leadership as demonstrated in worthwhile out-of-class activities. Need also may be considered a factor.
Grant Opportunities
Oklahoma State University
- Graduate College Research Fellowship
- Graduate Research Excellence Award, Ph.D.Award Title: Graduate Research Excellence Award, Ph.D.
Deadline: March
Eligibility: Graduating Ph.D. student within the academic year - Nancy Randolph Davis ScholarshipAward Title: Nancy Randolph Davis Scholarship
Deadline: May
Eligibility: Any graduate student of U.S. citizenship at OSU. - Phoenix Outstanding M.S. Award or Phoenix Outstanding Ph.D. AwardAward Title: Phoenix Outstanding M.S. Award
Eligibility: Current M.S. student or recent M.S. graduate
Award Title: Phoenix Outstanding Ph.D. Award
Eligibility: Current Ph.D. student or recent Ph.D. graduate
Deadline: March
Federal
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)Award Title: Graduate Research Fellowship Award
Deadline: October
Eligibility: Graduate student
Award Title: National Research Service Award
Deadline(s): April, August, and December
Eligibility: Ph.D. student
Award Title: NRSA Institutional Predoctoral Training in Neurosciences
Deadline(s): January, May, and September
Eligibility: Graduate student with sponsoring faculty/program director
Award Title: NRSA Institutional Predoctoral Training in Systems Biology of Developmental Biology & Birth Defects
Deadline(s): January, May, and September
Eligibility: Graduate student - United States Department of Defense (DOD)Award Title: Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation
Deadline: December
Eligibility: Graduate student and must be able to accept position at a DoD laboratory post-graduation
Award title: National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program
Deadline: January
Eligibility: Graduate student - United States Department of Energy (DOE)United States Department of Energy (DOE)
Award Title: Graduate Research Environmental Fellowship
Deadline: December
Eligibility: Second year graduate student
United States Department of Energy (DOE)
Award Title: DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship Program
Deadline: November
Eligibility: Graduate student
Private
- American Heart Association (AHA)
- American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)Award Title: T. Roosevelt Memorial
Deadline: February
Eligibility: Graduate student
Award Title: Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research
Deadline: March
Eligibility: Graduate student studying marine organisms - American Water Works Association (AWWA)Award Title: Abel Wolmann Fellowship
Deadline: August
Eligibility: Ph.D. student in the field of water supply and treatment
Award Title: Larson Aquatic Research Support
Deadline: January
Eligibility: Graduate student
Award Title: Holly Cornell Scholarship
Deadline: January
Eligibility: Female or under-represented minority graduate student - Bat Conservation International
- Box turtle conservation committeeAward Title: The Lucille F. Stickel Box Turtle Research Award
Deadline: January
Eligibility: Graduate student - Desert Tortoise Council (DTC)
- Ducks UnlimitedAward Title: Edward D. and Sally M. Futch Graduate Fellowship
Deadline: November
Eligibility: Graduate student - E.N. Huyck Preserve
- Explorer’s Club
- Ford FoundationAward Title: Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: December
Eligibility: M.S. or early Ph.D. student
Award Title: Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Deadline: December
Eligibility: Ph.D. candidate - Garden Club of America (GCA)
- Hertz Foundation
- International Association for Great Lakes Research
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
- National Water Research Institute (NWRI)
- Neotropical Grassland Conservancy (NGC)Award Title: Student Grant Program
Deadline: April, August, and December
Eligibility: Latin American Graduate student - Paul and Daisy SorosAward Title: Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
Deadline: October
Eligibility: U.S. immigrant or child of immigrant parents - Smithsonian InstitutionAward Title: Graduate Student Fellowship
Deadline: November
Eligibility: Graduate student before Ph.D. candidacy
Award Title: Predoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: November
Eligibility: Ph.D. candidate - Welder Wildlife Foundation
- World Wildlife Fund (WWF)Award Title: Education for Nature (EFN) fellowships
Deadline: Varies
Eligibility: Graduate student studying conservation in an approved country
Societies
- The Academy of Natural SciencesAward Title: Jessup Award
Deadline: March and October
Eligibility: Graduate student sponsored by member of the Academy - American Philosophical Society (APS)Award Title: Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
Deadline: November
Eligibility: Graduate student - American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH)
- American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)Award Title: Raymond L. Lindeman Award
Deadline: October
Eligibility: Authorship on manuscript, author under age of 35 - American Society of Mammalogists (ASM)Award Title: Graduate Student Honoraria Papers
Deadline: February
Eligibility: Graduate student with membership and authorship on manuscript
Award Title: Grants-In-Aid of Research
Deadline: March
Eligibility: Graduate student with membership
Award Title: ASM Fellowship in Mammology
Deadline: May
Eligibility: Graduate student with membership
Award Title: Albert R. and Alma Shadle Fellowship
Deadline: March
Eligibility: Graduate student with membership - Animal Behavior Society (ABS)
- Association of Field Ornithologists (AFO)Award Title: E. Alexander Bergstrom Memorial Research Award
Deadline: January
Eligibility: M.S. Student - American Ornithological Society
- Ecological Society of America (ESA)
- Kansas Herpetological SocietyAward Title: Allan H. Kamb Award
Deadline: September
Eligibility: Membership; proposed work on snakes in Kansas - Oklahoma Ornithological Society
- Sigma XI
- Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)Award Title: Student training exchange
Deadline: February
Eligibility: Graduate student with membership - The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)
- Society for Neuroscience (SfN)Award Title: SfN Trainee Professional Development Award
Deadline: June
Eligibility: Graduate student with first authorship on abstract - Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR)
- Society of Systematic BiologistsAward Title: Graduate Student Research Award
Deadline: October
Eligibility: Graduate student with membership - Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS)
- Southwestern Association of Naturalists (SWAN)
- Texas Academy of Science (TAS)