AAUW is excited to announce more than 200 awards and $3.5 million in funding for fellows and grantees in the 2020–21 award year. These exceptional recipients, who were notified by email on April 15, will pursue academic work and lead innovative community projects to empower women and girls. For questions about your status, please email aauw@applyists.com.
Fellowships & Grants
Since 1888, AAUW has been one of the largest funders of women’s graduate education, investing in women who go on to change the world.
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Current Opportunities
American Fellowships
For women pursuing full-time study to complete dissertations or conduct postdoctoral research, or to those preparing research for publication for eight consecutive weeks.
Deadline November 1
Career Development Grants
For women pursuing a certificate or degree to advance their careers, change careers, or reenter the workforce in education, health and medical sciences, or social sciences and whose bachelor’s degree was received at least eight years before the award period.
Deadline November 15
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.
Deadline December 1
International Fellowships
For women pursuing full-time graduate or postdoctoral study in the United States who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents
Deadline November 15
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
Deadline November 1
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 are invited to apply for this funding. Grantees are required to publish their research in a scholarly scientific publication and be listed as a primary author.
Deadline December 1
Selected Professions Fellowships
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.
Deadline December 1
Faces of AAUW
Meet an Alumnae
VIDEO: Melissa Harris-Perry, an American writer, professor, TV host and political commentator, explains how her AAUW Fellowship helped enable her stellar career.
3 Questions for Rachael Rollins
Faces of AAUW
"We need to realize that we are just as qualified to do things as men are."
Women of Distinction Awards
Programs
3 Questions for Mary Phillips
Faces of AAUW
Faces of AAUW
Meet a Fellow
With the help of AAUW, I got my book published and got tenure. Now I am teaching a course on women in Islamic art. Thank you so much!
